Product Description

Along with Kiss's ALIVE!, Ozzy Osbourne's TRIBUTE, and ThinLizzy's LIVE AND DANGEROUS, Iron Maiden's 1985 double-disc set LIVE AFTER DEATH ranks among the greatest heavy metal live albums. Most of the performances were recorded during an unprecedented quartet of shows at the Long Beach Arena in Los Angeles, CA, while several other tracks are from an earlier run of gigs in London's Hammersmith Odeon.
Only Maiden's very best songs are included, and the performances are consistently inspired. Such popular favourites as "Aces High", "2 Minutes to Midnight", "The Trooper", "Flight of Icarus", "The Number of the Beast", "Run to the Hills", "Running Free", and "Wrathchild" are included. But as longtime fans know,Maiden has always been an album-oriented band, and many of the band's greatest tracks were not singles, as evidenced bysuch lesser-known items as the 13-minute epic "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", "Powerslave", "Revelations", "22 Acacia Avenue", "Children of the Damned", and "Phantom of the Opera".

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Intro (Churchill's Speech)
2. Aces High
3. Two Minutes To Midnight
4. Trooper
5. Revelations
6. Flight Of Icarus
7. Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
8. Powerslave
9. Number Of The Beast
10. Hallowed Be Thy Name
11. Iron Maiden
12. Run To The Hills
13. Running Free

Disc 2:

1. Wrathchild
2. 22 Acacia Avenue
3. Children Of The Damned
4. Die With Your Boots On
5. Phantom Of The Opera
6. Two Minutes To Midnight
7. Powerslave
8. Excerpt Of Revelations
9. Excerpt Of Churchill's Speech/Aces High

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1935 in Music
• Released on: 1998-09-14
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Enhanced, Live

Amazon.co.uk Review
In the live arena heavy metal can be implausibly powerful; it can rattle teeth from gums, set ears ringing like the clappers of doom and, when concocted by the gentlemen of Iron Maiden, virtually fracture your skull. Live After Death, meanwhile (a packed double disc set recorded during the band's extensive World Slavery jaunt of 1984 and 1985), is the awesome, irrefutable proof. Of course, expertly hewn slabs of solid rock carefully concocted in recording studios are all very well. But "The Number Of The Beast" and "Run To The Hills" were simply made to be blasted through 152,000 watts of PA system by five young men with undiluted testosterone pulsing through their bulging, whiplash veins. Bruce Dickinson's astounding lung capacity is frankly terrifying at times--he's certainly not a man you'd ever want to meet in a blow football tournament--while the band are virtually aflame. --Ian Fortnam

Customer Reviews

Scream for me business class...
This has got to be one of THE all-time greatest live albums...from start to finish it doesn't let up in its barrage of awesome songs and Bruce Dickinson playing the crowd like never before...add to it that immortal line, and you've got yourself Maiden at their very best, which is saying something! (As an aside, my title comes from the fact that Bruce is a registered pilot...how cool would it be to hear that if you were flying!)

This is Maiden at their very very best
Okay so i am probably a little biased - why?
My first ever Iron Maiden gig was at Hammersmith Odeon on the 1984/85 World Slavery Tour and it will stay with me forever as one of the defining moments in my musical life. This album is everything that is Iron Maiden and I cannot recommend it enough - Up the Irons!

such a good album
get this if you don't have it!
if you dont know iron maiden, get this, if you know iron maiden and dont have this...get it, if you are a die hard fan and have all their albums...get this again to keep as a clean copy because it is soooooo good!
i really like this album you know...it is bloody good...2 discs of goodness...i wish i saw them on this tour, if i was alive, but i can get some of it...the music!!! it is without a doubt their best live album (rock in rio is also a beauty...2nd best though) and this i reckon could be their best album, ALL their classic tracks...LIVE, when they are always best...and it is class