Iron Maiden Goes Progressive

Sure its good news...
but i think its important that Maiden keep some variation in their style by including more heavy/melodic influenced songs to keep the album more interesting.

One of Iron Maidens main points is that they have always been a little different to the mainstream and by shifting into more progressive styles they are setting themselves apart from the modern day "rock" scene... (i use that term very loosely for obvious reasons)

As far as the sound goes, its still got the identifying features of the band... Dickinson's voice being soo sharp yet warm at the same time and giving the music a very distict feel, and Harris's rather upbeat bass playing (which has been described by my bass player as 'more of a gallop than anything else) which raises the intensity of the rhythm.

By the looks of it they will be playing from A Matter of Life and Dead in December at Newcastle, and im very much sure that the Iron Maiden experience will be present there.. (sure hope so =P)

^ Back then I was a big supporter of the prog related genre ... but in retrospect I can't agree with how it was actually implemented. I still like the idea, but much would need to be done in order for it to make sense ... given the choice, I'd rather have a purist website and a separated non-prog website, or a website which has no genre limitation at all.

While I understand the owners desire to make the site more inclusive,I have been against the prog related category from the very beginning,and so I don't concern myself with the addition of prog related bands.

I heard The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg,and while it is very good,I still wouldn't call it progressive.
    

Edited by TheProgtologist - August 10 2006 at 20:27

dagrush wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Matter_of_Life_and_Death_%28album%29 On a somewhat related note, if you check the band's main article, it mentions that they've covered Space Truckin' and Hocus Pocus as b-sides.

darkshade wrote: My friend got a leaked version of the new Iron Maiden album. he told me that it is an extremely progressive album. the band uses many different time signatures, it's a concept album (actually part 2 of their Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album, which was btw, semi-progressive) The songs average 9-10 minutes in length and there's even some Crimson influence this time around. idk about you, but from these details, it makes me excited since i love Maiden but always felt they could take their sound further than straight up heavy metal tunes.   opinions??

If it's like you describe, it might even lead to an inclusion of Iron Maiden as Prog Related ... in the meantime you can review them on my website.

Yes, yes, yes.... I can't wait to review all of them! And I also want Rainbow and Blue Oyster Cult...

And hopefully one day they will!

Up the Irons!!!

Thanks. This looks like my next purchase.