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Although the output of studio albums has slowed considerably since Brave New World in 2000, they've all been of a highly consistently quality, culminating in The Book of Souls, which has made claims to being one of the best Iron Maiden records ever produced.
This is the next step for death metal as it looks to its past to shape its future. Yet rather than become complacent and merely turn out passable modern releases in their later years, Iron Maiden have remaining just as relevant through the 2010s as they were the the 1980s. Exclaim's 50 Best Canadian Albums of the 2010s: 50. These types of lists are highly subjective, so keep that in mind as you’re reading. Iron Maiden's legacy as the band of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and as one of the greatest heavy metal acts of all time has long been set in stone. I thought it was a good time to revisit some of my favorite albums of the past 10 years. Complex, delicate, and entrancing, Flying Lotus’ otherworldly 2010 magnum-opus Cosmogramma is in a class of its own.
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