“On This Battlefield, No One Wins”: Iron Maiden’s Construction of War, Morality, and the Sound of Evil in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal
1. Introduction “You’ll take my life but I’ll take yours too” – The opening line of Iron Maiden’s The Trooper (1983) encapsulates the band’s commitment to dramatising war as a site of fatal symmetry, moral ambiguity, and existential violence. As key figures in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), Iron Maiden constructed an […]