11 Best Iron Maiden Epics

4. For The Greater Good Of God

Arguably packing Maiden's finest mini-act within one of their epics - the gradual build into frantic noise across its first four minutes is masterful - the strongest pick from the band's fourteenth record A Matter of Life and Death finds them at their most introspectively savage.

Such is the song's resonance, it became one of only two tracks pulled from the reunion era to feature on the band's career retrospective setlists for the Legacy of the Beast World Tour, alongside comeback single The Wicker Man; a sign of its continued pull if there ever was one.

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