Whoa, does this ever look awesome…

And how about that headline at the top center?

“Steve Harris: ‘I remember the day Gabriel left Genesis. I was devastated.’ Iron Maiden man reveals his prog rock heart!”

Indeed. You can heart that prog heart beating loud and clear on the new Iron Maiden album, The Book of Souls.

In my humble opinion, it is the greatest achievement of Iron Maiden’s career.

The songs are uniformly excellent, from start to finish, and there’s so much prog splendor in the instrumental attacks that you can scarcely catch your breath.

If you haven’t heard it, download it today and make it part of your regular playlist!

It’s awesome. And now it’s very cool to know that the inspiration of Genesis had a remote hand in it…