The Official Heavy Metal Thread

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drbunnig said:
All of Bruce's albums are fantastic. Can't choose a favourite between the final three. It's around the mid '90s where he started to reach his vocal peak in my opinion, right through to around 2005/2006. As far as The Chemical Wedding is concerned, I think it's a bit more inconsistent than it's predecessor and follow up ("Gates of Urizen" and "Trumpets of Jericho" aren't great), but it's highs are phenomenal. "The Book of Thel", "Jerusalem", "The Alchemist", the title track, "Machine Men", "The Tower"... all incredible. And "Return of the King" has to be one of the greatest B-sides of all time.

It's a very tough pick between accident of birth and chemical wedding for the reasons you gave. But songs like Jerusalem, Book of thel and others you listed made me prefer it over accident of birth. I actually quite like gates of urizen although I agree that trumpets of jericho is kind a weak. But overall it's an album I still frequently listen too and it has truly outstanding guitar work. For me both albums however are one of the best heavy metal albums out there pretty much on par with Maidens best albums so you can't really go wrong with either.