Iron Maiden studio album 17 rumours and speculations

[JudasMyGuide]

Wasn’t that loosely what Be Quick or Be Dead was about? Or am I miss remembering again

Yes, obviously it stroke a chord with them. Also, 30 years later it's a weirdly specific and obscure reference, IMHO.


Besides that, what irks me the most is that Belshazzar's Feast and "Writing on the Wall" and so on are connected with the actual Belshazzar's feast, which yes, happened to a Babylonian king...

But the structure in the artwork, the tower, it seems to be the most a reinterpretation of the tower of Babel.



Those two are not the same story. You could also argue about whether "Babel" actually means "Babylon" (though for example, in Czech translations, it usually does)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belshazzar's_feast

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel

If the connection is intended, it feels kinda sloppy and shallow and taking from small reference pools, IMHO. Like, "cool story from Babylon, bro. Let's throw in the Babylonian tower, too."

 

[Arrakis]

It's the newspaper from the Be Quick or Be Dead single cover. Nice touch

So it's not just me who analyzed the video frame by frame LOL

 

[Kalata]

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The video currently shown is just the trailer for the actual video, which will be released at the same link. The video to be released tomorrow is 7:25 minutes long.

If the single is 7:25 minutes long, it will break the streak of releasing short rockers as (first) singles... although TROBB is not a short rocker.

 

[Meliegree]

I assume that this may be a single + small talk from the band.

 

[PhantomOfTheOpera]

I assume that this may be a single + small talk from the band.

It will very well be so, some little message to us and then bang new song.
Hey, some of you mentioned the 7:25 where can you see it on youtube, for me on Windows 10 it only shows the trailer running time.

 

[Gk1]

Oh, I waited so long for this. A 7:30 minute song that would probably have a 2 minute acoustic intro (at least 2 minutes long for no reason at all) and full of chorus repetition!!

 

[Meliegree]

Oh, I waited so long for this. A 7:30 minute song that would probably have a 2 minute acoustic intro (at least 2 minutes long for no reason at all) and full of chorus repetition!!

Well... better pray that this is a new song and not 7:30 ad for new beer & burger project.

 

[Kalata]

I assume that this may be a single + small talk from the band.

Or the whole (pre-recorded?) video will be talk from the band with the single released on Monday (the end of the stories with the album covers).

 

[PhantomOfTheOpera]

Hey, tell me, where can you see the full running time of the video? Thanks in advance to whoever helps me.

 

[Azas]

If Eternity Should Fail is 8:28 min long. So if Belshazzar's Feast is penned by Bruce and album is semi concept, single may be 7:25 min long. Intro to an album. Maybe it's Bruce's song which Steve liked when they recorded Book of Souls.

 

[Meliegree]

Hey, tell me, where can you see the full running time of the video? Thanks in advance to whoever helps me.

If you share them you have this info. Check the picture from this post - this is from MS teams.

 

[PhantomOfTheOpera]

If you share them you have this info. Check the picture from this post - this is from MS teams.

Aha, cool. I shared the link elsewhere but it didn't show time for me.

 

[Kalata]

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This would be a pretty effective back cover of an album.

If Eternity Should Fail is 8:28 min long.

Well, if you remove in intro & outro of ''If Eternity Should Fail'', then the song will be a short rocker.

 

[matic22]

Well Fanclub members recieved personal invitations via email...

And there are 4 capital letters under it. Won't share them since I don't know if it's some kind of code...

 

[Kalata]

So it has gone from WOTW to TWOTW. The Writing on the Wall? Interesting!

From Wikipedia:

Belshazzar's feast, or the story of the writing on the wall.

 

[Meliegree]

You think that they have some kind of gated content?

 

[soagres]

Just got this email from Iron Maiden. What RSVP means?

 

[JudasMyGuide]

+

And there are 4 capital letters under it. Won't share them since I don't know if it's some kind of code...

 

[PhantomOfTheOpera]

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Just got this email from Iron Maiden. What RSVP means?

I got the same email with RSVP just the moment ago when I saw your post.

 

[GhostofCain]

Well Fanclub members recieved personal invitations via email...

And there are 4 capital letters under it. Won't share them since I don't know if it's some kind of code...

RSVP is what you would include in invitations asking people to confirm they are attending. It comes from the French répondez s'il vous plaît.