IRON MAIDEN

[Rick N. Backer]

I don't want the other Maiden threads to drop too low. Because I'm an agent of chaos. . .

[J2112YYZ]

I don't want the other Maiden threads to drop too low. Because I'm an agent of chaos. . .

 

Is that any relation to Professor Chaos from South Park?

[Rick N. Backer]

I don't want the other Maiden threads to drop too low. Because I'm an agent of chaos. . .

 

Is that any relation to Professor Chaos from South Park?

 

[J2112YYZ]

[Rick N. Backer]

I admire them for continuing to put out new music. They could probably be extremely successful doing Somewhere Back in Time tours every couple of years.

[goose]

*whispering: I liked Book of Souls.

Me too!

[J2112YYZ]

I admire them for continuing to put out new music. They could probably be extremely successful doing Somewhere Back in Time tours every couple of years.

 

They definitely could. I'm glad they don't do that though. It helps to keep them relevant and each tour has a unique theme and setlist. I wonder if it's helped Bruce preserve his voice over the years not having to sing all classic material on every tour.

[Rick N. Backer]

I haven’t heard the new stuff yet.

[Rod in Toronto]

I got the album, and listened to it today. Honestly, I'm VERY underwhelmed.

[Segue Myles]

I got the album, and listened to it today. Honestly, I'm VERY underwhelmed.

 

Could it be a grower? I really didn't like TBOS for YEARS

[Rod in Toronto]

I got the album, and listened to it today. Honestly, I'm VERY underwhelmed.

 

Could it be a grower? I really didn't like TBOS for YEARS

 

There are some good moments, but nothing they haven't done before, in a more remarkable and punchier way.

Edited August 25, 2021 by Rod in Toronto

[Rick N. Backer]

I got the album, and listened to it today. Honestly, I'm VERY underwhelmed.

 

Interesting. You strike me as one of their most loyal fans on the board. If you're not impressed, it's hard to see that I would be. I'll guess I'll find out.

[Rod in Toronto]

I got the album, and listened to it today. Honestly, I'm VERY underwhelmed.

 

Interesting. You strike me as one of their most loyal fans on the board. If you're not impressed, it's hard to see that I would be. I'll guess I'll find out.

 

I love them. But this album is way too "middle of the road Maiden" for me. Bruce and Nicko are playing safe, and man, the long intros take forever!!!!

[taurus]

I got the album, and listened to it today. Honestly, I'm VERY underwhelmed.

 

Interesting. You strike me as one of their most loyal fans on the board. If you're not impressed, it's hard to see that I would be. I'll guess I'll find out.

 

I've been a loyal fan from NOTB thru to BNW but just grew fatigued and DoD I bought but struggled to listen to it beginning to end. A Matter of Life and Death is the last studio release I purchased from Maiden, liked it marginally better than DoD but honestly couldn't name a single song off the top of my head. Quite a change from the days that I tried to collect all those B-Sides and bootlegs

[bluefox4000]

modern Maiden is spotty for me.

 

Brave New World-LOVE it!!!

Dance of death-It's OK

AMOLAD-Great BUT fatigue sets in fast......just so much of EVERYTHING, lol

Final Frontier-Skip. don't like it except for a few Tracks

Book of souls-So far i think the most gelled together modern Maiden. love almost every song

 

so yea somebody needs to tell them not every album needs to be 6 years long, lol BUT when modern Maiden does something right it really works.

 

but yea another double that's 10 songs and over 80 minutes i'm already tired, lol

 

we'll see.

 

Mick

Edited August 26, 2021 by bluefox4000

[Rick N. Backer]

I got the album, and listened to it today. Honestly, I'm VERY underwhelmed.

 

Interesting. You strike me as one of their most loyal fans on the board. If you're not impressed, it's hard to see that I would be. I'll guess I'll find out.

 

I've been a loyal fan from NOTB thru to BNW but just grew fatigued and DoD I bought but struggled to listen to it beginning to end. A Matter of Life and Death is the last studio release I purchased from Maiden, liked it marginally better than DoD but honestly couldn't name a single song off the top of my head. Quite a change from the days that I tried to collect all those B-Sides and bootlegs

 

The first album I bought was Killers. I own all their albums, but I don't think any of their albums after 7th Son are on par with anything that came after it. And I would put the debut and Killers on par with Beast through 7th Son.

[Nova Carmina]

Book Of Souls is a great album.

 

They really couldn't have done a better job. I'm not sure what else a Maiden fan could want at this point in their career.

 

It seems weird to complain that the problem is there's so much of it, but that was my issue. It was good -- and then it just kept going

[bluefox4000]

Book Of Souls is a great album.

 

They really couldn't have done a better job. I'm not sure what else a Maiden fan could want at this point in their career.

 

It seems weird to complain that the problem is there's so much of it, but that was my issue. It was good -- and then it just kept going

 

i kind of Agree to a point.....but then BOS dropped and i'm like.......huh........i DO want more, lol

 

Mick

[Rick N. Backer]

I got the album, and listened to it today. Honestly, I'm VERY underwhelmed.

 

Interesting. You strike me as one of their most loyal fans on the board. If you're not impressed, it's hard to see that I would be. I'll guess I'll find out.

 

I've been a loyal fan from NOTB thru to BNW but just grew fatigued and DoD I bought but struggled to listen to it beginning to end. A Matter of Life and Death is the last studio release I purchased from Maiden, liked it marginally better than DoD but honestly couldn't name a single song off the top of my head. Quite a change from the days that I tried to collect all those B-Sides and bootlegs

 

The first album I bought was Killers. I own all their albums, but I don't think any of their albums after 7th Son are on par with anything that came before it. And I would put the debut and Killers on par with Beast through 7th Son.

 

Fixed that for myself.

[Rod in Toronto]

I was going to review the new album, but due to personal circumstances - I had to fly back home for a family matter - my buddy John Kokel took over from me. Here's his take on Senjutsu: https://www.sonicperspectives.com/album-reviews/iron-maiden-senjutsu/

[Presto-digitation]

Can’t wait for the new album

[Rick N. Backer]

I still haven’t waded in to the new album.

[Rick N. Backer]

“Remember that patience is no sin,” sings Bruce Dickinson a whole three minutes into Senjutsu’s “The Parchment” — and he’s not kidding, since the song, which is one of the album’s standouts, stretches on for another 10 minutes. Luckily, Iron Maiden are typically not ones to waste listeners’ time. In those 13 minutes, the band blends cinematic Lawrence of Arabia strings with military-march guitar riffing, Dickinson bellows an Olivier Award-worthy monologue about his “primal quest for fear,” and the band’s three(!) guitarists each take turns indulging themselves in solos at times when most conventional heavy-metal bands conclude their tunes (5:01, 6:15, 10:32). But Iron Maiden have never been conventional.

 

A little more than 40 years ago, Maiden established themselves as one of the most original metal bands to emerge in the wakes of Black Sabbath and Judas Priest. Where most of heavy metal’s forefathers consecrated the genre tag with footslogging doomsaying, Maiden played punkish, nimble cris de coeur declaring victory over nonbelievers or painting Hammer horror vignettes over galloping guitar assaults. About midway into the Eighties, they adopted a more progressive approach to their music — writing longer, more intricate songs with even more fantastical lyrics — without compromising an ounce of metal cred. They also invented the instantly recognizable “Maidenesque” riff — jagged, economical, almost Bach-like melodies that capture minutes of drama in just a few seconds — which have echoed in the music of bands from Metallica to Papa Roach.

 

In the years since, the band members have been conditioning themselves for their long-distance metal marathons, and now — improbably, when each band member is in his sixties — they’re performing their own impressive Homeric epics on Senjutsu, their 17th album in ways groups half their age only wish they could. The band claims its album title translates from Japanese to “strategy” (or “tactics”), and the fact that Maiden have the patience to strategize their intricate overtures is a privilege of their age.

 

In fact, Iron Maiden sound their best on Senjutsu when they rise to their burning ambitions — and those sometimes are quite lofty. They recount Belshazzar’s Feast from the Old Testament on “The Writing on the Wall,” reassess Churchill’s shortcomings on “Darkest Hour,” and ruminate on the end of the world on “Senjutsu” and “Days of Future Past.” And they employ all the musical trademarks they’re known for but never self-plagiarize, instead growing each musical idea in a unique way. But the most impressive songs are the most challenging ones.

 

Although they neither approach anything as grandiose as the 18-minute “Empire of the Clouds,” from their last album, 2015’s The Book of Souls, or the armchair academia of past epics like their interpretation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” on 1984’s Powerslave, the meatiest songs here show the maturity that Iron Maiden have grown into. “The Time Machine” is a seven-minute ditty that fuses the band’s jig-like guitar motifs with a fist-pumping chorus that stands up to any of their Eighties anthems. “Death of the Celts” weaves lighter, hypnotic musical themes with lilting heavy riffs while Dickinson narrates a tale of Celtic warriors willing to sacrifice themselves for glory, hoping for immortality. And the album’s most stunning song, “Hell on Earth,” builds from a new-age ether into one of Dickinson’s most cutting vocal performances in years as he screams about feeling “lost in anger” around the eight-minute mark. It’s progressive in the most literal sense, as they transition masterfully from one Maidenesque idea to another, one guitar solo to the next and the next and the next, until the song explodes. It’s the victory moment they’ve been singing about for decades; it has just taken decades to get there. If listeners have the stamina — and the patience — Senjutsu is one of the most rewarding and vital albums in Maiden’s catalog.

 

https://www.rollings...review-1219605/

[Turbine Freight]

I still haven’t waded in to the new album.

 

Three strides in & you'll be neck deep in cowsh1t.

[Entre_Perpetuo]

declaring victory over nonbelievers

 

 

Just want to point out this is basically a lyric to a Queen song: The Seven Seas Of Rhye, one which I bet the guys in Maiden might cite as an influence.