KidInTheDark666
What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine too
I actually love the verses of The Duellists but find the mid section a tad boring.
Your Maiden blasphemy
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chaosapiant
Ancient Marinade
Can’t remember if I expressed this opinion before, so here goes: I’d like to have had a third album with Blaze. Maybe something in between Virtual XI and BNW. I enjoyed Blaze’s time in the band and felt they (Steve) still needed to find the right musical footing for his voice.
Ascendingthethrone
Ancient Mariner
I agree with this. As much as I love Silicon Messiah, it would have been interesting to hear some of his lyrics and ideas from that album on a Maiden album.
MindRuler
Ancient Mariner
I may be slaughtered for this but Stare At The Sun is better than any song on BNW or DOD.
Diesel 11
As you scream into the web of silence...
I disagree but that whole album is awesome and I’d put it just a couple notches below BNW. Stare At The Sun is a glorious song.
MindRuler
Ancient Mariner
That solo section
Ascendingthethrone
Ancient Mariner
What an incredible song! I was listening to the album on my walk today. Born as a Stranger is a cracker as well. The live version from As Live As It Gets is one of my favourite live performances ever.
Stare at the Sun is an absolute masterpiece, it's been one of my favourite songs ever since I first heard it on a gloomy, depressing autumn afternoon back in 2004.
srfc
Ancient Mariner
Same for me on the two times I saw him, the first time in particular, I could leave my spot on the barrier to go to the bar/toilet and it was still there every time I came back
MindRuler
Ancient Mariner
Blood&Belief is great as well. Didn’t like the 2 that came after.
Diesel 11
As you scream into the web of silence...
YES! It’s one of the most emotional solos ever. It’s so cool!That solo section
MindRuler
Ancient Mariner
I stood in front of the stage and Blaze grabbed me during Identity.
Murder of Rue Morgue
They're never gonna find me!
I'm pretty sure that the 3rd Blaze album would have been basically Brave New World. After all, most of the songs were already there, Adrian did not write that much and I'm pretty sure Bruce concentrated mainly on lyrics.
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
No thanks. Two were more than enough.
Don't be a hater. The idea that Blaze was behind any perceived shortcomings in the late 90s is passe and silly, and you know it - he's only one member of the team, and if you think VXI was bad (understandable), and blaming him, then you're really missing the point. It was everyone.
Now, we know that Bruce came back at the right time, not just for the band - but for metal in general.
But still.
CriedWhenBrucieLeft
Meme Only Account
That's not "missing the point", that's just not being a fan of his singing. I think anyone is perfectly entitled to state they wouldn't have wanted another Blaze Maiden album.
Magnus
Pica Serdica
was doing perfectly fine by that time, in my own narrow-minded view, having reached its logical pinnacle, namely the European black metal scene.
Was deeply into it, most of the heavy / power / doom / thrash / death bands I'd been into before that had either screwed up majorly or disbanded, things like Metal Hammer or Rock Hard or Headbangers Ball etc. were no longer interesting at all, and future looked bright. Or dark, depending on your values. Then, a few years later, things started going down the drain all of a sudden. Thought it was job, age, and so on, but thanks to you now I know it was Brucie*, thank you.
*And I'm not surprised at all.
Jer
A window to the west, a blazing star above
It was a combination of things, of course. Blaze’s singing was extremely uneven. Steve Harris was a terrible producer who either didn’t know how to get good performances out of people or wasn’t willing to keep chipping away at it until they got there. Blaze and Janick weren’t particularly great additions to the songwriting bench, and apparently weren’t willing to push back hard enough on Harris’s worst songwriting tendencies the way that Bruce and Adrian often were. All of those things conspired to create lackluster and sometimes downright bad output from that lineup of the band.
Some people apparently love it, and good for them, I guess. That doesn’t mean that the opposing viewpoint is wrong or passé. People can point to objective elements in the music from that period that very specifically explain why they don’t like it, so it’s hard to suggest that their views are unfounded. They just reached a different conclusion than other fans did.
Some people apparently love it, and good for them, I guess. That doesn’t mean that the opposing viewpoint is wrong or passé. People can point to objective elements in the music from that period that very specifically explain why they don’t like it, so it’s hard to suggest that their views are unfounded. They just reached a different conclusion than other fans did.