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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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.
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