18th Studio Album discussion

Henndrik said:
I don't think it's about aging. You mention “Some Kind of Monster” yourself. You can lose someone at any point in your life. Age isn't the essence of such an experience.
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No, I said not like Some Kind of Monster.

The issue with Maiden is squarely about ageing and retirement due to not being able to tour through ageing.
 
I disagree. Health problems or health incidents leading to the end of a touring career don't only occur in old age.
Ask Steve Harris if he thinks so. Then he must have forgotten the fate of his own son.
 
Yax said:
Surefire way to sell less tickets is to make a point of the combination of NPFTD and FoTD. I'd love to see some of those songs in a set, but from a casual fan standpoint, which do make up the bread and butter of concert-goers, it's a bad move. That being said, the 80s stuff have been done several times over now.
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I don’t think this is the case.

I see a lot of disdain online for NPFTD and FOTD but this seems to be mainly from fans in the USA.

The rest of the world loves these albums. I’m from the uk and these albums were hugely successful here and in most of Europe too. NPFTD peaked at number 2 in the uk album charts and had their only uk number 1 single. FOTD was a number 1 album and BQOBD as a number 2 single.

I believe these albums went down well in South America too it’s just North America who was just coming off hair metal and going into grunge that didn’t seem to like these albums. The fans who wanted heavier music than hair metal or grunge had moved past Maiden and priest at this time and were listening to homegrown bands like Metallica, Megadeth, slayer and Anthrax. Hell, Maiden probably sounded too commercial at the the turn of the 1990’s for your average metal fan in America.

Plus the Americans were about to have an explosion of quality death metal with Death already about to unleash their third album and classics from Obituary, morbid angel and cannibal corpse we’re about to drop.

I think a tour promoting rare tracks from NPFTD and FOTD would go down well in most places, except the USA.
 
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Metal really went undergroud in America in the 90's for the most part with Metallica and Pantera being big exceptions. Can't say anything about Dealth Metal in America because I never paid any attention to it, not my cup of tea at all.
 
Iron Lurker said:
Metal really went undergroud in America in the 90's for the most part with Metallica and Pantera being big exceptions. Can't say anything about Dealth Metal in America because I never paid any attention to it, not my cup of tea at all.
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Pantera was groove metal, which was relatively something new back in the day, but Metallica in the 90s - they transformed themselves into a radio-friendly hard rock/alternative rock act with make-ups and fancy clothes. I perfectly remember that period, especially when Urlich said, "Don't call us Metal," when the popularity and commercial potential of the genre went down.
 
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