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so the biggest hope is Simon changes the energy and offers an injection of fresh air in the studio. next hope is that in the last few years, Adrian, Steve and Bruce have spent more time on side projects / solo career than at any stage in the reunion era. So the hope is again for new energy...

I’m going to pick X Factor, because it pushed Maiden’s sound further forward than any album since then. It’s badly flawed for all the reasons we know, but it is a really important album in Maiden’s musical journey. Whereas Senjutsu is a fine album indeed, but it’s just another reunion era album...

The fact is the RFYL physical set is incredibly minimalist. Really, there are so few props that the screens dominate the onstage effects. So there’s nothing to stop this 50th anniversary tour making way for a new album. You drop 5 or 6 tracks from the current setlist and pivot the tour concept...

Bruce is heading - finally - towards a commercially viable solo career. I can see him stepping up to small arenas if he keeps going for the next 5 years. And if maiden keeps slowing down during that time.

It’s possible that like some people, for years, he hasn’t owned a wrist watch

Everything on it, except Age of Innocence, has aged really well. Tracks like New Frontier still leap out of the speakers and remind me of how young the band was, relatively speaking, back then. The cover art was a double loss since the band photos inside are some of the most striking (and...

Different cover art and I’m absolutely convinced that album would be lauded more generally

Interesting: Probably one reason why I really like Dance of Death from the reunion era, it has a healthy balance of song lengths - epics interspersing songs, rather than everything stretched to breaking point

I still love Real Live One and Dead One for those reasons. Also, Raising Hell and Donington 92 on video, because of the vibes. Maiden looked and sounded and dressed more up to date and 90s, to my 12 year old senses. Whereas I found LAD brilliant but very 80s by comparison, and I wanted a band...

Gordon Bennett - that’s like 12 years now!!

this ^^^^ bludbrutha’s post is a bit misleading because it suggests total severance, but Nicko’s holding company is still listed on Iron Maiden LLP as an active entity. All maiden members have a holding company and we can’t overlook the obvious fact that Nicko still has a certified commercial...

It all worked out well, giving us the artistic high quality of AOB and CW. And his return to Maiden… we are lucky his solo career commercially tanked. Going back to 1993-94, that was not his intention. Remember, Bruce was spectacularly dropped by EMI records after BTP.

I agree with this, add Breeding House in there too. The No Way Outs are fabulous songs, especially the 2nd one ‘continued …’ Feels like he overthought BTP, recorded too many versions, ended up with a much weaker album than he should have. Scuttled his post Maiden solo career in commercial terms...

I missed this! Oh well and that’s that for the holy trinity of best Bruce albums then. Edit: just read the Reddit threat on this and looked up page 222 in Bruce’s autobiography. Well, what do I know about Roy’s life, but I’d say that’s a careless and stereotyped description that Bruce opted for...

Fingers crossed. It depends on whether Bruce can focus his vision around a coherent musical approach. And if Roy Z operates as his peak as well. My fear is they try cover all the musical bases once again and produce another disjointed album. I also think Balls to Picasso was disjointed, and...

I have mediocre expectations for the next Bruce album. I preferred the first Smith / Kotzen and the second British Lion albums to the Mandrake Project, to put my feelings into context. So for me, the very big question is what this scheduling means for the next Maiden album. And it fills me with...

Over attribution of complex outcomes to Russia’s malign activity… The malign activity is certainly in evidence, I don’t dispute that. But your line of thinking falls into the trap of being so overly aggrieved by Russia’s heinous actions in Ukraine, that you are over attributing cause and...

Listened to More Balls to Picasso on Spotify. Inclined to agree with SRFC, Roy Z had made a mediocre album sound very nice indeed. But most of the songs are still evidently mediocre. It is indeed in the songs.

nice short statement on the Maiden website. Glad they said something. Hope the footage or pics of the get together at Steve’s house with the early members sees the light of the day this year, if that’s what was intended.

Actually yes, there is scale along which a Maiden's fans life is dominated by Maiden and associated activities alone. Not judging anyone, and it probably changes over time as well (my peak Maiden fan obsession - to the relative exclusion of other things - was probably 1995 - 2008 ish...). I...