10 Greatest ‘Legacy Of The Beast’ Set Songs From Iron Maiden
5. Blood Brothers
After Bruce Dickinson left the band to concentrate on his solo career in 1993, Iron Maiden continued with Blaze Bayley, the ex-Wolfsbane vocalist, for the two albums that saw the band's popularity take a dip. Then, without warning, in 1999 Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith, who had also left some years previous, returned to the line-up for the beginning of the hugely successful modern era of the band.
Maiden kickstarted this new phase with the 2000 album Brave New World, and Blood Brothers from that record is one of the greatest songs the band has ever written. The song also has one of Maiden's most epic and catchiest chorus hooks.
Blood Brothers stands shoulder to shoulder with the group's biggest hits from the Eighties, proving that the band's reunion with Dickinson and Smith was for real and not just a cash-in nostalgia trip. The success of the subsequent two decades leading up to The Legacy Of The Beast tour proves that the reconciliation was one of the shrewdest business decisions of Iron Maiden's career.