:From Fear to Eternity (album)

The album was announced on 15 March 2011, to be released by EMI on 23 May,{{cite news|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=155319 |title=Iron Maiden To Release From Fear To Eternity Best-Of Compilation |access-date=15 March 2011 |date=15 March 2011 |work=Blabbermouth.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110319034632/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=155319 |archive-date=19 March 2011 |url-status=dead }}{{cite magazine|url=http://www.nme.com/news/iron-maiden/55468 |title=Iron Maiden releasing new 'Best Of' compilation in May |access-date=15 March 2011 |date=15 March 2011 |magazine=NME |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110320025610/http://www.nme.com/news/iron-maiden/55468 |archive-date=20 March 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy }} although this was later changed to 6 June.{{cite news|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=157769 |title=Iron Maiden: From Fear To Eternity New Release Date Announced; Promo-Only CD Single Detailed |access-date=13 May 2011 |date=6 May 2011 |work=Blabbermouth.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511121220/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=157769 |archive-date=11 May 2011 |url-status=dead }} Unlike their previous compilation (Somewhere Back in Time), the release covered two CDs to encompass longer tracks, such as "Paschendale", although the price remained that of a single disc record.{{cite magazine | url = http://www.bravewords.com/news/161485 | title = Iron Maiden Set Release Date For From Fear To Eternity | access-date = 19 January 2012 | date = 6 May 2011 | magazine = Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles | archive-date = 15 May 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130515223431/http://www.bravewords.com/news/161485 | url-status = dead }}

As with Somewhere Back in Time, each track is sung by Bruce Dickinson rather than Blaze Bayley (who sang on The X Factor and Virtual XI), the band again opting to use later live versions of songs which originally featured other lead vocalists.

The album cover was designed by Melvyn Grant,{{cite AV media notes |title=From Fear to Eternity |others=Iron Maiden|year=2011 |chapter=Album credits |page=18 |type=booklet|publisher=EMI}} and serves to reference each relevant studio release. Three representations of Eddie appear, one dressed in Grim Reaper attire (as in Dance of Death), one atop the tank from A Matter of Life and Death – which is imprinted with the "Cross-Keys" symbol from The Final Frontier – and a large burning wicker man (the first single from Brave New World). The artwork also contains the tree from Fear of the Dark, the tombstone from No Prayer for the Dying, a large "X" on the tree trunk (representing The X Factor) and the twisted figures and burnt building structure from the Virtual XI cover.

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = About.com

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web | url = http://heavymetal.about.com/od/ironmaiden/fr/Iron-Maiden-From-Fear-To-Eternity-Best-Of-1990-2010-Review.htm | title = Iron Maiden – From Fear To Eternity: Best Of 1990–2010 | publisher = About.com | access-date = 14 June 2011 | last = Bowar | first = Chad | archive-date = 18 November 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121118212220/http://heavymetal.about.com/od/ironmaiden/fr/Iron-Maiden-From-Fear-To-Eternity-Best-Of-1990-2010-Review.htm | url-status = dead }}

| rev2 = AllMusic

| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic |class=album |id=r2202049 |tab=review |label=Iron Maiden: From Fear to Eternity > Review |last=Monger|first=James Christopher}}

| rev3 = Classic Rock

| rev3Score = 8/10{{cite journal | title = Iron Maiden- From Fear to Eternity | journal = Classic Rock | date = July 2011 | first = Dom | last = Lawson | issue = 159 | pages = 95}}

| rev4 = Metal Hammer

| rev4Score = 8/10{{cite journal | title = Iron Maiden: From Fear to Eternity: The Best of 1990–2010 | journal = Metal Hammer | date = July 2011 | first = Joel | last = McIver | issue = 219 | pages = 83}}

| rev5 = PopMatters

| rev5Score = 7/10{{cite magazine|url=http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/142174-iron-maiden-from-fear-to-eternity-the-best-of-1990-2010|title=Iron Maiden: From Fear to Eternity: The Best of 1990–2010|publisher=PopMatters|first=Adrien|last=Begrand|date=10 June 2011|access-date=30 March 2012}}

| rev6 = Thrash Magazine

| rev6Score = 8.4/10{{cite web |url=http://thrashmag.com/2011/06/15/iron-maiden-from-fear-to-eternity-best-of-1990-2010/ |title=Album: Iron Maiden – From Fear To Eternity: Best Of 1990–2010 |publisher=Thrash Magazine |access-date=17 June 2011 |archive-date=16 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130516064416/http://thrashmag.com/2011/06/15/iron-maiden-from-fear-to-eternity-best-of-1990-2010/ |url-status=dead }}

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Classic Rock described the album as representing "Gold from every era", claiming that, although "weighted towards the... last five studio albums", the "earlier singles... fight their corner remarkably well." The review also argues that some of the release's later songs "match anything from Maiden's 80s heyday."

In their July 2011 issue, Metal Hammer praised the compilation for doing "an excellent job of gathering the heartiest wheat over the last two decades", although deeming Blaze Bayley's absence from the album a "glitch" albeit "for the best."

{{track listing

| headline = Disc One

| extra_column = Original Album

| title1 = The Wicker Man

| writer1 = Adrian Smith, Steve Harris, Bruce Dickinson

| extra1 = 2000 ~ Brave New World

| length1 = 4:36

| title2 = Holy Smoke

| writer2 = Harris, Dickinson

| extra2 = 1990 ~ No Prayer for the Dying

| length2 = 3:49

| title3 = El Dorado

| writer3 = Smith, Harris, Dickinson

| extra3 = 2010 ~ The Final Frontier

| length3 = 6:49

| title4 = Paschendale

| writer4 = Smith, Harris

| extra4 = 2003 ~ Dance of Death

| length4 = 8:27

| title5 = Different World

| writer5 = Smith, Harris

| extra5 = 2006 ~ A Matter of Life and Death

| length5 = 4:18

| title6 = Man on the Edge

| note6 = Live in Milan, Italy 1999

| writer6 = Blaze Bayley, Janick Gers

| extra6 = 2000 ~ "The Wicker Man" single (1995 ~ The X Factor)

| length6 = 4:33

| title7 = The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg

| writer7 = Dave Murray, Harris

| extra7 = 2006 ~ A Matter of Life and Death

| length7 = 7:21

| title8 = Blood Brothers

| writer8 = Harris

| extra8 = 2000 ~ Brave New World

| length8 = 7:14

| title9 = Rainmaker

| writer9 = Murray, Harris, Dickinson

| extra9 = 2003 ~ Dance of Death

| length9 = 3:49

| title10 = Sign of the Cross

| note10 = Live in Rock in Rio, Brazil 2001

| writer10 = Harris

| extra10 = 2002 ~ Rock in Rio (1995 ~ The X Factor)

| length10 = 10:51

| title11 = Brave New World

| writer11 = Murray, Harris, Dickinson

| extra11 = 2000 ~ Brave New World

| length11 = 6:20

| title12 = Fear of the Dark

| note12 = Live in Rock in Rio, Brazil 2001

| writer12 = Harris

| extra12 = 2002 ~ Rock in Rio (1992 ~ Fear of the Dark)

| length12 = 7:51

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{{track listing

| headline = Disc Two

| extra_column = Original Album

| title1 = Be Quick or Be Dead

| writer1 = Dickinson, Gers

| extra1 = 1992 ~ Fear of the Dark

| length1 = 3:24

| title2 = Tailgunner

| writer2 = Harris, Dickinson

| extra2 = 1990 ~ No Prayer for the Dying

| length2 = 4:15

| title3 = No More Lies

| writer3 = Harris

| extra3 = 2003 ~ Dance of Death

| length3 = 7:22

| title4 = Coming Home

| writer4 = Smith, Harris, Dickinson

| extra4 = 2010 ~ The Final Frontier

| length4 = 5:53

| title5 = The Clansman

| note5 = Live in Rock in Rio, Brazil 2001

| writer5 = Harris

| extra5 = 2002 ~ Rock in Rio (1998 ~ Virtual XI)

| length5 = 9:28

| title6 = For the Greater Good of God

| writer6 = Harris

| extra6 = 2006 ~ A Matter of Life and Death

| length6 = 9:24

| title7 = These Colours Don't Run

| writer7 = Smith, Harris, Dickinson

| extra7 = 2006 ~ A Matter of Life and Death

| length7 = 6:53

| title8 = Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter

| writer8 = Dickinson

| extra8 = 1990 ~ No Prayer for the Dying

| length8 = 4:44

| title9 = Afraid to Shoot Strangers

| writer9 = Harris

| extra9 = 1992 ~ Fear of the Dark

| length9 = 6:56

| title10 = Dance of Death

| writer10 = Gers, Harris

| extra10 = 2003 ~ Dance of Death

| length10 = 8:37

| title11 = When the Wild Wind Blows

| writer11 = Harris

| extra11 = 2010 ~ The Final Frontier

| length11 = 11:02

| total_length = 153:56

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Production and performance credits are adapted from the album liner notes.{{cite AV media notes |title=From Fear to Eternity |others=Iron Maiden |date=6 June 2011 |publisher=EMI }}

;Iron Maiden

• Bruce Dickinson – vocals
• Dave Murray – guitars
• Janick Gers – guitars
• Adrian Smith – guitars (except on "Holy Smoke", "Tailgunner", "Be Quick or Be Dead", "Afraid to Shoot Strangers", and "Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter")
• Steve Harris – bass, keyboards
• Nicko McBrain – drums

;Additional musicians

• Michael Kenney – keyboards on "Sign of the Cross", "Afraid to Shoot Strangers", "Fear of the Dark" and "The Clansman" (uncredited)

;Production

• Ade Emsley – mastering
• Stuart Crouch – art direction, design
• Melanie Hunter – art direction, design
• Anthony Dry – art direction, design
• Melvyn Grant – cover illustration
• John McMurtrie – photography
• Rod Smallwood – management
• Andy Taylor – management

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