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Title: Underrated Gem.
Review: Bruce Dickinson started to change vocally here but it was their mid career and it was before the band really aged. It has some darker lyrics and a more mature sound to it. It starts off with a fast opening track, Be Quick or Be Dead which is very heavy and has a lot of speed metal in it. A few songs are slower and have a progressive sound to them with a dated early '90s production which gives the album a classic sound. It has some slower paced songs with progressive influences but it's mostly straight forward heavy metal and more stripped down than Seventh Son. The lyrics improved a lot after their lackluster effort, No Prayer For The Dying. Fear Of the Dark is a truly underrated album and I still listen to it regularly. Chains Of Misery, The Apparition, The Fugitive and Fear Is the Key are my favorites.
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