GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
Are they really? They might span over 2 or 3 calendar years, but other bands play a similar number of gigs, if not more, and release new music more often than Maiden.
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Are they really? They might span over 2 or 3 calendar years, but other bands play a similar number of gigs, if not more, and release new music more often than Maiden.
____no5
Free Man
The point is to compare apples with apples.
Is there any other metal group being in the industry 40 ~50 years that is considerably more productive than Maiden? Productivity as of number of highly production value gigs & studio albums. Genuine question, I can't bring anyone in mind.
AncientMariner_Essex
Ancient Mariner
Saxon springs to mind. Ok they aren’t as big as Maiden but they’re a lot older (biff is 73 and still singing well) and they do big tours and play some decent sized venues.
They’ve released 10 studio albums during Maidens reunion years (roughly every 2 years) compared to Maiden releasing 6.
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
UDO also comes to mind. If I am not mistaken, 13 new studio albums during Maiden reunion years, with extensive touring to support them and, in recent times, working as Dirkschneider playing the Accept classics live too.
andreljbernardo
Trooper
To a band that have such creative songwriters, I really think Maiden could realease new albuns more often, something like was done in the first years of the reunion era, with one album in each 3 years.
dickinson1978
Ancient Mariner
Few bands and not at iron maiden level. I mean iron maiden tours now is 1 year europe 1 year usa and south america and other places. So 2 years for the same tour.
dickinson1978
Ancient Mariner
That is what i wanted to say
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
Where you see 1 year, I see 3-4 months of touring at most followed by huge gaps without any activity (apart from coming up with new merchandising).
Their days if intensive touring are a thing of the (very) distant past.
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Ascendingthethrone
Ancient Mariner
I’m glad they have used the short tour model since 2017. It works much better for Bruce’s voice.Where you see 1 year, I see 3-4 months of touring at most followed by huge gaps without any activity (apart from coming up with new merchandising).
Their days if intensive touring are a thing of the (very) distant past.
To be honest, I wish they had done it sooner in their career. I know they tired it with Maiden England, but The Final Frontier tour could have been shorter. You and I were both there at the O2 in 2011… that tour trashed Bruce’s voice. I’m glad he sort of acknowledged it in his book. They were just trying to capitalise on the unexpected success of Flight 666, and tried to one-up the SBIT tour. It did not work. The Book of Souls 2016 was too long as well, but they were making up for lost time.
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
Don't get me wrong, I agree with you. Shorter tours have definitely contributed to extending the band's lifespan, that is true, but let's not pretend they tour as hard as other bands of their generation (who also do not fly to gigs on private jets).
The state of Bruce's voice at the end of the tour in 2011 was shocking. It made me regret going to 5 gigs on that UK tour.
Fixed it for you.
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
Yeah but I'm sure she wants to and hope so. Nicko too, but I'm not sure if he will. He won't be in his best form and he needs to be at his 2024 tour level (who knows when you stop touring and he looks older in the photos from a couple of days ago). Maybe for a song or two (which would be odd). I know it's studio work, but he wouldn't want to NOT give his best, right. The most important is he to feels well and healthy.
It seems like one of the projects is a ''Meet and greet with Nicko'' from a couple of days ago. Probably with some interviews, solo shows, etc.
We are yet to find out. It was just a thought.
For sure. Not that they can't record in early 2027 (although we need to know Bruce's solo plans for then first), their plans are until 2026 (for now), so if we don't spot them in Paris early next year (their usual schedule for albums), idk what to think about a possible new album. With or without Nicko.
That's the thing, they span over 2 (or 3) years, bigger shows, bigger tours in terms of traveling and venues, so even if they write new music, they still have to wait after the tour to release it - 4 months of touring is like 1 whole year and they only need 3 months to write an album). In the other months that they're not on tour, they have family and solo projects. Like others.
Some old bands tour and release new music (some more often in this regard, early Reunion era Maiden were like that) like Maiden, some take breaks between tours (Priest), change themes for legs, but they are just a few. Saxon, Accept, UDO,...?/ although with solo artists it is a little different. Intense touring for all these bands now, they are around the same dates.
True, ofc - but that's because of the Hits/History tours since 2005 (or 2003 when they did 2 tours in 1 year, probably because they didn't tour much in the previous two years). Quality over quantity is not an excuse for Maiden.