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Educated Fool
No matter who's doing what, a new album is an engagement that goes on for several years. If there's no hard plans right now for an actual album recording, they will have to commit to that pretty soon if they intend to work like they have done in the past. Steve's mindset will have to change on how this machinery operates if they'll casually use 2027 to record but don't plan much further.RFYL had a new Eddie a whole marketing campaign and new merch plus a tour. So other than the recording/writing a new album has exactly the same work involved.
As mentioned there's other people who actually do the overwhelming bulk of the work. Maiden just communicate artwork ideas and provide feedback on what comes back. Marketing is entirely handled by the social media team. There'll be some members doing a handful of interviews, again no different than they're doing on the RFYL tour cycle.