Somewhere in Time (Iron Maiden album)
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| Studio album by Iron Maiden | ||||
| Released | 29 September 1986 | |||
| Recorded | 1986 | |||
| Studio | Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas and Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum, Netherlands | |||
| Genre | Heavy metal | |||
| Length | 51:18 | |||
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EMI Capitol (North America) |
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| Producer | Martin Birch | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 7/10 |
| Kerrang! | 5/5 |
| Sputnikmusic | 4.5/5 |
Somewhere in Time is the sixth studio album by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 29 September 1986 on EMI in Europe and its sister label Capitol Records in North America. (It was re-released by Sanctuary/Columbia Records in the US in 1998). The studio follow-up to the hugely successful Powerslave/Live After Death pair, it was their first album to feature guitar synthesisers.
Since its release, it has been certified platinum by the RIAA, having sold over one million copies in the US alone.
Somewhere on Tour was the release's supporting tour.
Somewhere in Time is the band's first studio effort following the extensive World Slavery Tour of 1984-85, which was physically draining for the group, lasting 331 days and comprising 187 concerts. The resulting exhaustion is credited as the main factor in the complete lack of songwriting contributions from lead vocalist Bruce Dickinson, whose material was rejected by the rest of the band. Dickinson had written several "acoustic-based" songs, explaining that "I felt we had to come up with our Physical Graffiti or Led Zeppelin IV ... we had to get it onto another level or we'd stagnate and drift away," although bassist and primary writer Steve Harris "thought he'd lost the plot completely," surmising that "he was probably more burnt out than anyone at the end of that last tour." On the other hand, the record is also notable for the number of "fully formed" songs written by guitarist Adrian Smith, who wrote both of the album's singles: "Wasted Years" and "Stranger in a Strange Land", the former of which is the only song on the record not to feature synthesisers.
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