Iron Maiden studio album 17 rumours and speculations

[Perun]

1. Is the samurai Eddie the one that will be on the album cover? I don't think we've had one of those before (maybe on a single or something?) so it could be cool.

Best I can do is this:

 

[Diesel 11]

So yeah, a samurai Eddie could follow on nicely from the 'ancient civilizations' aesthetic started with TBOS.

 

[Kalata]

My bet is that the Eddie on the album cover will be completely different from the ones in the animated video of the single.

 

[Magnus]

@MrKnickerbocker
I don’t know if I’m hearing this correctly, but do I hear back-to-back Adrian solos?

Long overdue, no?

 

[riff]

What's this other single countdown that I'm seeing people mention?

 

[spidey99]

1. Is the samurai Eddie the one that will be on the album cover? I don't think we've had one of those before (maybe on a single or something?) so it could be cool.

The first thing I thought of was the Eddie from this statue. (I think he was on a poster & tour shirt too.) I was wrong. Ha.

 

[LooseCannon]

I get what you mean about it being the single, and I'll move over to that thread for further discussion, but the single is a part of the album, so it doesn't seem inappropriate here. But I respect the preference to move the discussion to a focused thread.

In the context of the album, that's fine - but the breakdown of lyrics/video etc would gum this up as we expect more real album news.

 

[Magnus]

So I have two thoughts from the video:

1. Is the samurai Eddie the one that will be on the album cover? I don't think we've had one of those before (maybe on a single or something?) so it could be cool.

 

[Azas]

What if there will be no album announcement till 2022

 

[paedubucher]

"Performed by Iron Maiden"?

So I have two thoughts from the video:

1. Is the samurai Eddie the one that will be on the album cover? I don't think we've had one of those before (maybe on a single or something?) so it could be cool.

2. Is there some significance to death, war, plague, famine? This is a pretty overt reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, which are also represented by four motorcycle-riding Eddies in the video - the riders on the storm that the lyrics sing of perhaps...? Could the album's title and artwork play into aspects of the Book of Revelation?

Everything of that is a reference to Judas Priest! The motorcycles, the four horseman (Nostradamus) ;-)

 

[Travis The Dragon]

What if there will be no album announcement till 2022

They released the cover for Dance Of Death today to which is still leading up to showing the new album cover on Monday which will probably come with all of the details for a release in a couple of months.

 

[Magnus]

2. Is there some significance to death, war, plague, famine? This is a pretty overt reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, which are also represented by four motorcycle-riding Eddies in the video - the riders on the storm that the lyrics sing of perhaps...? Could the album's title and artwork play into aspects of the Book of Revelation?

Don't forget that there was once a fifth horseman, Kaos, but he left them before they were famous because of artistic disagreements. He is now known as Ronnie Soak, a very successful dairy products merchant.

 

[Austrogoth]

400 000 views on YouTube in 2 hours. Not bad at all. For a dead band.

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

@MrKnickerbocker
I don’t know if I’m hearing this correctly, but do I hear back-to-back Adrian solos?

Absolutely!

 

[Collin]

400 000 views on YouTube in 2 hours. Not bad at all. For a dead band.

Should be 450,000 by now. End is near. All hope is lost.

 

[Austrogoth]

Daniel forget to update his twitter account

 

[PhantomOfTheOpera]

So it was Bruce behind the daniel on twitter, I sent him message but haven't received reply yet.

 

[Belshazzar]

So it was Bruce behind the daniel on twitter, I sent him message but haven't received reply yet.

Bruce wouldn't touch Twitter.

 

[srfc]

Absolutely!

I thought so initially, on repeated listens Dave is the first, but with a better than usual tone.

 

[cyanopsis]

"In BlinkInk director Nicos Livesey, another long-time Maiden fan & kindred spirit, they found a man who shared the collective vision for the track – resulting in the final film which features the very first glimpse of a stunning new incarnation of Eddie."

So the samurai Eddie? That's the Eddie for the album? Not sure there will be any more references to Belshazzar or Babylon on the album then, or am I over analyzing things?