Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
I can't wait to hear the 4 Harris epics in Senjutsu.
Senjutsu - 3rd September 2021
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Abas
Jester with no tears
And realising that being stuck thousands of miles apart meant they themselves couldn’t be in the video – Bruce is in London and Janick is in Newcastle, but Steve is in the Bahamas, Nicko in Florida, Dave in Hawaii, and Adrian is, Bruce reckons, somewhere in either America or the UK – the singer realised the solution was just the problem in different clothes.
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Today, according to Bruce, of the people who made Senjutsu, only he and Steve Harris have actually heard the final, finished, mixed and mastered product. The only reason he has a version of his own is because he copied Steve’s off his laptop when he was round at his house last year working on mixes for the Live In Mexico release.
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Diesel 11
As you scream into the web of silence...
As far as “Empire” goes, it’s been one of my favorite Maiden songs — possibly my favorite period — since I first heard it. I think it fits the album really well, and TMOS does a great job leading to it. It’s amazing not because every single part is brilliant, but because of how they work together to drive the story.
Sure, you can break things down and get really analytical with this one. The main riff is taken from “Rime”, one of the main riffs in the instrumental is taken from “The Legacy”, Bruce strains a lot, there’s fake orchestra on here, the song repeats itself incredibly often, etc etc etc. BUT. It’s these things that make the song much more powerful to me. The fact that it repurposes music of Maiden’s past and makes it work is so cool. The fact that Bruce is straining adds to the severity of the song. The fake orchestra doesn’t actually hold the song back, lazy decision or not. And the repetition serves to keep building the narrative.
And the best part? The story itself. This is easily Bruce’s magnum opus as a storyteller. I love his — as Judas would say — thesaurus usage in a lot of his lyrics, it feels mystical with a shade of darkness to it. But here he combines a bit of that poetry with an actual narrative and boy does it hit hard. Every single line is brilliant. He’s still using metaphors but you know exactly what’s happening in the story. And the music takes up the slack where the lyrics drop out. You know exactly what’s happening to the airship at any given moment. And the climax, “Oh the dreamers may die, but the dreams live on...” Man. It’s so good.
I try not to listen to “Empire” too much any more to preserve its spark, but whenever I do I always love it. It’s like a film put to music, or, like LC has said, the ultimate metal disaster ballad.
Sure, you can break things down and get really analytical with this one. The main riff is taken from “Rime”, one of the main riffs in the instrumental is taken from “The Legacy”, Bruce strains a lot, there’s fake orchestra on here, the song repeats itself incredibly often, etc etc etc. BUT. It’s these things that make the song much more powerful to me. The fact that it repurposes music of Maiden’s past and makes it work is so cool. The fact that Bruce is straining adds to the severity of the song. The fake orchestra doesn’t actually hold the song back, lazy decision or not. And the repetition serves to keep building the narrative.
And the best part? The story itself. This is easily Bruce’s magnum opus as a storyteller. I love his — as Judas would say — thesaurus usage in a lot of his lyrics, it feels mystical with a shade of darkness to it. But here he combines a bit of that poetry with an actual narrative and boy does it hit hard. Every single line is brilliant. He’s still using metaphors but you know exactly what’s happening in the story. And the music takes up the slack where the lyrics drop out. You know exactly what’s happening to the airship at any given moment. And the climax, “Oh the dreamers may die, but the dreams live on...” Man. It’s so good.
I try not to listen to “Empire” too much any more to preserve its spark, but whenever I do I always love it. It’s like a film put to music, or, like LC has said, the ultimate metal disaster ballad.
My experience with reunion Maiden was pretty similar. I felt like BNW and DoD were pretty on par with each other and not to the level of classic era Maiden. You could take a few songs from each and make one great album. Cool that Maiden were making new music, but the albums were pretty similar in tone and not as special or adventurous as the old stuff. AMOLAD really started to click for me in 2010 and later that year the release of TFF really validated the reunion period. DoD and BNW have grown on me, although I also think the differences in quality between the two albums continue to grow with time.
I think the context is different in the 2000’s. A lot of 80s bands were reuniting and the standard approach seemed to be to make 1 or 2 albums that attempted to recapture the old glory days and then milk a few nostalgia tours before going back into retirement. Maiden could have made one or two reunion albums and then called it quits, in which case the band would be recognized for their classic era and nothing else. Now, we’re 21 years removed from Brave New World, this lineup has been more prolific than any other, and they continue to evolve in the studio. A song like Empire of the Clouds would never exist on Brave New World. Even singles like Speed of Light and Writing On the Wall take different approaches than what I hear on those earlier reunion albums. If they were still making BNW-like albums, I think we’d be having a different conversation right now. And, of course, they still play all this material live and treat it as being important. There’s enough material there that you could get into Maiden now and prefer the reunion era, which isn’t uncommon around here.
The only problem of the post-reunion Maiden albums is the sound and it is an inexplicable one. I get having one album with production issues but six (yes the new one sounds good only compared to other post reunion albums, not in general) is the weirdest thing in music history for such a huge band. The music is fine, great even. Shirley is a great producer in general. Just doesn’t make sense.
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Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
I would love another video (for a single) with the band members in it. Maybe for ''Stratego''?
Gk1
Here I sit in a serenade of glory!
I just listened to the Burning a couple of times. It is obvious which parts belong to Steve.....if they are indicative of the way he approached the new album...I am in deep problem. I know this is not on topic but what is wrong with their singer???His voice is not even funny!
Samantas5855
Ancient Mariner
Consodering DOD came out in 2003 and the 5.1 DVDAudio a year later, the fact that TWOTW BLU RAY is DTS (that means 7.1 right?), the fact that atmos is more complex than 5.1 and the fact that Kevin's post about atmos was fairly recenet, I believe there is a possibility of a full album BLU RAY release in 2022
Iron Lurker
Ancient Mariner
Maturin
Sköldpadda
Level of muscianship are on different levels. I preferred the debut in the end, because it wasn't trying to do Maiden. No one can see Bruce Dickinson singing "The Eyes of the Young" (good song, maybe a bit cheesy) whereas "The Burning" is way outside of the singers good sounding range and with another set of lyrics could have been a rocker for Maiden.
That said, The Burning is really good at times.
Bottom line is that I hardly think you can judge the new Maiden release from that. Some of the songs from it predates The Book of Souls.
Iron Lurker
Ancient Mariner
Yep, BL gives Steve a chance to do things he wouldn't do with Maiden
Gk1
Here I sit in a serenade of glory!
Not really! I kind of like the Legacy,lol!You just hate everything, don't you?
jazz from hell
Ancient Mariner
New Bonamassa song, produced by Kevin Shirley... CHV666
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
Nice trivia. ''Como Estais Amigos'' and ''Empire Of The Clouds''.
Samantas5855
Ancient Mariner
The only way to get the Blu Ray is the deluxe box?
