"The Book of Souls" - Official pre-release thread (CONTAINS ALBUM SPOILERS)

[Gk1]

Man, it's MY opinion. + It gives some sense of mystic which i found amazing.

As I said,no offense but I really like this emoticon

 

[Jadukor]

Man, it's MY opinion. + It gives some sense of mystic which i found amazing.

Loved the mask in the Death on the Road dvd. Spot on

 

[Brigantium]

As I said,no offense but I really like this emoticon

This is probably the best single addition to the forum in recent times. Blessed is the facepalm.

 

[Gk1]

Kidding aside, I always found all these masks Bruce uses a bit childish!

 

[Ariana]

Indeed. Maiden have always been extremely mature. Three-meter monsters walking on stage and all...

 

[Jadukor]

Kidding aside, I always found all these masks Bruce uses a bit childish!

While a walking 10 feet tall puppet is totally legit

 

[Gk1]

Eddie is kind of stuck with them. They once decided to get rid of Eddie and people just went nuts.

On the other hand seeing a 50 year old man running around in a cape and a mask is just unbeatable.

 

[Ranko]

Quoted from the interview... so basically they spent little or no time thinking out the songs. The same thing happened with TFF as well...they recorded the album in two weeks.

Not necessarily, as he didn't say for how long they were in the studio. Maybe they were in there for three months, who knows.

But my biggest concern from the interview is Steve repeating choruses in songs like there's no tomorrow.

 

[Gk1]

Ranko, do not worry mate.There are 4 songs that Steve had nothing to do with.

 

[Jadukor]

Not necessarily, as he didn't say for how long they were in the studio. Maybe they were in there for three months, who knows.

But my biggest concern from the interview is Steve repeating choruses in songs like there's no tomorrow.

Hope its not gonna be 8 times.

 

[srfc]

I love Janick but man what was that in Talisman?

the songs is about a ship in storm, the solo gives a discordant vibe to evoke that image.

 

[RTC]

First post here on the forums. Looking forward to being involved with this community!

Obligatory "SO HYPED FOR THE ALBUM" post.

Seriously everything I've heard, read, seen, felt etc.. Makes me believe this is going to be one of the best Maiden albums since the 80's! Can not wait for September 4th!

I love your name and avatar by the way.

 

[srfc]

Well tomorrow (the 4th) was rumored for it to be announced/streamed. So we can only hope.

I would hope so. I think it's already very late to have not announced it, it's only 7 working days til it's supposed to be release, doesn't leave a lot of time for taking pre-orders etc.

At this stage I would suspect this isn't getting a physical release

EDIT: Also, there's a possibility that they might be releasing the single a little later than the 14th

 

[Jadukor]

In order to preserve the live feel perhaps the band is planning going door to door with the single

 

[blindg3]

Leaked lyrics for Empire Of The Clouds:

Spoiler

Do you need some time... in empire of the clouds
Do you need some time... in empire of the clouds
Everybody needs some time... on empire of the clouds
Don't you know you need some time... on empire of the clouds

Hope it's a joke

 

[mtmccox]

Imagine Slash rocking his sweet solo in front of a little lonely chapel in the middle of nowhere..

 

[Jadukor]

Hope it's a joke

November Rain dude. Its a joke

 

[ironbaz]

Jan interview is been removed from ultimate guitar...

 

[Gk1]

Is that so?!

 

[Moonchild]

I don't know why. But thanks God that NP copied that on forum!