Electro Tribute to Iron Maiden - Wasted Years

Bruce once said you couldn't possibly make Heavy Metal with Synthesizers to an enthusiastic Polish on Maiden's virgin voyage to his country. At the time it probably did sound like a bad idea, mostly due to the overwhelming amount of 'new wave' groups churning out sugar coated disposable synth-pop hits like a well oiled bed-pan manufacturer. The band increased their futuristic themes with their Prog-Rock masterpiece Somewhere in Time, quite possibly laying the foundations for future computer rockers to forgo Dickinson's stern warnings and play a couple of Iron Maiden's classics to the best of their synth layered inclinations.

Powerslaves the electronic tribute to Iron Maiden was largely overlooked, mostly due to the extremes of the genres involved. Heavy Metal fans are usually notorious for their disdain of anything and everything electronic oriented and are fiercely responded in kind by most electronic music fans.
History repeats itself with most genres of music until new artists break through the stereotypes and have enough open minded intelligent people who will support their daring fusions. Perhaps we are as a whole not ready to worship the synth over the guitars as of yet.

I for one believe it was, is and will be a classic collectionist item. Hopefully more electronic artists try to cover Iron Maiden's material which could in turn inspire them enough to create greater original material of their own to break the stigmas.

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• Iron
• Maiden
• Tribute
• Electro
• Powerslaves
• Wasted
• Years
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[FRMmega]

This is pretty bad. If it had more energy it would be far better. But the background just sounds like a DOS game opening and the vocal is just... Emotionless and with just an eletro-like filter added to it.

[voltronsky]

@FRMmega I think you and all the other negative creeps have missed the point of this cover. It's supposed to sound bad, It's a song from an 8-bit dimension where only cyber punk biomechanical aliens made electro-metal, not to be compared to the original masterworks at all!

UP THE CYBERIRONS!

[FRMmega]

@voltronsky I gave a reason for my dislike for this song. I really didn't read the description and came to this video just wondering what it would sound like. And even for an 8-bit dimension where only cyber punk biomechanical aliens made electro-metal it is pretty simple and could use better composition.

Some dude can make this song in Fruit Loops in a day.

[voltronsky]

@FRMmega I would enjoy a different version of this song everyday come to think about it. No matter how bad it sounds, even if it's by lesser beings than maiden themselves... I would very much like to hear your version of it.

[godemp]

I love this!

Howver, it seems like it was tailor made for me. I'm a death/black metalhead who loves electro/detroit techno.

[krzakoolor]

I'm Iron's fan and i like it !!! It's nice tribut to Iron Maiden:)

[FRMmega]

@voltronsky Well, that is true.

[MaestroPd]

HHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHA THIS IS FUNNY !

[MrRossy16]

hijos de perra

[Apocalip]

:S this sucks