Iron Maiden New Video/ Track - "The Writing On The Wall"
 

They just released this video today for the new track "The Writing On The Wall". :up:

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I like it

:rock:

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I dig it, especially the soloing. Definitely different from typical Maiden. I like the video, too - sort of a Mad Max/Sons of Anarchy mashup, Liquid Television-style.

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I like it, it sounds like an Iron Maiden riff, but not typical Iron Maiden guitar sound. And you can still hear the distinctive Steve Harris bass sound underneath.

And wow, it doesn't feel to me like it's been 6 years since The Book of Souls. -eek-

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I love it. There are a lot of things in there that we rarely, if ever hear from Maiden. And it all works.

Really good song. Can't wait for the album!

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I like it as well. The video is good, but took the time to listen tot he song on Spotify, where it sounds better than YT. It sounds like Maiden with some different elements in it. Cannot wait for the full album, I have really liked their last several releases

The thought is the album will be announced Monday, they have been posting old album covers on social media with WOTW and other new images inserted. At the current pace, they will do Book of Souls on Sunday, so ideally new album cover shown on Monday

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Easter Eggs! :lol:

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New album out on September 3

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...018b6faa6.jpeg


The full tracklisting is:



1. Senjutsu (Smith/Harris) 8:20

2. Stratego (Gers/Harris) 4:59

3. The Writing On The Wall (Smith/Dickinson) 6:13

4. Lost In A Lost World (Harris) 9:31

5. Days Of Future Past (Smith/Dickinson) 4:03

6. The Time Machine (Gers/Harris) 7:09

7. Darkest Hour (Smith/Dickinson) 7:20

8. Death Of The Celts (Harris) 10:20

9. The Parchment (Harris) 12:39

10. Hell On Earth (Harris) 11:19



Senjutsu will be released on the following formats and available to pre-order from all good music retailers starting Wednesday July 21st



Standard 2CD Digipak

Deluxe 2CD Book Format

Deluxe heavyweight 180G Triple Black Vinyl

Special Edition Triple Silver & Black Marble Vinyl (from selected retailers)

Special Edition Triple Red & Black Marble Vinyl (from selected retailers)

Super Deluxe Boxset featuring CD, Blu-Ray and Exclusive Memorabilia

Digital album (streaming and download)

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Oh jesus, the last 3 songs taking up almost 35 minutes will be nuts.

Hopefully in a good way.

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Love Book Of Souls and its long songs so the more the better on this album I say.
Hopefully the BD is the album in 5.1 and not just the already released music video.

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If the bluray is just another long boring two hours live concert, then I'll take a pass.

Their live albums/video performances get more and more boring as years go by.

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Why, has Iron Maiden released any live albums? :lol:

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It would have been great if they ever released the entire concert which the Maiden Japan ep came from.

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https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...125e37c29d.jpg

I'd really like to have a vinyl release that looks like the one above, with one silver/black marble LP, one all-black LP, and one red/marble LP.

I'd probably have to buy all three editions and make my own. :lol:

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Amazon has the 3LP silver "exclusive" up for $16.99. Went ahead and preordered it - I'll hopefully hear more of it prior to release, so I can decide whether or not to keep the order.


This looks to be $45-$50 everywhere else, on black vinyl, so probably a pricing error.

EDIT: deal is dead. :(

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New song going up today at Noon CST

Stratego will be on Spotify, Apple, etc

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Gotta say, I am liking the new album quite a bit

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I'm liking the album - definitely one of the better "reunion" albums.
Even though it has similarly long songs like Book of Souls, I think Senjutsu is a stronger album because it's long songs don't drag and repeat like BoS songs do.

And I'm a sucker, so I went ahead and got the red vinyl (which does sound marginally better than digital), and it looks even better than in this promo shot...

https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/81e...2&odnBg=ffffff

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Got my $17 vinyl from Amazon yesterday. Probably won't have a chance to spin it 'til this weekend at the soonest.

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Same here :up:

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Yeah, seventeen bucks for the silver edition was too good to pass up even though that color was the least appealing to me. :lol: I wonder if someone at Amazon saw the picture and thought they were CDs and priced them as such. (The CD edition is $17.)

The silver does kind of go with the samurai theme, though.

Haven't opened my records yet, but I've heard the album online and it's... okay. Pretty much what one expects from late-period Iron Maiden. It's not bad by any stretch, but it seems really workmanlike.

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Stratego now has a full music video

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The only song which I find memorable is "Death of the Celts".

Otherwise the rest of the album sounds like typical generic Iron Maiden songs, which are rather forgettable and just blend into one another whenever I play the cd in the backgrond at home.

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That's the problem with Iron Maiden since 1988. The new stuff isn't bad, but I'd rather put on "Number of the Beast," "Piece of Mind," or "Powerslave" if I want to listen to some Maiden.

Though the same can be said for most bands with careers that span decades. I'm looking at you, The Cure!

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Especially long lived bands where almost every song sounds the same, such as: AC DC, Motorhead, Cannibal Corpse, The Exploited, etc ....

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Album's certainly not as strong as their first 7 albums, but I think it's one of their better "reunion" albums, probably right behind Brave New World.
It does take a few spins to fully appreciate - I'm liking it the more I'm listening to it. And the vinyl sounds pretty good - "CB" (Chris Bellman) in the dead-wax is always a good sign!

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It's hardly a fair comparison. Those three albums were when they were at peak creativity. They had just added Bruce, who kicked up the vocals to a whole other level, and they were developing a unique and powerful sound all their own, and exploring all sorts of interesting concepts lyrically.

I agree the new stuff is cookie cutter, but it's still a pretty tasty cookie. I'm sure the next tour will be them playing a lot of this along with newer stuff. If they tour again after this it'll be a farewell or legacy type tour again where they play all the hits.

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This is exactly what makes it the perfect "muzak" background music for me where I don't want to be too distracted. The writing/playing style of modern iron maiden sounds very familiar to me, but I don't recognize most of the songs and they have no emotional / nostalgia meaning for me.

In contrast, I've found that listening to something that has a lot of emotional / nostalgic meaning for me (such as iron maiden's 80s albums), is very distracting. I end up hyper focusing all my attention on it.

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The last Iron Maiden album I listened to a lot repeatedly which had a lot of emotional / nostalgic meaning for me, was Somewhere In Time. In contrast, I only ever listened to to "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" a few times after picking up the vinyl when it was first released back in the day. The latter had almost no replay value for me, while the former I was playing over and over again. (Back in the day, I also tried to transcribe many of the guitar riffs from Somewhere In TIme by ear. There was no Somewhere In Time guitar tab books at the time).

Oddly enough, I found the Blaze era albums more "listenable" than most of the other post-1988 stuff.

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In an interview earlier this month, Bruce said next time they're on the road it'll be a continuation of the Legacy of the Beast Tour with 1 or 2 Senjutsu songs added.

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Awesome. Hope I can make it to one of those shows. For as much as I enjoyed the Legacy show in 2019 I can easily think of a few songs they could drop in favor of new stuff.

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Agreed on both point above. If you take most tracks since....what 2001 (Post Brave New World), I probably wouldn't be able to tell you which belongs to which album.

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One "tangential maiden releated" album which I use to play over and over again back in the day, was the Samson remix album "Head Tactics" from 1986. This was during the time period before the original Samson albums were released on cd, and shortly after the original record company (GEM) that released "Head On" and "Shock Tactics" went under and the original albums were difficult to find. This "Head Tactics" album was most likely done to capitalize on Bruce Dickinson's peak mid-1980s popularity with Iron Maiden, where the band's name on the cover was "Samson Featuring Bruce Dickinson".

What I didn't know at the time was that this "Head Tactics" album was actually remixed to sound more like 'iron maiden'. It seems like the hardcore Samson / Maiden "purists" really hated this remixed album.

When I finally got the "Head On" and "Shock Tactics" albums when they were first released on cd, I realized they were a lot more raw and less "slick" sounding.

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Decided to give the Blaze albums another listen to. (I haven't heard them in over a decade). Back in the day, I didn't think much of these albums.

Today, I now realize it sounds like Steve Harris writing more "progressive" sounding stuff and attempting to achieve "technical perfection" in the studio. Just short of a "robot" playing the instruments and a "computer" singing. Nevertheless, the writing was decent enough after stripping away all the layers of "technical perfection".

Perhaps Harris and the band's managers figured out they should be using a real producer (such as Kevin Shirley) to produce their subsequent albums (starting with "Brave New World"), so that things don't sound like a "robot / computer" playing under only Harris' sole oversight.

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https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...7b8dad5781.jpg

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And Within Temptation opening on the dates around here :banana:

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Too bad it isn't Trivium and Within Temptation on all dates.

That would be a hell of a night!

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Looks like with the support bands Maiden have chosen we can spend more time in the bar before going in. No interest in seeing either one. Just my opinion but Maiden haven't had a decent support band since Dio and Motorhead. :D

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Maybe they can do a Lemmy hologram to go with the Ronnie Dio hologram.