Recent content by Marbled in Stone

You made me check the early Maiden albums on the Japanese Wikipedia, that's some funny stuff: Iron Maiden (album and song) is Steel Maiden The Ides Of March is March 15 Prodigal Son is Devil's Magic Children Of The Damned is Vampire Legend Run To The Hills is like Proud Fight Gangland is like...

Adrian's solo and its backing kinda remind me of Darkside of Aquarius solos.

ok Rod

What became of the men that started? All are gone and their souls deported --- And all the lighthouses Their beams converge to gut me out

Albanian Iron Maiden :)

2004 Countdown and Youthanasia are wack, for example he removed Friedman's guitar harmonies in Symphony of Destruction (why would you do that), Sweating Bullets has an extended intro (ok but unnecessary), The Killing Road is sped up slightly so it's not in 440 Hz tuning anymore. There are...

An interview with Kevin Shirley. Almost nothing about Maiden though, only mentioned a few times. The most curious bit was when he said that on The Book of Souls he panned all the toms in the center because 3 guitars are taking so much stereo space. Still a cool interview, Kevin is a great...

They performed it in Eb? Closest you got to downtuned Maiden, I guess.

In 2:53 it looks like the writing says エディの王国 Edi no ōkoku - "Eddie's kingdom", though the デ looks kinda weird, like it's missing the top stroke.

If anyone is interested, here are the Japanese titles from the back cover of the booklet: 戦術 senjutsu, we all know this one 戦略家 with furigana ストラテゴ sutoratego, the kanji basically mean "strategist" 不吉な予感 fukitsuna yokan, literally "ominous premonition" 失われた世界でさまよう ushinawareta sekai de samayou...

My favorite part (besides Adran's solo) is the lead guitar in the left channel during the chorus. I like how it's a little bit different with each repeat. It's also different in the final chorus.

That would be 先術 and, as far as I know, that's not even a word. Anyway we have 戦術 written on the cover so there is only one possible interpretation, which is "tactics" or literally "the art of war".

In Japanese, the close vowels /i/ and /u/ are usually devoiced between voiceless consonants or optionally after a voicless consonant at the end of a word. So I think it's fine to either voice the final /u/ or not.