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TheMercenary said:
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BLAZE BAYLEY Says Sound Of 'The X Factor' Album Was Too 'Dark' For Some IRON MAIDEN Fans

In a new interview with Tony Webster of The Metal Command, British heavy metal vocalist Blaze Bayley, who fronted IRON MAIDEN more than 20 years ago, spoke about some fans' initial reluctance to embrace his era of the band. When Webster noted that Blaze's solo work over the last two decades has...
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Blaze is right, although that's probably not the only reason. TXF is a unique, special and dark album - one very different from the band's previous 2 albums. The style of it could have been appropriate (in a way) to succeed SSOASS. Other reasons were: the new voice, longer intros/longer songs, no much use of the classic Maiden harmonies or style, more mid-tempo songs, not a polished production. That's a bold (with some new and fitting musical adjustments for the band) and ''more'' Maiden album than the previous 2 albums. It also works better as a whole piece/concept. They tried to go old school with VXI.
 
Mosh said:
Probably the lyrical themes and extended instrumentals. I don’t think it’s a huge stretch.
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It's this. Both albums have this "futuristic/Sci-Fi" feel to them. Some of the guitar work is similar as well, like the Wasted Years riff appearing in the back half of The Clansman. It's a "brighter" sounding album similar to Somewhere in Time as well. If your argument is that "omg Somewhere in Time is WAY better than Virtual XI," then that's cool, but that's also not my argument.
 
TheMercenary said:
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BLAZE BAYLEY Says Sound Of 'The X Factor' Album Was Too 'Dark' For Some IRON MAIDEN Fans

In a new interview with Tony Webster of The Metal Command, British heavy metal vocalist Blaze Bayley, who fronted IRON MAIDEN more than 20 years ago, spoke about some fans' initial reluctance to embrace his era of the band. When Webster noted that Blaze's solo work over the last two decades has...
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"but the sound of it is so dark, and the way it was produced, it's not accessible"

Well as a black metal fan I should be used to "dark sound" and production "not accessible", and vocals @Jer keeps making fun of, so I suppose the reason I hate the Blaze albums is because they simply suck.
 
TheTalisman said:
The middle section melody played by Dave in "When Two Worlds Collide" would have been cool on a Somewhere in Time track! Sounds very "Blade runner" :)
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I agree. ''When Two Worlds Collide'' has some of Maiden's best melodies imo.
TheMercenary said:
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BLAZE BAYLEY On Still Performing IRON MAIDEN Songs 30 Years Later: 'It's Very Gratifying'

In a brand new interview with Metal Pilgrim, British heavy metal vocalist Blaze Bayley, who is celebrating the 30th anniversary of his joining IRON MAIDEN, spoke about what it's like for him to still perform songs he wrote with the band such a long time ago. He said (as transcribed by...
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Some cool quotes:

''But the thing that really stayed with me that I'm most grateful for is what I learned about composing and writing when I was working with the Maiden guys.''

''Inside me is the experience of making 'The X Factor' and 'Virtual XI', that's in me and that's been taken forward''.

''What we do is a different arrangement. And one of the things that we do is we put in the harmonies in places I feel there's really could, should have been harmonies.'' -> I like it the way it is, but I think I can agree with Blaze here.
 
Ooh, the new album showed up--decently quick getting it here in the US, considering I hopped on and ordered it when I saw a bit ago that people were already getting theirs in the mail. Looks great, aside from either a design standpoint or a forgetful standpoint that there's no band/album title/record label anything on the CD spines. It's on the slipcover, but displaying it upright alongside the rest of my Blaze collection makes for an OCD conundrum all its own...

Should be able to listen to it on the road tomorrow, so might have to pop in and drop my thoughts on it.
 
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