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Title: Virtually gone![.]
Review: THis is the album where MAiden reached the bottom... Some drastic measures were needed...Fire Blaze Bayley as scapegoat to the fact that the songs in VIrtual XI are simply bad songs... Hire Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith to return to the good old times... Smart guys....VIRTUAL XI is something very sad. WHy? Because, with all the fall they had in the nineties, Maiden at least never sold out to commercial music. They are already getting openly into the compilation market (their new compilation release, EDWARD THE GREATEST, is simply a greedy manouver. They hadalready released a master compilation,BEST OF THE BEAST, and "dozens" of live albums[.]!), but their music is Steve Harris's music, strong and powerful.In VIRTUAL XI, the production is weak (as ever, since Martin Birch stopped producing Maiden albums, and some of the songs had potential. But they suffer from a new awful characteristic in Maiden songs: an awful repetition of the choruses of the songs[.] It's endless![.]
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