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Wouldn't Road to Hell swap quite nicely with The Magician? They're both uptempo songs after all. The Tower, being a lot slower in pace, wouldn't really fit as a replacement especially since it's the last encore we're talking about. Honestly, I'm not totally convinced Bruce will swap it out at...

Well, to be fair, Bruce Dickinson's recently revived solo career is in itself a bit of a nostalgic farce.

I think whatever the case, it's probably fair to say there's something a bit deeper going on here than prior commitments. The Tribe of Gypsies' reunion and its timing don't exactly seem like coincidences, especially since Bruce actually has, shall we say, some amount of history with previous...

Frankly, regarding the whole Adrian business, I feel like Bruce is simply being a bit of an egotistical cunt. Somebody probably ought to remind him the only hit songs he's ever co-written in Maiden were with Adrian, and more specifically he wrote lyrics to Adrian's music. As evidenced by SiT...

He wouldn't need a prompter, just the lyrics sheet taped somewhere on his monitor wedge like when they did Lord of the Flies back in '03.

Adrian definitely compensates a ton with how much rhythm guitar stuff he does and how he's pretty high in the mix (on the DVD in particular where the entire center channel is just him, other than during the Trooper and TETMD solos where him and Janick are panned hard left and right). That drop D...

Dodgy Bruce Dickinson solo credits are definitely a bit of a recurring theme, aren't they? I was thinking about it earlier while listening to Empire of the Clouds since based on both what we can hear in the song and various interviews from the time, that song probably should've had at least...

The Longest Day also made it's glorious Long Friday return. I gotta admit though, Empire kind of got me. Haven't listened to it in God knows how long, and initially I was just kind of having it in the background but I ended up sat down on my couch, volume up, tapping along to the thing. It's a...

Empire of the Clouds is on Finnish radio once again for Good Friday.

It's just some cocksucker deciding to make a quick buck by ripping bootlegs and uploading them as "official" releases into the system for added visibility which YouTube's absolutely moronic system allows you to do for some incomprehensible reason. Nothing new, we've seen these pop up before...

I feel like TTAL and OTGDY could both happen since it'd essentially be a sort of mirror of Future Past - one song that's never been played live a band member has expressed interest in, and another that hasn't been performed in ages (since its original tour in fact) that's mysteriously popped up...

Yeah I dunno where the sudden expectation that Maiden will change their style of recording comes from, considering how they haven't (or more like Steve hasn't) changed their style of production either. If they record a new album then you can bet on it they will be together, at the studio, at the...

There's also at least a promise of no more 20-year gaps between solo albums since he's planning on doing more writing with Roy Z before his tour even starts with a vague "other things might happen next year too" mention. If you wanna speculate on what that means for Iron Maiden's album recording...

It's entirely possible the settlement could've included a clause concerning The Nomad too, like a lump sum paid for it with the agreement Iron Maiden will never play it live. This would avoid the complications arising from the original authors of the lifted section getting no royalties from live...

I was confused by an earlier statement that Maiden was gonna take 2012 off, but if Roy misremembered and actually meant 2014 (since if the sessions with Bruce were in early 2013, the following year could've still well been open for the band) instead then it'd make sense. They ended up extending...