Iron Maiden studio album 17 rumours and speculations

[Black Wizard]

Somebody posted this article to Czech IM Fanclub facebook, not many new facts, but confirming our speculations (in French)
https://hardforce.com/actu/28388/ir...VURjcCMO9eFvFtnHjlqM0xE00hJgBeQgRRWXy4QtV5OqA

Everything in that article has been discussed at length in this thread.

 

[Cat Milk Supreme]

Disgruntled Wizard this evening, I see.

 

[Collin]

More like Disgruntled Wizard Doctor if you ask
me.

 

[Black Wizard]

Disgruntled Wizard this evening, I see.

 

[Cat Milk Supreme]

 

[Stardust]

God only knows this forum's members can be the most unabashedly nerdy Iron Maiden fans sometimes. It's always immensely entertaining to read, so keep it up!

Spoiler

Now, I wrote "God" in that post so clearly that means I'm referring to the "Paved the way for Christianity" line from Alexander the Great, soooo... IT'S CONFIRMED GUYS IRON MAIDEN ARE GOING TO PLAY ALEXANDER THE GREAT ON THEIR NEXT TOUR WOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Azas]

Please, abandon 'live feel' recording approach..

 

[LooseCannon]

When I hear that, I hear "please make something unreproducible live like Somewhere in Time".

 

[Mosh]

There’s definitely possibility for balance. Brave New World doesn’t sound that raw but it also works even better live. That’s the benchmark for modern Maiden production wise imo.

 

[Azas]

I'll take POWERSLAVE. (Newer example would be Accident of Birth. Album sounds very fresh, modern and Maidenish!)

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

There’s definitely possibility for balance. Brave New World doesn’t sound that raw but it also works even better live. That’s the benchmark for modern Maiden production wise imo.

Agreed. I wish every modern Maiden album sounded like BNW.

 

[Black Wizard]

There’s definitely possibility for balance. Brave New World doesn’t sound that raw but it also works even better live. That’s the benchmark for modern Maiden production wise imo.

It's a shame that the first "modern" Iron Maiden album is the benchmark for production. Says a lot about the albums since.

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

It's a shame that the first "modern" Iron Maiden album is the benchmark for production. Says a lot about the albums since.

I think it says more about Steve's attitude towards production than the quality of any of those albums. All of the reunion albums have been pretty good to great (minus TFF, imo), but Steve became obsessed with everything sounding "live" and "raw" to the detriment of the listening experience.

 

[srfc]

It's a shame that the first "modern" Iron Maiden album is the benchmark for production. Says a lot about the albums since.

It says a lot about personal tastes. I think the only one of the last five that sounds worse than BNW is DOD.

 

[matic22]

DOD is horrible. The definition of brickwalled.

I can't even listen to the studio versions of DOD and Paschendale because the production is so bad.

 

[KidInTheDark666]

DOD doesn't sound too great, but the other modern albums sound good in my opinion. Especially BNW and TFF.

 

[Lego]

DOD is horrible. The definition of brickwalled.

I can't even listen to the studio versions of DOD and Paschendale because the production is so bad.

Damn straight. I just go for Death on the Road every time... except for the DVD, because the editing makes my brain feel weird and sleepy

The funniest part about DOD is how you can hear the compression "woofing" on freakin' Journeyman of all things - and there are a couple spots where the acoustic guitar is audibly clipping.

 

[Collin]

^ Agree. The live versions of the DOD songs are superior. I can’t listen to the studio version of Journeyman at all. It’s mixed so poorly. Plus the live version has a nice little solo by Adrian. That little solo is something the studio version could of used.

 

[phantomoftheicarus]

Interestingly, I've never listened to much live DoD as I'm not a fan of the album, but I hate the live version of the title track, sounds awful live imo

 

[KidInTheDark666]

Bruce sounds bad on DOTR.