Which song was written first... for all of the 16 albums
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CriedWhenBrucieLeft
Meme Only Account
I take it the first track written for NotB is now beyond doubt?
Trevoire
Ancient Mariner
Found it, TBOS was written during the Final Frontier sessions.
Iron Maiden: how we made The Book Of Souls
Iron Maiden reveal the stories behind their sixteenth album The Book Of Souls
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There are other big songs on the album – not least the title track.
Steve: "Well, that song was a fucking nightmare for me. I’d written these melodies, around the time we were making The Final Frontier, and somehow I lost them. I don’t know how it happened. I thought we were recording, but the machine just wasn’t working. It’s the first time that’s ever happened to me, in all these years. The problem for me is when I’m writing, I put so many melodies down, so by the time I get to the tenth melody I won’t remember the first one. But in the end, I wrote some new melodies for the song, and we combined this with some ideas that Janick had. It turned out really well."
So it was probably the first song that was started for TBOS, but I don't know if you're counting things as the first song finished for a particular album?
Magnus
Pica Serdica
Yet, since a few lines of lyrics do not a track make, it should be this one perhaps?
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
Found it, TBOS was written during the Final Frontier sessions.
Iron Maiden: how we made The Book Of Souls
Iron Maiden reveal the stories behind their sixteenth album The Book Of Souls
There are other big songs on the album – not least the title track.
Steve: "Well, that song was a fucking nightmare for me. I’d written these melodies, around the time we were making The Final Frontier, and somehow I lost them. I don’t know how it happened. I thought we were recording, but the machine just wasn’t working. It’s the first time that’s ever happened to me, in all these years. The problem for me is when I’m writing, I put so many melodies down, so by the time I get to the tenth melody I won’t remember the first one. But in the end, I wrote some new melodies for the song, and we combined this with some ideas that Janick had. It turned out really well."
So it was probably the first song that was started for TBOS, but I don't know if you're counting things as the first song finished for a particular album?
In Wikipedia says, that the first songs written for TBOS album were SOTV, DOG, SOL and IESF.
But yeah, we can count the title track given that story from Steve - I mean, the melodies of that song dates back to 2010.
srfc
Ancient Mariner
If anything, Steve claimed the stolen lyrics were "guide lyrics" until he finished writing the real lyrics which he never did, so that suggests that rather than it being the first track to have been written, Hallowed in fact has not been written yet
Murder of Rue Morgue
They're never gonna find me!
I remember Steve saying that the title track was something he was working on since a few years, but I don't know if he already got it back in 2006.
Trevoire
Ancient Mariner
If you look up I few posts I found the interview. Turns out it was during the TFF sessions, so the origins of that song begin in 2010.