![]() Having said that, the situation within the British band wasn’t the greatest and that goes all the way back to the end of the tour of the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album. The times were changing and the new decade saw a bigger emphasis on much more grounded and darker bands, thus resulting in the rise of the Grunge movement and many classical Metal bands struggling to maintaining their status–Maiden was one of those bands that wasn’t going to go down without a fight. While a couple of interesting tracks, such as The Assassin or Run Silent Run Deep came from that, it was widely considered the band’s less accomplished album until that point and wasn’t very well received commercially, either. After the great success that was Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Harris and his boys opted for a much more grounded and dark sound with the follow up, No Prayer for the Dying. The early 90s were perhaps Maiden’s most confusing period, both musically and within the band. To look back at Iron Maiden’s ninth and 1992 album, Fear of the Dark, is to look back at one of the band’s most peculiar and bizarre moments in their entire history, but it was also marked by one event: Bruce Dickinson ending his association with the British legends. ![]()
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