Iron Maiden studio album 17 rumours and speculations
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Austrogoth
Ancient Mariner
I am so nervous that I refresh this page at least 50 times a day...
shadowpants
DEEPER GREY CAME TO MOURN
Yep. This has completely distracted me from my work and life. If I've been busy for a couple of hours....I suddenly remember there must be a gaggle of new messages here....then, internal giggle of mounting excitement as I log in
The_7th_one
Ancient Mariner
I don't know if it has been posted before.
RLonger
Educated Fool
PhantomOfTheOpera
Ancient Mariner
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
The (Eddie?) hand that removed the poster from the wall (under it was WOTW sign) makes me think this indeed could be a part of (again) animated video for the new single.
Singles with animated videos since the reunion: ''Wildest Dreams'', ''Different World'' and ''Speed Of Light''.
Singles with animated videos since the reunion: ''Wildest Dreams'', ''Different World'' and ''Speed Of Light''.
PhantomOfTheOpera
Ancient Mariner
Indeed, atleast Im pretty open to whatever it is and possibly ain't meaning anything related to single or album too.
It will be damn good day to find out the info when the announcement comes. Are Belshazzar's feast or WOTW related or not related at all to anything on the album.
It's all just puzzle...live forever, heaven or hell, man or beast etc Im so excited to find out which is which and which points to what.
I got some random replies back when talked of WOTW..Whisper Of The Wind? Whisper On The Wind?
Let me say this once again here, we don't necessarily yet know any actual facts of the album, these are just clues, hints, sightings and stuff that they've fed us. No we don't know anything.
chaosapiant
Ancient Marinade
Whacking Off The Wildebeest would also be a fantastic Maiden album title.
Anyone else going through the phase of listening to all their Maiden albums in chronological order? I started a couple days ago and am up to The X Factor. Such a phenomenal album.
Anyone else going through the phase of listening to all their Maiden albums in chronological order? I started a couple days ago and am up to The X Factor. Such a phenomenal album.
PhantomOfTheOpera
Ancient Mariner
Curious to see first reviews (whenever they will appear), here's Metal Hammer review from august 19th 2015 (not sure which date it is, I copied that day) of TBOS just for fun:
Have Maiden pulled off their bold double album experiment?
“There’s a hell of a lot to take in,” Steve Harris recently and sagely proclaimed of Iron Maiden’s first studio double album. Although it’s rare for double platters to genuinely contain two CDs’ worth of material, at 92 minutes The Book Of Souls is a gargantuan emotional journey through some career-best performances that more than makes up for a five-year wait.
In the contemporary orthodoxy of one-off downloads and impatient flicks through stream-sites on smartphones, Britain’s biggest metal band proudly push against the grain, reminding us of a time when The Album was an immersive spiritual experience explored in darkness through headphones. That’s not to say it’s some ponderous prog odyssey; it’s still suffused with the fire and thrust of musicians who learnt their craft in sweaty 70s boozers, but it repeatedly demands and rewards your full attention, different songs and segments blossoming with every spin. Bruce Dickinson, writing alone in Maiden for the first time since No Prayer For The Dying, tops and tails the album with its most thrillingly outré moments. Elemental curtain-raiser If Eternity Should Fail opens The Book Of Souls with a space-age blues vocal and mystical synth fanfare, culminating with demonic pronouncements over a dark acoustic coda, while elegiac 18-minute closer Empire Of The Clouds takes us aboard the 1930 R101 disaster, piano and violin augmenting the song’s poignant leitmotif, arrangements lurching and surging in sympathetic evocation of the doomed airship.
Throughout and between these magnificent Dickinsonian bookends, the band prove themselves on the form of their reunited lives. Nicko attacks his kit with customary barefoot joie de vivre, imbuing even the smallest tom-roll with his personality. Steve’s bass sound is warmer and more integrated, with some of the most sensitive, creative playing of his career. Despite the dirty looseness of the strummed bass intro/outro of his sole solo credit The Red And The Black, the song is distinguished by its jubilant procession of infectious guitar lines, and while some might baulk at the over-familiar ‘Whoa-oh’ chant that ‘Arry feels compelled to shove into his work, you’ll be whoa-ing along by the second spin.
The Man Of Sorrows shares much of the sumptuous, balladic melancholy of Bruce’s 1997 solo song of (nearly) the same name, but you might think the earlier song has the edge – until you get to the beautiful solo. Adrian Smith, Dave Murray and Janick Gers all distinguish themselves with joyous leadwork throughout the album, their distinctive approaches coalescing in a complementary union that packs an emotional punch. Emotional is a keyword for the whole album; there’s a reflective solemnity and depth, charged with wisdom and experience, even in catchy rockers When The River Runs Deep and Tears Of A Clown, rip-snorting NWOBHM a-sides Death Or Glory and Speed Of Light, and the atmospheric Mayan-themed doom of the title track. A couple of songs perhaps conform too readily to Maiden’s post-reunion archetype, but this is as bold as music gets and we’ll happily take years to fully assimilate this treasure chest of densely wrought heavy metal gold.
FINAL VERDICT: 10/10
“There’s a hell of a lot to take in,” Steve Harris recently and sagely proclaimed of Iron Maiden’s first studio double album. Although it’s rare for double platters to genuinely contain two CDs’ worth of material, at 92 minutes The Book Of Souls is a gargantuan emotional journey through some career-best performances that more than makes up for a five-year wait.
In the contemporary orthodoxy of one-off downloads and impatient flicks through stream-sites on smartphones, Britain’s biggest metal band proudly push against the grain, reminding us of a time when The Album was an immersive spiritual experience explored in darkness through headphones. That’s not to say it’s some ponderous prog odyssey; it’s still suffused with the fire and thrust of musicians who learnt their craft in sweaty 70s boozers, but it repeatedly demands and rewards your full attention, different songs and segments blossoming with every spin. Bruce Dickinson, writing alone in Maiden for the first time since No Prayer For The Dying, tops and tails the album with its most thrillingly outré moments. Elemental curtain-raiser If Eternity Should Fail opens The Book Of Souls with a space-age blues vocal and mystical synth fanfare, culminating with demonic pronouncements over a dark acoustic coda, while elegiac 18-minute closer Empire Of The Clouds takes us aboard the 1930 R101 disaster, piano and violin augmenting the song’s poignant leitmotif, arrangements lurching and surging in sympathetic evocation of the doomed airship.
Throughout and between these magnificent Dickinsonian bookends, the band prove themselves on the form of their reunited lives. Nicko attacks his kit with customary barefoot joie de vivre, imbuing even the smallest tom-roll with his personality. Steve’s bass sound is warmer and more integrated, with some of the most sensitive, creative playing of his career. Despite the dirty looseness of the strummed bass intro/outro of his sole solo credit The Red And The Black, the song is distinguished by its jubilant procession of infectious guitar lines, and while some might baulk at the over-familiar ‘Whoa-oh’ chant that ‘Arry feels compelled to shove into his work, you’ll be whoa-ing along by the second spin.
The Man Of Sorrows shares much of the sumptuous, balladic melancholy of Bruce’s 1997 solo song of (nearly) the same name, but you might think the earlier song has the edge – until you get to the beautiful solo. Adrian Smith, Dave Murray and Janick Gers all distinguish themselves with joyous leadwork throughout the album, their distinctive approaches coalescing in a complementary union that packs an emotional punch. Emotional is a keyword for the whole album; there’s a reflective solemnity and depth, charged with wisdom and experience, even in catchy rockers When The River Runs Deep and Tears Of A Clown, rip-snorting NWOBHM a-sides Death Or Glory and Speed Of Light, and the atmospheric Mayan-themed doom of the title track. A couple of songs perhaps conform too readily to Maiden’s post-reunion archetype, but this is as bold as music gets and we’ll happily take years to fully assimilate this treasure chest of densely wrought heavy metal gold.
FINAL VERDICT: 10/10
chaosapiant
Ancient Marinade
Call me crazy, but I’ve always felt TFF was a more bold album musically than TBOS. TBOS is certainly longer, but to my ears doesn’t sound nearly as complex as TFF does at parts.
The_7th_one
Ancient Mariner
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Oca
Educated Fool
Sounds like the beep from a zebra crossing. Eyes of the blind?
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