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They’ve long taken influences from bands like KISS, Aerosmith, and Def Leppard, and they’re keeping the hair metal/glam-rock genres alive and well. Their new album features crisp, clean guitar ...

The self-titled debut album by KISS deployed a seemingly endless supply of riffs and saw the group blitz the mainstream. Yet, KISS’s rise to stack-heeled supremacy was by no means meteoric.

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.

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