See, this is what's cool about Maiden, though. They have such a catalogue, and have gone through so many evolutions style and sound wise that they can appeal to a large group of people, but not for the same reasons, you know? For what it's worth, I hate CIPWM, and I think pretty much everything from the NPFTD album was a big wad of anal lint, but that's by Maiden standards. It still makes new rock look like a steaming pile of maggot infested dog shit. And for you Cannibal Corpse fans, that's not a compliment. I know they probably have a song with that title. To be honest, lately I've taken a real liking to DiAnno Maiden. Prodigal Son and all that, but Bruce couldn't do it justice any more than Paul could do justice to a song like Moonchild (another piece of crap IMHO), so it's best they leave it alone. I'm a metalhead pianist, so it makes this difficult to say, but here goes: As far as I'm concerned, keyboards have never had a place in metal, and there are no old metal bands that made them work. They ruined 7SOA7S, and countless albums by other metal acts. The only metal bands to successfully pull off synth/keyboard shit is the newer industrial metal. If I wanted to listen to a bunch of sythesizers crowding out the rest of the instrumentation and vocals, I would listen to 80's pop, not metal.