Iron Maiden officially turned the page on perhaps the most glorious chapter of their career on Oct. 2, 1995, sketching out a brand new one with The X Factor. This was their 10th overall album but ...

Arguably, Iron Maiden are at the peak of their career nearly 40 years after releasing their debut. So why hasn’t the hostility towards The X Factor died down? We can help you get over it with 10 ...

One such oddity was the grotesque adaptation of Iron Maiden mascot Eddie that he crafted for 1995's The X-Factor. "My daughters benefitted [by knowing] that anything remotely unsettling or ...

Iron Maiden guitarist Dave Murray says that he feared the band might have split up in the late ’90s — before the return of ...

In a new interview, former Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley reflects on the divisive 1995 album The X Factor and reveals one big "problem" with the record. Bayley guested on The Metal Command ...

What are Iron Maiden‘s best songs from the Blaze Bayley era? The era, which yielded The X Factor and Virtual XI, is, well… it’s not a fan-favorite. That doesn’t mean it should be ...

With Iron Maiden’s 16th studio album ... returned to the band after two albums with Blaze Bayley on vocals (The X Factor and Virtual XI) were largely panned by critics. The album – or at ...

In Sweden and Spain, those albums, people loved them as much as every other Iron Maiden album. But in other places, people didn't. It's a different thing." "So, now I'm able to express the lyric ...

Iron Maiden recorded two albums with Blaze Bayley — The X Factor (1995) and Virtual XI (1998). Since the return of Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith in an expanded six-man line-up featuring three ...