Iron Maiden News, Links, and Interviews

BludBrutha said:
It came out a year after Half-Life, but wasn’t even as good as DOOM.
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True, true.

Also, noticed that in the post I call the game "quite a Ture" (???) instead of "turd" as was intented, but oh well, gets the point across. :D phone keyboard word suggestions etc...
 
el diablo said:
I saw this headline scrolling through the Yahoo home page, not sure if it's already been posted somewhere here:

Steve Harris defends The X Factor and Virtual XI, Iron Maiden’s most derided albums
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It seems it's from an upcoming new interview with Steve. He's said that before about the Blaze era, but not sure about VXI too. He called TXF a powerful album.

He also said that Maiden never made a perfect album (yes, he's still not a fan of Invaders and Gangland): ''not everything's going to be good, is it''.

^I disagree here.

About Blaze's albums, I agree with Steve. Maybe not as a whole albums (ok, TXF, such different albums always stand out, no fillers, all songs are strong-to-good-to-great), but as individual songs and ideas. VXI has some classic Maiden elements that would be praised if they were recorded with Bruce on vocals: Futureal, Clansman (both classics), the galloping Two Worlds Collide, instrumental section of Eyes Of A Stranger. The album also offers a rare ballad, 70's rock song (which is too long), Lightning Strikes Twice continues TXF sound, while Educated Fool merges the two albums. It's failure for Maiden, but it's not poor parody of the 80's glory, it's developing the new sound since TXF.
 
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Starblind said:
a bruce solo interview, nice to see him promoting his own stuff on USA TV and while doing that he mentions a scorpions concert on the same night in the same area with him. i really liked this attitude.

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That was cool and kind of sweet how starstruck the anchor was! You'd never guessed he was a Maiden fan necessarily but he seems in the middle of the interview to have had his own 'holy shit!' moment :) Also, Leana seems to walk past at the end...
 
Fozzie said:
Same with Piece of Mind & Powerslave.
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I cant agree with that. Quest for fire sun and steel are not that good. And for me the same happens to powerslave.

And if we go after reunion for me bnw and amolad are in almost same situation. A few not great songs but no weaker.
 
Helmuth Von Moltke said:
That was cool and kind of sweet how starstruck the anchor was! You'd never guessed he was a Maiden fan necessarily but he seems in the middle of the interview to have had his own 'holy shit!' moment :) Also, Leana seems to walk past at the end...
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That's Leana? Good, I almost thought Bruce would be confronted by her now, with the question who was walking around in that room. :D
 
Thinking about it there's nothing on POM that gets even close to the final minutes of SSOASS's title track (in my opinion of course). My favorite moment on POM is probably the instrumental and solo section of QFF (that lead tone!), but that pales in comparison to SSOASS.
 
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