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The first two albums are really great as they were one of the first ever metal bands to get punk and integrate it as a reasonable influence.
Di'anno was a really great vocalist, and they went seriously downhill after he left. Dickinson was nothing but a Halford wanna-be and pushed them into the prog-metal zone that most people who don't like them associate them with. Not that there weren't prog elements to Iron Maiden and Killers, but the were tempered by the shorter songs and Di'anno's growling and snarling as opposed to Dickinson's ball-in-a-vice metal cliche vocals. Of course most people don't even know they existed before Number of the Beast, but that's just a shame.
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