Somewhere in Time is Iron Maiden’s 6^th studio album.  It was released on June 29, 1986, following the Powerslave and Live After Death pair.  This album is the start of a new sound for Iron Maiden because it features guitar synthesis. It’s the first album where you can hear how harmonious the band can be during solos and in between verses.  It is also one of the only albums where Bruce Dickinson’s (lead singer) songs are refused so that Adrian Smiths can be played.  Adrian Smith wrote Wasted Years, Stranger in a Strange Land, and Sea of Madness.  Wasted Years and Stranger in a Strange Land are almost up to Dickinson’s standards, since Wasted Years is one of the two songs still played in live shows from this album, but Sea of Madness tries to pull of rhyming madness and sadness, a rhyme that should be universally banned when your as good as Iron Maiden.  Most of the songs are well written and well played, but only Heaven Can Wait and Wasted Years are consistently played live.  The guitar syths featured on Somewhere In Time are seen in Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, but this album is better because it’s shorter and the songs are quicker-paced.