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Blood Brothers Rainmaker Hell On Earth

That would have worked live. Adrian, Steve and the crowd sings "the your time will come part" and the rest is for Bruce.

6:59. Those two guys (Nifelheim brothers) meet Blaze and Steve at Hovet, Stockholm, 1998. They are also pictured in the original Silicon Messiah booklet.

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:edmetal: He wrote a song about this.

1. Blaze has been the singer of Iron Maiden (just like Bruce). 2. He now has his own radio show (also like Bruce in the past). 3. Next step: teach the man to fly airplanes

Silicon Messiah got some good reviews from the major rock & metal magazines, and they got to play the main stage at Wacken in 2000, but that wasn't enough to break through and build up a band name. There wasn't any label support available to buy onto a tour with a huge mainstream metal act. But...

I think they were just happy to finally be able to record with good equipment, a good producer and go on tour. The only member who had been a professional musician before being in BLAZE was drummer Jeff Singer (Kill II this + some session work.)

1995 The X Factour: Man on the Edge Wrathchild Killers Lord of the Flies Fortunes of War Blood on the World's Hands Afraid to Shoot Strangers The Evil That Men Do The Aftermath Sign of the Cross 2 Minutes to Midnight The Edge of Darkness Fear of the Dark Prowler Iron Maiden The Number of the...

The Mercenary is 100 % a leftover, it goes back to the early 80's. The main riff ideas are from Janick's days in White Spirit. The lyrical theme is somewhat inspired by this old track as well. The middle section, where Adrian plays the solo, was propably Steve's work though.

1. The Number of the Beast 2. Wrathchild 3. 2 Minutes to Midnight 4. Revelations 5. Wasted Years 6. Die With Your Boots on 7. The Clairvoyant 8. The Trooper 9. Powerslave 10. Phantom of the Opera 11. The Evil That Men Do 12. Afraid to Shoot Strangers 13. Iron Maiden 14. Fear of the Dark 15...

They actually had A&R people around for Brave New World. Steve didn't like some of their advice though, so for example the choir vocals on The Wicker Man was cut out from the album version... It's unclear how much else impact they had on the album. But they are credited in the booklet...