The Book of Souls is Iron Maiden at their most unhurried: a double album crowned by "Empire of the Clouds," Dickinson's eighteen-minute piano-led airship disaster epic, recorded while he beat throat cancer. The galloping formula gets room to sprawl. Late-career Maiden measures itself against nobody — and sounds liberated for it.
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