Some metal bands use guitar as blunt instruments, the hammer-smashed-face sensibility that sees riffs as bludgeons. Maiden’s guitars are a stiletto – the flash of the blade, if you will.

10. The Number of the Beast Playing Number of the Beast, which ranks 10th on our list of easiest Iron Maiden songs to play on guitar is a good time keeping exercise. Even though at first glance it ...

Eluveitie’s hurdy gurdy player (hurdy gurdiest?), Michalina Malisz, has shared a video in which she plays five Iron Maiden riffs on her instrument of expertise — specifically, “Wasted Years,” “Number ...

Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith has been playing guitar for the group for more than four decades now. But his recent work with Richie Kotzen offers a look at what it could have been like if he hadn ...

I think Senjutsu is a masterpiece and our best work yet." Clocking in at a hefty 82 minutes, Senjutsu marks Iron Maiden's second consecutive double album behind 2015's The Book of Souls.

In 1981, Iron Maiden’s second album, Killers, featured tracks “Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “Wrathchild.” This album would introduce the world to their new guitarist, Adrian Smith and ...

Iron Maiden is one of the most recognizable and iconic heavy metal bands of all time. Formed in London in 1975, the band has been a model of consistency within the music industry, having released ...

Playing the first of two sold-out nights in Anaheim, California Iron Maiden showed why they remain a legendary live act and a top draw more than 40 years into their career.

Inspiration struck quickly and in an unlikely place for Iron Maiden 's Adrian Smith and Bruce Dickinson when they wrote one of the band's most enduring anthems in less time than it takes to reheat ...