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While I like the idea in theory that Nick will be the official drummer and this is the final "official" lineup, it all depends on where they go from here. If they record with Simon, Simon should be the replacement, not just a live fill-in drummer. I'd have no problem if Nick did a couple tracks...

I've mentioned it a couple times. The information was taken from interviews with Steve during the Dance of Death cycle when I used to obsessively scrapbook such things. The weight of his bass had been determined the cause of spinal compression, and that's when they decided to cut back on the...

Here you go: https://blabbermouth.net/news/bruce-dickinson-has-demoed-18-songs-for-his-next-solo-album-to-be-recorded-in-early-2026

I've mentioned this elsewhere in the forum, but who the hell knows where. Interviews at the time had Steve mentioning that the Dance of Death tour would be hitting only bigger markets, especially in the US, due to serious back problems due to the weight of his bass throughout the years. That was...

Since he's already announced a new producer for the new album and he's demoing songs with a new band and has barely mentioned Roy in interviews in the last year or so, I'd say the odds are slim at best. There's enough evidence to suggest he's moved on from Roy.

Same, though we'll see what improvements he made on Balls, and maybe it'll go up a notch or two. As for Mandrake...it's fine. Certainly not as strong as his lauded Roy Z trilogy and it has definite failings here and there, but I'd never classify it remotely as an abomination. Interested to see...

I vastly prefer Live One over Dead One. It's a fun, very warts 'n all listen. So is Dead One, but the band's reasoning for releasing them separately is why I prefer Live One--because Dead One is full of stuff that was on LaD and Maiden England with a few other oldies. Live One had the new stuff...

This x 1,000.

The casual fans followed the trend of grunge, and having lived through that era as a fan in the US, it wasn't all that cool to be a Maiden fan during that time. The press was particularly brutal in making any metal band that wasn't changing with the times uncool, both in America and the UK...

So, with the prospects for a Future Past live album getting smaller by the day, what recording seems to be the best from the Future Past tour? I take it Hellfest is the only show that approaches soundboard quality?

In the end, it's a little late in the day for this conversation anyway. Maiden aren't going to overtake Metallica anytime soon. Maiden are at the precipice of retirement, Metallica seemingly is not. The fact of the matter is, Rod and the management team has had Steve to contend with in all their...

It's like...what's the solution here? Did Rod fail the band by not pushing them to derail from Steve's "sticking to his guns" mentality and go commercial? Release their own Black Album? Had that been the case, we'd have threads proclaiming Rod failed the band by doing exactly that instead of...

It was created in the lead-up to releasing TMP. Prior to that, he had no social media presence, and it's doubtful he's hands-on with it apart from maybe whoever actually runs it asking him to shoot a short video for it or whatever. That vocal inconsistency with songs being culled from the past...

Not to get political, but if the band wanted to make a statement on what's going on with the global economy right now and a YUGE amount of people seeing it as one big money grab by the rich, resurrecting Be Quick or Be Dead would be a timely choice.

If I recall correctly around the time I got mine, you could download painting instructions or something from the Maiden site to do paint it up properly yourself...or that's a Mandela Effect thing I'm misremembering. Amen. So tired of the heaps of documentation in regards to the genesis of the...

I wouldn't say not making solo albums is the equivalent to wanting to retire by a longshot. Dave has never been particularly ambitious with his career or even his songwriting. He contributes a song...on an irregular basis, to say the least. He's always seemed the type of guy to simply enjoy his...

Same(ish). Just give me all the SiT songs that never made it onto a live album and the Senjutsu songs (including Senjutsu & Stratego from LotB). I tried collecting the best soundboards from each tour to get the best representation of each tour to listen to, but...never listened to them due to...

If so, it would make sense to alter the lyrics the way Ghost did for their cover--"I'm the phantom of the opera" etc. vs "you're the phantom of the opera." Doubtful they'd go that far, though.

I have to imagine Simon's had the setlist for a good while and has been learning the songs inside and out in his spare time since January at the latest. If his tempo's more solid and consistent than Nicko's was (especially on parts of Future Past), I don't know if more than the usual rehearsal...

My thoughts exactly on the Future Past stage setup too. Maybe we got a little spoiled on the more extravagant Legacy of the Beast stage show, but whichever way you look at it, Future Past visually was a step backward. That SiT-ish backdrop that stayed through a lot of the show made it feel very...