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  • This is pretty jazzy. I like it.

  • Usually if I want to hear a band,I listen to that band. There are exceptional covers out there,but,this song takes "cover", to a different level! It not only shows respect and admiration to Iron Maiden, but it shows the broad,expansive talent of Dream Theater.

  • Lovely cover? Absolutely.

    But the best Iron Maiden cover ever? Hell no, try Solace - Another Life

  • Personally LaBrie's vocals sound great here.

  • and total eclipse?

  • mind blown

  • Oh, and FTR, for the Labrie haters, you know he was the first choice replacement after Dickinson left Maiden. So I think the IM guys think he is an excellent singer and was capable of filling Dickinson's shoes. Had James decided to not stick with DT, he would have ben IM's singer instead of Blaze Bayley! As well, he was also considered for Rob Halford's replacement after leaving priest.....two VERY heavy hitter vocalists and he was considered for both of their replacements....Just sayin'....

  • @CelticKatie

    I would rather hear Eric Adams in Maiden or Priest actually. James works ok in DT but he would never fit in Maiden or Priest.

  • When will you people learn that with musicians of the calibre of IM and DT, there is not a "better"; it is only personal preference. Both bands have amazing musicians; they are just different. I personally like DT's creativity expressed in this cover. And being that members of each band are friendly with each other, I am sure the IM guys appreciated that creativity just as much as well as being honored as being a huge influence on DT.

  • First time I heard this cover just now. I like it. DT tried to do something different with one of Maiden's lesser known album cuts. I like Maiden and Dream Theater.

  • One word for Dream Theater for doing this cover...GO TO HELL!!!!

  • @evermetal2 Oh no someone did a different redition of a song i like they should die!!!

    Seriously, grow the fuck up.

  • @Cynnicio Ooooh, screw you! This cover sucks! Die??? Why not? They are totally shit anyway...

  • @evermetal2 I reiterate. Grow the fuck up.

  • @Cynnicio And you, SHUT the fuck up.

  • @evermetal2 lol kid, you think a band should die for doing a cover. Seriously, I don't think anyone's going to want to do what you tell them.

  • @Cynnicio NOT for doing a cover. For doing THIS kind of cover.

  • @evermetal2 Your point still holds no weight. They did a cover in a way they'd like. What's honestly so terrible about that?

  • @Cynnicio First of all, to get one thing straight, I don't like D.T. anymore. I do not consider them a Metal band since their 3rd album. Second, if this cover was good I would have the balls to admit it, but in my book, it really sucks...it's as simple as that!

  • @evermetal2 How, in any way, is that a retort to the fact that saying "this band should die" for making a cover you don't like? You can't justify that you wish death upon a band because they do shit you don't like. This is my problem with you stupid kids on youtube. You can't just ignore the shit you dont like and just enjoy the shit you do. Christ on a cross you're a dumb motherfucker.

  • @Cynnicio Watch your language boy!!!

  • @evermetal2 >boy

    lol, okay. Oh, and by the way, youtube doesn't have swear censors so I can say fuck shit ass tits cock cunt dick faggot etc.

  • @Cynnicio Who's the stupid one now? If you had taken part in the audicions for "Dumb and Dumber" you'd surely had taken the role of the 2nd...And if YOU stupid boys know nothing about music, then do not speak about it 'cause you look really retarded.

  • @evermetal2 I choked on my drink from how hilariously stupid that post was.

  • @Cynnicio REALLY??? Does your mother know you drink at this age? Don't drink too much...schoolday tomorrow!

  • @evermetal2 You're killing me kid. You really are. I can't stop laughing.

  • @Cynnicio Killing you? that's great! I'm doing something right then. And the world a favour!

  • @Cynnicio Now , that is pure joy , huh ? 2 say what ever fuckin thing U want

  • Could you people go slaughter each-other on someone else's video? Thank you.

  • Nobody asks you whether you like the singer's voice or not ;-)

    \m/

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  • ok just saying get the fuck out of here with your oraginals better bullshit ok cause of course this is diffrent butt do you really have 2 put witch 1s better keep it to your fucking self an plus it sounds way better an it has more talented instrament players an shut the fuck up about labre dickenson had the most fuck up voice in rock history sounds like a dirty british guy that all drunk

  • i laughed soooo fucking hardddd when i first heard this.

    A GENIAL AND ORIGINAL WAY TO PERFORM A GREAT PIECE OF METAL GOODNESS!

  • I personally don't like this cover. I prefer the original, I just don't really like the style of this cover.

  • I think it kinda sucks. It sounds like Richard Cheese did this instead of Dream Theater. Jussayin.

  • thats just so cool...thanks for sharing this. im old now and out of the loop of these things...

  • the guys voice sucks and its too slow for me im a huge maiden fan its gotta have the speed to truly be a good cover to me but its good if you like slowed versons of fast songs

  • @RigorMortis589 fuk no these vocals are wayy better then dickensons gay brittish vocols so fuck you if you dont like it faggot

  • @a7xsuks657438374 good for you on liking this jazz club cover im just saying this song is way too slow for me it sounds like im listing Rush cause the lead singer is singing it exactly like Geddy Lee and the synthesizer thrown in there sounds like Rush covered the song So basically what im getting at is Dream Theater is a ripping off Rush trying to sound like them UP THE IRONS FROM VEGAS

  • @RigorMortis589 umm no your retarted evan though rush is better but dream theater has more techniqual feeling

  • @a7xsuks657438374 Just because i said this version is too slow and that this Rush wannabe band did a Jazz cover of Maiden makes me retarded huh so the fact that you hate true metal and like Jazz bands who try too hard to sound like a band that they could only dream of being like and ruin great metal songs all together and that you cant spell correctly doesnt make you retarded but i will say this the only thing your not retarded on is your name

  • @RigorMortis589 its not jazz its progressive but atleast i can agree with 1 thing a7x fucking sucks

  • @a7xsuks657438374 These vocals are way better? LOL. He doesn't even hit the notes Dickinson hits in the original song. So, better? Not really, unless you know nothing about music, which isn't a surprise since you don't.

  • @a7xsuks657438374 I don't see how this vocals are better when he doesn't even hit the notes Dickinson does in the original. British vocals? Wow dude that's such a big insult, i bet Dickinson would kill himself if you told him he has gay british vocals. You're probably just a little kid who thinks he's cool because he likes "metal" and swears a lot, but you're not kid, you're a douchebag.

  • Interesting experiment here... Gangland had that "jazz" feeling to it, the only thing to do was to express it, and Dream Theater do it great!

  • How can you possibly dislike the original version of this song?!? If this song would have been included on Killers w. Di'anno on vocals people would think its a classic song. Fuck Run to the Hills or The Number of the Beast....this song and The Prisoner were 2 of the best songs on this album. Period.

  • they covered the whole fuckin album wow

  • oh god, this is one of my favorite songs off the real disk. I can't believe you don't like it. This cover is unique and killer too.

  • Wow. It is different I will give you that. But you know something it works and works well. The keyboards really give it a modern feel and since I love the Iron Madien verison, this is a real step forward. Well done DT for doing something a bit out there with a classic song. 100 OUT OF 100.

  • No offence but this is really shit

  • Hey, you got your Dream Theatre in my Iron Maiden. You got my Dream Theatre in your Iron Maiden! Sounds great together!

  • yeaaaaaah this is awesome

  • Feckin awesome cover. It doesn't take much talent to do a straight cover of something but it does to do something like this. \m/

  • Raping a Maiden should be illegal.

  • horrible. pure horrible.

  • What a fucking awful voice. The music is three steps above it.

  • perfection

  • Veo a muchos gringos comentar , yo como latino (Chileno) creo que mas allá de que sea una buena o mala version , hay que reconocer la genialidada y talento de dream theater.

    Ups the iron!

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  • Why would you wish that? Just stop fucking listening to these covers and poof, they're gone for you.

  • @ drizzt102 - dude, express your hatred for the guy in a pm r something, not under my video please.

  • the original iron maiden 1 was way better

  • yes, it;s ok...another vision...

  • Will the video author fucking disable the comments and silence that Aufreizen douchebag already?

  • Don´t feed the trolls. ignore him/her.

  • The key playing in this song just totally sells it for me. Brilliant. I really like the genre change for this cover and I'm a HUGE maiden fan.

  • Damn, this is a cool cover. I've always really liked Gangland, but it's so easily overshadowed by all the timeless tracks on Number of the beast.

  • I think this is great! I love covers that creatively stray from the original, makes it more interesting to listen to, as you don't really try to compare. It's a real good way to honour the original band too, because it shows that you're not trying to out do them, but use their music to show how influencial they were in your own mucical creativity. The movie Spun has a great bluesy version of Number of the Beast in the intro. Worth a listen.

  • wow not many bands can change genere with songs succesfully but wow great job a definte 5*

  • wow this is an unusual cover and its somewhat better than the original (iron maiden rock though)

  • jazz? xD fucking piano lol

  • yeah this is a whole joke

    about your bullshit music taste

    and to fair you couldnt do this if you were on every performance enhancing drug going.....

  • Nice third grade comeback; because you have a crystal ball and know so much about me and my talents. In short, go fuck yourself you tool for Dream Theatre.

  • Obviously a third grade come back involves performance enhanceing drugs right?.... obviously because you have the world book on "How to act like a dick"

    and YOU speaking on behalf of Dream Theatre? hahaha Who the fuck are you? you've got some god complex about you thats about it, AND it only to OVER compensate for the fact you have the worlds shortest sausage, YOU damn right i have a crystal ball you bell end

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  • As for the illiterate

    WELL Sorrryyy i couldnt wear your social rejected gears of war arse rapeing halo you up your self trying to be someone nothing short of a knobhead....Knobhead

    hah I'm dyslexic and the fact it annoys you Makes think that i'm just born to piss you Off, and any self respecting MUSICIAN can accept that they are even if you dont like them graduates of berkeley music college so really hah what would even have on them anyway and Seriously iron maiden. Back dated :)Have a good'n

  • everyone may listen to whatever they want to, and if you think DT is "fag metal" (it's actually prog-metal/rock) that's your opinion, but calling the band talentless is just silly. where do you find band members with more talent than in dream theater? I'd love to know since I'm a HUGE fan of music! maybe LaBrie isn't the world's best singer, but he's not bad, and the band wouldn't be the same without him. oh, and I don't think this cover is a very good one, even though the musicians are great.

  • By the way, nice profile you damn hippie. Since you're from the UK, you might want to worry about your Arab problem instead of defending guys you don't even know in the real world on YouTube against someone else you don't even know.

  • Why should i worry about the arab problem? hah because i'm not some raceist, Turn upside down at brith and told to hate everyone but your one and only "United states of america" hah You guys would be more united if you bough the worlds supply of no more nails. And Obviously my one long sentece annoyed you because you've shoved your head so far up your Patriotic ass that everytime you open your mouth Stars and stripes come out Just like ya Mamma always said and i'm not i'm defending my opinion?..

  • Kangaroo peanut butter poptarts on top of my alarm clock.

    That makes about as much sense as everything you've wrote.

    You may want to consider English as a second language you dyslexic prick.

  • i guess shit happens :)

  • y r all ur coments sooooooo long

  • i love the original

  • haha nice cover! i love dream theater.. i didnt expect a version like this though.. i like it though

  • no sir, it's called gangland. just look at the album booklet...oh wait, you probably downloaded this with bad mp3 tags...sigh....

  • I LOLd so hard at this. Thank you both for brightening my day up a little.

  • no it's gandland i have the disc

  • this iron maiden number is called "GANGLAND" not "DEAD MAN"

    ROFL

  • you are obviously not a maiden fan

  • @mikkelsigurd Wow, learn to do research once in a while

  • @mikkelsigurd no its gangland ive got the album to prove it

  • @mikkelsigurd buddy, your hype, this is "GANGLAND" look it up anywhere

  • @mikkelsigurd Thanks for the info. Now go back and listen to Lady Gaga...

  • i just came :)

  • XD

    LOL

    that made my day!

    XD

  • thanks for putting this up!

    i love the original but this is i think equally amazing but u cant really compare as the differences are emense

    very good

  • gangland is the most unappreciated iron maiden songs. it makes me feel a lot better to know that someone respects not only the song but the album as a whole enough to do a cover for each song.

  • minus that s at the end of "songs"

  • I agree! Gangland really is one hell of a song, especially due to Burr's drumming. It's got a great drive and I prefer that song over some other, more well-known songs from the Number of the Beast. It's a hidden gem, really...

  • Totally agree.

  • Oh fuck... why always talking shit about Labrie? In my opinion He's the best metal male vocalist.. You keep on, He keeps on singing the best.

  • I'm with you man, LaBrie rules.

  • Idk about the "best" but he's definitely up there.

  • totally agree with you... i dislike the maiden version but love the instrumental part of dream theater..

  • That's some jazzy shit.

  • Amazing!

  • Whta the fuck is that?

  • Great cover, and labrie haters, his voice doesnt suck, it just doesnt sound like bruce so you instantly get your panties in a bunch.

    Anyway when is Petrucci gonna figure out how to get a good clean piezo tone without that "Quack"

  • up the THEATERs too! \o/

  • a couple of things. FIRST of all, what is all this shit about James LaBrie's voice? His voice is trained and fucking awesome. Secondly....this cover is incredible because THIS is how you cover a song....TOTALLY changing it. IF you play a cover staight...and dont fucking NAIL it...people will rip you apart because they are used to hearing it a certain way. This was original, genious, cool and different. UP THE IRONS! ...."thats all I have to say about that"...f.gump.

  • @SonnyGTA  hell yea i agree with you bro

  • shutup... labrie rocks!!!

    DREAM THEATER rocks!!!

    BEST BEST EVER!!!!!

  • There's something wrong with that?

  • Well, style preference, I guess. I prefer this version over the other one, but Iron Maiden, being the original, cannot be beaten.

  • Cool cover!! This song begged for this swing sound. Well done guys!

  • wow you say this music is better than maiden? god just when i was starting to like dream theatre came this shit. ty dream theatre. i will not listen to this song the way i used to. and no, this is not by far superior to maiden, its in fact much INFERIOR. and the solo sucks, so dont say maidens solos are boring, when theyre some of the best solos ever. they shouldnt ruin great maiden songs like this

  • I would never dream to imply that maiden solos are boring or lame, i just said that for this particular song and i stand by that statement. As for the rest of your statement, youre entitled to ypur own opinion ifc. It seems that this song has polarized people - you guys obviously either like it or hate its guts, wghich is ok i suppose.

  • Damn spelling, sry...

  • yea lol :P

  • @eilpvbdz look shut your fucking mouth an stop bitching faggot there both good you dont have 2 whine an bitch about whos better there both good an truly i think dream theaters better there way more progressive an better in instament playing truly iron maiden has shitty vocols an shitty drumming but im not gonna sit here an brag like a bitch about whos better so shut you fucking mouth or leave with your fag maiden if you dont like it

  • @a7xsuks657438374 Whatever asswipe I made the comment A YEAR AGO YOU FUCKING COCKSUCKER. I'm not going to argue with an idiot with the name "a7xsuks" because it's clear you have nothing better to do. Why don't you go do something decent of your miserable life instead of answering to comments made a year ago? Ignorant piece of crap...

  • @eilpvbdz haha is that you excuse 4 being a pussy your just too much of a little bitch to say anything

  • @eilpvbdz ok i live cali hoover st if you have any balls i dare you punk cause i know you aint never gonna do shit pussy ass faggot

  • @a7xsuks657438374 Thanks for the fake street address idiot, but i live pretty far from california anyway lol.

  • @eilpvbdz i live in the one in la next to normade street so stop being a pussy b4 you though u had balls kid but you just a fucking punk

  • @a7xsuks657438374 Ok i'll go when i come to california.

  • @eilpvbdz omg fuking god stop lying your just a fucking pussy i know 4 sure your not gonna come your just a faggot where do you live cause i will go an beat your ass over there

  • @a7xsuks657438374 I live in Boston, Spruce Pl next to Spruce Street, close to Branch Street and Chestnut Street. House number 1045. I'm waiting.

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  • @a7xsuks657438374 Btw there are like 3 hoover streets in california :s

  • His voice...isn't a good voice...only because it is powerful... and they ruined a cool maiden song...

  • Amazing!!!!! My two favorite bands blended beautifully :)!

  • wtf!?

  • Always amazes me that when a band actually dares to change a song there's always a groupd of guys going 'this isn't axactly the same as a song I like so it's crap'

    We know Dream Theater can do almost identical Maiden covers, this was deliberately done to make it soft and mellow, it's a swing version of gangland for christ sake, of course it's not a serious cover.

    If you want just plain bad cover go listen to a metallica cover of maiden, especially remember tomorrow

  • fuck you remember tomorrow was an awesome cover!

  • They've really managed to make their own version without loosing the connection with the original riffs and so on... So I think it's great, wich also is the case with Maiden's version!

  • I like the original but I think i like this better... its really jazzy and all..

  • omg... They really made this song sound good... :P Now I'm starting to like Dream Theater

  • this is a cover! YEAH!

  • this sucks man

    maiden wrote gangland to be a vicious, adrenaline drenched metal song, not some laid back jazz jam

  • gee... you miss the point entirely don't you

  • you guys like brothers or something?

  • Rather refreshing.

  • I prefer this one...

  • Meh I like both bands and why do people always make Metal a competition of who's the fastest, heaviest etc.

    Either way I really like this cover and the original too ^_^

  • Nice, with Bruce as a guest singer this would've been stellar!

  • I don't get some of you people. I know the vocal performance sux, but just listen to the music. By far superior to maiden's version, which is totally BLAND (in this particular song of course. I mean listen to the original solo, totally boring and stale, unlike this version.

  • Vocals are a part of music. Maiden's solo isn't bad, it's different, and in my opinion, better than the solo in this version :E

  • the maiden version isnt bland at all. its energetic and epic. This is just a different aproach. I prob like the maiden version better tho.

  • This fucking shit makes me want to scream of pain. I didn't even know it's possible to rape a song this badly.

  • I prefer the Maiden version by far for a number of reasons, but can't a guy like BOTH versions without being screamed at for it? Personally, I appreciate Outmind posting this for others to listen to it. It wasn't posted here for people to piss their pants complaining about it.

    Everyone is going to have different musical tastes. Calling someone names over their preference is just absurd. Thanks for the upload!

  • Yeah well, till you have something intelligent to say to back your statement up, i suggest you refrain from spamming...

  • the solo part is great if it wasnt for the vokal it really would be better then the original

  • The singer sucks...

  • GAY!!!!

  • this shit sucks. how can you not like the original but love this?