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BlaasForRafa · 15-05-2015 8:21pm

jack presley wrote: »

Good news regarding Bruce's health and while there'll be no tour this year, it looks like we'll definitely be getting the new album!

Really glad to hear that Bruce has got the all clear, you just never know with cancer, just heard the news that Terry Jones, the singer with nwobhm group Pagan Altar lost his battle with cancer this morning.

Wurzelbert · 11-06-2015 3:39pm

Lithium93_ wrote: »

New album news, it's titled The Point of Harsh Steel and the first in a trilogy of albums.

http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=112137

The track list for The Point of Harsh Steel

1. Sinfiotli's Revenge
2. The Taciturn God
3. The Scarlet Spinner of Secret Thread
4. Misgard: Humankind's Misery
5. Serpent at the Roots
6. The Great Wisdom of Elder Edda
7. A Fire Rises From the South
8. Urda’s Sacred Well
9. Crucifixion, Self-Imposed
10. The Day Even Gods Will Die

is this even legit? nothing on ironmaiden.com...

Lithium93_ · 11-06-2015 4:12pm

Wurzelbert wrote: »

is this even legit? nothing on ironmaiden.com...

Nope just checked the date on the article and it's dated April 1 2015

, i'll just delete what i posted.

Wurzelbert · 11-06-2015 4:14pm

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Nope just checked the date on the article and it's dated April 1 2015 , i'll just delete what i posted.

Wurzelbert · 11-06-2015 4:19pm

Wurzelbert wrote: »

yeah, hadn’t seen the april 1st date myself...would have been weird for them to announce a trilogy anyway, that late in their career and all...

Lithium93_ · 11-06-2015 4:21pm

Wurzelbert wrote: »

yeah, hadn’t seen the april 1st date myself...would have been weird for them to announce a trilogy anyway, that late in their career and all...

I fell for it hook, line, and bloody sinker

, in future i'll check the dates before posting anything, it was done so well though.

Wurzelbert · 11-06-2015 4:38pm

Lithium93_ wrote: »

I fell for it hook, line, and bloody sinker , in future i'll check the dates before posting anything, it was done so well though.

think that can be excused in the current situation...i too am eagerly awaiting an official announcement regarding the new album...

jack presley · 11-06-2015 7:52pm

Steve's touring with British Lion again next month so he's keeping busy anyway.

http://classicrock.teamrock.com/news/2015-06-11/maiden-s-harris-to-tour-with-british-lion

peter1892 · 18-06-2015 5:36pm

Here we go then...

http://www.ironmaiden.com/new-iron-maiden-studio-album-the-book-of-souls.html

jack presley · 18-06-2015 5:42pm

peter1892 wrote: »

Here we go then...

http://www.ironmaiden.com/new-iron-maiden-studio-album-the-book-of-souls.html

Great news!

SirLemonhead · 18-06-2015 8:44pm

Jesus, those song lengths $:\$

byte · 18-06-2015 10:45pm

SirLemonhead wrote: »

Jesus, those song lengths $:\$

You're not wrong! I see the last track is 18mins alone. Shortest track is 5mins.

I hope it'll be good, though.

jack presley · 18-06-2015 11:18pm

Long songs, short songs. Either way, I can't wait.

Lithium93_ · 18-06-2015 11:36pm

Clocking in at a whopper 92 minutes :eek: This album is going to be fecking brilliant

Mental Mickey · 19-06-2015 10:51am

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Clocking in at a whopper 92 minutes :eek: This album is going to be fecking brilliant

It may be a load of donkey bollocks.....?

jack presley · 19-06-2015 11:53am

While I don't mind long songs, I hate the slow intros that nearly every long Maiden song has had on the past couple of albums.

Anesthetize · 19-06-2015 3:59pm

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Clocking in at a whopper 92 minutes :eek: This album is going to be fecking brilliant

Quality, not quantity.

savemejebus · 19-06-2015 4:25pm

Reading the description on the site and seeing the cover art I have chills! I'm so excited for this album, it looks like it'll be truly epic.

Reverting to my 10 year old self but that cover art is really reminding me of Piece of Mind which is a really good omen too

briany · 19-06-2015 7:50pm

Flight 666 is a great film. Just decided to watch it a while ago on a recommendation. While Maiden's music doesn't really do it for me, the film clearly shows that they're an amazingly hardworking and charismatic bunch of lads and very talented too.

Vanhalla · 20-06-2015 9:13pm

How do maiden make 3 very good guitarists work? 2 guys playing the same notes while the other plays different? No need for it. Jobs for the boys:D
No egos there

jack presley · 21-06-2015 12:57pm

Just thinking about the upcoming tour. As they usually play for around 90-100 minutes, if they play any more than one of two from this album , there'll be feck all time left for any of the other stuff.

scudzilla · 21-06-2015 1:21pm

Vanhalla wrote: »

How do maiden make 3 very good guitarists work? 2 guys playing the same notes while the other plays different? No need for it. Jobs for the boys:D
No egos there

It works great, IIRC one of the stipulations of Bruce rejoining was that Adrian also came back, Jan had been great and they were not willing to let him go so that's why they have 3 guitarists

scudzilla · 21-06-2015 1:22pm

jack presley wrote: »

Just thinking about the upcoming tour. As they usually play for around 90-100 minutes, if they play any more than one of two from this album , there'll be feck all time left for any of the other stuff.

More like 120mins, sure they'll play 2 or 3 new tracks, if they choose the longer ones they may be edited down

Wurzelbert · 21-06-2015 1:38pm

scudzilla wrote: »

It works great, IIRC one of the stipulations of Bruce rejoining was that Adrian also came back, Jan had been great and they were not willing to let him go so that's why they have 3 guitarists

yeah, the triple axe attack is great...now if only jan would stop acting like an idiot on stage and instead concentrate on his playing…

Lithium93_ · 22-06-2015 9:10pm

Bruce's first public appearance since being given the all clear from cancer last month.

http://metalhammer.teamrock.com/news/2015-06-22/iron-maiden-bruce-dickinson-nordoff-robbins-music-therapy-visit

4068ac1elhodqr · 22-06-2015 9:37pm

Iron Maiden is being tipped for a lifetime achievement gong at one of the next major uk award shindigs, sounds good. Hopefully the possessed MileyC/KimKardigan/JessyJ types won't be around to spoil/pimp the stage.

Did some long-haul flights few years ago to US/Can/NZ/Malay etc not sure but think the announcement said the captain was Bruce Dickenson on the way out of one of the airports (maybe LAX), can't be certain as the random nice lady beside me was babbling a fair bit due to her ADHD...

Lithium93_ · 23-06-2015 11:44pm

Pre-order for The Book Of Souls have gone live

http://ironmaiden.com/thebookofsouls/

RayCon · 24-06-2015 9:43am

Looking forward to this .... unlike some I enjoyed A Matter Of Life and Death and to a slightly lesser extent Final Frontier

jack presley · 24-06-2015 10:23am

RayCon wrote: »

Looking forward to this .... unlike some I enjoyed A Matter Of Life and Death and to a slightly lesser extent Final Frontier

I'm with you on AMOLAD (great album imo) but I thought the FF was only ok.

Too many songs that took an age to get going that could easily have had a couple of minutes knocked off each. Which is why I'm kind of worried about some of the songs on this one!

peter1892 · 25-06-2015 3:20pm

It could be great - but I was hoping for a more 'economical' approach to the songs especially after some comments from Adrian about needing to write shorter songs after The Final Frontier.

As much as I enjoyed the gig in 2006 (I really liked AMOLAD) doing the whole album in sequence was a bit of a risk so it'll be interesting to see what they do on this tour. Ultimately they'll do what they want regardless of the fans reaction.

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