Yeah the beer is p good!
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 18 June 2015 20:43 (eight years ago) link
P good in bottles, V good on tap, IMO.
I'm glad they're still rocks my (and when I saw them in 2007 or sthereabouts, they were stellar) but for me their discography ends with 7th Son. Consistently too much work for little reward after that.
― hardcore dilettante, Friday, 19 June 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
*rocking, not rocks my, jebus.
I'll have a much more in-depth review done in a couple weeks, but after a month of immersion in <i>The Book of Souls</i> I thought I'd offer some quick thoughts on Twitter.
http://bit.ly/1IJh5UV
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 13 August 2015 07:32 (eight years ago) link
Their best since 7th Son? Count me in!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 14 August 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
The single is not bad.
― jmm, Friday, 14 August 2015 19:31 (eight years ago) link
yeah it's ill....kinda bluesy and truckin' hard rock reminds me of the paul dianno era a bit
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 August 2015 19:38 (eight years ago) link
Here's my complete take on the new record. I would have been perfectly happy with an album on par with the last four, but they've outdone themselves with this one.
http://www.popmatters.com/review/196855-iron-maiden-the-book-of-souls/
― A. Begrand, Monday, 31 August 2015 07:43 (eight years ago) link
That was a very enjoyable review. As a new Maiden fan who's working through the discography chronologically, I am now excited to catch up to The Book of Souls in... well, considering my current pace, probably five or six years.
― JRN, Monday, 31 August 2015 22:20 (eight years ago) link
Excellent review. I'm gonna come to s'toon and make you buy me beer if this record doesn't kick my ass, ok?
― hardcore dilettante, Monday, 31 August 2015 23:38 (eight years ago) link
"empire of the clouds" is incredible. sounds like they've been listening a little to motorpsycho and steven wilson
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 14:08 (eight years ago) link
I ended up tearing through the whole Maiden discography over about six weeks last month in preparation for seeing them live. The whole process was one of the most rewarding musical experiences I'd ever had. So much so, in fact, that a lot of other music, even stuff I like, is sounding a little drab in comparison. This band is just bursting with energy and riffs and hooks and fun.
My top favorites ended up being Somewhere In Time for the early run and The Final Frontier for the 2000-2010s era. But I bet I'd have a different opinion if I did it over again.
I doubt, however, that anything will displace "Caught Somewhere In Time" as my single favorite Iron Maiden song.
― JRN, Sunday, 1 May 2016 01:39 (eight years ago) link
I listened to Piece of Mind the other day for the first time in a long while and marveled at how mild and basically arena rocky it sounded. When I was a kid, Maiden was like the heaviest sounding shit ever, but now it sounds polite.
Still love 'em.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 1 May 2016 04:17 (eight years ago) link
They often strike me as a rather un-heavy heavy metal band. The word that kept coming to mind as I was listening to them, especially on the faster numbers of course, was "fleet". Maybe it's all those galloping rhythms and songs about aviation, but for me they evoke swiftness alongside size and power. But I don't often get that sense of thudding wrecking-ball heaviness from them that I do get from, say, Black Sabbath.
― JRN, Monday, 2 May 2016 02:35 (eight years ago) link
When I was a kid
Key point. I think until I was well into high school, the only Sabbath song I'd ever heard was Paranoid (on the radio).
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 2 May 2016 02:48 (eight years ago) link
Iron Maiden has the gallop, which is their unique swing on the heavy metal thing.
― earlnash, Monday, 2 May 2016 04:16 (eight years ago) link
finally listened to Bruce's version of "Remember Tomorrow". I never did in the past cos I usually don't like hearing him on most Paul songs but dare I say I think he does this one better. it's so jarring hearing him sing notes that are so low (for him), because he so rarely did, and he sounds...different.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPG0GNGVx-Q
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 June 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
Nice, I think Bruce Bruce handles pretty much all the old songs pretty well. I was just reading last year's comments about not being that heavy, well to be fair they did develop their sound throughout the 70s, inspired by the likes of Jethro Tull and Wishbone Ash. There's always been a progressive element that they return to more on certain albums. Here's Opeth in 1998 covering the same song:
https://youtu.be/k-ZfPeC14qw
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 10 June 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
lol the OPeth version was the first I heard and I didn't know it was a Maiden song.
expecting Maiden to be "heavy" is kinda missing the point IMO, outside of the first two albums. like Priest were a more 'aggressive band' (though also were more AOR at times), Maiden were more exploratory and textured.
I'm also mega jealous of anybody who saw them play together back in the day
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 June 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
Well, not really about Maiden, but...behold.
http://exclaim.ca/music/article/vancouver_singer_for_clown-themed_iron_maiden_cover_band_arrested_for_allegedly_smuggling_7_million_of_drugs_into_japan
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 January 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
hey all Maiden has another live album from their last tour and like all Maiden live albums it's a lot of fun and reminds me a lot of that tour.
the guitars sound like buzzsaws and the bass is nice and present. also Bruce sounds gee-reat. obviously how many diff versions of these damn songs do you need, but hey, right now we CAN'T GO TO CONCERTS so fuck u for your attitude
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Thursday, 31 December 2020 05:31 (three years ago) link
k i'm sorry u didn't deserve that
New song "The Writing on the Wall" just premiered on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhBnW7bZHEE
― JRN, Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:13 (two years ago) link
really weird that they decided to cover the Sam Smith James Bond song
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:16 (two years ago) link
Admittedly I've only been half paying attention to the viral build up this week, is "Belshazzar's Feast" the name of the new album then?
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
not a bad tune, but somewhat lacking for a first new single drop.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
I don't think that's been confirmed yet. In trying to figure this out, I discovered that "Belshazzar's feast" is the name sometimes used for the Bible story that gave us the phrase "the writing on the wall". So it may just be something they were using to tease the new single.
― JRN, Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:33 (two years ago) link
i dunno, i thought the song was pretty good! i said to mr veg, the storyline of the animated video kinda lost me at times but it looked like it was dreamed up by a 14 year old while bored in math class (which is a compliment ie it looks dope)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:39 (two years ago) link
It's a perfectly fine middle-of-Side-One Iron Maiden song, but a leadoff single? Nah. Iron Maiden used to write fast songs; they need to get back to that.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:39 (two years ago) link
in the context of modern era maiden ie the past, 15 years, i think it’s fine & no slower than most of their other recent stuffi know this corny but i am super fucking grateful that they do not suck. I mean, they could happily retire if they wanted but instead still pushing out pretty fkn decent tunes in 2021 & staying in their lane.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
Agree 100%. And the fact that they continue to absolutely destroy live is amazing to me. I've never gone home from a concert happier than the nights I saw Iron Maiden.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
yeah samethat was my first thought: new single = new album = new tour weeee 😃
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
thanks! i just saw that name popping up too, so I assumed that to be the name of the first single before today. waiting until i can hear this on something other than shitty laptop speakers, but def excited for more new Maiden! \m/
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:50 (two years ago) link
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, July 15, 2021 1:39 PM bookmarkflaglink
this is how I feel tbh. not so much about the tempo, as some of my favorite tunes on Book of Souls (which I loved) were mid-tempo, but this doesn't feel like a leadoff single to me.
if I heard it in the middle of the album, I'd like it just fine.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 July 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, July 15, 2021 1:45 PM bookmarkflaglink
I genuinely got chills when I saw them in Tampa two years ago, because the lights were as such where the crowd became mega visible, and you could see the 21,000 seat arena was fucking FULL and screaming their heads off. 20,000+ people to see Iron Maiden, in the 21st century. Priest, on the other hand, who are also still going strong, are mostly doing Hard Rock Lives and things with much smaller capacities (though I'm guessing in Europe they draw bigger).
by comparison, I saw Slayer's last arena tour, and, not gonna lie, the attendance was pretty dope, but....the arena was not filled. there were empties.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 July 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
(it was an awesome show/tour, and Slayer's popularity was probably as high as it had been in 20 years, but you could tell that an arena tour was a little lofty in 2019 for Slayer, as opposed to 1991)
they are ok.
― xzanfar, Thursday, 15 July 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link
great post
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 July 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJkYGNiBkso
― xzanfar, Thursday, 15 July 2021 18:29 (two years ago) link
steeeerike two
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 July 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
I recently saw a clip of Brexiter Bruce complaining about all the ways Brexit has made things harder for him.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 July 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lku0bf3grts
― xzanfar, Thursday, 15 July 2021 18:31 (two years ago) link
hey mods uhhh
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 July 2021 18:37 (two years ago) link
those are kinda fun tbh
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 July 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
tho actually (unintentionally?) make a great case for Maiden's songcraft and ability to write indelible guitar melodies
so the whole Belshazzar's Feast thing was a red herring? anyway, who cares, new album imminent. cover art is badass. up the irons! \m/
https://www.ironmaiden.com/media/images/teddy.jpg
1. Senjutsu (Smith/Harris) 8:202. Stratego (Gers/Harris) 4:593. The Writing On The Wall (Smith/Dickinson) 6:134. Lost In A Lost World (Harris) 9:315. Days Of Future Past (Smith/Dickinson) 4:036. The Time Machine (Gers/Harris) 7:097. Darkest Hour (Smith/Dickinson) 7:208. Death Of The Celts (Harris) 10:209. The Parchment (Harris) 12:3910. Hell On Earth (Harris) 11:19
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 19 July 2021 16:47 (two years ago) link
lol at 3 10+ minute songs
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 July 2021 16:47 (two years ago) link
i hope this is as ridiculously OTT as Book of Souls, which I loved
same. i have no problem with current era epic length Maiden songs.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 19 July 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
Book of Souls material went over really well live too. in fact that fuckin' tour was maybe my favorite, though the last one was great too.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 July 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link