Iron Maiden have as many songs about war as AC/DC have songs about rock’n’roll and Judas Priest have songs about heavy metal. The greatest of Maiden’s war stories is The Trooper. More ...

Maiden’s second album, Killers, followed in 1981. It included Innocent Exile, the ground-zero Maiden song. It was the band’s first album with guitarist Adrian Smith, who had replaced Dennis Stratton.