Iron Maiden - New Bruce Dickinson solo album 1st March. First tracks on p4

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Bruce Dickinson initially had a concept for the video which came to fruition in collaboration with two Award-winning former Pixar executives and long-standing Maiden fans Mark Andrews & Andrew Gordon. With partners lining up to get involved with the project they chose BlinkInk, a London based animation studio.

In BlinkInk director Nicos Livesey, another long-time Maiden fan & kindred spirit, they found a man who shared the collective vision for the track – resulting in the final film which features the very first glimpse of a stunning new incarnation of Eddie.

Bruce comments “I had a pretty clear idea of the concept to accompany the song and when I met Mark and Andrew, on Zoom, it quickly became clear we were all very much on the same wavelength, and this was reinforced with the addition of Nicos and his young BlinkInk team. Our weekly team Zoom meetings were then usually both highly creative and a lot of fun!

I’m very proud of the way the video turned out, it’s more like a mini-film really. I knew it was going to work out as soon as Mark brought my treatment to life with his incredible storyboards - I thought we could make something very special together. I think we did and hope our fans will agree. In fact it it’s pretty much created by Maiden fans!! ”

Director, Nicos Livesey takes up the story: “We quickly found the expertise we wanted, and people were literally throwing themselves at me to work on a Maiden video – we had more than 60 people in 13 countries from Brazil to France, & Romania to the USA to add something to the clip and I’d say their love, passion and understanding of the band shines through every frame.”

lol, they filmed that the same day he was giving his "I never expected the leopards to eat MY face" interview to sky news.

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I mean, it's Maiden, so I'll listen to it, probably love it, but I'm honestly so strawberry floating tired of Bruce and his bullshit now.

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I’m too far gone on Dickinson now, sadly. I’ve lost the ability to hear a Maiden song and not think of what a monumental walloper he is. And I’m absolutely gutted about it, too.

Jenuall wrote:

It's Iron strawberry floating Maiden Jenuall :capnscotty:

Will buy a new album. I hated the last one. But will buy anyway.

Despite Dickinson being a mega twat, I'll still be able to enjoy his music.

At least he's had a haircut. He looked ridiculous in some of the footage he appeared in over lockdown.

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Zilnad wrote:Despite Dickinson being a mega twat, I'll still be able to enjoy his music.

I think it’s just a me-thing nowadays, I struggle to separate art from artist. And hey, if I’m gonna verbally abuse Novak Djokovic I need to be consistent… :shifty:

Never liked Iron Maiden, my brother used to blast it out at full volume and Dickinson's vocals almost tore my ear drums to bits.

Vermilion wrote:Never liked Iron Maiden, my brother used to blast it out at full volume and Dickinson's vocals almost tore my ear drums to bits.

He sings great on the old stuff. The new stuff, not so much. He keeps doing this thing to hit high notes and it sounds terrible.

Reveal will be at 6pm.

Thanks, will check it out. This better not be about Funko pop toys.

Haha, I reckon it's got to be the new album. The Belshazzar posters included "IMXVII" - Iron Maiden 17.

Yeah, it's incredibly likely. Single dropping today, album later I'm guessing.

This has got me playing a bit of Maiden today in anticipation, and I realised I've barely listened to book of souls at all since not long after it came out. That album just does nothing for me. Compared to Final Frontier, which I could listen to over and over, it really was so underwhelming.

At least this new album should be an improvement on that.

A really flawed record, I honestly think it is their worst.

Books of Souls is basically the worst elements of the newer Iron Maiden albums, multiplied by 100. There was no need for the majority of those songs to be that long.

Also would love Nicko to use a click track. For Book of Souls, they basically did several takes of the songs and then pieced them together like Frankenstein's monster. The tempo on some of the songs is all over the place because of this.

I'm super interested in hearing new Maiden, but I'm not hopeful I will like it :lol:

Here we go, then.

Lots of biblical stuff in the video. Eddie (different historical versions) as the four horsemen, and then his new guise acting as the serpent to Adam and Eve. If Belshazzar's Feast is going to be the album title, in conjunction with the video it seems to hint at the concept of the whole album.

Doesn't do much for me. Solo section is good, but I expected as much from Adrian Smith. Video is interesting though.

Musically it's good, but I think the mixing on the vocals is trash. Heard it on YT and the radio and there were times it was completely drowned out.

Iron Maiden - New Bruce Dickinson solo album 1st March. First tracks on p4

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