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Pretty sure you'll be booking a flight to Europe. Blaze and his management have been pretty conservative with touring for the last many years, sticking relatively close to home for the most part. The last time he came to NA was in 2011, I believe, and that was when he was only flying himself and...

Not to mention the marketing campaign and merch, etc. has very little to do with the band members themselves. Some direction as far as what the cover might look like, sure. Interviews, yeah, but they're doing that anyway for all the touring they've been doing. Otherwise, it's social media...

When he clarified "what does that mean?" as to him still being part of the band, he said more or less Fan Club stuff and that he's still part of the Maiden family. I think the possibility of a couple of songs is realistic and a best case scenario for him. With Bruce wanting to record a new album...

New interview with Nicko, mostly restaurant talk, but at around 8:45 he talks about the possibility of being asked to do a couple songs on a new album (while also reiterating that there are currently no plans for an 18th album, though that could change). Also mentions his role "in the band"...

I'm honestly amazed Minnesota is getting a gig--at a new amphitheater about 45 minutes outside of the usual Minneapolis/St. Paul area they've been doing the last several tours. I haven't looked at the numbers, but I think the only show they sold out was the BOS Tour, with smallish-but-noticeable...

The title track has never won me over. It's a bloated lead-in to Stratego, and leads nowhere when played on its own. Even a 5-minute edit overstays its welcome. Interesting how, when comparing the 5-minute edit vs the 8-minute original, I feel like nothing's missing with 3 minutes shaved off...

Not colorful because he's more or less painted in whitish-gray tones by moonlight in his weird floating padded cell.

It was always my understanding that the B-sides weren't included basically because they didn't fit on a single CD. Steve mentioned a lot in the press for TXF that they put as much as could fit on a CD. This was, of course, before the time the band decided eff it and put out everything that was...

Good book definitely--however, if you have the Ross Halfin IM photo book and the What Are We Doing This For? photo book, you've seen a fair chunk of the pics inside. It does have some biography text running through it as well, hitting high points per album/tour cycle, but not as in-depth as the...

Ooh, jealous you got to see that combo for the X Factour. Over in the States, we got Fear Factory, which I was into as well, but MDB would've been amazing. A couple years later, I did get to see them do their only US tour opening for Dio with a 5-song set promoting Like Gods of the Sun. Left...

I think X Factor has the record for unreleased B-sides at 3. They typically write more songs than are released, it's just that they whittle the list of songs written down to the batch of songs that will be recorded. The most famous example would be the unrecorded Virtual XI leftovers that wound...

*of the Peace

Thanks again for putting together a tracklist that works and flows well! It's the only way I listen to it nowadays.

I just built the tracklist on my iPod, so no, there's no version that has those songs embedded into it. I based mine on one built by @Jeffmetal I believe, though I may reorganize it again in the near future. Currently, it runs like this: 1) Sign of the Cross 2) Lord of the Flies 3) Man on the...

I've been listening to The X Factor as a 14-track album with those included for years now to help with the dirgey mood and sometimes sluggish pacing.

A friend of mine went wearing an AoB shirt, but he's a relatively new fan. I don't really wear band shirts anymore, so I just went in a Skeletor shirt. B) Brilliant show, though, exceeded all my expectations for it. Bruce sounded excellent, the band were on fire and looking like they were...

Yep, Florida anytime of the year has the potential to suck hard. I went there in late October thinking we were golden going to Disney. Ninety plus degrees, high, high humidity...effing miserable!

Yep, I mentioned on here years ago that Justice of the Peace is the thematic precursor to what became Age of Innocence. It's an okay song, but yeah, I could do without the "old man complaining about the state of things with his old mates at breakfast" vibe those songs give off.

We could've had an interesting new era, one that would've undoubtedly continued the groundwork laid by the proggier nature of The X Factor, one pushed into different directions than the one we got thanks to the songwriting contributions of the new singer. I'm sure the most vital aspect was that...

Since they're sticking with these multi-year tours, I agree, a more versatile setlist is what they should be doing. Excitement goes down on the second leg of a tour with the same setlist, obviously, but that can be tempered by swapping out a fair amount of songs on each leg. Then there are the...