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Dance of Death and Final Frontier are only kept from bottom spot by Fear of the Dark.

Ah jaysus, come on now. Bad as it is (and it is a poor Maiden album), it's still the best of the '90s albums, or at least the least shite. Their bottom four would be FOTD, TXF, NPFTD & V XI in that order, to put any Maiden album below Virtual XI is just madness, and No Prayer isn't much better. Fucking pub rock shite, Tailgunner aside. Dance Of Death is a step above any and all of those.

Not a bit, FOTD is goat, more pub rock than No Prayer, in my opinion. At least theres some metal on No Prayer, FOTD is more rock than anythin else they have done.
VXI has shit production, lifeless drummin, poor lyrics and poor vocals. However, I hear a nugget of quality in most of the songs. DOD may have a better sound and a better line up but by god it has so many moment that I cant stand, a lot of them down to Bruce's delivery. Songs like Gates of Tomorrow, New Frontier, Wildest Dreams, total filler , No More Lies must be Steves dullest long song, Journeyman was unnecessary and the worst of all, Age of Innocence, probably the worst song they have ever done. Only FOTD has anything that can compete.
I appreciate the experimentation on TFF but I just dont think it worked. Isle of Avalon and Starblind have some great sections but I just dont think they work overall.
So I stick by it. The Maiden albums I listen to least are FOTD, DOD and TFF. VXI may find itself in the bottom 3 from time to time but FOTD will never be out of it.

Good man. I'm saying Maiden seem to get a pass for releasing the same record over and over.

Only windin. Il admit, I probably do give Maiden a pass where I wouldn't with other bands but I'm not deaf. I near kicked the cd player by the time the 5th quiet intro appeared on AMOLAD.
In terms of FOTD/DOD, I would never say the two songs are the same, the two have very different atmospheres to me and the similarity wouldn't occur to me but havin thought about it, I see where you are comin from in terms of structure and loose lyrical concept (ill shit at night) but to me they dont sound the same.

Lads Dance Of Death is Fear Of The Dark, lyrically the same fuckin thing. Musically the same too except Dance has the feel of an Irish jig.

Shock horror, 40 year old metal band has a formula.

Being a Maiden mongo myself, Ive thought that every album from Brave New World through to The Final Frontier has been the best they have ever done, upon release. After about 2 years that turns to thinking they are pish. Dance of Death and Final Frontier are only kept from bottom spot by Fear of the Dark. What a bag of wank that is. That said, Dance of Death has Paschendale and the title track, fuckin deadly tracks, cringy lyrics be damned.
The outlier is The Book of Souls. The fucker is too long, Ive only listened to it in full a handful of times. Some great stuff on there, like the last 4mins of The Red And The Black but I cant be fucked listening to 9mins of garbage to get there. Similar can be said of the title track.
Also some great stuff on AMOLAD but its about 20mins too long and by half way the production has given me a headache.
All that said, best band in the world.

Haven't been any use since Stratton left

release new music te fuck,

Iron Maiden haven't released new music since 1988.

Horse shit, they had  some faux Mesoamerican pan pipes on the last album. Boundaries were well pushed.

No call for draggin this tour over 3 years though, especially when Nicko could turn to dust at any point.

New album ready but a lot of the world still wants LOTB. Literally presenting their legacy.

Aye I take yer point, it would be strange not to take this tour everywhere but its also strange that they would willingly sit on a new album for nearly 2 years, assuming they will hit the countries you mentioned in 2020 and release the album in 2021. This also assumes that there is an album already recorded but many fingers point that way.
Im greedy, Ive seen the tour twice and just want them to get the fuckin finger out and release new music te fuck, Australia etc can suck my fat one.

My guess is that they have a new album done and these dates will be a slightly altered Legacy of the Beast set (like Phantom of the Opera in for Greater Good or somethin) with the new single thrown in. The new single will no doubt be a bit pish and totally unrepresentative of the album. They will probably play a few other European festivals and then release new album in Autumn 2020 with album tour starting Spring 2021.
No call for draggin this tour over 3 years though, especially when Nicko could turn to dust at any point.

I just had a luk through this thread and due to the Deicide slaggin I thought I would check them out. Listened to/watched several tunes. Well fuck me, they are pish.  I actually laughed out loud at the video for Scars of the Crucifix. At least I got somethin out of it.

A guy and girl got booted out early doors (2nd song maybe) for her standin on his shoulders and he walked her through the crowd like that. Stupid thing to do but I felt a yellow card would have been a more appropriate response from the bouncers.

Take it that way if ye want, yer aul boy sell Avon anyway

40eu each, pretty much face value inc TM fee

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