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DeusExMachinima
Sep 2, 2012

:siren:This poster loves police brutality, but only when its against minorities!:siren:

Put this loser on ignore immediately!

EL BROMANCE posted:

It's great and I laugh in the face of all the troo metul people who sneer at them.

But really though the heavier Ghost is the better imho.

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velvet milkman
Feb 13, 2012

by R. Guyovich

https://www.facebook.com/ironmaiden/photos/a.406269382050.189128.172685102050/10152858767897051/?type=1&theater

quote:

The Book Of Souls - coming September 4th.

IRON MAIDEN’s eagerly awaited new studio album The Book Of Souls will be released globally on 4th September through Parlophone Records (Sanctuary Copyrights/BMG in the U.S.A.). It was recorded in Paris with their longstanding producer Kevin “Caveman” Shirley in late 2014, with the finishing touches added earlier this year. However, the band decided to delay its release so that vocalist Bruce Dickinson, who was recently given the all-clear from a tumour, would have time to recuperate sufficiently to join in the preparations for the album’s launch.

The stunning cover art was created by Mark Wilkinson who has worked with the band previously, and because this 11 track album has a total running time of 92 minutes, it is IRON MAIDEN’s first ever double studio album. There’s a broader split on the song-writing compared to previous Maiden records, with bassist and founder member Steve Harris contributing to seven of the tracks; 6 of them with Maiden’s guitarists and one sole composition. This is also the first time since 1984’s Powerslave that an IRON MAIDEN studio album also features two tracks written solely by Bruce Dickinson, one of which is the longest song Maiden has ever recorded! And also two Dickinson/Smith collaborations.

Steve comments,

“We approached this album in a different way to how we’ve recorded previously. A lot of the songs were actually written while we were there in the studio and we rehearsed and recorded them straight away while they were still fresh, and I think that immediacy really shows in the songs, they have almost a live feel to them I think. I’m very proud of The Book Of Souls, we all are, and we can’t wait for our fans to hear it, and especially to take it out on the road next year!”

Bruce continues,

“We’re really excited about The Book Of Souls and had a fantastic time creating it. We started working on the album in late summer 2014 and recorded it at Guillame Tell Studios in Paris, where we’d done the Brave New World album back in 2000 so the studio holds special memories for all of us. We were delighted to discover the same magical vibe is still alive and very much kicking there! So we immediately felt at home and the ideas just started flowing. By the time we’d finished we all agreed that each track was such an integral part of the whole body of work that if it needed to be a double album, then double its going to be!”

The full tracklisiting is:


Track listing:
Disc 1
1. If Eternity Should Fail (Dickinson) 8:28
2. Speed Of Light (Smith/ Dickinson) 5:01
3. The Great Unknown (Smith/ Harris) 6:37
4. The Red And The Black (Harris) 13:33
5. When The River Runs Deep (Smith/ Harris) 5:52
6. The Book Of Souls (Gers/ Harris) 10:27

Disc 2
7. Death Or Glory (Smith/ Dickinson) 5:13
8. Shadows Of The Valley (Gers/ Harris) 7:32
9. Tears Of A Clown (Smith/ Harris) 4:59
10. The Man Of Sorrows (Murray/ Harris) 6:28
11. Empire Of The Clouds (Dickinson) 18:01


Formats:
2CD deluxe hardbound book limited edition
2CD standard edition
Triple heavyweight black vinyl
High res audio (24-bit Mastered for ITunes and non-Mastered for iTunes)
Standard res audio (16 bit/ 44.1 kHz)


The Book Of Souls is the band’s 16th studio album since their eponymous debut in 1980 charted at #4 in the UK, in a career achieving sales of over 90 million albums worldwide. Their previous album, 2010’s The Final Frontier was Maiden’s most successful chart-wise to date, reaching Number One in 28 countries and was their highest chart debut in the U.S reaching #4 in the Billboard 200.

Due to Bruce’s illness the band had to delay touring plans but promise to be out on the road again early next year, giving time for Bruce to make a full physical recovery to be ready for the rigours of Maiden live performances.

Holy gently caress I am pumped for an 18 minute Bruce track. drat.

Henrik Zetterberg
Dec 7, 2007

Don't get me wrong, the 'new' Iron Maiden albums are great, but man, 18 minutes? Seriously? I wish they'd go back to their 4-minute killer tracks. Cool album art though.

Nordick
Sep 3, 2011

Yes.
Chorus:

IN THE EMPIRE OF THE CLOUDS
THE EMPIRE OF THE CLOUDS
THE EMPIRE OF THE CLOUDS
THE EMPIRE OF THE CLOUDS

THE EMPIRE OF THE CLOUDS
THE EMPIRE OF THE CLOUDS
THE EMPIRE OF THE CLOUDS
IN THE EMPIRE OF THE CLOUDS

repeat 5x


Kidding aside though, I'm really looking forward to this. Maybe they still have another Dance of Death in them.

Spatulater bro!
Aug 19, 2003

Punch! Punch! Punch!

Another new Cattle Decapitation track. This one's not actually on the new album, i guess.

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

Reminds me that I bought Final Frontier when it came out and never listened to it since that's around the time I began listening heavily to Thrash and Death. I should probably remedy that.

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010

UltraVariant posted:

Reminds me that I bought Final Frontier when it came out and never listened to it since that's around the time I began listening heavily to Thrash and Death. I should probably remedy that.

It's super boring. You're not missing much

AgentJotun
Nov 1, 2007
New Maiden isn't embarassingly bad or anything, and you can get a few real gems on every new album - but they really do need to work on the 4x, 8x, 16x repetition. Seems like its been getting worse and worse since The X-Factor. Also sometimes the new lyrics and song titles are a bit, well not cheesy but awkward in a way. The old lyrics were much cooler. (With obvious exceptions....Alexander the Great. Sounds like those lyrics were taken from a did you know on a cereal box.)

Edit - No More Lies is a good example. Track does a lot of things right, but did we really need to hear those 3 words 200 times?

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


I'd listen to anything with Iron Maiden written on it, so I'm ridiculously hyped.

MoreMetalBrian
Oct 20, 2009

Well, I don't want Fop, goddamn it! I'm a Dapper Dan man!
And some more drama with Morbid Angel -
http://www.metalinsider.net/metal-m...etal+Insider%29

Destructhor is now out of the band and will focus more on Myrkskog, which really works out for everyone anyway.

Vintersorg
Mar 3, 2004

President of
the Brendan Fraser
Fan Club



I love every single iteration of Iron Maiden (and even grew to love the DiAnno stuff a bit more than DA MAJORS based on how dirty and raw it sounds) and they can do no wrong. If anything, this just means a new tour - granted, it'll be more new stuff which is fine with me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBR-A_YfxJ8

Varg
Jan 13, 2007

A friendly face.

A Matter of Life and Death is a solid album. Final Frontier was okay, but I'm always excited for new Maiden. That album cover sucks though.

Spanish Manlove
Aug 31, 2008

HAILGAYSATAN
I kinda hate the guitar tone on the new slayer song.

A TURGID FATSO
Jan 27, 2004

Here's to ya, JACKASS
It's new Slayer. We're you expecting it to be good?

Duke Pukem
Oct 23, 2010

Three cheers for dark beer!



As am I. I really like Bruce's songs and wish he would do another solo album

Alec Bald Snatch
Sep 12, 2012

by exmarx

MoreMetalBrian posted:

And some more drama with Morbid Angel -
http://www.metalinsider.net/metal-m...etal+Insider%29

Destructhor is now out of the band and will focus more on Myrkskog, which really works out for everyone anyway.

David Vincent said today he's done too. Maybe Trey really wanted to do more gabber stuff.

Kilometers Davis
Jul 9, 2007

They begin again

I don't understand why I like that Maiden cover art so much.

The Clit Avoider
Aug 11, 2002

El Profesional
I've decided to drown out the weekend with Katharsis. I recommend everyone else do so too. Fourth Reich begins novv.

kumba
Nov 8, 2003

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

enjoy the ride

Lipstick Apathy
i need yardwork music

goons what do you mow your lawn to???

Spanish Manlove
Aug 31, 2008

HAILGAYSATAN

Kumbamontu posted:

i need yardwork music

goons what do you mow your lawn to???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLBIIxplm_4

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

Kumbamontu posted:

i need yardwork music

goons what do you mow your lawn to???
I just listen to a bunch of old Pennywise. :shrug:

kumba
Nov 8, 2003

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

enjoy the ride

Lipstick Apathy

UltraVariant posted:

I just listen to a bunch of old Pennywise. :shrug:

I'm going to do this but instead of Pennywise I will go with Millencolin. Apparently they have a new album out but I haven't listened to them in at least 10 years so it might suck. Wish me luck

muike
Mar 16, 2011

ガチムチ セブン
pantera

Altared State
Jan 14, 2006

I think I was born to burn

Kumbamontu posted:

i need yardwork music

goons what do you mow your lawn to???

Weedeater

Monkeytime
Mar 20, 2010

Kumbamontu posted:

i need yardwork music

goons what do you mow your lawn to???

Lawnmower Deth, naturally

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o7kMO9KTKA

Scrambles
Jul 24, 2003

I WANT IT
really long prog metal albums that I don't have the patience to sit through normally

Faffel
Dec 31, 2008

A bouncy little mouse!

Saw Agalloch at a small show in Victoria last night, old fan of theirs but never saw them live. Probably the best live show I've seen yet. Maybe it was the small size making it seem bigger but they really put a lot of effort into it.

Kilometers Davis
Jul 9, 2007

They begin again

Faffel posted:

Saw Agalloch at a small show in Victoria last night, old fan of theirs but never saw them live. Probably the best live show I've seen yet. Maybe it was the small size making it seem bigger but they really put a lot of effort into it.

I would kill to seem them live but they'll never play in loving Florida. The thought of that is funny though.

Ex-Priest Tobin
May 25, 2014

by Reene
I've always tried to like Iron Maiden but I think must be the only metal fan who can't stand the sound of Bruce Dickinson's voice? It's just so shrill and irritating that I can barely listen through one of their albums.

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS

Scrambles posted:

really long prog metal albums that I don't have the patience to sit through normally

Actually perfect

Fiendish Dr. Wu
Nov 11, 2010

You done fucked up now!

Ex-Priest Tobin posted:

I've always tried to like Iron Maiden but I think must be the only metal fan who can't stand the sound of Bruce Dickinson's voice? It's just so shrill and irritating that I can barely listen through one of their albums.

You're entitled to your opinion and I respect your rights as a poster on the Something Awful comedy forums to say what you want to say but you are completely wrong and should probably just turn in your Metal Card™ now and save yourself any humiliation that may befall you in the future.

Also your mother sucks cocks in hell.

Fiendish Dr. Wu fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Jun 21, 2015

A human heart
Oct 10, 2012

Ex-Priest Tobin posted:

I've always tried to like Iron Maiden but I think must be the only metal fan who can't stand the sound of Bruce Dickinson's voice? It's just so shrill and irritating that I can barely listen through one of their albums.

he's pretty normal sounding compared to like King Diamond or the Cirith Ungol guy.

Faffel
Dec 31, 2008

A bouncy little mouse!

Kilometers Davis posted:

I would kill to seem them live but they'll never play in loving Florida. The thought of that is funny though.

We had like 150 people in the room and they seemed to be really into the small city thing. The guitarist comes here a lot on vacations and I actually met him by saying 'hey nice agalloch' shirt at my job once like 10 years ago.

I guess Florida is a long way, but I figured American bands would just tour like every state.

MrBling
Aug 21, 2003

Oozing machismo

Ex-Priest Tobin posted:

I've always tried to like Iron Maiden but I think must be the only metal fan who can't stand the sound of Bruce Dickinson's voice? It's just so shrill and irritating that I can barely listen through one of their albums.

Listen to the non-Bruce albums then. The selftitled, Killers and X-Factor are better than the Bruce albums anyway.

Duke Pukem
Oct 23, 2010

Three cheers for dark beer!


MrBling posted:

Listen to the non-Bruce albums then. The selftitled, Killers and X-Factor are better than the Bruce albums anyway.

Ha, no

KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle


Nordick posted:

What about the ones like me, who shamelessly listen to even the poppiest, cheesiest gimmick stuff but still sneer at Ghost, because Ghost is really boring?

Try watching them live. They were an absolute blast at Copenhell yesterday, they were just enormous. Both heavier and more dynamic than on the albums.

I mean, Primordial and Nuclear Assault were still the best concerts for me overall, but that may have been because NA were the coolest dudes ever at the signing session afterwards. Thrash metal royalty, for real :swoon:

E: And I have to second/third/whatever the thanks for recommending Tengger Cavalry. Totally awesome stuff.

E2: And gently caress you, I still like post-Digimortal Fear Factory :colbert:

KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Jun 22, 2015

Alec Bald Snatch
Sep 12, 2012

by exmarx

Faffel posted:

I guess Florida is a long way, but I figured American bands would just tour like every state.

Nah, like 1/3 of America is basically uninhabited and it's a 10 hour drive between minor outposts of civilization.

Nobody tours Florida because it's several hours each way down the droopy dong and back for at best three shows.

MrBling
Aug 21, 2003

Oozing machismo
These guys are kinda cool http://goatofmendesgermany.bandcamp.com/ in that sort "regular heavy metal" kinda way.

Doing a little lol at them being "Wiccan metal" though.

muike
Mar 16, 2011

ガチムチ セブン

comes along bort posted:

Nah, like 1/3 of America is basically uninhabited and it's a 10 hour drive between minor outposts of civilization.

Nobody tours Florida because it's several hours each way down the droopy dong and back for at best three shows.

flying cars lifts all bands as a rising tide lifts all boats

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The Capitulator
Oct 31, 2008

Ex-Priest Tobin posted:

I've always tried to like Iron Maiden but I think must be the only metal fan who can't stand the sound of Bruce Dickinson's voice? It's just so shrill and irritating that I can barely listen through one of their albums.

You are alone.

Seriously though, 'X Factor' is a killer album, definitely in my top 3 Maiden albums. The correct classification of Maiden studio albums is as follows:

The Masterpieces:
- 7th Son
- BNW
- X Factor
- Number of the Beast

The Classics:
- Powerslave
- Iron Maiden
- Piece of Mind

The Solid Stuff:
- Somewhere In Time
- Matter of Life and Death
- Killers

Hit and miss:
- Fear of The Dark
- Dance of Death
- Final Frontier

poo poo:
- No Prayer
- Virtual 11

PS: New Paradise Lost is awesome.

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