[Judging the outcome of a listening session for journalists, fans of Iron Maiden could be destabilized by listening to the next album from the legendary British metal band.
The Final Frontier, fifteenth album career of Iron Maiden to be released August 17, the sextet will continue his explorations into the path of progressive metal, "says guitarist Adrian Smith, who held talks with Le Journal de Quebec, outside the show that will give the group at the Summer Festival of Quebec on July 9.
Incidentally, this evening, lron Maiden will be preceded on stage by a leading group of progressive metal, Dream Theater.
"Journalists who we did hear were quite shocked, mainly by the first part, Smith is hilarious launches.
"It's difficult, he adds, to express in words why they were surprised, but say that the first piece is very different from what we usually do. I think the rest of the first part is very straightforward, and we chain to something highly progressive. There is therefore a bit of everything on this album, but we certainly an even more progressive. "
The album was recorded at Compass Point Studios, Nassau, which is a homecoming for the band by Bruce Dickinson, because it was there that was recorded discs Piece of Mind, Powerslave and Somewhere In Time, in the 1980s.
"We returned because it is a fabulous place and sunny and we can rest between shots. But it was cold, which is a bit strange. However, re-enter the studio was amazing. Nothing has changed. This is not a studio on the cutting edge of technology, but it still has the same spirit. "
BACK TO NASSAU
From these recording sessions were held ten songs for an album with a duration of seventy-six minutes. The fans have certainly already heard El Dorado, first single posted by the group and will be played in concert throughout the summer tour.
But that is the only completely new song on stage as Iron Maiden prefer not to play songs that the audience does not know.
That will come quickly, however, because the group provides touring again in 2011. Meanwhile, those who make their summer concerts will hear most parts of their last four albums and a few old tubes. Decision assume that musicians completely.
"The fine line between pleasing the fans and be a sort of cabaret group. We love our new music and we play a lot of our material on this recent tour. Of course, we'll do some old songs, but we have a lot in our last tour. I think that is one reason why we love our fans. We follow our own path without being too corporate. We play what we want to play and the better if our fans appreciate, "said Adrian Smith.
LOYAL FANS
Let's say that Iron Maiden fans make their own good, since U.S. and Canadian customers are among the most loyal of the music industry. Smith explains that loyalty by the constant presence of the group on stage.
"We played for the first time in Canada in 1980 and we returned almost every year since then. When we started out mostly, we played around the globe. We bring our music to fans, "said the musician, recalling that Maiden has never relied on radio stations to come forward.
"We played the hard way. Fans remember it and we see as a real band and not as a group only seen on video on MTV. This is surely one of the reasons for their loyalty. "/quote]
