Recent content by AncientMariner_Essex

I think when people refer to Steve wanting to forget some of the 90’s I don’t think they are specifically referring to just the blaze years. You are right that Steve stands over the Blaze years proudly and rightly so. The issues with the 90’s period that maybe the band doesn’t want to dwell on...

Really love midnight blitz, track and the album. See this band getting a lot of buzz at the moment and it’s nice to see. If I was to give them any criticism it would be that their sound strays a little too close to euro power metal at times. Would like to see their next album steer the ship a...

Maiden will get in the same way as priest did. Priest never won a fan poll and got in through the back door with some made up musical excellence thingy. TRRHOF needs bands like Maiden if they want to appear even semi credible. They know they have millions of fans worldwide and if all of them...

Personally I can’t stand Capnharris. She along with a few others on the official forum are just desperate wannabes doing anything they can just stand out and be revered as uber fans. I totally went off her when she started ranting about the screens and Maiden using AI. I’m not gonna derail the...

Im lucky enough to have seen the band over 30+ times and for me, just off the top of my head these are my highlights: * Brixton academy 1995 First time seeing the band and I was a huge My Dying Bride fan too. Great set list and thought Blaze sounded great although pretty boring to watch on...

That was my understanding too, that they couldn’t play the ed hunter tour for tax reasons. It was around this time they did that thing about selling some of the royalties to their albums on the bond market and raising a massive amount of capital so the band members got a nice bumper pay day and...

Shazam! Thread resurrected :) Thinking back to best of the beast I really wish I’d bought the 4lp vinyl set. It goes for ridiculous prices now but as afar as I’m aware it’s the only official release the band has ever done which includes the sound house tapes recordings (apart from the actual...

We’ll see :p I wouldn’t call myself the most well researched and knowledgeable Maiden fan but having been a fan for 35 years and after reading most books released about the band as well as many magazine articles and watching various documentaries I very much doubt this documentary will tell me...

I can say from my past experience on the official forum that there are definitely fans that would fly anywhere in the world just to find out what Maiden is up to. There are some scary fans out there that take fandom too far. Following the band on tour to watch gigs, buying and collecting merch...

I’d rather be a boring normal fan than a total Loser obsessed with the band to the point it takes over my life.

That makes me sad to think that some fans just have so little going on in their own lives that they have to be totally obsessed by the band to follow every little bit of news to the point they find out where they are recording and fly there just to pester them. Why can’t fans just leave Maiden...

I remember when TFF was released I was disappointed. Not because I thought it was bad per se just that after AMOLAD it just came across as a bit meh for me, a bit average. For a long while I hardly ever listened to it save for the odd time I’m having a run through of the whole catalogue. Then a...

Of course it’s totally different. Every gig they do on the road they get paid for. They don’t get paid anything to sit in a recording studio for a few months writing and recording, in fact it costs them to do this.

I’m not American no. Whilst I understand it’s a big market the world does not start and end with the USA. My point stands, does Maiden at this point in their career, over 50 years since they started, need any more fans than they already have? Sure a few more fans won’t hurt but they’ve just...

I have been saying for a while that I don’t think they’ll be any new album and that the reason they’ll be taking 2027 off is to sit back and plan retirement. They’ll release some live stuff I’m sure from recent tours but as for a new album and a commitment to tour it I’ve always been a bit...