IRON MAIDEN - Fear Of The Dark (SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE)

Fear of the Dark is the ninth studio album released by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden . Released on May 11, 1992, it was their third studio release at the top of the UK album charts and the last to feature Bruce Dickinson as lead singer until his return in 1999. It was the last Iron Maiden album to be produced by Martin Birch , who retired shortly after its release. History The Fear of the Dark album cover was the band's first not designed by artist Derek Riggs , whose contributions were rejected in favor of Melvyn Grant . According to Iron Maiden manager Rod Smallwood , the band began accepting contributions from other artists as "We wanted to update Eddie for the '90s. We wanted to take him out of the kind of horror creature from the comics and turn him into something a little more straightforward so that he would become even more menacing." Melvyn Grant has since designed several other covers for Iron Maiden, making him the band's second most frequent artist after Riggs. After recording its predecessor ( 1990's No Prayer for the Dying ) in a barn on Steve Harris' property with Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, leading to negative results, for this album, Harris converted the building into a studio of his own (christened "Barnyard" ). Dickinson describes the results as "a slight improvement because Martin [Birch] came and supervised the sound. But there were major limitations in that studio - simply because of its physical size, things like that. [It] actually turned out not so bad , but, you know, a little below par." The album's musical style showed some experimentation with " Be Quick or Be Dead ", a fast-paced song released as the album's first single, and " Wasting Love ", the group's only power ballad, which harkens back to Dickinson's first solo album, Tattooed Millionaire . . Both songs were Dickinson/Gers collaborations, which contrast with Harris' "Afraid to Shoot Strangers," a political song from the point of view of a soldier in the Gulf War, although Dickinson presented the song in Castle Donington as "what a piece of shit this war is, started by politicians and ended by people who don't want to kill anyone." Only two of the songs on the album, the title track and "Afraid to Shoot Strangers," survived on tours after 1993. " Fear of the Dark " became a popular live track and was the only song played on Somewhere Back in Time. World Tour that was not from the 1980s. " Afraid to Shoot Strangers " became a frequent addition to setlists during Blaze Bayley's tenure with Iron Maiden. " Be Quick or Be Dead ", " From Here to Eternity ", " Wasting Love " and a live version of the title track were released as singles. Fear of the Dark Tour was the tour to promote the album.