No steel band has mastered the artwork of the dwell album fairly like Iron Maiden.

The steel veterans have remained one of many largest bands on the planet for almost half a century by supplying their followers with a relentless embarrassment of riches, each onstage and within the studio. Each tour boasts an epic stage manufacturing and distinctive set checklist, and most often, followers can anticipate a dwell album (generally with a video accompaniment) to recap the newest installment in what Bruce Dickinson has described because the band’s “theater of the mind.”

Maiden has additionally made no bones about wanting to problem themselves and their followers. While one can anticipate a handful of requisite classics — “Run to the Hills,” “The Number of the Beast,” “The Trooper” — to seem on most of their dwell information, the sextet has additionally made it some extent to characteristic a wholesome dose of its newest studio providing on most accompanying dwell albums, particularly within the twenty first century.

A lesser band would wrestle to pull off this maneuver with out sending followers flocking to the lavatory or reaching for the skip button. But Iron Maiden has at all times regarded their up to date work with the identical respect as their time-honored classics, compelling their followers to do the identical. That’s why, on the next checklist of Iron Maiden Live Albums Ranked Worst to Best, a number of of their highest-ranked entries embrace a wealth of latest materials, mixing seamlessly with decades-old songs.

Note that we have solely included the band’s 13 formally launched full-length dwell albums on the next checklist, so goodies like 1981’s Maiden Japan EP are absent. But that is the wonderful thing about Iron Maiden: When you are prepared to discover additional, there’s nearly at all times extra official and bootleg materials out there to quench your thirst.