Posted on 04/21/2009 8:35:40 AM PDT by wastedyears
If you’re looking for “Spinal Tap” jokes, you won’t find them here. Sure, that “mock-umentary” did a great job nailing the vacuous hilarity at the heart of bloated ’80s heavy metal, and it made just about every rock documentary that followed in its wake seem like at least a bit of a joke.
Iron Maiden, however, has never fit the accepted mold, nor followed the rules. And with its brilliant new “road movie” “Flight 666,” the band shows no sign of doing so — now or ever.
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Flyin’ high metal ping.
btt
Oh, yes, there are some universal rules that even the "original" metal bands follow...that all bands follow...
“’Iron Maiden: Flight 666’”
If heavy metal groups are still dumbfounded over why squares keep insisting they’re Satanists, maybe they should stop making up titles like this.
“Oh, yes, there are some universal rules that even the ‘original’ metal bands follow...that all bands follow...”
They weren’t original. Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin came first.
As for what they had to do with the invention of “thrash,” Queen is usually credited with the first song of the genre. And what is thrash but “Paranoid” played faster with louder yelling, anyway?
Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Heavy Metal Kids, Guns and Roses, Metallica, etc. Place above ingredients in a blender. Press “puree” for 5 minutes. Server Chilled.
Heard one, you’ve heard ‘em all.
No, you haven’t heard them all.
What do you listen to, Pop music?
That was their callsign when they were touring.
Progressive Metal works for me, not nearly as “boring”. Seventh Wonder and Symphony X are particularly awesome. None of that Satan stuff either (as long as you can put up with a song about dragons now and then LOL).
I whole heartedly agree 100% percent! Do they think it’s cool to have a title like that. Then they wonder why parents don’t want there kids listening to it. You have people like Ozzy who makes dedications to Alister Crowley, and then Iron Maiden with a title like this. Hey guys, do the world a favor and grow up. Please!
Wow really? Then I shouldn't even ask for your opinion of my favoriet genre: death metal. To me, Cannibal Corpse, Napalm Death, Carcass, Entombed, Obituary, Bolt Thrower, Death, Deicide, etc. all sound unique. I've been listening to them for 20 years and still can't get enough.
Sam Dunn knows his documentary business. He is currently wrapping up production on Rush: The Documentary as well due this Fall. I can’t wait to see the Maiden one.
Heavy metal groups are dumbfounded over this? Did you just make that up? I don't think they are sitting around scratching their head on how to make their image more Christian. They know exactly what they are doing, and the fans love it.
Bruce-wee bit of an a$$, but honestly not too bad and he could've just been having a bad day.
Dave Murray-can't say too much...he was freakin' hammered! T'was a REAL good after show party!
Nicko-nice guy, patient with his fans and I don't recall him NOT smiling.
Adrian Smith-I quite literally spent almost an hour talking guitars and gear with him. Even though there was an after show party going on, he didn't seem terribly interested in all that. Seemed very content just sit there and shoot the bull with me. Very nice guy and he was a hoot.
Steve Harris-Incredibly down to earth, patient with his fans and giving of his time. And VERY bright.
Right, because parental approval makes teenagers want to buy the album, and disapproval would in no way make it cooler to them. Do you by any chance work in marketing?
I'm pretty sure that Iron Maiden and other metal acts are not at all confused why parents don't want their kids to listen to their albums.
Isn’t Death more along the lines of progressive/thrash?
Depends on the album. I wouldn’t call anything before the album Human (1991) progressive. Their first album, Scream Bloody Gore (1987), is considered one of the first, if the *the* first death metal album. Since death metal grew out of thrash, I suppose it could be considered just an extreme thrash metal album.
Careful! That’s like a gateway drug. Soon you may be listening to Slayer and other bands that people assure me are talentless hacks who just make a bunch of noise.
Rime of the Ancient Mariner - based off the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem of the same name
The Prisoner - based off the TV show
The Trooper - based off a battle in the Crimean War
To Tame A Land - based off Frank Lloyd Herbert’s “Dune”
Tailgunner - self-explanatory
Murders In The Rue Morgue - seems based off the Edgar Allen Poe poem of the same name
Alexander the Great - self-explanatory
Flight of Icarus - self-explanatory
Quest for Fire - ancient times
Aces High - air battle for Britain
Powerslave - ancient Egyptian times
Stranger in a Strange Land - partially based off a meeting Adrian Smith had with a mountain climber survivor
The Fugitive - based off the movie of the same name
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album - centered around the concept of folklore
International IRON MAIDEN Day, at last! Thanks for the thread.
Since it isn’t in a Theatre close enough, guess we’ll have to settle for our t-shirts and cranking MAIDEN all day!
It will be released as a double CD, double DVD and on Blu-ray disc.
Great! Can’t wait! Thanks for the info.
You’re welcome :)
Slave to the power of DEEEAAATH!!!!
Freegards
Sounds like great family fun...
Arggh...sounds like the compilation that made up the Coachella bash here this past weekend.
I’m only 28 years old so I’m not far removed from being under my parents rules. I remember buying Hip Hop albums and hiding them from my Mother because I knew she wouldn’t approve. However, now I am a Father of 2 boys and it’s hard enough trying to raise responsible and respectable children without having to worry about them watching things like this. I don’t care what anyone says, this is impressionable on kids and is not needed.
Up The Irons
cannot believe I missed them in Fort Lauderdale 3 weeks ago....they apparently did a show where they flew back from s. america. :(
So songs about history are worse than songs about cars and degrading women?
Yes, that was the last show for the tour.
But don’t worry, they’ll be working on a new album early next year. They’ve earned some good time off.
:)
I don’t know another band which has brought in literature, myth.folklore, and history into their music to this degree, and they have been doing it since album 1 or 2.
I wonder which member(s) of the group are so interested in these topics.
“Yes, that was the last show for the tour.:
I was all of 20 miles from FLL on that date, with nothing to do :/ I had seen the april show before, but remembered the date as being late april..just checked arggggg
Well I know Bruce is, as I think he wrote the screenplay for ‘Chemical Wedding’; I would imagine Steve is as well; not sure about Dave, Adrian or Janick. And Nicko has writing credit for just one song, but he’s okay.
I bet Iron Maiden has got more folks to open up a book and enjoy it than 10th grade english class.
Plus they ROCK!!
Freegards
“Careful! That’s like a gateway drug.”
My entire family did’t get the memo. My daughter plays ‘Enter Sandman’ on her ‘Rock Band’.
;D!
Plus they’re far more entertaining than some teachers are.
The only song pre-bruce that I can think of that fits that category is Rue Morgue, but I only listen to the first album rarely and there may be one there, or one on Killers I have never caught the reference to.
sigh slow news day here
phantom of the opera, ides of march, genghis khan, obviously someone in the original band liked their history and literature.
“Scream for me ________! Scream!!”
several years ago maiden played the PNC in central jersey and my good friend broke down on the way to the show (we were supposed to meet up during the opening act) and never made it to see maiden that night. a couple months later they were playing the hammerstein in manhattan and my wife couldn’t make it to the show because she had pneumonia so I was able to take him to the show which was his first maiden concert.
my wife is still pissed that I made her stay home with pneumonia, but my friend will forever thank me for calling him first.
That would have been 2003-2004.
I saw them at the Garden in 2003, and the Hammerstein in 2004, the night which some moron dropped his beer on the soundboard.
Whoever went to that show is still bitter about it.
I was at both nights and remember that incident quite well. The same thing happened at a slayer show a few months prior to that at Roseland.
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