Senjutsu - 3rd September 2021

[Arrakis]

From last night's review, I am also excited about the bonus track The Pa-kre-ment. Who knew Steve had a 5th epic in him.

Interviewer: "Steve, what was your motivation behind the song The Pa-kre-ment?"
Steve: "What song?"
"The Pa-kre-ment"
"We don't have a song called that."
"You do."
"Do you mean The ParCHment?"
"No, Pa-kre-ment, haven't heard The ParCHment yet."

Whatever, it was funny. I hope it will not be my favorite on the album, can't resist calling it that way.

 

[MindRuler]

Thank you very much, now this is stuck in my head all day.

The pakrement
It´s the pakrement

(Melody Of Brave new world chorus)

 

[Belshazzar]

It's even worse for me!

I blame the Chinese for Maiden-17

 

[TheMercenary]

Given past experiences, I could probably walk into the record store tomorrow and have the album.

I will try to get it today afternoon or tomorrow morning too. After all, even a retailer sells few days earlier an album that has its released date set on the 3rd of september, there's no crime, IMHO. At least, we buy it. I don't know. I'll see...

 

[chaosapiant]

I am the Pak Remant…
Being written on again,
I am the Pak Remant
More than just a page

 

[Belshazzar]

I am the Pak Remant…
Being written on again,
I am the Pak Remant
More than just a page

Waiting for the sight of a loaded gnu.

 

[MindRuler]

I don't want to face a loaded gnu in the wild.

 

[Kalata]

...... Album review starting at 11am eastern time today.

^ The curious bits from this review:

Spoiler

The reviewer's favorite songs are: the title track, Darkest Hour and Days Of Future Past.
His favorite Steve's epic is: The Parchment

He thinks Senjutsu is a 100% better album than TBOS. Great album with no fillers. Contender for the album of the year.

... one of Bruce's best vocals.

Info about the album:
- dark album.
- has a variety.
- has a lot of harmony vocals. Lots of harmonies too.
- some songs ends the same way as they started.
- a lot of the songs have 2 or 3 solos.
- slide guitar solos.
- the guitar is playing the notes Bruce is singing (a lot of that).
- no repetitive choruses.
- a lot of gallops.
- long instrumental sections.
- the production has a 80's vibe.

And now for the songs:

The title track - uptempo song. Tribal sound. Bruce and (especially) Nicko shine.

''Lost In A Lost World'' - 70's harmonies vibe, very unusual intro for the band, after the intro the song has a ''Lightning Strikes Twice'' (the verses) vibe, long instrumental section (reminiscent of SOTC) and memorable solos.

''Days Of Future Past'' - The Chemical Wedding vibe, great lyrics, it goes double time at the end and great chorus (without repetition).

''The Time Machine'' - great vocals, the whole song has a TFF album vibe, while the beginning has a ''Isle Of Avalon'' vibe.

''Darkest Hour'' - dynamic war ballad. Beautiful guitar work. It is compared to ''Wasting Love'' (again).

''Death Of The Celts'' - mid tempo, long intro (acoustic parts and vocals), great vocals, the bass is flying and lots of time changes. The middle section is 5 minutes long (has a marching vibe like ''Genghis Khan''). The song is described as ''The Clansman'' meets DOD. 2 or 3 solos.

''The Parchment'' - Powerslave... Middle Eastern/Arabic vibe. Long instrumental at the end and a hypnotic groove. The least vocals of all songs - two verses and a whole mid section. Dynamic song.

''Hell On Earth'' - slow beginning (like FOTD or WTWWB ), gallop, Bruce is singing the lead notes, very cool mid section with a lot of harmonies never heard from Maiden before and great dynamic ending. According to the reviewer this song could fit in TFF album.

 

[TheMercenary]

^ The curious bits from this review:

Spoiler

The reviewer's favorite songs are: the title track, Darkest Hour and Days Of Future Past.
His favorite Steve's epic is: The Parchment

He thinks Senjutsu is a 100% better album than TBOS. Great album with no fillers. Contender for the album of the year.

... one of Bruce's best vocals.

Info about the album:
- dark album.
- has a variety.
- has a lot of harmony vocals. Lots of harmonies too.
- some songs ends the same way as they started.
- a lot of the songs have 2 or 3 solos.
- slide guitar solos.
- the guitar is playing the notes Bruce is singing (a lot of that).
- no repetitive choruses.
- a lot of gallops.
- long instrumental sections.
- the production has a 80's vibe.

And now for the songs:

The title track - uptempo song. Tribal sound. Bruce and (especially) Nicko shine.

''Lost In A Lost World'' - 70's harmonies vibe, very unusual intro for the band, after the intro the song has a ''Lightning Strikes Twice'' (the verses) vibe, long instrumental section (reminiscent of SOTC) and memorable solos.

''Days Of Future Past'' - The Chemical Wedding vibe, great lyrics, it goes double time at the end and great chorus (without repetition).

''The Time Machine'' - great vocals, the whole song has a TFF album vibe, while the beginning has a ''Isle Of Avalon'' vibe.

''Darkest Hour'' - dynamic war ballad. Beautiful guitar work. It is compared to ''Wasting Love'' (again).

''Death Of The Celts'' - mid tempo, long intro (acoustic parts and vocals), great vocals, the bass is flying and lots of time changes. The middle section is 5 minutes long (has a marching vibe like ''Genghis Khan''). The song is described as ''The Clansman'' meets DOD. 2 or 3 solos.

''The Parchment'' - Powerslave... Middle Eastern/Arabic vibe. Long instrumental at the end and a hypnotic groove. The least vocals of all songs - two verses and a whole mid section. Dynamic song.

''Hell On Earth'' - slow beginning (like FOTD or WTWWB ), gallop, Bruce is singing the lead notes, very cool mid section with a lot of harmonies never heard from Maiden before and great dynamic ending. According to the reviewer this song could fit in TFF album.

I can't wait until friday ! That's so hard now with all these positive reviews and descriptions !!

 

[Kalata]

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The title track - very dense, with the bass and drums very much in the foreground, reminiscent both in that beginning of the ''Moonchild'' and in its progression to ROTAM.

''Lost In A Lost World'' - dark chorus.

''Days Of Future Past'' - melodic song with a powerful riff. Bruce and Nicko shine.

''The Time Machine'' - Bruce's voice comes in almost reciting more than singing on a background of acoustic guitars and evolves into a theme with very strong and overloaded guitars that is gaining in intensity and speed. It is somewhat similar to SIASL.

''Darkest Hour'' - very reminiscent of ''Revelations'', with a harder central part, also hard guitars and very elaborate solos.

''Death Of The Celts'' - a magnificent composition by Steve that is very reminiscent of ''The Clansman'' in its beginning and progression, as well as in the end. A composition covered in that epic air with folk touches that grows in intensity until it ends in a 200% Iron Maiden cannon. It has amazing bass lines, the best guitar solo on the entire album, a solo that brings us evocative echoes of ''Transylvania'' and a beautiful ending, with Bruce almost reciting the last verses with a really beautiful background folk sound. A real hit, a future Maiden classic.

''The Parchment'' - well structured, magnificent solos and exotic setting.

''Hell On Earth'' - look above + great melodies.

 

[Russ Dobbs]

How the fuck could this guy mis-pronounce The Parchment like that?! lol. Holy shit.

He is a English native speaker, so it beats me as well, but I guess that we all know that you sometimes can get stuck with a certain pronunciation in your head. Your brain sees or hears what it wants to. Perhaps he was thinking about pigment paper. I don't know. For years I've been pronouncing the word "accessories" incorrectly, cause in Germany it is pronounced with a French flavor and I just didn't know (being an ignorant Dane), so people were always looking strange at me.

The same goes for lyrics. Eventually, people find out that they have been singing the incorrect lyrics out loud for years.

 

[Russ Dobbs]

Wow some of these people in the youtube chat are being real assholes to these guys. Personally very excited by their impressions of the record, I think it's going to be a further refinement of the grandiosity of TBOS with less of the bloat.

Yeah, in general, people act like assholes cause they have a shitty life. Internet provided them with a tool to be heard, but they hardly contribute with anything. Sad, when you think about it (which I won't).

 

[Belshazzar]

Today, I will be mostly celebrating the Welsh.

 

[Perun]

For years I've been pronouncing the word "accessories" incorrectly, cause in Germany it is pronounced with a French flavor and I just didn't know (being an ignorant Dane), so people were always looking strange at me.

Yeah, that's why people laughed at me for my intuitive mispronunciation of "biscuit", even though I actually know how it's pronounced in English.

 

[gazda]

I think it goes live 12AM on every platform including YT, Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer etc

The problem is that I am in South China Sea at UTC+8, but our internet is connected to Norwegian sat.so our IP is from Norway (my YT ads are Norwegian), and they are at UTC+1, so I dont know when album will appear on my Spotify.

 

[Gk1]

The problem is that I am in South China Sea at UTC+8, but our internet is connected to Norwegian sat.so our IP is from Norway (my YT ads are Norwegian), and they are at UTC+1, so I dont know when album will appear on my Spotify.

You can use a VPN client to change the country you are seen at

 

[riff]

Where is the damn thing already! I'm going insane

 

[Kalata]

I have to admit that I like all song titles a lot. Only the title track is still 50/50 for me.

These are probably their best song titles since the BNW album.

 

[blindg3]

^ The curious bits from this review:

Spoiler

The reviewer's favorite songs are: the title track, Darkest Hour and Days Of Future Past.
His favorite Steve's epic is: The Parchment

He thinks Senjutsu is a 100% better album than TBOS. Great album with no fillers. Contender for the album of the year.

... one of Bruce's best vocals.

Info about the album:
- dark album.
- has a variety.
- has a lot of harmony vocals. Lots of harmonies too.
- some songs ends the same way as they started.
- a lot of the songs have 2 or 3 solos.
- slide guitar solos.
- the guitar is playing the notes Bruce is singing (a lot of that).
- no repetitive choruses.
- a lot of gallops.
- long instrumental sections.
- the production has a 80's vibe.

And now for the songs:

The title track - uptempo song. Tribal sound. Bruce and (especially) Nicko shine.

''Lost In A Lost World'' - 70's harmonies vibe, very unusual intro for the band, after the intro the song has a ''Lightning Strikes Twice'' (the verses) vibe, long instrumental section (reminiscent of SOTC) and memorable solos.

''Days Of Future Past'' - The Chemical Wedding vibe, great lyrics, it goes double time at the end and great chorus (without repetition).

''The Time Machine'' - great vocals, the whole song has a TFF album vibe, while the beginning has a ''Isle Of Avalon'' vibe.

''Darkest Hour'' - dynamic war ballad. Beautiful guitar work. It is compared to ''Wasting Love'' (again).

''Death Of The Celts'' - mid tempo, long intro (acoustic parts and vocals), great vocals, the bass is flying and lots of time changes. The middle section is 5 minutes long (has a marching vibe like ''Genghis Khan''). The song is described as ''The Clansman'' meets DOD. 2 or 3 solos.

Spoiler

Is "middle section" instrumental? I hope not.

''The Parchment'' - Powerslave... Middle Eastern/Arabic vibe. Long instrumental at the end and a hypnotic groove. The least vocals of all songs - two verses and a whole mid section. Dynamic song.

''Hell On Earth'' - slow beginning (like FOTD or WTWWB ), gallop, Bruce is singing the lead notes, very cool mid section with a lot of harmonies never heard from Maiden before and great dynamic ending. According to the reviewer this song could fit in TFF album.

 

[Moonchild]

I am very stressed recently and I can not sleep well since Stratego was released.

I am constantly thinking about Senjutsu. I can not focus on my work and I am going insane.