Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Better than DOD, but...

Really not even close to all the hype, with the average review saying that it's "the closest thing to Seventh Son..." After hearing the new album a couple times through, that statement is truly laughable.Granted, it is a huge step up in quality from Dance Of Death, Maiden's worse release ever, even more horrible than the universally panned Virtual 11. At least that one had better than average tracks like "Futureal" and "The Clansman". DOD has NOTHING redeemable involved in it's content whatsoever.But AMOLAD is an improvement in songwriting, guitar soloing and tradition Metal guitar riffing (at times.) It shows a slight improvement in life in the band which was definitely lacking as of late. I am glad that they have slightly recovered, but that doesn't mean that they have recovered their past glories. To truly visit those times, all you need to do is go listen to any of their benchmark first seven albums.