Iron Maiden - New Material!

FarleyUK · July 2021

Livestream happening now - sounds good so far. Here's hoping the album isn't full of rather dull (IMHO) 15 minute songs....

Grumpyrocker · July 2021

Can't decide if I like it or not. One thing is for sure is sounds infinitely better on Spotify tha! YouTube.

Woodenhead · July 2021

I like the last few albums but they could do with a producer who recognises when a song is too long.

Quite like this new tune, from the opening low D note I guess it's in D-standard or drop-D, which would be first for Maiden (me thinks, not sure about the Blaze era).

Grumpyrocker · July 2021

It's an Adrian Smith composition. Does actually sound a lot like the stuff he's been doing with Richie Kotzen recently.

Boromedic · July 2021

I quite liked that, but I agree with Woodenhead, Maiden have the same problem Metallica has. So rich and long in the tooth that they produce themselves (producer is just a yes man), which leads to problems with stupid long songs for instance. Total lack of QC at times, and it's frustrating!!

Still they've both produced some classics even this late in their careers.

fastonebaz · July 2021

It will make the Iron Maidens
Happy

kossofffan · July 2021

Very 'mature' solo which I loved, but Bruce's singing is starting to annoy me a little.

Brize · July 2021

Woodenhead said:

I like the last few albums but they could do with a producer who recognises when a song is too long.

Quite like this new tune, from the opening low D note I guess it's in D-standard or drop-D, which would be first for Maiden (me thinks, not sure about the Blaze era).

They have used Drop D before - I think on the Final Frontier and Book of Souls album.

The intro to the new song sounds like DADGAD to me, but I could be wrong.

tone1 · July 2021

Shot downnnnnn….in a blaze of glory……dead or alive…..until the vocals

viz · July 2021

tone1 said:

Shot downnnnnn….in a blaze of glory……dead or alive…..until the vocals

I’m not sure that’s Iron Maiden, despite the word Blaze

Philly_Q · July 2021

I read a feature about the video last night and watched it, but with the sound down (it was very late), so I haven't heard the song yet.

A lot of hype about the video and how much work had gone into it, but it's an uncomfortable mix of half-arsed ideas and different animation styles with a whiff of penny-pinching about it. Most of it looks like a Disturbed video from about 15 years ago.

Enough moaning about that, I'll listen to the song later!

EricTheWeary · July 2021

I like the bit in the video where they reanimate Biff Byford then turn him into a goat.

Philly_Q · July 2021

EricTheWeary said:

I like the bit in the video where they reanimate Biff Byford then turn him into a goat.

Looking at a recent picture of Saxon I had an idea of re-booting Last of the Summer Wine and getting the whole band to star in it.

FarleyUK · July 2021

Philly_Q said:

EricTheWeary said:

I like the bit in the video where they reanimate Biff Byford then turn him into a goat.

Looking at a recent picture of Saxon I had an idea of re-booting Last of the Summer Wine and getting the whole band to star in it.

I met them once. Such a miserable bunch of sods.

hollywoodrox · July 2021

Philly_Q said:

I read a feature about the video last night and watched it, but with the sound down (it was very late), so I haven't heard the song yet.

A lot of hype about the video and how much work had gone into it, but it's an uncomfortable mix of half-arsed ideas and different animation styles with a whiff of penny-pinching about it. Most of it looks like a Disturbed video from about 15 years ago.

Enough moaning about that, I'll listen to the song later!

It really does look like a disturbed video from early 2000’s

hollywoodrox · July 2021

Did anyone spot the Sooty puppet 1:51 near the bike wheel, I noticed it this morning. There’s also a no prayer for the dying tombstone

not_the_dj · July 2021

hollywoodrox said:

Did anyone spot the Sooty puppet 1:51 near the bike wheel, I noticed it this morning. There’s also a no prayer for the dying tombstone

Only watched it on my phone so I’m sure I’ll spot more details when I’ve seen it properly....but there’s also the crashed frame of the R101 airship in the same shot as Sooty.

EricTheWeary · July 2021

FarleyUK said:

Philly_Q said:

EricTheWeary said:

I like the bit in the video where they reanimate Biff Byford then turn him into a goat.

Looking at a recent picture of Saxon I had an idea of re-booting Last of the Summer Wine and getting the whole band to star in it.

I met them once. Such a miserable bunch of sods.

I think there are only two original members left now so I guess it depends which members/ line ups you met but I've met various of them a couple of times and Biff was such a nice guy to me. Going back many years now and maybe he's grumpier these days but such a cool guy at the time.

Philly_Q · July 2021

Listened to it now... I like it. It feels like lots of very familiar bits assembled in a slightly different order, but I like those bits.

The chorus doesn't really grab me, and I agree with @kossofffan about Bruce's voice, I often find it a bit grating. Normally you look at the vocal as the main melodic content of a song, but in Maiden I'm always most drawn to the guitar guitar parts, they have lovely little melodic hooks.

On second viewing, the presence of Samurai Eddie and the previous Eddie incarnations on motorbikes makes even less sense....

prowla · July 2021

Hmm - a post-apocalyptic video over a sea shanty.

Would you Adam and Eve it?

Jaycee · July 2021

kossofffan said:

................ Bruce's singing is starting to annoy me a little.

I have to agree, he needs to choose songs which are a bit easier on the voice. Maidens stuff is a bit to "samey" for me, I have seen them 3 times when Bruce' voice was better and he didn't sound as if he was straining to get the notes out.

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