{"product_id":"iron-maiden-seventh-son-of-a-seventh-son","title":"Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeventh Son of a Seventh Son is the last great Iron Maiden album, reconnecting with the band's prog rock roots and reversing the signs of decline that had been evident on their previous record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy this point, Iron Maiden had earned the respect of metalheads the world over with their steadfast adherence to unadulterated metal and their grandiose aesthetic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey'd made concessions neither to pop-metal nor to thrash, and their passionate fan base would never have tolerated a radical reinvention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut what do you do when your epic ambition itself has become a formula? You go even bigger and make a concept album, of course, and that's what Iron Maiden does here, breaking out of the creative rut they'd fallen into on Somewhere in Time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe concept is based on the European folklore which held that the seventh son of a seventh son would be born with special powers that could be used for good or evil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs such, the lyrics are Iron Maiden at their most gothic, obsessed with supernatural mysticism of all stripes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMusically, this is Iron Maiden at their proggiest, with abrupt, stop-on-a-dime transitions between riffs, tempos, time signatures, and song sections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet nearly every song has a memorable chorus, with only \"The Prophecy\" falling short in that department.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo less than four of this album's eight songs reached the British Top Ten in some version, while the album became the band's first U.K. chart-topper since The Number of the Beast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title track is this album's extended epic, and it's moved out of the closing spot in yet another subtle statement about shaking things up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf Seventh Son doesn't epitomize their sound or define an era the way the first three Dickinson albums did, it nonetheless ranks among their best work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Iron Maiden","offers":[{"title":"Black","offer_id":53825521910099,"sku":"5054197784392","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0897\/4516\/2579\/files\/Iron_Maiden_Seventh_Son_Of_A_Seventh_Son_vinyl_LP.jpg?v=1779533540","url":"https:\/\/mintandsealed.com\/products\/iron-maiden-seventh-son-of-a-seventh-son","provider":"Mint and Sealed","version":"1.0","type":"link"}