[B]IRON MAIDEN plan to release their new studio album, entitled "A Matter of Life and Death", in early September.
The band started writing songs at the end of 2005 after a short break from their hugely successful festival appearances in Europe and the USA. After Christmas, the songs were completed and rehearsed when the band then got together with producer Kevin "Caveman" Shirley at Sarm West Studios in London to start work on recording the backing tracks.
Kevin Shirley has now co-produced three of the band's studio albums alongside Steve Harris, as well as two of their recent live DVDs and albums. From this the working relationship between Kevin and the band seems to get stronger and stronger. Says Kevin, "The beast is back! I feel from the outset we all clicked on this one. we spent two months in the studio, from go to whoa
*******it, August/September is going to be expensive for me. I'm excited for this. I had no idea they were working on a new one.
LONG SONGS, **** YEEEEEEEAAAAH.
I'll buy this on the day it's out.
Now that I'm actually awake to get some thoughts out when I look at the track listing some of them sounds weird. Like "The Reincarnation of Bejamin Breeg," or "The Pilgrim,".
Also, it's a **** shame if those are the complete tour dates. I was going to take a road trip to see them. Oh well, I guess when I'm living in Rome in a couple of years I'll go and see them then. That will be weird when I'm at the concert when they play "The Trooper," and then Bruce yells "The PILGRIM1!!" Heh, that will be kind of funny.
I'm highly anticipating this album, it should be awesome.
****. I didn't know they were coming out with a new album. I really need to start paying attention to album releases this year.
Here's a picture of the new album cover:
[IMG]http://www.ironmaiden.com/media/images/IID00002173.JPG[/IMG]
Best f*cking cover-art...EVER!!!
Now, hopefully the album won't suck! :(
I love that art. And the single is gonna come out in August sometime.
Yeah, it's going to be "The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg," which is supposed to be the lead track of the new album. Also, apparently they plan on playing the whole album live on the upcoming tour.
Oh man, this is going to be badass. You can tell just by the cover. Which, I'm glad, they didn't stick with the DoD style.
But good ***, 2006 is one amazing year for music.
Let's not forget all the live releases this year and the new Megadeth, Evergrey, and Eldritch.
I don't know. I just thought it was really disappointing. I mean, I'm not a huge Venom fan, but I like some of their other releases. It's just this one was stuck between their terrible production sound and an overproduced sound. Which just never turns out well.
I agree that the production seemed pretty forced, but it didn't bother me that much...I dunno. If the songwriting was a little better, and the production wasn't so lame...this album really could've been something special.
I wouldn't say so. But it's subjective.
The Di'Anno albums were effing classic, it's just the Bailey albums were a major letdown...especially The X-Factor.
k, "The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg" is floating around the internet right now. Currently downloading it.
Any goooood?
Watched the video for it. Sounded like another Dance of Death or Paschendale. Kinda disappointing to be honest, but I still liked it. I was just hoping for something more unique sounding.
Definitely doesn't sound the like the best track from the album. But it's good, albeit a little too slow and it doesn't even lead anywhere.
I watched the video, and really liked it. Can't wait for the album.
"Different World" and "Brighter Than A Thousand Suns" are now available to listen to.
Different Worlds I liked, but it's certainly nothing special.
Brighter Than A Thousand Suns - Don't really know about this song. It has some really awesome parts to it then there's some other parts that are just average. Overall I still liked it, though.
I don't know if I missed it somewhere in this thread already but is there a link I can listen to these songs at? I've still not heard any of it.
Brighter than: http://www.ironmaiden.com/article.php?section=1&subsection=1&article_type=&article_id=1344
Different world: http://www.ironmaiden.com/article.php?section=1&subsection=1&article_type=&article_id=1343
Benjamin Breeg: http://youtube.com/watch?v=dNttRSMqOe0
k, album's on the net. You can find it pretty much anywhere. I'm currently downloading, so hopefully it's good.
Yeah, I downloaded it too.
So far I'm really liking it. The songs that I like so far on it are:
Different World, Brighter Than a Thousand Suns, The Longest Day, Out of the Shadows, The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg.
Ones that are kind of "meh": These Colours Don't Run and The Pilgrim.
Have yet to listen to the rest of the album.
What? I thought the Pilgrim was great. One of my favourite songs off the album.
Very first time I listened to it there were some songs on it that I didn't really get used to, including The Pilgrim. Now that I've listened to the album about 3 times I do like it alot. I seem to like all the songs on this album, only other Maiden album where I liked every single song was Powerslave.
I'm mostly disappointed by the album. The intros to the songs are all VERY SIMILAR sounding. Plus Bruce's vocals at the start of Brighter than the Sun make me cringe. He's really seen better days as a vocalist.
Also I was kinda sad there was no "Wicker Man"esque rocking out type song. Ah well.
Reincarnation/The Pilgrim/Lord of Light ****ing rock, though