The Final Frontier
by Iron Maiden

Album
The Final Frontier by Iron Maiden
Year: 2010
Release date: 2010-08-06
Overall rank: 4,036th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 185 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2010 (68th)
Award Top albums of of the 2010s (714th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,036th)

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Iron Maiden bestography

The Final Frontier is ranked 15th best out of 37 albums by Iron Maiden on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Iron Maiden is The Number Of The Beast which is ranked number 265 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,020.

Iron Maiden album bestography « Higher ranked (3,468th)
Dance Of Death This album (4,036th)
The Final Frontier Lower ranked (7,814th) »
No Prayer For The Dying

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Overall rank: 4,036th | 2010s rank: 714th | 2010 rank: 68th  Overall chart history
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71/100 (from 185 votes)
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From 01/29/2016 19:00 | #158128 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
It's a toss up between this one and No Prayer for the dying for my least favourite Bruce Dickinson Maiden album

I was so disappointed when I heard this after their three previous triumphant return of Bruce albums.

I tried listening to it on numerous occasions as people kept saying how good it is
- however, Nothing hit me or excited me about this effort
- I will in the future persevere and listen again , because not everyone can be wrong ..... can they ???

If you want to try Maiden out just avoid this, No Prayer, and the Blaize Bailey efforts and you will be fine
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From 04/24/2014 18:34 | #109932 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
after 30 years they still come up with such an incredible album.
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From 06/26/2016 10:55 | #169852 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Another strong Iron Maiden record. It's all overlong and proggy and as I've said on other latter day Maiden albums, there's no short punchy anthemic metal anthems, just tracks that go on forever. Still, very enjoyable.
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From 01/19/2011 13:34 | #16548 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This is probably the best metal album of the year. It also has the most "studio pizzazz" of any Iron Maiden album to date.
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From 09/28/2022 00:15 | #290016 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Going off into prog territory can work for some. This however misses the mark. There are some really great segments and pieces within most songs but then they go off on too many tangents disrupting the flow. Don't over complicate things. Sometimes simple can work and sound a lot better.
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