"The Book of Souls" - Official pre-release thread (CONTAINS ALBUM SPOILERS)

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Btw, here is my tattoo in progress. It will be finished in next 10 days.

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Killer looking tattoo!

No news today I assume.....I keep checking their facebook site a few times a day just in case something gets posted.

That being said, this Friday is Bruce's birthday so maybe we'll get something then? If not then I suppose we have the 14th for the single.
 
Moonchild said:
+ It's my favourite Maiden Eddie since 80's.
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It definitely feels like the most 'classic' Eddie we've had since the 80's, I think. Wilkinson did a great job with the design. It's like if Piece of Mind-era Eddie went back in time to South America and joined the Mayan civilization. He's even got the red eyes that Eddie has in the remastered cover for the debut album!
 
I was reading some of those leaked Sony emails last night. Their record division is phasing out most physical distribution. (Also most non-English-language music, but that's another matter.) The emails implied most other record companies are doing the same.
 
I understand phasing out distribution - fewer and fewer folks are buying physical records these days. But it's odd to have amazon not sell it. Especially since they are in every single other one of their sites. It doesn't make any sense.
 
https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/121457

Music is becoming a purely digital product. A digital- only recorded music company will be a much more profitable one after one-off restructuring costs. It will have lower revenue and higher margins. Its revenue will be very stable and grow with the overall digital music market growth. It will be a much more valuable company with its revenue base solidly coming from subscription and ad revenue. It will be valued like music publishing companies or cable channels, not like recorded music companies today. Margins for recorded music should eventually be above 40% on that lower but growing revenue base.

Physical distribution is going away- it doesn’t need to be eliminated prematurely but it needs to follow digital and not drive it. The record company will want to milk the physical CD business but not worry about supporting retailers with credit to make quarterly numbers. Jamming product into the channel needs to be eliminated and the digital business needs to be the priority.

If other companies are following the same logic, that final sentence I bolded explains why they aren't pushing CDs to Amazon.
 
This has to be the less fun I ever had while waiting for a new Maiden album ( more or less 26 years) :dancinggeek:
 
I can't imagine why they would want to limit people's options for pre-orders. Especially when Amazon is easily the most used retailer here in the US for that. It will no doubt affect the album's chart performance. The management decisions this time around continue to puzzle me. :facepalm:
 
I understand the decline in the physical format. But if that's their reasoning it doesn't make sense to ship to other retailers. I mean, I haven't bought a physical single in years so the whole Speed of Light on CD thing makes even less sense if they are pushing to digital media.

It makes no sense whatsoever to have the new album from one of the world's biggest bands unavailable from the largest retailer - especially since I imagine I'm not the only one to pre-order. It's complete idiocy.
 
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