Is it silly to call an album that was made by one of metal’s most beloved bands, landed in the top 10 of nine charts and has been certified Platinum by the RIAA “underrated”? If so, we’ll put on our wackiest clown nose right now and declare that Iron Maiden’s Somewhere In Time is an underrated album.
Despite The Beast’s sixth LP being an evolutionary classic for the band, introducing synths to their then-expanding sound and spawning a song as immortal as Wasted Years, it was their one Bruce Dickinson-era 80s album to not get a dedicated live video. Plus, many of its tracks disappeared from the Maiden setlist between the supporting tour and 2023, when they were finally exhumed for the ongoing Future Past shows. Nowhere is such undeserved burial more apparent than with The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner.
