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I think the fake album titles should be mentioned...
Is the next Maiden album going to be called 'Majesty Of Gaia' / 'Twins Of Fate'?
Definitely NOT. Those titles were made up by some geeks a long time ago (a few months before 'Brave New World' came out). They wanted to fool the Maiden fans by saying they got insider information and posted the aforementioned album titles and tracklists they made up. Of course some fans fell for it (well, what can you expect of the IMBB?) and spread the rumour across the Maiden community. The titles regularly resurface before the release of a new Maiden album.
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This is not the whole truth.
First, Twins Of Fate was (a rather lame) fake title/song list before Dance of Death came out.
Majesty of Gaia is something way different, here's an interesting read on that one
[!--quoteo--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]Time to give you some info on the Majesty Of Gaia rumour from 2000.
It started on a winter night back in early 2000 when 2 longtime Maiden fans were chatting about the new Maiden album, and how crappy the rumours were. Some people who were on the Iron Maiden newsgroup (alt.rock-n-roll.metal.ironmaiden) might know us, but you won't believe it was us if we told you.
Basically, we were sick of the shitty songtitles that some people came up with (come on, Land of the Dinosaurs? you must be kidding), so we decided to create our own one, to see how convincing we could make it, and to test our own Maiden knowledge.
So we spent a night brainstorming about titles that might sound like Maiden songs, and that might have themes Maiden would write songs about. At the end we had 10 titles and some background info that we thought would be quite convincing.
We mailed it to Hardradio, and they almost immediately posted it. What we mailed will be posted in a few minutes, along with the reply from Hardradio.com, and the reply we got when they found out it was a joke.
More sites copied the news from Hardradio, so it started to get more and more convincing.
Unfortunately, something happened that we hadn't counted on: online shops started to take pre-orders for it. That's where Maiden's management thought it had gone too far, and I can't blame them.
Oh, and to Skunk and the other admins: yes, I created another account for this. You can probably find out one of the people who was behind it, but please just keep that to yourself. We never meant to do any harm, it was all done for a few laughs.
To Iron Maiden, Rod Smallwood and the rest of the management: We're sorry if it caused you much trouble. We hoped you had a laugh about it too. Feel free to use any of the titles
p.s.: please note how close we were on the live b-sides.....
And try and find the similarities between our titles and the real BNW titles....
This is what we sent to Hardradio.com back in february 2000:
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Here's some information you might want to know. It comes from a very reliable source, who works at Sanctuary Management. I can't give his name because else he will probably be fired. He has seen the tracklist and coverart, and heard Rod and Maiden talk about the first single.
The albumtitle will be "Majesty of Gaia"
The tracklist will almost certainly look like this:
1. Heaven's Gate
2. Cardinal Sin
3. Everyone's Illusion
4. Seraphine
5. Equinox
6. Fallen Empire
7. King Of The Desert
8. Conveyer Of Truth
9. He Who Laughs Last
10. Majesty Of Gaia
First single will be Heaven's Gate, which is, like Moonchild and Futureal, a pretty fast album opener.
B-sides:
Highway Star (Deep Purple cover)
and probably one or two of the following:
Powerslave, Aces High or Futureal (all recorded live on the Ed Hunter tour)
The albumcover will feature Derek Riggs' work, as will the single cover. However, the single cover will feature digital art (like Riggs did on Gamma Ray's Powerplant album), as opposed to the album cover which will be traditional painting. He didn't say much about what was on it, except that the digital Eddie made by Riggs looked impressive. better then the one from Synthetic Dymensions.
Planned release is end of May, with the first single, Heaven's Gate, released in the last week of April or first week of May.
Here's what Hardradio.com replied. Notice the part about being suckered before...:
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Well, I'm not sure who you are or if we've ever spoke or emailed each
other, BUT, this Maiden scoop is F**KIN' AWESOME! If it's true (sorry to
question you, but we've been suckered before), this means a LONG, LONG
night at the pub courtesy of BW&BK/HardRadio!!! Thanxs a bunch!
Stay Heavy,
MT
as for the song titles:
Track 7 on Majesty Of Gaia was to be called "King Of The Desert". What do we see on Brave New World? a song called "Nomad". And of course nomads are those traveling people in the deserts, and are sometimes called kings of the desert.
Then there is a song called "Fallen Empire", and one called "Seraphine". A seraphine is some sort of angel. On Brave New World, there is a song called "The Fallen Angel".
On Majesty Of Gaia, there was a title called "Everyone's Illusion". On Brave New World, there is "Dream Of Mirrors". What are mirrors occasionally used for? Illusions.
Finally there is a title called "He who laughs last", which is some old english saying. on BNW, there is "The thin line between love and hate", which is also a saying.
Oh, and If I recall correctly, the Hardradio article said that the single would be released as a 2CD set and 12". Although everyone knows that Maiden will probably release the singles in those formats, we didn't tell them that. Hardradio added that piece themselves, as if it were true too.
Mail sent afterwards:
Hey!
I knew it was a fake from the beginning as well!! What a fuckin' scam. I
just carried your words to the masses cuz I still don't forgive Steve
Harris/Sanctuary for hiring Blaze! I knew management would freak and they
(including Rod) are pissed!!!! HardRadio still reigns as METAL news central!
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