Iron Maiden studio album 17 rumours and speculations

[jose_maiden]

Ahhhhhhhh can´t wait!!!!

 

[BobStorm]

I don't know if someone has already mentioned that. Live Forever (on the shirt and poster) sounds like a good new single title...
and "man or beast" and "heaven or hell" part of the lyric...

 

[Azas]

Till yesterday I was not familiar with all this Belshazzar story thing. Don't you think it's not enough for a concept album? Or, this may be too related to bible? Once again, from these clues I get strong Bruceish TCW kind of vibe. Then it was alchemy, now some biblical story. Maybe it will be not a concept album, but two or three thematically connected songs. Interesting times..
Oh, it's interwoven with Babylon..

 

[The_7th_one]

Can someone do a recap of this? I'm completely lost.

Me too. You're not the only one

 

[BobStorm]

I would love a concept album!!! A concept album is like to read a book and any song is a chapter of the story. Unfortunately I don't think it is going to be a concept album but everything is referring to the new single. But I really really hope I'm wrong.

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

Y’all. WTF is going on here. I just jumped like 14 pages.

I need a tl;dr

 

[Lego]

Check this great running blog post by a fellow Fanclub member:

Rumor/Hint Log for Iron Maiden #17

For most the up to date information, please scroll to the bottom of this page January 30th, 2019 Earlier this month, someone on the Iron Maiden forum claimed that Adrian, Nicko and Dave were spotte…

capnharris.wordpress.com

Y’all. WTF is going on here. I just jumped like 14 pages.

I need a tl;dr

see above

 

[Poto]

Y’all. WTF is going on here. I just jumped like 14 pages.

I need a tl;dr

Likely album announcement July 15th.

 

[LooseCannon]

Likely Possible album announcement July 15th.

ftfy

 

[Poto]

ftfy

Fair enough..

 

[The_7th_one]

see above

Thank you so much. It sounds very interesting!

 

[jose_maiden]

Belshazzar's feast - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Diesel 11]

Apparently scholars consider Belshazzar’s feast to be fiction. Could this mean Maiden are just bullshitting us? The plot thickens.

 

[Travis The Dragon]

To be fair, after watching that I'm fairly convinced. I don't think the shirt design looks like the usual Maiden style, which would have made me suspect a Bruce solo album. But the WOTW tie in suggests Maiden.

What is WOTW?

 

[Samantas5855]

What is WOTW?

Writing on the wall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belshazzar's_feast

 

[enanoakd]

What is WOTW?

Walker on the Wing = WOTW.

 

[Jer]

Just had an email back!

"You have knocked and we have been summoned.
You hunger and soon you will feast.
Ascension assured to the patient.
Be you a man or be you a beast.

We of the brotherhood are watching.
On our marks you'll need to get set.
The Fire of Belshazzar is coming.
What three words, we'll signal but not yet."

"We of the brotherhood are watching.
On our marks you'll need to get set.
The Fire of Belshazzar is coming.
What three words, we'll signal but not yet."

Forget the “WOTW” in the second stanza, I’m looking at the “YYAB” from the first one: “Yes, Yes, Another Beer!”

 

[Magnus]

 

[Travis The Dragon]

Some of the very best examples of "you know you're too much of a Maiden fan when" can definitely be found in this thread!

 

[Lego]

Another clue from the Truants facebook page- look just below the hashtag

https://www.facebook.com/heavymetaltruants/photos/a.329005743875897/3847055918737511