Recent content by Helmuth Von Moltke

Yes Maiden had their 90s speed with their reunion lineup, it was awesome. The Paris 99 show remains one of the best I ever saw.

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I wouldnt go that far, it has a nice mood and a superb ending. But I agree in that I don’t understand the hype this track has for some fans. Same category as Empire of the Clouds for me: some good and even excellent ideas stretched to breaking point on this and on the Parchment.

That’s the correct conclusion so far but I still have faith it will be proven wrong, and spectacularly so.

They say it takes half the length of a relationship to fully get over a breakup, even if amicable. So that’s 21 years …

so the biggest hope is Simon changes the energy and offers an injection of fresh air in the studio. next hope is that in the last few years, Adrian, Steve and Bruce have spent more time on side projects / solo career than at any stage in the reunion era. So the hope is again for new energy...

I’m going to pick X Factor, because it pushed Maiden’s sound further forward than any album since then. It’s badly flawed for all the reasons we know, but it is a really important album in Maiden’s musical journey. Whereas Senjutsu is a fine album indeed, but it’s just another reunion era album...

The fact is the RFYL physical set is incredibly minimalist. Really, there are so few props that the screens dominate the onstage effects. So there’s nothing to stop this 50th anniversary tour making way for a new album. You drop 5 or 6 tracks from the current setlist and pivot the tour concept...

Bruce is heading - finally - towards a commercially viable solo career. I can see him stepping up to small arenas if he keeps going for the next 5 years. And if maiden keeps slowing down during that time.

It’s possible that like some people, for years, he hasn’t owned a wrist watch

Everything on it, except Age of Innocence, has aged really well. Tracks like New Frontier still leap out of the speakers and remind me of how young the band was, relatively speaking, back then. The cover art was a double loss since the band photos inside are some of the most striking (and...

Different cover art and I’m absolutely convinced that album would be lauded more generally

Interesting: Probably one reason why I really like Dance of Death from the reunion era, it has a healthy balance of song lengths - epics interspersing songs, rather than everything stretched to breaking point

I still love Real Live One and Dead One for those reasons. Also, Raising Hell and Donington 92 on video, because of the vibes. Maiden looked and sounded and dressed more up to date and 90s, to my 12 year old senses. Whereas I found LAD brilliant but very 80s by comparison, and I wanted a band...

Gordon Bennett - that’s like 12 years now!!