Iron Maiden - No Prayer For The Dying
NME.COM feature on Iron Maiden - No Prayer For The Dying album including album review, artwork, tracks, listen now, tour dates, discography and more.
Release date: 01 October 1990
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- Tailgunner
- Holy Smoke
- No Prayer For The Dying
- Public Enema Number One
- Fates Warning
- The Assassin
- Run Silent Run Deep
- Hooks In You
- Bring Your Daughter...To The Slaughter
- Mother Russia
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Iron Maiden - No Prayer For The Dying: Wikipedia Album Entry
No Prayer for the Dying is the eighth studio album by the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden. It is the first album recorded following the departure of guitarist Adrian Smith who left the band during the pre-production phase of the album. Smith does have one co-writing credit on this album, for Hooks in You, the third installment of the ongoing story of Charlotte the Harlot. The album ushered in a change of vocal style for Bruce Dickinson from the operatic sound of the '80s to a raspier way of singing.
No Prayer for the Dying also produced Maiden's only number one single to date, Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter, originally written and recorded by Dickinson alone for the A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child movie soundtrack. The version that appears on No Prayer for the Dying was rerecorded by the band as a whole. Holy Smoke and Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter were released as singles, with the latter reaching the #1 position in the UK charts.
Adrian Smith was replaced by Janick Gers who had assisted Dickinson in the recording of his first solo-album, Tattooed Millionaire, and had also worked with Fish and Ian Gillan, among others.
No Prayer for the Dying is the only Iron Maiden studio album to date without a song exceeding six minutes in length. The album was also the band's first for Epic Records in the US after the band left Capitol Records but remained with EMI for all territories outside the US. Despite promising initial U.S sales, the album did not sell as well as previous Iron Maiden albums, being the first not to turn Platinum in the U.S.
Following Bruce Dickinson's departure from Iron Maiden in 1993, songs from No Prayer for the Dying have been largely ignored at live performances. Only Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter has survived in concerts since, but it was only included on a nightly basis in setlists from May-July 2003.
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Iron Maiden - No Prayer For The Dying Lyrics
Iron Maiden - Fate's Warning Lyrics
Why is it some of us are destined to stay alive
And some of us are here just so that we'll die
How come the bullet hits the other guy
Do we have to try and reason why?
Iron Maiden - Hooks in You Lyrics
I got the keys to view at number 22
Behind my green door there's nothing to see
Is that a feature? What kind of creature
Would hang around waiting for a guy like me?
Iron Maiden - No Prayer for The Dying Lyrics
There are times when I've wondered and times when I've cried
When my prayers they were answered at times when I've lied
But if you asked me a question, would I tell you the truth?
Now there's something to bet on, you've got nothing to lose, yeah
Iron Maiden - Public Enema Number One Lyrics
When it all comes down the line
And the lights they turn to greed
And you race off with your tyres screamin'
Rollin' thunder
Iron Maiden - Run Silent,run Deep Lyrics
(harris/dickinson)
The convoy lights are dead ahead
The merchantmen lay in their bed
Iron Maiden - The Assassin Lyrics
Now the contracts out
They've put the word about
I'm coming after you
