Bruce talks not detuning the songs

Unfortunately the only inauthentic thing in this case is pretending that somehow you are the only person on the planet unaffected by age.

But good to know that ego is spared by father time.
 
I was under the impression that the trend for detuning in metal was about expectation of a heavier and more gritty, growling sound. It got to the point where bands were progressively going lower because older music started sounding comparatively pipey and flamboyant. It wasn't about accommodating vocalists, although it can definitely be used that way and sometimes works better that way.

As much as people like to celebrate Maiden for not being sellouts, I'd rather hear them evolve and do justice to their own compositions rather than take a shot at how it was meant to be in the 80s and not get there.

Again, though, this is typical Maiden PR as much as anything
 
Brigantium said:
I was under the impression that the trend for detuning in metal was about expectation of a heavier and more gritty, growling sound.
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That's how it was initially - but as our beloved Rock and Metal singers grew older (and the voice overall drops in pitch with age, so), it became a necessity for many to maintain, or improve, quality of performance, to tune down from the original tuning on the records. Tuning down from album pitch is rarely about getting heavier (Though in Ripper Owens in Priest's case, tuning to D in concert was in large part a choice of wanting to sound heavier and more closely match the new album pitch with classic material concert pitch. Ripper could do the old stuff in the original tuning too, and does it in Eb with KK's Priest), but about preserving the voice or even enabling singing the melodies properly at all.
 
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