A really bad album. 2 songs and not awesomeIt seems that you like it even less than I do then!
A shame that part of the team that made The Chemical Wedding managed to come up with that turd years later. I guess the magic was gone.
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Shadow of the Gods and either Mistress of Mercy or Fingers in the Wounds is my guess.Bruce Dickinson on Instagram: "Tickets are ON SALE NOW! Head to TheMandrakeProject.com/Live AUG 2025 22 - House of Blues, Anaheim, CA, USA 23 - House of Blues, Las Vegas, NV, USA 25 - Marquee Theatre, Phoenix, AZ, USA 26 - Revel, Albuquerque, NM,
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In the promo teaser, Bruce says they'll be doing one or two different new songs from TMP. Great.
I was going to say exactly the same. A banch of ideas of songs during free time in decades here and there. I just like if eternity and many doors to hell.sorry the mandrake project and rain in the graves are ok to. But nothing even close to accident of birth and chemical
Bruce said he wanted to try Sonata, but it's a long song (almost 3 minutes longer than Shadow) so idk. I think Eternity probably has a chance. Face In The Mirror, probably not. He might go with the energy of Mistress Of Mercy (should be quite good live; outro!), a liked song from the album, iirc. Wounds would be great live and my choice, but Roy said Bruce wondered to add it to the album at first. I would welcome Eternity, the instrumental section is gold.
Yeah, I got GA tickets for Silver Spring, too. I was planning to get balcony seats, but #@€+ those prices.
The songs are from the '12/'14 sessions and 2 new and 2 old songs. That's it. If it was a work during free time in decades - it would have been a bit different, I guess. And I also miss a proper title track (1-2 more songs in general; a bonus one) that could tie the ''conceptual'' theme. It's hard to beat his classics with 1 guitar.
He was enthusiastic about the whole thing. But is Roy capable of touring today... what happened to his own projects...
Am I assuming correctly that the two new are Resurrection Men and Rain, the 2 old being Sonata and Shadow?
Ragnarok and Many Doors are the new ones. Resurrection Men is most likely one of the songs he showed Steve back in 2014. I really want to know what happened to the song called Nightmares from then, was it reworked or saved from the leftovers...
Ah, I was foolishly thinking that the telltale sound of his post-cancer voice meant Resurrection was new, when the song could've easily existed in demo form that was re-recorded later.
@Kalata's reply to me above (in the spoiler section) has Nightmares down in the 2014 sessions category as for when. The rest, as far as I know, is completely up in the air. It may well have been reworked into a song on Mandrake. If his supposition that Nightmares was from 2014 is correct and with Shadow being fairly well agreed upon to be older, then it probably wasn't reworked into Shadow.
I really hope he adds it for the next album and I'm very curious when he'll release it.
I don't think Bruce will have issues with the songs/ideas they've written over the years. Pay? Yes, but he probably wrote some of them on his own like for TMP. And he'll want to use them (probably add some new written on his own, if Philip or Chris aren't songwriters; we have to say he values Roy as a songwriter a lot though), after all he said he can't wait to show his band the demos, so he'll probably record them with the band, but finish them either himself (kind of doubt it) or with Roy. He doesn't even have to write, just finish them and record. I like how enthusiastic he is about his solo career again. I want that with Maiden, must admit.
We've known about Nightmares since 2014, but iirc it's a song from 1997 (and also iirc, Bruce mentioned about having 2 demo songs from the AOB era that he didn't release back then). So no slow intro like Eternity, right. If it was reworked into a song on TMP, I think Bruce would have noted that. Since Steve liked it, I think it's a same-y heavier mid-tempo/lively rocker (but probably not short) like a song from AOB or Eternity. Shadow is from the early 2000s, from a different project.
I guess it depends on how in-depth the remixed version of BtP is. For example, the 2001 remaster had the bonus disc with all the previously released B-Sides from the Keith Olsen album and the Skin sessions. If we get something like that again, then it's possible Original Sin could make an appearance. But outside of a bonus type thing, I doubt he'd lump it in with BtP. It's not really part of that album, more of an outlier like the material on the aforementioned B-Sides on 2001's bonus disc.
