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Simon sounds great here. The first thing I noticed were the guitars not being in sync. And, well... Bruce doing his best Blaze impression :D

That's fine! It's subjective anyway. I never liked fade-outs and the one in Hell On Earth frustrates me even more, because that final riff isn't the best. If the song had to fade out I would've preferred the part right before/the intro with its gorgeous melody repeating until silence. Other...

This comment is as well :D

As much as I love Hell On Earth, I can't lie: I was super disappointed on my first listen once I realized that despite there being over a minute of music left, there were no new riffs or sections left. It was the same riff repeated for the entire minute, while slooooooowly fading out. I hate...

I didn't mean a specific time frame, I was just talking generally about how they handle that nowadays. As far as I know they started recording the sound of all concerts from the early 2000s onwards (2003-2006-ish? somewhere in that time span). For the video feeds we know that they definitely...

Do you mean the footage shown on the side screens of the band performing? Maiden records those. They used them for the Book of Souls Live Chapter videos.

Things are getting serious if Aggelos is doing the Vaenyr and breaking up posts in smaller chunks to address everything :D

Unless he just tours the old material. He can play the same setlists as last time, he can create something new. It's not absolutely necessary to release the new album for that.

40% :D btw, what happened to your previous account?

Yeah, we used to have thick booklets filled with interesting and valuable information, maps, tips and tricks and all that. Those became rarer and rarer until they disappeared completely. Now we're losing access to physical games. On top of all that, so many studios are closing down and people...

I wouldn't mind that. But then the question becomes, how do they split duties? Half-half? Does everyone get entire songs or will both be heard on the same track? Do we get one "special" track (like how Journeyman was an all-acoustic song or how Empire Of The Clouds featured the piano) with Nicko...

I've owned a Playstation console from the first one. Only skipped the Vita and all the VR stuff. But fuck Sony. From now on I'll stay with PC and the Switch 2. Really hope this blows up in their face.

Let's not forget that going on tour and having to play one-and-a-half hours every other night is very different to recording in the studio. Live the stakes were much higher. In the studio he can take as many breaks as he wants, he can start over if there's a mistake, he can try tricky part over...

Kinda true, yeah. As time went on tunings got lower and lower. In the early-to-mid 90s going down a half step was popular, even power metal bands like Blind Guardian or Iced Earth did that. Some of the heavier bands went a whole step to D standard. Then the early 2000s blew out the bottom and...

I'd say the second half of The Thin Line Between Love And Hate is pretty hard. The Talisman (the "westward the tide" part!) and The Legacy are pretty grueling as well, especially considering that they played those live. The second half of the verses in Aces High is borderline unsingable, no...