New album: The Final Frontier!

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All right, but didn't Metallica's Napster episode pretty much turn the public spotlight on illegal downloading?  The point, in any case, was that the music industry and people's way of listening to music has changed quite a lot since then.
 
Metal Hammer released an Iron Maiden special edition with stickers and there's an empty space to put a sticker onto and the space reads "Mystery Sticker - All will be revealed on July 10th". So, there's more than 2 months 'til we know the official info on The Final Frontier and the first single off the album.
 
Invader said:
All right, but didn't Metallica's Napster episode pretty much turn the public spotlight on illegal downloading?
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Sort of ... it made it a bigger issue. But I remember it was already  getting coverage in the mainstream media a year before, in 1999. The first album I saw discussed as "heavily pirated online" was Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Californication" in 1999. And that was in USA Today, which is about as mainstream as it gets.

The Metallica lawsuit is what brought Napster to the attention of non-computer experts. The 60-year-old grandparents who had just learned to email. For people on the internet, Napster was pretty much everywhere by the beginning of 2000. It was the point in time where the RIAA realized downloading was getting organized.

It was also right around the peak of Napster in terms of users. no5 is right that the decline had begun, in terms of quality sharing. You know how half of all online files are mislabeled (usually deliberately)? That was starting up. And the bandwidth consumed was starting to get attention from providers. Many US universities banned Napster in the second quarter of 2000 - not because it was illegal, because it hogged the pipe.

At the time, the Metallica suit wasn't a surprise to anyone following the news. It was inevitable that someone was gonna sue Napster eventually. It was only surprising because it was Metallica. They hadn't been dicks before that. Lars had a good reputation before that.
 
Cool, thanks for the information.  In any case, I got mixed up on the years a bit, I thought Metallica's Napster incident was in 2003, but that was the release of St Anger. 
 
In case people haven't seen yet:

A flat-out, jam-packed year thus far. After putting together the band formerly-known-as-Black-Country, we went into the studio early January and began recording some songs. After two days, I took the very raw recordings of four songs and went off to the Bahamas, where we started work on the new Iron Maiden album. I went on my own and in downtime (evenings and weekends I worked on the BC stuff). I miss my family when I am working and they joined me in Nassau for a couple of weeks during the recording. After we finished the tracking of Iron Maiden, I packed up and headed home to Malibu...

...Without a day off, I headed into the final stages of the Iron Maiden album. Bruce Dickinson flew in for a few days and sang all his parts before flying off to the four corners of the globe - and Steve Harris stayed behind to finish the record with me. He's pretty hands-on like that. Adrian Smith dropped in from time to time to hear stuff, and like in any band, not everyone has the same end result in mind, but we get there. That's the kind of watered down stuff I can tell you. I will tell you that Iron Maiden are the best band in the world to work for - it's a family and they are the most grounded guys I have ever met in this business. Nary a Ferrari in sight...
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From Caveman's diary. So all we know is that H and Steve disagreed about something.
 
Not necessarily. It could also be a solo, or about sound, or a certain take either of them didn't like too much.
On the AMOLAD-DVD feature we see Adrian and Steve disagreeing about some rhyhtm guitar tracks.
H likes them (I thought he said they were more tight than a previous take) but Steve doesn't (not sure what he said, but it probably had to do with feeling/energy/spontanity).

But indeed, since 2000 Steve (co-)wrote every song.

I hope Adrian won't be too disappointed if (an aspect of) the album is not what he had expected.
 
Except New Frontier, but then that's not exactly a great song. :P

I think it was on the Live After Death documentary (about the World Slavery tour) that H said that every song gets "Steve-ized".  That's especially true of the 2000s, though they don't need Steve to make good songs/albums.  Case in point: Powerslave, Somewhere in Time.  And I'd rather have Bruce write the lyrics.
 
I hope this new album will have, just as AMOLAD, alot of influences and songwriting from Adrian. I think he's Maiden's #1 writer (along with Mr. 'Arry ofcourse :halo:).
 
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Except New Frontier, but then that's not exactly a great song. :P
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I stand corrected.

Invader said:
I think it was on the Live After Death documentary (about the World Slavery tour) that H said that every song gets "Steve-ized".
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That was Rod (and wasn't it on Flight 666?).  :P
 
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I hope this new album will NOT have, just as AMOLAD, alot of influences and songwriting from Adrian. I think he's Maiden's #1 writer (along with Mr. 'Arry ofcourse :halo:).
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Fixed. And I hope it has Adrian's input as he did on Somewhere In Time or Bruce's solo records.
 
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