Welcome to Heavy Maytal

For a while I have been brainstorming ways to dedicate a month to heavy metal in the more traditional sense and being that May is my birth month it only makes sense that it should be dedicated to Heavy Metal, since it was the first genre of music I was into as a kid as my earliest beginnings as a music fant started with Kiss, Alice Cooper, Ozzy, Iron Maiden and Motely Crue. Yeah, I think it's fair to count the first two Motley Crue albums as metal. Granted, over the years, the definition of metal has changed from the 80s to now. 

So for the first annual Maytal Month, I'm going to review every single Iron Maiden album that I have not yet reviewed here. Might not be as long a list as you think, since I have already reviewed these

https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2019/07/maiden-voyage-iron-maidens-fear-of-dark.html

https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2015/08/iron-maiden-book-of-souls.html

https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2021/09/iron-maiden-senjutsu.html

https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2019/07/maiden-voyage-iron-maidenssome-where-in.html

https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2019/07/maiden-voyage-iron-maidens-no-prayer.html

https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2019/07/maiden-voyage-iron-maidensbrave-new.html

So that is 6 of their 17 albums, and Hell, I might just throw somebody like Dio in as well, along with more traditional metal bands, which might include things more along the lines of thrash and power metal, which spawned from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Not saying that I am not going to continue my coverage of the more extreme sub-genres, I'm just not placing more focus on death metal, black metal and doom, since those all have their own month dedciated to them. I feel like there is a great deal of more traditional metal out there that gets overlooked since the focus seems to fall on those or the related sub-genres like sludge, which gets covered during our doom month in November. So I'm not just going to focus on the classics, but new music that falls into this more epic and melodic point from which the genre is rooted in.