Iron Maiden studio album 17 rumours and speculations

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srfc said:
My memory of it was it was an interview around the release of Virus and the question was put to steve that it was unusual for a song to have 4 writers and he answered well we just put everyone's name down to show we all agreed with the lyrics. I agree with you that the certainly seem like Blazes lyrics.

It may have been on an episode that Headbangers Ball did around the time BOTB was released, I might see if I can dig it out. Or I might just be imagining the whole thing.
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I don't think it's impossible. It does seem more than a bit strange if it's true, since Maiden has never really done stuff like that (crediting people for songs they had no hand in writing), apart from the occasional B-side. If anything, they've been leaning on the side of not giving people their due credit!
 
srfc said:
My memory of it was it was an interview around the release of Virus and the question was put to steve that it was unusual for a song to have 4 writers and he answered well we just put everyone's name down to show we all agreed with the lyrics.
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Interesting, I don't understand would they all need to agree with the lyrics though. Is it because Virus was a single only, not an album track?

Ruflux said:
The likely explanation for Virus is that Steve took a bunch of riffs and ideas from Janick and Davey and jammed them together awkwardly very effectively to make a great song with lyrics by Blaze on top.
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I think you're right here. At the very least the intro has gotta be Janicks, it's the exact some chords as The Edge of Darkness.
 
Edington said:
Interesting, I don't understand would they all need to agree with the lyrics though. Is it because Virus was a single only, not an album track?
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I guess it has something to do with the message of the lyrics. I suppose they're about corruption and all that, but if I'm not terribly mistaken, there's Aldo a line or two about the general negativity from some medias towards Maiden, their line-up back then and The X-FACTOR album. You know, one day they supported you and were nice, another day they just suddenly basically laugh at you. It's no secret that Steve wasn't too happy about it back then. Kerrang! office, was it... :D
 
Edington said:
Interesting, I don't understand would they all need to agree with the lyrics though. Is it because Virus was a single only, not an album track?
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It was about the content of the lyrics, Maiden were throwing a bit of a tantrum at the media as they felt that Maiden were being dismissed as has beens, hence the attack on the media in the lyrics to Virus, and by everyone being creditted it was a way of showing that the band was united in support of the message in the lyrics.
 
I found the DVD of Headbangers Ball in Brazil for Best of the Beast, and Steve basically says the exact opposite of what I imagined he said LOL

He says it was the first time they got together all 4 of them and wrote together, he states that Nick doesn't write, and that it worked really well and the wrote it real quickly.

I've no idea where I got that rubbish from in the rest of this thread! I must be confusing it with something else.
 
Well, they have got their own unique sound since Brave New World. A new record will be amazing, I just feel like a more riff/apreggios oriented approach would be great as energetic as first 5 records while still having complexity of SIT/7th Son.
 
What you think guys ? Is there any chance Maiden could bring back Derek Riggs to do the album cover for the new studio album... o_O
 
I think Rod burned a lot of bridges in the past. He burned the one with Ross Halfin, the photographer, for example.

I wouldn't be surprised if he did the same with Derek.
 
I don't think Riggs will work with Iron Maiden again. They fucked him pretty good on the last two choice he sources for them (Futureal and BNW). Also, Mark Wilkinson Drew a fantastic Eddie for TBOS.
 
Diesel 11 said:
What I wouldn't give to see an all-literary album.

Iron Maiden​
To Make A World​
(title comes from The Wind in the Willows quote)

Disc 1: (31:04)
  1. "Down The Mississippi" - 7:04
    (Dickinson / Murray)
    (based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
  2. "Russia, 1805" - 3:07
    (Harris / Smith)
    (based on Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace)
  3. "And Then There Were None" - 5:24
    (McBrain / Dickinson / Harris)
    (based on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None)
  4. "The Wind In The Willows" - 11:01
    (Gers / Harris)
    (based on Kenneth Graham's The Wind In The Willows)
  5. "Ulysses" - 5:04
    (Dickinson)
    (based on Homer's The Odyssey)
Disc 2: (37:32)
  1. "The Man in the Iron Mask" - 18:04
    (Harris)
    (based on Alexander Dumas's The Man in the Iron Mask)
  2. "Sailing Alone Around The World" - 2:06 [instrumental]
    (Smith / Murray / Gers)
    (based on Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around The World)
  3. "The Call of the Wild" - 6:25
    (Dickinson / Harris)
    (based on Jack London's The Call of the Wild)
  4. "Toil and Trouble" - 4:56
    (Dickinson / Gers)
    (based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth)
  5. "The Portrait of a Man" - 6:01
    (Harris / Murray)
    (based on Oliver Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray)
Disc 3: (34:26)
  1. "In the Heart of the Sea" - 34:26
    (Harris / Dickinson / Smith / Gers / Murray / McBrain)
    (based on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; or, The Whale)
Total Runtime: 1:43:02

Now that's a fuckin' album. :ok:
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I've read five of these, and have four others in my Kindle. (free public domain RULES!!)
 
Black Bart said:
If the pay is right... and if they don't give him one week to do it (or even less), like it happened before. @Kalata I guess you saw that before: http://web.archive.org/web/20110429103332/http://www.derekriggs.com/
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The Derek Riggs site - yes, and I like his artworks a lot. :)
LooseCannon said:
I don't think Riggs will work with Iron Maiden again. They fucked him pretty good on the last two choice he sources for them (Futureal and BNW). Also, Mark Wilkinson Drew a fantastic Eddie for TBOS.
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TBOS Eddie is indeed a very good one, probably the best since VXI or even FOTD ! But I still think that the black background should have been replaced with a jungle and a Mayan pyramid, like the backdrop for DOG....
 
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