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Product Details
- Artist Collection Iron Maiden
- Genre Collection Metal
- Genre / Style Heavy Metal / Progressive Metal / British Metal
- UPC 4050538906400
- Record Label Sanctuary Records
- Format LP
- Disc Quantity 1
- Vinyl Color Black
- Vinyl Size 12"
- Vinyl Weight Heavy, 180g
- Additional Info Remastered
- Release Date 6/6/2025
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Iron Maiden drive Powerslave with the classic lineup of Bruce Dickinson, Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, Steve Harris, and Nicko McBrain locked into a fast, theatrical heavy metal attack. The album draws on air combat, historical conflict, Egyptian imagery, and literary source material while keeping the riffs and choruses sharply defined. This 180g black vinyl record presents the remastered album in a gatefold jacket with its eight-track program intact.
"Aces High" opens with wartime urgency, using a fast tempo and Dickinson's vocal lift to frame the Battle of Britain from the pilot's view. "2 Minutes To Midnight" turns nuclear anxiety into one of the album's most direct hard-hitting singles, while "Flash Of The Blade" brings sword imagery into a shorter, more cutting track. "Powerslave" slows the pace for a longer pharaoh-themed title piece, and "Rime Of The Ancient Mariner" closes the album with a 13-minute adaptation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem.
Powerslave shows Iron Maiden's storytelling and stage-scale identity fully established. The Egyptian cover concept matches the title track, but the album also moves through aviation, Cold War fear, sword fighting, and supernatural punishment. Steve Harris' writing on "Rime Of The Ancient Mariner" gives the record its largest narrative structure and closing set piece on side two.
- Format: Vinyl LP
- Standout tracks: "Aces High," "2 Minutes To Midnight," "Powerslave," "Rime Of The Ancient Mariner"
- Pressing details: 180g black vinyl, gatefold jacket
- Genre/style: Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal, British Metal
- UPC: 4050538906400
Powerslave remains essential because "Aces High," "2 Minutes To Midnight," and "Rime Of The Ancient Mariner" each show a different side of Iron Maiden's classic era. The 180g gatefold pressing gives the album a substantial physical edition for metal collectors.
* The Spotify track list may not exactly represent the tracks and audio of this LP edition.
Track List:
Side A:
- Aces High
- 2 Minutes To Midnight
- Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)
- Flash Of The Blade
- The Duellists
Side B:
- Back In The Village
- Powerslave
- Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (13:42)
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