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

[Jadukor]

Guys has it leaked again shows leaked status. False alarm?

 

[Srogyy]

This site turns out to be useless with all the false alarms

 

[FTB]

The Fakes and the waiting really is A Tyranny of Souls

 

[Srogyy]

I hope there won't be any early leak... The temptation would be unbearable and I want to listen to the record properly - with the mysterious deluxe edition book in my hands.

 

[FTB]

What's in the book anyway? Is it just like the CD inlay in book form? Haven't read at all

 

[Virtual Factor]

1. "Book of Souls" - Janick Gers, duh. Favourite songwriter and favourite guitarplayer in Iron Maiden.
2. "Empire of the Clouds" - 18 minutes? Piano? I want to hear how this sounds.
3. "If Eternity Should Fail" - The goddamn opening track!
4. "The Red and the Black" - The Harris-penned epic. Gonna be epic.
5. "Tears of a Clown" - Hyped as favourite song by Bruce? Check. Hope for really thoughtful lyrics.

Same as mine except for Tears of a Clown, I think it will have a similar vibe as Coming Home, wich is good for a few listens but gets on the nerves afterward

 

[Jadukor]

The delux edition will take days to ship for me.

 

[Travis The Dragon]

Guys has it leaked again shows leaked status. False alarm?

Look at the newest comments on has it leaked and you'll know the answer.

 

[Srogyy]

What's in the book anyway? Is it just like the CD inlay in book form? Haven't read at all

It remains unknown as far as I know. It concerns me a bit, because maybe it's not worth it. The picture looks like the the CD case is DVD format and the book is like 30 pages of... something Looks cool. It would be nice if the CDs were in the actual book not in a separate case.

 

[Jadukor]

Look at the newest comments on has it leaked and you'll know the answer.

I am done with that site. They dont verify anything.

 

[Gk1]

They need to release another song.

 

[Maturin]

They need to stream the whole album in advance on Spotify!

Fixed.

 

[Virtual Factor]

They need to release another song.

No, I think we need to wait for the album, now. They gave us SOL, one of the weakest songs of the album. I prefer now to get the whole thing.

 

[Gk1]

They gave us SOL, one of the weakest songs of the album.

How can we actually know that?!!!

 

[Virtual Factor]

And we know this how?!!!

Come on, all the reviews says its a nice little song , that s it. If SOL Is one of the best songs on the album, than we have a biiiiiig problem !!

 

[Virtual Factor]

Of all the tracks on the album, I guess SOL will fall in the bottom 2 for me, like El Dorado did.

 

[Gk1]

I never got why we need to praise every Maiden song that is longer than 7 minutes, just because it happens to be long. SOL seems like a perfectly fine song that has got the Bruce and H stamp all over it. I t was about time we got a decent Maiden rocker.

EDIT: sometimes I think that if SOL had a 3 minute acoustic intro everyone would love it.

 

[Travis The Dragon]

I love SOL as it is and I love all the short rockers on the last 4 albums as well.

 

[gleggzg]

This forum would think Speed of Light was the best song ever if it started out with Gregorian chanting, had a slow acoustic intro, featured Blaze Bayley on vocals, and had a long instrumental section in the second half.

 

[Maturin]

This forum would think Speed of Light was the best song ever if it started out with Gregorian chanting, had a slow acoustic intro, featured Blaze Bayley on vocals, and had a long instrumental section in the second half.

Now that you mention it, that would be fantastic.