Recent content by Vaenyr

Absolutely! I'm always for previously unreleased live songs.

Quite a few things happening at the moment. Mitch McConnell is apparently brain dead but being kept on life support until early August to avoid a special election. Graham Platner finally decided to drop out after raising a million red flags. When you thought you heard everything about the...

The choice of song is still random and arbitrary, the explanation above does not touch upon why that song was used. There are plenty of songs that appeared on specific legs and didn't make the live release of their album tour. TOTC is not unique in that regard. The subject matter isn't touched...

I've looked at it before, but that's a common statistic for most albums. FOTD is a bit of an outlier with only 5 songs being played live. TFF is rather low with only 50% being played live. The rest is closer to 70-80% of an album played live. For the 8 song albums that had 7 songs played live...

This was a perfect chance to release some gems from the vault. There are so many tours that didn't have official live releases. They could've picked some highlights. But no, instead we get the most random release with Tears of a Clown.

Opinions and all, but given how borderline nonsensical some of Steve's lyrics on Senjutsu were I found "very creative with the lyrics" kinda funny. The man truly has two extremes. On one side we have very obvious cases where the lyrics were just a means to an end and he threw something together...

I have to heavily disagree with "he's adding nothing". I saw them in 2022 prior to Nicko's stroke. Then in 2023 after his stroke and then in 2025 with Simon. The band was incredibly rejuvenated by his addition and firing from all cylinders. Dave is on fire, Steve and Janick back to their old...

Well, according to various comments on the internet: - He's too fast - He's too slow - He drags the songs instead of keeping up with Steve - He hits too weak - He bashes the drums - He lacks technique - He lacks dynamics - He's not Nicko - He has no groove - He's a pub drummer Take your pick.

Simon sounds great here. The first thing I noticed were the guitars not being in sync. And, well... Bruce doing his best Blaze impression :D

That's fine! It's subjective anyway. I never liked fade-outs and the one in Hell On Earth frustrates me even more, because that final riff isn't the best. If the song had to fade out I would've preferred the part right before/the intro with its gorgeous melody repeating until silence. Other...

This comment is as well :D

As much as I love Hell On Earth, I can't lie: I was super disappointed on my first listen once I realized that despite there being over a minute of music left, there were no new riffs or sections left. It was the same riff repeated for the entire minute, while slooooooowly fading out. I hate...

I didn't mean a specific time frame, I was just talking generally about how they handle that nowadays. As far as I know they started recording the sound of all concerts from the early 2000s onwards (2003-2006-ish? somewhere in that time span). For the video feeds we know that they definitely...

Do you mean the footage shown on the side screens of the band performing? Maiden records those. They used them for the Book of Souls Live Chapter videos.

Things are getting serious if Aggelos is doing the Vaenyr and breaking up posts in smaller chunks to address everything :D