Iron Maiden – Killers (CD)

Paul Di'Anno's second and final studio appearance with Iron Maiden captures the band in a rawer, more street-level mode before Bruce Dickinson's arrival would shift the trajectory toward epic metal grandeur. Recorded at Battery Studios in London and released in 1981, Killers leans harder into punk-inflected energy than its predecessor, with Steve Harris's galloping bass lines and the twin guitar attack of Dave Murray and Adrian Smith already pushing toward something bigger than the NWOBHM scene that birthed them.