New album: The Final Frontier!

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Eddies Wingman said:
if they're going to play Rime again
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I sure hope so. If it happens, I'd be proud of my Maiden concert history: six concerts, three Rimes.

Now if DT would also play Metropolis at the Denver show, it would be perfection.
 
Hi All
Newbie here

I just joined because my cousin said she found this tracklisting after a Hotbot search.
But neither I nor her can find it again...

This is UNCONFIRMED and I personally think its crap...so treat with suspicion  <_<

I wish Maiden would release the confirmed listing/give an interview/kevin Shirley studio diary etc..
So for what its what its worth...


The Final Frontier

1.  The Seeker    (Harris-Smith-Dickinson) 5:24
2.  Across the Great Divide  (Harris-Gers) 7:15
3.  Breaking the Barrier  (Dickinson-Murray) 5:58
4.  The Light of Death  (Harris) (Instrumental) 7:32
5.  United We Stand  (Smith-Dickinson) 4:39
6.  The Mission (Gers-Murray-Dickinson) 7:18
7.  The Final Frontier  (Harris) 11:50
8.  Worlds of Fire  (Harris-Smith) 6:06
9.  At the End of Time  (Dickinson-Harris-Smith) 8:42
 
You know, I actually like it. People come up with unexpectedly great names with this album.
 
Two songs with contributions from both Murray and Dickinson? Strengthens the suspicion this list is bullcrap - they've never written a song together.
 
I remember when AMOLAD was about to be released and the title of the album was released online. Everybody cried foul, "That is such a crappy title for a Maiden album," "Maiden is more creative than that!" Etc. Well, it was the title for the album and I guess they were not that creative. So on these song titles/collaborations.... you never know.
 
Eddies Wingman said:
Two songs with contributions from both Murray and Dickinson? Strengthens the suspicion this list is bullcrap - they've never written a song together.
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Are you sure? Didn't they write one of the songs on Fear of the Dark...? I don't remember which one, but I remember the song being crap :)
 
Eddies Wingman said:
Two songs with contributions from both Murray and Dickinson? Strengthens the suspicion this list is bullcrap - they've never written a song together.
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Lies I tell you, lies! They've written Public Enema Number One, Chains of Misery and Judas Be My Guide.

What makes me doubt the list is a 7 minute instrumental.
 
I really wonder what prompts people to make up these lists. I usually really hate that phrase, but they obviously have too much spare time.
 
What makes me doubt the list is a 7 minute instrumental.
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Me too. As much as I would personally love them to do one..especially a long, cinematic one, I feel Harris seems to prefer the
"songs" these days. Metallica do long instrumentals...I would love Maiden to push that side of things. When it comes to the instrumental
parts of their songs...Maiden are pretty much unrivaled.

ooh..and another thing.

I really enjoyed the reunion albums...DOD a little less so,
but I REALLY feel they could lose the washy keyboards at this point. Its true that much of their classic
material from SIT, SSOASS and many of the great Reunion moments like Paschendale etc employ keyboards well..and this is an ancient Maiden argument,
But really when you consider that all the early maiden albums up to powerslave had just the 5 elements..Voice, Drum,
Bass, guitar, guitar...and how perfectly full and powerfull they are.
The recent work has 7 elements...extra guitar and keyboard washes.

I reckon that using less elements forces the writer to construct stronger (core) material, without having to
say "ahh wait till you hear it with keyboards" For me, some tracks are really diluted with keyboards...beginning to Age of Innocence for example.
They could allow one of the guitars to use guitar synth or effect pedel etc instead of having much of the rhythm
section repeated three times.

I would also like to see intros/repeat outros tidied up a bit. They should send the tracks to the proverbial Gym and work them out till there's no
fat on them. A few songs for me are really strong except for extraneous intros (Benjamin Breeg, No more lies, Dance of Death)
I also think Harris can give up on that style of bass playing around intros etc (think Dance of Death intro....doodi doodi doo    doodi doodi doo...first two notes
of the chord played back and forth.
Now I am a fan of light and shade etc...its just when you see the song structures repeated many times over...it starts to wear.

Anyway...ya can't help but love Maiden
Thats my rant for now...Heres to a great new album from the masters. :notworthy:
 
shadowpants said:
Hi All
Newbie here

I just joined because my cousin said she found this tracklisting after a Hotbot search.
But neither I nor her can find it again...

This is UNCONFIRMED and I personally think its crap...so treat with suspicion  <_<

I wish Maiden would release the confirmed listing/give an interview/kevin Shirley studio diary etc..
So for what its what its worth...


The Final Frontier

1.  The Seeker    (Harris-Smith-Dickinson) 5:24
2.  Across the Great Divide   (Harris-Gers) 7:15
3.  Breaking the Barrier   (Dickinson-Murray) 5:58
4.  The Light of Death   (Harris) (Instrumental) 7:32
5.  United We Stand   (Smith-Dickinson) 4:39
6.  The Mission (Gers-Murray-Dickinson) 7:18
7.  The Final Frontier   (Harris) 11:50
8.  Worlds of Fire   (Harris-Smith) 6:06
9.  At the End of Time   (Dickinson-Harris-Smith) 8:42
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That 6th track would really be unique. Never ever before on a Maiden album, there was a track written by more than one guitar dude. I am hoping for this actually, curious about the result.
 
I think all track lists that surfaced are pure bullshit (The Seeker?! Another The Who cover? The Mission?! The Light Of Death? United We Stand?! Ahahahahahahahahah...)

And I'm thinking about it for a long time too, Foro, about 2 guitarrists sharing composition credits. I want to see it a lot 'cos different partnership on songwriting means more variety. I want to specially see a Smith/Gers composition, even if there's Steve or Bruce together in it for lyrics.
 
I find these fake tracklisting entertaining and (sometimes) amusing :P

I don't really see the problem of false information floating around; when the album comes out it'll be clear to anyone anyway.
 
The best I saw contains the first Gers solely penned epic as the third track into the album - How To Confront UFO's - 8:53. :applause:
 
Forostar said:
That 6th track would really be unique. Never ever before on a Maiden album, there was a track written by more than one guitar dude. I am hoping for this actually, curious about the result.
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Virus is actually written by ALL members (except for Nicko) of Iron Maiden at that time it was released
 
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