18th Studio Album discussion

It’s not complaining; that setlist was a third Senjutsu, a third SIT and a third classics. Everyone knows that.

If the setlist was predominantly Senjutsu it needs to be more than half the show. That’s how mathematics work.
 
BludBrutha said:
It’s not complaining; that setlist was a third Senjutsu, a third SIT and a third classics. Everyone knows that.

If the setlist was predominantly Senjutsu it needs to be more than half the show. That’s how mathematics work.
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Mosh said:
Again, I know complaining on the internet is the only thing a lot of people are interested in right now, but what else do you want?
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Jadukor said:
Since we are all fans of this band, we can agree or disagree without being condescending, no?
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While I agree with your point, we should also call out bad faith criticisms that are simply complaining for the sake of complaining. Trying to criticize TFP (of all tours!) on the technicallity of not actually being "predominantly" about new material, when run-time wise a huge chunk of the setlist was devoted to that album, well that's just silly. We got half the new album (and with LOTB 2022 that totals to 7 of the 10 Senjutsu songs being played live) as well as the live debut of Alex.

They deliberately left off most of the usual classics, played the bare minimum (The Trooper, FOTD, Iron Maiden).
It took more than half an hour to get to The Prisoner, which is more of a deep cut at this point than an outright classic.
Almost 50 minutes until we got to CIPWM. More than an hour until FOTD, the first of the genuine, played-on-basically-every-tour classics.

People can be disappointed. People can have opinions. People should be ready that their opinions will be challenged by others if they genuinely try to claim that Maiden is a cabaret act.
 
I don’t even really feel like my use of the word was incorrect, but if the meaning of “predominant” was your main takeaway idk what to tell you, and I’m not trying to win a medal of stupendous boredom here.
 
Jadukor said:
For someone like me who does not get to see Iron Maiden often (they never tour southeast asia), I very much appreciate seeing the classics like FOTD, aces high, number of the beast etc. I can understand it is boring for people who have seen maiden concerts dozens of times but there are many fans like me who simply don't get that opportunity. I flew to Zurich to see them for the Future past tour and hoping to see them in Japan if they tour over there in 2026. I think the setlist is very well balanced for both the recent tours. If there is no new album, I would love to see Brave New World-Matter of life and death era songs return to the setlist in 2026 (especially Wickerman and Rainmaker)
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I hope you get to see them again on this tour next year, FOTD to name but one song from the setlist with 50k people singing along is well worth seeing again.

Far too much over scrutinising of everything goes on here and not enough enjoying the show.
 
Mosh said:
I don’t even really feel like my use of the word was incorrect, but if the meaning of “predominant” was your main takeaway idk what to tell you, and I’m not trying to win a medal of stupendous boredom here.
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I just ordered a new stock of those.
 
Could these (curious and) recent comments from Bruce be hints at a new album in 2027 or in general after the tour?

1)''we’re busy next year with other things, obviously Maiden things and everything, which is great''...
2)speaking about Maiden's current tour, he said there's a nice window open for 2027 because they are going to be busy in 2026.

Also, the teasing of future plans in the tour video after the 1st leg of the current tour. Or I just want to believe.
 
jeanpoleon said:
That could be a lie though, to promote the album the way he wants. Just hoping o_O
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Absolutely THIS. They are no amateur school band and don't let the press start the promotion before they themselves have a promotional concept.
That btw is also the reason I'm quite sure they had the deal with hiring Simon fixed way earlier in 2024 than December 10, when the press announcement was made.
 
Dick Brucinson said:
Absolutely THIS. They are no amateur school band and don't let the press start the promotion before they have a promotional concept.
That btw is also the reason I'm quite sure they had the deal with hiring Simon fixed way earlier in 2024 than December 10, when the press announcement was made.
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Hadn't they already played once to see if he was a good fit at that point? Planning like that takes weeks and months anyway. There's no need to let everyone know as soon as possible.
 
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