My Iron Maiden Album Rankings

Iron Maiden is one of the biggest Heavy Metal bands ever.

They are still going strong in 2025, 50 years after starting.

Bruce Dickinson, who has sang on most of their albums, is one of the best singers/frontmen in history, as far as I’m concerned. Paul Dianno was a very good singer earlier on and I don’t mind Blaze Bayley in the 90s, but Bruce is the guy.  Period.

The guitarists Adrian Smith and Dave Murray, along with Janick Gers later on, are just phenomenal.

Drummers Clive Burr (RIP) and later Nicko McBrain are two of the greats.

And founding member/bassist/songwriter Steve Harris is untouchable.

I feel they have been mostly consistent with their discography, so it’s really hard and maybe unfair to try to rank them starting with my favorite and ending with my least favorite.

I’ve already changed it a few times since typing this, but for now, this is my ranking of Iron Maiden’s discography.

I’ll just rank the studio albums because there are so many live albums and all of them are solid, but I will just say my favorite Iron Maiden live album is Rock In Rio, released in 2001.  OK here it is:

1. Brave New World
2. Powerslave
3. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
4. The Number Of The Beast
5. Somewhere In Time
6. No Prayer For The Dying
7. A Matter Of Life And Death
8. The Final Frontier
9. Book Of Souls
10. Fear Of The Dark
11. Iron Maiden
12. Killers
13. Piece Of Mind
14. Dance Of Death
15. Senjutsu
16. Virtual XI
17. The X Factor

There’s no right or wrong answer, but this is how I’m ranking the great band Iron Maiden’s studio album discography.

I may change my mind in 5 minutes, but this is it for now.

I’ve been re-listening to their albums recently, and decided to rank them on here.

If you see this, let me know what you think and if you’re a fan of their work, how would you rank them?

Let me know.

Rock on everyone.