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Triple vinyl set on yellow vinyls with printed innersleeves and a huge poster

Iron Maiden’s first live record, Live After Death, has gone down in history as one of the greatest live albums of all time, and for good reasons. Live After Death documents a metal legend at the height of its power. More recordings from this amazing tour is always welcome. Slave In Zwolle is such a beauty with a triple vinyl set presented in a beautiful artwork that also includes a large concert poster. Recorded at the Ijsselalle in Zwolle, Holland on the 28th of October 1984 during the European tour with Motley Crue as support act. The show centers on the best material from the then current Powerslave album, interspersed with other selected catalog highlights. It is all culled from the band’s incredible opening salvo of 5 albums in 4 years. There’s not a single song here that could easily have been dropped, and there is still a pile of masterworks that didn’t make the set. Singer Dickinson clearly sounds more strained and struggling than before. This is most notable on acrobatic tunes such as The Trooper. His struggle is however both understandable and excusable, when one considers the gargantuan effort involved in fronting Iron Maiden on a 12-month non-stop world tour. It’s still all good, and the guitar interplay of Murray and Smith lifts the record to incredible heights. The riffs, the solos, the harmonies – every single thing is perfectly delivered, and imbued with emotion on top of the technical expertise. Stand-out tracks include Revelations, Flight Of Icarus, Powerslave, and the definitive version of Hallowed…, but the centerpiece of the album is obviously Rime Of The Ancient Mariner.

Track listing:
1. Churchills Speak/Aces High
2. 2 Minutes To Midnight
3. The Trooper
4. Revelations
5. Flight Of Icarus
6. Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
7. Losfer Words
8. Powerslave
9. The Number Of The Beast
10. Hallowed Be Thy Name
11. 22 Acacia Avenue
12. Iron Maiden
13. Running Free
14. Sanctuary