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

[SinisterMinisterX]

This is all awesome. Love the cover art, the tracklist, the title... this has got me genuinely pumped.

 

[Deleted member 7164]

I want to hear this album right now.

 

[Maturin]

I like the artwork. Better than the cartoonish TFF. It has a darker edge to it which I like. Definitely some tribal, voodoo stuff going on there..perhaps also in some of the songs, that will be interesting to hear how Maiden tackles...

I much prefer the artwork of TFF, which happens to be my favourite cover-art. This seems... Very X-Factor-ish.

 

[Cosmiceddie]

One thing's for certain, we have additional proof that Bruce is a madman. Otherwise, he wouldn't have the balls to singlehandedly pen an 18-minute track to add to the Maiden discography.

...and to obtain Mr. Harris' permission to put it on the album.

 

[SinisterMinisterX]

For everyone who thought the album would come at the end of the year... nope. My prediction was off by only 2 weeks:

In that case, I amend my prediction to the following Friday, August 21 for the US.

Spoiler

Looks like I was right about this too:

We already know the songs are so long they gave Bruce cancer.

 

[SixesAlltheway]

@Maturin

I respect that. I feel that Maiden have long been in need of a darker theme., If the music on the new album is as heavy and dark as the cover its gonna be good!

 

[Iron Souls]

"The Red and the Black" 13 mins penned by Steve. Sure hope this is not another TATG.

Either way, I'm so excited right now. This is gonna be great!

 

[SinisterMinisterX]

A double album from Maiden. Never thought I'd see that, except for live albums. But only 92 minutes... lots of time for "bonus" tracks. Will we finally hear Tush?

 

[Perun]

"The Red and the Black" 13 mins penned by Steve. Sure hope this is not another TATG.

Yeah, Steve writing a 13-minute song, that can't end well.

 

[SinisterMinisterX]

"The Man Of Sorrows". Another song title stolen from Bruce....

For those who don't know, "The Red And The Black" is another stolen song title.

 

[SixesAlltheway]

The Tears of a Clown is a Smokey Robinson and the Miracles song...

OMG it's a...COVER ALBUM!

 

[Ariana]

For those who don't know, "The Red And The Black" is another stolen song title.

Are you sure it's stolen from there? What about this?

 

[SinisterMinisterX]

Yeah, Steve writing a 13-minute song, that can't end well.

I think we can set the over/under for repetitions of the title at 24.

 

[Iron Souls]

Yeah, Steve writing a 13-minute song, that can't end well.

Yeah, I get what you're saying it's just that I first thought roulette when I saw the track title

 

[SinisterMinisterX]

Are you sure it's stolen from there? What about this?

Never knew about that book, thanks. (They don't teach French literature in the US.)

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

For everyone who thought the album would come at the end of the year... nope. My prediction was off by only 2 weeks:

Spoiler

Looks like I was right about this too:

I think LC was a little closer than you there:

September 8th

 

[Shadow]

Damn, they made me long for the end of summer.

 

[Black Wizard]

I can't wait. Six sing titles with "of" in them. No Iron Maiden album has exceeded four such songs in the past.

 

[LooseCannon]

I think LC was a little closer than you there:

LC has been right about literally every prediction he made about this album.

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

I can't wait. Six sing titles with "of" in them. No Iron Maiden album has exceeded four such songs in the past.

I never knew that...

LC has been right about literally every prediction he made about this album.

Go on, list 'em. I want to see how good you were!