BRAVE NEW WORLD

At first sight, there's nothing really wrong here and instrumentally it sound almost as great as ever before. It's just when these vocals kick in... The man has a great voice, but one sometimes wonders whether he couldn't do more than repeating those same old tunes. And what on earth is the point of these painfully annoying cheesy choruses throughout the album? Even though my hopes were high up for this one and although I wanted to like it so much, the total lack of progress in combination with the lacklustre song writing is a dispiriting and off-putting experience. Stay away from everything Maiden did after the 80-ties.