Fictional albums or bands

Artist:  Iron Maiden
Album Title: Time And Again
Release Date: 2026
Style: modern metal
Rating: Masterpiece

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Swan song album. And it is everything You want from them and much more. Metal community is in awe and devastated. To end career on a such tremendous note is simply unbelievable. Hell of a statement. True Pillar. Megalith. Colossus. Just wow!
This album is not Somewhere in Time II. In fact, it's more in the vein of Powerslave + Piece Of Mind + Accident Of Birth.
 
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Artist:  Iron Maiden
Album Title: Annwyn
Release Date: 2028
Style: Folk Metal
Rating: Masterpiece

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Azas said:
Swan song album. And it is everything You want from them and beyond that. Metal community is in awe and devastated. To end career on a such tremendous note is simply unbelievable. Hell of a statement. True Pillar. Megalith. Colossus. Just wow!
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Nope. It was never intended to be. The last album of Maiden would come a year later and it's a concept album, in big part acoustic and down tempo. There are not one, not two but 3 instrumentals and many narrated passages in Welch languages. Kevin Shirley will be the producer but in an amazing turn of events the final co-producer will be Adrian Smith.
Maiden took a full 2 months to write and fully rehearse the songs in Bron-Yr-Aur, where Led Zeppelin conceived their fourth album. Then they took 1 more month to record the basic tracks in Battery studios, London with Kevin. There, co-producer is Steve. They then flew to Santorini where they took 2 weeks off with their families and clean their minds and reset their perspectives.
After the 2 weeks, they organised a few listening sessions the band only plus Kevin, deciding which parts to re-work what to cut what to add. And the did the unthinkable and re-record the album in Black Rock Studios. This time co-producer was Adrian, while Kevin was left alone to mix it without any interventions.

In many ways, this was the acoustic project Bruce wanted to do back in 1986, though by no means a full acoustic album. This would be the 19th studio album by Iron Maiden to fulfil a prophesy mentioning that Iron Maiden would release 19 Studio albums.

There will be only one single released from Annwyn, titled Gweir a 6 minute folk metal ballad. B' Side of the single a Maiden take of Dickinson's Jerusalem and in inspired cover of Jethro Tull's Bourée where Adrian plays the flute parts of Ian Anderson in unison with Dave and Janick the acoustic guitar. Maiden's Bourée has a fast instrumental electrical part in the middle.

All in all the album is hailed by critics but leaves the fans divided. A few years later it will be acknowledged by many as the most mature and noteworthy Maiden record ever.
 
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big part acoustic
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Janick´s idea
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and down tempo.
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Nicko´s idea.
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There are not one, not two but 3 instrumentals
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Dave´s idea.
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and many narrated passages in Welch languages.
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Bruce´s idea.
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Kevin Shirley will be the producer
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Steve´s idea.

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All in all the album is hailed by critics but leaves the fans divided.
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@Diesel 11 rates it a masterpiece, @GhostofCain thinks it´s a pile of plodding crap at best.
 
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Artist:  Iron Maiden
Album Title: Annwyn
Release Date: 2028
Style: Folk Metal
Rating: Masterpiece

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Nope. It was never intended to be. The last album of Maiden would come a year later and it's a concept album, in big part acoustic and down tempo. There are not one, not two but 3 instrumentals and many narrated passages in Welch languages. Kevin Shirley will be the producer but in an amazing turn of events the final co-producer will be Adrian Smith.
Maiden took a full 2 months to write and fully rehearse the songs in Bron-Yr-Aur, where Led Zeppelin conceived their fourth album. Then they took 1 more month to record the basic tracks in Battery studios, London with Kevin. There, co-producer is Steve. They then flew to Santorini where they took 2 weeks off with their families and clean their minds and reset their perspectives.
After the 2 weeks, they organised a few listening sessions the band only plus Kevin, deciding which parts to re-work what to cut what to add. And the did the unthinkable and re-record the album in Black Rock Studios. This time co-producer was Adrian, while Kevin was left alone to mix it without any interventions.

In many ways, this was the acoustic project Bruce wanted to do back in 1986, though by no means a full acoustic album. This would be the 19th studio album by Iron Maiden to fulfil a prophesy mentioning that Iron Maiden would release 19 Studio albums.

There will be only one single released from Annwyn, titled Gweir a 6 minute folk metal ballad. B' Side of the single a Maiden take of Dickinson's Jerusalem and in inspired cover of Jethro Tull's Bourée where Adrian plays the flute parts of Ian Anderson in unison with Dave and Janick the acoustic guitar. Maiden's Bourée has a fast instrumental electrical part in the middle.

All in all the album is hailed by critics but leaves the fans divided. A few years later it will be acknowledged by many as the most mature and noteworthy Maiden record ever.
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This is epic :D
 
Artist:  Ghost
Album Title: Empress Part I -------- Empress Part II
Release Date: 2020
Style: rock opera
Rating: 5/5

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Artist: Iron Maiden (band of clones)
Album Title: Spaces High
Release Date: 2184
Style: interplanetary metal
Rating: 3/5

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Artist:  Accept
Album Title: Wolf In Sheeps Clothing
Release Date: 2027
Style: heavy metal
Rating: 3/5

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After much hailed and critically acclaimed Maiden's Time And Again, in hopes to achieve similar success, many other bands started to copy musical direction of Maiden's last ever album, and even cover artwork. This is a farewell album of Wolf Hoffman. Such was his facial expression, when he heard the news that Udo band now consist of four original members of classic Accept lineup.
 
Artist: The Iron Maidens
Album Title: Goddesses Again
Release Date: 2027
Style: heavy metal
Rating: 5/5

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When Iron Maiden retired on a such tremendous note, all female tribute band had no other option, than to find it's own place in metal music's landscape. And - o boy - did they succeeded immensely. Goddesses Again can be compared to Maiden's The Number Of The Beast. That's how you do it!
 
Artist: Blaze Bayley
Album title: Mr. Brain
Release date: 2027
Style: heavy metal
Rating: 5/5

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Of course, such  maidenised album was also released by Blaze Bayley. He became very good friends with Nicko McBrain. And played many times as a special guest at Nicko's Rock n Roll Ribs.
 
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Artist:  Nightwish
Album title: Beacons Of Light... Guide Me Home
Release date: 2025
Style: symphonic metal
Rating: 5/5

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A Miracle happened. After reaching existential crossroads, Nightwish disbanded and immediately reformed consisting of Tuomas, Emppu, Floor, Marco, Kai, Jukka and Tarja. Good for them!
 
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Artist: Small Gods (fictional)
Album title: Kafka: The Trial ----- Kafka: The Castle
Release date: 2010 (seventh, double album)
Style:  thrash metal
Rating: 5/5

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Artist:  Magnum
Album title: On A Storyteller's Morning
Release date: 1998
Style: hard rock/AOR
Rating: 5/5

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Artist:  Ghost
Album title: Nature Morte
Release date: 2021
Style: hard rock
Rating: 4/5

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Artist:  Anthrax
Album title: self titled
Release date: 2005
Style: thrash metal
Rating: 5/5

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Artist: Psycho Motel
Album title: The Resort
Release date: 1993
Style: hard rock
Rating: 4/5

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Artist:  Immortal
Album title: Rainbow Rising
Release date: 2005
Style: colorful metal
Rating: 5/5

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