Who's song credit will you look forward to hearing most on a possible next album?

The problem is there’s a lot riding on it:
- opening track
- title track
- cover imagery rests on it
- and it lasts an astonishing 10% of the albums total run time!

At that stage you really have to make the song really awesome and it’s just …. OK. Like average OK. It drones on for too long obviously but even then it isn’t spectacular.

If it was buried in the back of the album like Age of Innocence on DoD I wouldn’t care, but to me Senjutsu drops the quality of the album due to its prominence and averageness.

Yes it’s Smith / Harris.
God it's boring
 
More Harris epics, of course.

Preferably, sequels. Something like:


The Parchment 2: Witching Hour

Hell On Earth 2: Doom

To Tame A Land 2: The Bene Gesserit

When The Wild Wind Blows 2: Nuclear Winter

Sign Of The Cross 2: Torquemada

The Duellists 2: Vengeance

Phantom Of The Opera 2: The Unmasking

The Clansman 2: The Return
 
I would be happy with ten Gers/Harris' but as long as there's two I take it. Its gonna be a decent album no matter who get the credits, which you can always expect from Maiden. Even their worst album is better than 60% of recorded albums in history.

If Murray manages to redeem himself I cross my fingers for his 4th good song after reunion. But don't bother with mediocrity. Smith / Dickinson is overrated but I guess we could do with one, or put 'Arry in the mix and try to repeat AMOLAD writing sessions. Maybe one Smith / Harris. Naturally there is no Maiden album without 2-3 Harris epics / solos.

As its their finaal album I hope one extraordinary surprise like Murray / Dickinson, Gers / Dickinson, Harris / Dickinson. Or Smith alone for the first time since SIT.
 
Smallwood/Taylor/Shack - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Manager

A song about beer and other 360 degrees merchandising efforts, bookended with quiet bass drive intros and outros.

Joking aside, in the past I would have voted for Smith/Dickinson, but following the cringeworthy lyrics Bruce penned for Darkest Hour, I think I’d rather have a Murray/Dawson credit instead!
 
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