Encapsulating an Iron Maiden album into a few hundred measly words is a hard job.  You have to mention the fact that now on their sixteenth album, they are arguably better than they were 40 years ago when Steve Harris started this whole thing.  You could then throw in the fact that live they are still a life affirming experience and doggedly refuse to follow their peers into becoming a heritage act.  After that you’ll probably get round to mentioning the music, which usually defies words anyway.  With The Books of Souls, Maiden seem to have set out to make that process even harder, releasing a double album which is just over an hour and a half in length and includes three songs over ten minutes long.  Here we go anyway.

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