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I think one of my favorite aspects of the new song is the vocal layering and the addition of reverb - it makes the vocals sound larger and less dry. Maybe this is in part to account for some slight vocal decline who knows, but it seems really studio of Steve to do this when he's so adamant...

Great, maybe it's just me then ha, you never know. I really liked the sound on TWOTW, but maybe that has more to do with what kind song it is. It is a bit more sparse and open, allowing for some of those production tricks to stand out a bit more. We still have 70+ minutes of new music to...

Anyone else hearing noticeable differences in production/mastering between the two new songs? I've listened to them back-to-back on Youtube, Spotify (lossy) and Apple Music (lossless) and TWOTW is louder and much much clearer. Stratego sounds quieter and more muffled. They almost sound like...

Am I totally deaf, where are the synths? In the chorus?

The chorus melody sounds similar-ish to me to The Talisman.

Great, non-repetitive chorus and no utterance of Stratego at all. The bar is set very high after this one. Less than 15 days to go!

I also find it interesting how much better Bruce sounds here than on TWOTW even though he wrote that one. The vocals here just soar, I wonder how many other songs will have these sort of layered vocals? It adds much needed polish to these versions for sure!

Yeah, I noticed the same thing - play them back to back and they do sound different. At least on Spotify.

Do different platforms have different mixes? On Spotify, TWOTW plays right after and is louder and more defined, it sounds like a different session or something. It's like the opposite from last month where the Youtube version sounds the best. Am I living in some kind of bizarro world? Song...

This is the best Maiden chorus I've heard in awhile, the reverb and vocal layering really help make it seem bigger. My only slight nick on this track is the solo seems kind of pasted on, but everything else is great.

To listen or not to listen...that is the question.

At this point, I'm trying avoid hearing anything other than The Writing on the Wall until September 3rd. I plan on getting up around midnight for my first run through of the album, there's no way I'll be able to wait any longer than that. My CD and Vinyl will probably show up sometime during...

I thought BNW sounded pretty clinical and sterile - too perfect really (particularly the drum sounds). That's both a compliment and a complaint. DOD, TFF were both really boxy and dry to my ears. Sort of like everything was dialed into the middle or something. BOS was slightly better with...

Yeah, I quite like the sound on TWOTW as well as the song. When it comes to these live sounding albums (so, I'd say anything Blaze era and post BNW) it sounds good to me, certainly better than BOS and probably on par with AMOLAD.

Less than 3 weeks to go ya'll, we can make it! I decided to skip on the FC box set as it seems like a massive amount of money to spend on something I'm going to set on a shelf. I'll stick with the regular "cheap" box set which will do the same at 1/3 the cost.

Stranger in a Strange Land is the other

Definitely a Harris trait though these days, for better or worse.

That review came from Deaf Forever's Götz who, if I recall, found the last round of Maiden albums kind of like - BNW- Classic DOD - massively flawed AMOLAD - singular in tone, but high quality TFF - mixed bag BOS - mixed bag So, his review has me pretty excited!

There's another review posted on the official board I haven't seen here yet. Using spoiler tags for those who don't want to read it (also, this is totally copy pasted from there, so kudos to Nagelfar on that board).

I'm also encouraged by the comments on the production being better. I definitely thought TWOTW sounded way clearer and punchier than anything on the last two albums, with a bit more clarity than pretty much anything since BNW. That's kind of a hard song to go by though since it's so simple...