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[Sabawish]

Agreed, but also the american guy saying Maiden had to sink to rock bottom to come back to the top, was a bit OTT, they played to 50,000 in a stadium in Brazil with Blaze, both albums were number 1 in Greece. Relatively, it's obviously Maiden's least successful period, but it's hardly rock bottom anywhere other than America.

Well they also didn't come back to the top either so i just took that comment with a pinch of salt. Maybe there wa a time they were the biggest metal band in the world, sometime in the mid 80s if i had to guess, but after the Black album absolutely no chance.

 

[MindRuler]

Even in europe with xfactor they played in small places than with bruce. During virtual xi seems they changed to a bigger places but during xfsctor they went down.not in south america that is true.

True. In Belgium they played X Factour in a venue with a capacity of 2000 people, during the Virtual XI tour they moved to one with a capacity of almost 9000.

 

[srfc]

I recall a metal hammer live review from 1998 in which they speculated “Maiden’s future will look like Motörhead’s, where the albums become less important but live remains vital.” Or words to that effect.

I agree with you it wasn’t rock bottom in all territories yet. But a third and even fourth Blaze album probably would have made that metal hammer speculation come truer. To be fair to that American guy in the film, it was truer in the USA already compared to elsewhere.

I remember the same article alright.

I think I'm more triggered by the phrase "rock bottom", it conjures up images of when Bart was fantasing about being in a band