Track title: “The Prophecy”
Album: Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Year: 1988
Written by: Dave Murray/Steve Harris
Subject: Foretellings of doom
Type: Mid-paced rocker
Length: 5:04
Familiar? Not really
Rating: 5/10
Random play keeps pulling tracks off Seventh Son that I'm not that familiar with, like this one, which obviously continues the story of the album as the hero tries to explain that his predictions are about to come true. There's a real kind of romping, marching feel to the melody, slightly Powerslave-y again (for a while they really wouldn't lose that feel) and a breakout solo about halfway through that kicks up the speed of the song before it dips back again into the kind of slow canter it's been maintaining. Good use of double vocals here (think they're both Bruce's), one slightly darker than the other then in the last minute the electric guitar fades down to an acoustic one (I think; sounds like one anyway) lending a kind of medieval feel to the instrumental fade-out.
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