He probably needs some gravy to go with all the pies he's got his fingers in ...Looking at all the gravy stuff and gravy vibes Bruce is giving out, guessing he’s gonna have a Cemetery named after him where you can bury your dead only on a rainy day
The three reviews that have been published are the reviews of the main editors. The other notes are only notes not reviews and they are from people that are "less important" in the office of this magazine.Sorry, that's not possible. Only these 3 descriptions have been printed.
* Bruce told the editors: "Well, I know the reviews can't be bought here, but how about a little concession, I mean, you want another interview, don't you, and you know you already can't enter Till Lindemann's concerts anymore, so..."
NO, just kidding, I don't know anything about it.
What makes me a bit suspicious is that it only got 3 points from the editor I trust the most (because he usually rates the albums well which I also find impressive). However - he always rates very strictly. With one of the other editors that would probably be 3.5 or 4 points.
In general, the most important members in a newsroom of a journal or a magazine, are the first hired. Then you have the other ones, "less important", because they are people who have been hired later. The contact is more important and more solid between the first members of a bureau than between them and the last members. I know that because I've been on three different online magazines and the two previous worked like this. The one of which I'm a member now consider everybody being equal to everyone else. In the big medias like Metal Hammer and Rock Hard, these are the oldest members (the ones who arrived first) that have more power and more recognition. And this time, for Bruce Dickinson's review, I think it could be the same. But, as I'm not in a big media, I prefer to refrain from judging their organization.
It's one of the best songs ever written by Bruce and Roy Z. If not the best Bruce Dickinson's song in his entire solo career.
Bad production though. It should’ve sounded better
Truth, but I don't think I'll be disappointed. Even if I'm not a fan of some choices (or some questionable decisions), Bruce will never make a bad/weak album. Not now. My expectations are not lowered. Rain is something completely different for Bruce (it could have been a prefect bonus song), while Ragnarok is a very good song that probably won't be better than the album highlights, especially without an instrumental section, but every Bruce album has such songs (Starchildren, Killing Floor, etc). I'm sure I will like it a lot. Everyone is expecting a solid and great album like the previous one, AOB and especially TCW are hard to beat, not to mention without Adrian. Also, most fans want the classic style of solo Bruce (heavy, melodic, high vocals, energetic stuff), especially after the long wait, while he seems to prefer more mid-tempo with slow parts and experimental stuff now. But that should not come as no surprise since the majority of his solo albums are mid-tempo. As for the last comment, maybe Bruce wanted to just finish the album finally and tour it now that he has a chance, the fans wanted new solo album, and if he hasn't worked on the songs over the years then his amount of work on it does not matter. And - new (quality) music is always better than no new music. Bruce and Roy really should write and release more.
I remember that the year Dance Of Death has been released, the french magazine I was reading at the time (Rock Hard France), has published an entire page with reviews by its journalists : two or three positive reviews and two negative ones. Among the negative ones, there was one review by a journalist that has also written one positive review of the same album. He wanted to weigh the pros and cons of this record. I found it shocking at this time and I asked myself if he wasn't schizophrenic. But, I've read once again these reviews some months later and I understood very well why he did that. The czech magazine Spark did pretty the same for The Book Of Souls, but this time no double review, just good reviews by some journalists and bad reviews by other ones.
I think one of the reviews said that it’ll be an album that will require multiple listens. Well I can live with that cause Senjutsu also felt like a “multiple listens” album as it took sometime to process the music (and now is my 4th favorite Maiden album). While I do think that some of the new songs on TMP maybe reminiscent of his previous works, we need to be careful setting expectations. Bruce is out there to experiment and he’ll do things he couldn’t do in Maiden. So all said and done, I think the real review (by me) will be out maybe after a week of listening to it. They way I go about with albums is:
Let's wait for the whole album. Sonata is praised in some reviews and in some it's called a too different or even boring song. Bruce didn't want to include it at first, but I doubt he would have worked on it any further (he had forgotten about it) or to be different. A calm piece will always be, but for 10 minutes? Probably with a good amount of spoken words? It's difficult to write a long song if it's slow all the time (5-6 minutes, yes). Or if you only put 1 solo on it. It's also a surprise that Bruce went for the first ''unfinished'' vocal idea. Roy and Mistheria are the ones who can make the song, methinks.
I really hope it's not close at all. Midnight Jam was done for fun.
Wow. I think we need to hear the songs first. Different vibe/parts is not always uninteresting or bad.
That's the point, isn't it.
That would be difficult for me since TOS is my favorite album, but if it's on the same level, I'll be happy. However, this will be a different and perhaps more complex album. Also, mid-tempo over faster and shorter songs. If it's better as a whole piece than AOB (not counting the first 3), that would be enough for me.
Love it. One of his best solo songs. What a riff, classic chorus, great drumming and one of Roy's best ever solos. Great production too, like a TCW-BNW vibe. It's an album and hit song for sure - and it would have been perfect in TOS. It's the kind of stuff that wins you over on first listen and with its fast pace (I admit that). It seems the exact opposite of the new album, but I'm cool, sometimes songs/albums that require more listens end up being your favorite. Silver Wings shines on its own as a Bruce song.
My two cents about them:
Of course, I'll reserve my final judgement until I've heard the album. Furthermore I want to add that not only do I not mind "different vibe and parts", 90% of the music I listen to is experimental music in one way or another. I live for stuff like that.
