18th Studio Album discussion

[Starblind]

Even younger bands are now releasing albums at longer intervals. Take Volbeat, their new album will be released after 4 years from the previous one and no-one thinks this is abnormal.

Very young and commercially extremely successful pop-rap musicians who have an army of song writers, producers etc prefer to feed their fans with singles rather than albums. Times have changed, habits have changed, the industry has changed.

Still glad to see Maiden guys productive both tour-vise and in solo-recordings stuff, even they don't need any of that... God bless their work ethic coming from their working class roots.

 

[Vaenyr]

Even younger bands are now releasing albums at longer intervals. Take Volbeat, their new album will be released after 4 years from the previous one and no-one thinks this is abnormal.

Very young and commercially extremely successful pop-rap musicians who have an army of song writers, producers etc prefer to feed their fans with singles rather than albums. Times have changed, habits have changed, the industry has changed.

Still glad to see Maiden guys productive both tour-vise and in solo-recordings stuff, even they don't need any of that... God bless their work ethic coming from their working class roots.

There are examples for each direction really. Evergrey have released 3 albums since 2021.
Trivium did what Maiden had thought about for a second according to Bruce, they released an album in 2020, couldn't tour for it so they wrote another and released it in 2021. Then did a double tour for both albums in 2022.
Cradle Of Filth used to release every 2 to 3 years on average. After their 2017 album COVID disrupted their usual plans, so their most recent album came out in 2021. The next release will be this month, so a gap of 4 years this time around.

Not trying to make any point in particular here, just looking at some other examples of how a few bands dealt with the last few years.