I haven't been keeping up much with post-BNW Maiden, but A Matter of Life and Death grew on me a hell of a lot after a while. They're not a prog band, but honestly their poppier material has worn on me as the years have gone by, and their moderately more proggy stuff has stayed with me more as they actually do have the songwriting talent to do more than crank out pop metal hit after pop metal hit, and their post-Powerslave music (for certain albums) has stayed more fresh to me than the stuff before it. It's just a shame that Bruce's vocals have taken such a nose dive in the past two decades, but he's old enough that it's quite understandable.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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