No Prayer for the Dying

No prayer for the dying is an album of the British group of heavy metal Iron Maiden published on October 1st 1990.

It is the first album with the guitarist Janick Gers, who replaced Adrian Smith, the latter being in dissension with Steve Harris on the tone of the new album; Adrian wished to persevere in an hard rock " progressif" , of the concept-albums, when Harris wished to find harder tonalities. It was a new success for the group; the album reaches the second position of the British charts as of its first week.

List pieces

  1. Tailgunner : 4 ' 15

  2. Holy Smoke : 3 ' 49
  3. No Prayer for the Dying : 4 ' 23
  4. Public Enema Number One : 4 ' 13
  5. Fates Warning : 4 ' 12
  6. The Assassin : 4 ' 35
  7. Run Silent, Run Deep : 4 ' 35
  8. Hooks in You : 4 ' 08
  9. Bring your Daughter to the Slaughter : 4 ' 45
  10. Mother Russia : 8 ' 02

Two individual was extracted from it. It is successively:

  1. Holy Smoke , September 10th 1990. (Starting position #3)
  2. Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter , December 24th 1990 (Starting position #1 the U.K. and remains 2 weeks there)
The song Holy Smoke is an indictment against the televangelists. Bring your daughter to the slaughter was to appear on the album solo of Bruce Dickison, The tatooed millionaire, but was judged of enough good quality by the remainder of the group to be reproduced on this album.

Republication 1998

At the time of the republication of the albums of the group in 1998, the group worked over again the small pocket (already poor at the base) of the album… but the result is not really exceptional.

It was also added there a multi-media section taking again two clips:

  1. Holy Smoke
  2. Bring your Daughter to the Slaughter

Formation

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