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

[TheSpectreWithin]

Here's a new interview with Janick, it has some good tidbits about TBOS and the writing process.

http://www.glidemagazine.com/145126/iron-maidens-janick-gers-talks-new-album-tour-plans-interview/

 

[THESEVENTHMARINER]

That's a great interview, thanks Spectre!

Nice to hear the tour will be starting in late February!

 

[mckindog]

Book of Souls: long Jan acoustic intro.
And so the speculation begins to rise.

 

[LooseCannon]

Janick has very mature attitudes towards music and expectations. I really enjoy this interview. Nice find!

 

[Night Prowler]

Great interview!

 

[ironbaz]

Thanks a lot. I really enjoyed it. The part about songwriting and the ideas of the band is very strong stuff.

 

[blindg3]

Acoustic intro to a song? Or entire song being all acoustic?

 

[Gk1]

Nice find man.

 

[Mega]

If the acoustic intro is another The Legacy intro, like The Talisman's, I'm going to be very disappointed.

 

[Gk1]

If the acoustic intro is another The Legacy intro, like The Talisman's, I'm going to be very disappointed.

Well,there is no indication for the opposite,is there?

 

[LooseCannon]

Janick seems to have written all of those, and likes them. Good, I'm excited for it!

 

[Mosh]

Yep. It's a little formulaic but it works. The past three Janick epics have had acoustic intros but they all have different moods and I suspect this one will too.

 

[Gk1]

Did anyone else get the impression that we are only getting the single with no other teasers of any kind?!

 

[Welsh Phantom]

Did anyone else get the impression that we are only getting the single with no other teasers of any kind?!

Yes, definitely. Janick said it's nice to hear the whole album first on it's day of release in this age of streaming preview samples on the internet.

 

[Mega]

Yep. It's a little formulaic but it works. The past three Janick epics have had acoustic intros but they all have different moods and I suspect this one will too.

Past three? I counted two.

 

[Donner]

Anyone catch the mention of Steve adding "additional choruses"?

 

[Welsh Phantom]

Anyone catch the mention of Steve adding "additional choruses"?

Yes. That was a little 'worrying'. I hope it is totally justified though

 

[harrisdevot]

The more detailed info we've read on the album. I'ma surprised this comes from him. He is quite specific on the songwriting process, and I like ti. Great find.

 

[Mosh]

Past three? I counted two.

Talisman, Legacy, Dance of Death. Dream of Mirrors also had prominent acoustic parts but no intro.

I know Dance of Death has some clean electric guitars mixed in, but it's the same vibe and probably laid the groundwork for those later songs.

 

[Donner]

I know I said it back when the tracklisting was released, but if this title track is as good as Dance of Death I'm going to be pretty damn excited.