Released 06 June 2011
Recorded 1990-2010
Total Time 148:50
Label EMI
From Fear to Eternity: The Best of 1990 - 2010 is a "Best of" album by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, containing a selection of songs originally released on their last eight studio efforts to date. The title is lifted from the 1992 single, "From Here to Eternity", although it does not feature on this release.
The album was announced on 15 March 2011, to be released by EMI on 23 May 2011, although this was later changed to 6 June 2011. Unlike their previous compilation (Somewhere Back in Time), the release will cover two CDs in order to encompass longer tracks, such as "Paschendale", although the price will remain that of a single disc record.
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.
Classic Rock described the album as representing "Gold from ever 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
CD1
(from Brave New World)
2. Holy Smoke 3:49
(from No Prayer for the Dying)
3. El Dorado 6:49
(from The Final Frontier)
4. Paschendale 8:28
(from Dance of Death)
5. Different World 4:19
(from A Matter of Life and Death)
6. Man on the Edge (live) 4:40
(B-side of "The Wicker Man" single; originally from The X Factor)
7. The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg 7:22
(from A Matter of Life and Death )
8. Blood Brothers 3:49
(from Brave New World)
9. Rainmaker 7:14
(from Dance of Death)
10. Sign of the Cross (live)10:49
(from Rock in Rio; originally from The X Factor)
11. Brave New World 6:19
(from Brave New World)
12. "Fear of the Dark (live) 7:41
(from Rock in Rio; originally from Fear of the Dark)
CD2
(from Fear of the Dark)
2. Tailgunner 4:15
(from No Prayer for the Dying)
3. No More Lies 7:22
(from Dance of Death)
4. Coming Home 5:52
(from The Final Frontier)
5. The Clansman (live) 9:06
(from Rock in Rio; originally from Virtual XI)
6. For the Greater Good of God 9:25
(from A Matter of Life and Death)
7. These Colours Don't Run 6:52
(from A Matter of Life and Death)
8. Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter 4:44
(from No Prayer for the Dying)
9. Afraid to Shoot Strangers
(from Fear of the Dark) 6:57
10. Dance of Death 8:36
(from Dance of Death)
11. When the Wild Wind Blows 11:02
(from The Final Frontier)