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All this talk of physical media sales declining does baffle me. I mean in the one hand yes, dvd and blu ray sales are down and more people are streaming but, there’s bands a lot smaller than Maiden still putting out dvds/blu rays and box sets etc. plus there are still shops and online outlets...

Wishful thinking I know but I would love it if the documentary was like the recent Death by metal film about the band Death. That was a superb documentary and whilst celebrating one of the greatest death metal bands it also never glossed over the bad times and wasn’t afraid to say that chuck...

I do think this documentary will cover all aspects of the bands history from the early pub days, through the Paul Years, the Bruce years and will also include the Blaze years and then on to the reunion. This doesn’t need to be like Metallica’s some kind of monster and shouldn’t be a therapy...

Sorry but I think you’re getting a greatest hits tour.

I’m now wondering if the band are gearing up for retirement. pat cash, he’s the ex-tennis player that is mates with Adrian and a big fan of the band.

The best band for me during lockdown was obituary. They did loads of stuff online. They played gigs in their home studio playing the first two albums in their entirety and then released them physically after. I think, as you say, a lot of bands missed a big trick. They had fans sitting at...

The logistics would have been tough but really what else were they doing in lockdown? I never expected the band to actually record an album during lockdown but they could have all jumped zooms with each other and shared song ideas and lyrics and riffs and worked on stuff so that they had...

The worst Eddie for me was ed hunter Eddie. The obsession around this time with crappy CGI was awful. Don’t know why so many have mentioned VXI. Apart from the cringe fest football stuff inside the booklet the album cover itself I think looks great, even with football pitch in the background.

I actually quite like the 1998 re designed Eddie for the debut. Never cared for the original much either to be honest. Now when you look back over all the eddies decades later the original doesn’t really even resemble Eddie much. Eddies iconic look really started with Killers where he had his...

Saxon are another good example of a band who regularly releases albums. Starting with Killing ground in 2001 they’ve released 10 studio albums up until last years Hell, Fire & Damnation. That’s an average of an album just over every 2 years. Plus a few live albums in between too. Plus the Saxon...

The more I think about a potential setlist for this tour the more I’m thinking that the bulk of the setlist will be just the standard expected hit songs. All they really need to do to appease everyone is put in still life, infinite dreams and killers that were missing from Maiden England 2013...

Can I play with Madness is popular amongst the feral Maiden fandom but to me it’s the worst track on Seventh Son. I do t hate it and do t feel the need to skip it when listening to the album but I do find my mind wanders when that track comes on and I’m already thinking about the next track as...

The chemical wedding I presume :)

But in the build up to the future past tour the band, Steve in particular, was saying how they regret not recording much from the SIT tour and how they weren’t gonna make that mistake this time. Maiden have released a ton of live albums and I can’t believe they haven’t realised that a future...

Maiden are one of the few bands that I’m sure do make money on albums. Maybe not as much as they did in the past but I’m sure they turn a profit on an album. They have hundreds of thousands of fans all over the world and theirs a hardcore of Maiden fans that would buy multiple versions of...

It’s not just a lack of a new album but it looks increasingly like we aren’t getting a live album from the future past tour either. It just feels like Maiden is a touring band these days and nothing more. Hope I’m proved wrong but they don’t seem to want to release any music these days.

I thought it was quite reasonable actually. About the right price for hardback coffee table book. At least they haven’t gone with some £200 special edition with a load of tat included. Having said that I’d pay at least £100 (or more) if I could get a signed copy with all the guys signatures on...

Yeah I have to agree with the recent posts. We all know that Maiden is on borrowed time and with Nicko stepping aside now we don’t know how long we have left with the band. With that in mind I do wish the band would focus more on a new album rather than devoting all this time to side...

I was was thinking of popping along to the cart and horses when I bought my tickets for the London gig but now I doubt I’ll bother. With the London stadium only a 10 min walk away and 60k+ maiden fans in town I really don’t fancy queuing for hours. The place is gonna be rammed.

I’m not a fan of blood brothers. I always skip it when listening to BNW or any live album it’s on. It’s not a terrible song by any means but what really puts me off is the absolute cringe fest that Bruce spouts off every time it’s played live. This whole thing about “we are metal brothers, we...