New season, time for a major MP3 player refit. Queen stay the way they are. Iced Earth, Manowar, Amon Amarth and Geist go completely. Iron Maiden get a new and severely trimmed playlist. From a total of 56 tracks down to twenty, mostly different ones. The refit Maiden playlist looks like this:
The Man Who Would be King (new)
When the Wild Wind Blows
Isle of Avalon (new)
Starblind
For the Greater Good of God
Ghost of the Navigator
Brave New World
The Edge of Darkness (new)
Fortunes of War
Blood on the World's Hands
Judas be my Guide (new)
Fates Warning (new)
Only the Good Die Young (new)
Sea of Madness (new)
Caught Somewhere in Time
To Tame a Land (new)
The Trooper
Children of the Damned
Prodigal Son (new)
Phantom of the Opera (new)
Enter the new artists:
Immortal with two complete albums, Sons of Northern Darkness and Battles in the North
A small selection from the works of Ronnie James Dio:
The Temple of the King
A Light in the Black
Gates of Babylon
Children of the Sea
Falling off the Edge of the World
Shadow of the Wind
Follow the Tears
The Last in Line
Hide in the Rainbow
All the Fools Sailed Away
This is Your Life
As Long as it's not about Love
Better in the Dark
The End of the World
And finally, a conoisseur's digest of Bruce Dickinson:
River of No Return
Navigate the Seas of the Sun
Acoustic Song
Silver Wings
Trumpets of Jericho
Chemical Wedding
Jerusalem
Road to Hell
Accident of Birth
Darkside of Aquarius
Omega
Solar Confinement
I Will not Accept the Truth
Inertia
Change of Heart
Tears of the Dragon
Hell No
That should keep me warm for the rest of December.