IRON MAIDEN: The Number Of The Beast (40th Anniversary) Vinyl LP

Forty years and The Number of the Beast still gets banned from shopping centre PA systems. That's a legacy.

The album that introduced Bruce Dickinson to the world and sent moral panic rippling through the early eighties is also just an immaculate heavy metal record, NWOBHM operating at its absolute ceiling. Run to the Hills, Hallowed Be Thy Name, the title track, this is the kind of tracklist that made teenagers tape a Maiden patch to a denim jacket and never look back. The 40th anniversary pressing is the right way to own it, a proper acknowledgment that this record didn't age, it just kept getting more correct. Essential gothic and metal shelf material.

Format: Vinyl LP, 40th Anniversary edition. Artist origin: United Kingdom. Genre: Heavy metal, NWOBHM. Original release: 1982.

Fans of: Judas Priest, Saxon, Black Sabbath