10 Greatest ‘Legacy Of The Beast’ Set Songs From Iron Maiden

10. Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden announced themselves with their self-titled debut album released in 1980. The album featured a collection of songs the band had written and performed over years of grafting live, largely in the East London pub and club circuit of the late Seventies, where they amassed a cult local following.

Singer Paul DiAnno was with the band during this early period, performing on their first two studio albums, and this self-titled track was somewhat of a trademark anthem for the band and has remained so throughout their long career - almost always sitting at the very end of the bands set.

The track, written by band leader and bassist Steve Harris, has a raw punk-esque attitude and epitomises the band’s sound during their early days, at the beginning of their journey and at the start of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal movement.