Moments you thought "Maiden sounding weird here"

[Mosh]

Reading the interview, this instrumental isn't Alexander The Great (perhaps, part of it was added), 'cos Bruce says Steve already had a song about a greek warrior and I wonder which Bruce song was going to be on the record.

Thanks! This is the interview.

The interview doesn't really disprove anything about the instrumental's relation to Alexander. Yes he says there is a song about a Greek warrior, but he also says all the songs are 4-5 minutes in length. It's not a big stretch to suggest that the instrumental got shoehorned into Alex sometime after the fact. What Bruce describes definitely sounds like a lot of what is in the Alexander the Great instrumental, challenging guitar parts, weird rhythms, etc.

 

[Belshazzar]

For me the biggie is the Bruce falsetto in the middle of Sea of Madness.

Apart from his screams, I can't think of one other part where he sings in falsetto. He always belts when going for the high notes.

Literally the only other example I can think of is in that one behind the scenes video (very specific I know) where he's singing with a guy on a piano, and he sings the words "What shall I do" in that style for comedic effect.