Most Overhated Rock/Metal Albums

This album deserves all the hate it gets. Awful production, boring, repetitive music that is way too long, cringe worthy bad lyrics, horrendous drum sound and NO guitar solos... - TheStargazer

No. This album is rightly hated for being a piss poor waste of a great band who at this point were out of ideas and sense. Bayley's vocals are weak throughout and the production is utterly sloppy, letting songs go on for way too long (The Angel And The Gambler) while letting other ones lack any energy (Futureal, which is ironically the best track on the album). The tracklist, while fine in each individual song, is a slog to get through altogether. Not their worst, but definitely their most uninspired. While this level of mediocrity and amateur production would have been fine if this was a debut album, but not from the band who at this point had delivered us classics like Killers, Number Of The Beast, Powerslave among other classic albums and songs. Pretty poor overall, and while their follow-up (Brave New World) was fantastic, it can't remove the stain that this and their other 90s work left on Maiden's otherwise stellar lineup. - Mrveteran

This album is one of the few times that Iron Maiden disappointed me. Sorry, but this album is mediocre in my opinion. I mean, the title track is great, but outside of that, what does it have? Maybe Be Quick or Be Dead? Overall, I found this album to be mediocre, and very boring. - Metarock

Two good songs (Be Quick Or Be Dead, From Here To Eternity) doesn't excuse a boring album that showed a band out of ideas and sense. - Mrveteran

Everyone hates it, eh? - DynastiSugarPop

Their most underrated album. While their other underrated albums are better musically (Killers, Somewhere In Time, their early noughties work), they aren't as hated as much. While not as ground-breaking as their other works, this is a perfectly fine album that has many underrated gems (Fortunes of War, Look For The Truth, Edge of Darkness) and is a huge step up from their weaker work earlier in the 90s. And while Blaze was definitely the wrong choice for Maiden, he works for the most part here. His bass like vocals work with the moodier and darker material on the album and he helped to kick some life into a tired band. Shame about Virtual XI though. - Mrveteran

The allmusic review only hates this album because "Motorhead tried to go for Commercial Success" and nothing to do with the music - christangrant

This album was worst than the original Bon Jovi album