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All right, here we go Everyone and by the way everybody feel free to tell us if the audio is coming in bad or the video is coming in bad We'll adjust as we're going along again. I want to make this Sound nice and look nice so we can all be comfortable. We're gonna take your questions First things first. I heard the album legally. There's no so all those people saying it leaked a leak. No, it didn't leak You shouldn't be Downloading leaked copies anyways This is right from the label from the PR people. This is a legit, you know, I listen to it on a digital format It's not a hard copy. I've heard it maybe like six seven times in the past few days Kenny has not Heard the album. I just want everybody to be clear. Kenny is not her deal He's on the show today to sort of as the fan as the fan to ask me the questions He's gonna be like interviewing me. I just want to set this up right here I want to get the right expectations with everybody. Thank you so much for joining in Sounds audio is good audio is fine audio is good this fake live Nobody this is real live if I can read your question This is real live. This is not fake live. By the way fake live Kenny means prerecorded premiered Okay, I forgot my ain't you know why I didn't put my Iron Maiden shirt on I'll tell you why because I forgot Kenny did put it. I Forgot I could not Find my Iron Maiden shirt. So I go wait a second new wave of British heavy metal Raven Not a bad choice. Jenny. There you go All right, here we go. All right today on the show much anticipated the 17th studio albums in Jiu Jitsu the first in six years Gonna be released September 3rd It was recorded in Paris with long-standing producer Kevin Shirley and co-produced by Steve Harris What did you think Kenny? I'm gonna ask you the first questions the first two tracks. What did you think about the production? Okay, the first two tracks the singles the singles that everybody knows and I'm not gonna talk about the singles because we've talked about the singles that Everybody's talked. I'm gonna talk about the rest of the album They fit right in after the book of souls. It's Kevin Shirley. It's Steve Harris production. It's the epic Longer song writing on the wall, but since the Stratigo comes right in like a I thought it was a little uh, like the older stuff but uh writing on the wall reminded me of something that could have came right out of the The old times with the In the 80s with power slaves something at it right out of that era. Yeah, that's that's very good It's very astute of you Kenny very astute of you Uh Get this here's some tidbits Sanjitsu Sanjitsu will be the first album 26 years which Dave Murray did not contribute any Song I noticed that when I was doing the track listing. Yeah. He usually does at least one song one track very good Jimmy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and Sanjitsu will be the first album in 23 years in which Steve Harris penned four songs on his own Yes, usually does one or two right or possibly three, but this is four, correct And this is the sixth album that Kevin Shirley has produced and worked with iron maiden I'm gonna tell everybody right off the bat if you heard the first two songs of singles We'll talk about production here in general with Kevin Shirley and Steve Harris I Noticed having a dig I don't have the hard copy CD. So I'm gonna be quite frank with everybody here I noticed it sounded very good on headphones Okay And I guess a lot of people can have said the same thing that sounds better on itudes and it sounds on youtube So it does sound really good on headphones. Maybe it was designed The production to be a sort of an iphone You know or you know sort of a digital platform sort of album Again, I'm just I'm just assuming here, but I thought it sounded really good I was a little disappointed when I first heard the first single I got all the productions a little But it does have an 80s feel to it the production. I agree with you Kenny And I found that it sounded a lot better on headphones. So there's a there's a thing You know a good a good marks for that I've heard it five maybe six maybe even seven times I find that it's going to take a lot of time to absorb this album Like book of souls jimmy that took a long time for me to absorb Yeah, and I had to go back to it this morning when you after you're called and I listened to it straight through and There's a lot of points. I liked and a lot. I didn't didn't like but uh, not that I didn't like it It's just I I thought book of souls could have been a little Cut down a little bit. Maybe one less song or something this this looks good is 10 tracks I think maybe they pushed book of souls with the extra track on yeah Yeah, and I'm gonna address this so everybody understands because I'm getting a lot of these emails has the album leaked I don't know. I don't think so and I hope not because this is not a leak. This is a legitimate Promo from the label that I'm reviewing. I did not review something off of youtube I reviewed something off a uh promo digital platform. That's the sound that I'm getting just so everybody's clear here Um Yes, youtube does compress But a digital platform doesn't so maybe that's why it sounded really good all right, um Five to six listens. It's not enough Again, I think the sound sound the the let's talk about the instrumentation We'll talk about the vocals the instruments the music Sounds really good on headphones The vocals and we're just talking about production strictly here Sound a little like they they sound exactly like they do in the first two singles a little muffled right Still good, but a little muffled. That's my only sour note so far. They sound a little muffled Could that be the way they recorded it? Maybe it was remote. I don't know. I'm just saying that's what it sounds like Maybe they're going for a certain sound But you could clearly see that the book of souls vocal delivery and the final frontier You know the I'm talking about the production. I'm not talking about the singing I will tell everybody this this is probably one of bruce's best vocal deliveries At the age of what is he 60 something? He's still got it. You know what he's doing on this album Compared to the other album. He's he's singing more of the bruce of solo albums than he is with bruce of iron maiden you know less of the Sort of operatic sound over the songs like when you look at a matter of life and death When you listen to that album, he's kind of there's three very powerful guitars that he's kind of I wouldn't call it yelling, but he's loud over He's singing He's singing these songs. You will not see kenny and you will not hear For the greater good of god repeated over and over You will not hear the phrase of the title track of that song or you will not hear repetition Of it's the final frontier. It's the final front. It's the fun. You will not hear that these choruses are well crafted mature and catchy Well, I noticed he's he's only got three credits on the album himself where he had a few more on Yes, he did three songs most of this is Harry smith smith Now I'm going to go look at these comments here Nico says they have another album planned don't know Tears of a clown shortened some of the songs volume on speckle fields turned down as compared to I feel like I'm just looking at bruce of 63 But was 60 when the album was recorded that's from frank frank. That's a great point Oh, okay. Yeah for a 60 year old He sounds great. I mean again the the vocal production sounds a little muffled but but He sings great. I think that's one of the highlights of the album Bruce is singing. He's just not repeating The the name of the song over and over again Because I'm a raw child because I'm a raw child, you know what I mean? He's actually singing choruses and that's what was missing from iron maiden. They finally got that right. So I'm really Really happy everybody you can expect on this album Real choruses and I'm not saying it doesn't work sometimes singing the title over and over it does right But that's what I'm saying Jackson at birth that type of album, you know what I'm saying Bruce is singing like he does on this album right here chemical wedding Some beautifully crafted choruses. That's how he's singing and that had adrian sniff on it, right? Yes, yes, exactly adrian's taking it to another level too. So I would I'm going to give a high level here. Okay, this is bruce solo Meets blaze era. I know people are going to freak out meets the final frontier meets matter of life and death And some new territory for iron maiden But all within the iron maiden box So I'll repeat that The bruce solo era meets blaze bailey era Meets the final frontier meets a matter of life and death and lots of new territory like you heard on the writing on the wall There's a little bit of that slide guitar there a little bit of that western Feel so I don't want to scare everybody with the people said blaze bailey. What are you doing? No, it's done, right? It's done Right. Okay. Let me see some comments here so far Okay, it's just my name of the rose type of stuff like that. I reckon that's Yes, yes chemical wedding. I'm gonna uh Chemical wedding is the best made an album. That's not a made an album He sings As well as he sings on this album. That's how he's singing on this album Again, not I love and I'm gonna preface this too. I love all iron maiden eras. I do like the long songs Some people might not but I do but I think this album has something for everyone All right. Do you have any other questions? Kenny I like the long songs. Yeah, but maybe one or two That last album, I think they kind of hit it. There was a quite a few of this one It seems there's a lot of epics on it, but and it's towards the end. They hit the highest 10 minutes 12 minutes 11 minutes So I got to digest all of that towards the end the beginning of the album is going to pick up and you're going to But that that last chunk of the album It looks like it's going to take a time to digest it and they got their classic History lesson death of the Celts on it. It looks like it could be another one of their history lessons Which I don't know about you, but I learned a lot about history through iron maiden Well, I'm going to get it. Okay. Let's get into this track versus track like track and track Okay, and this is everybody get out your track listening to follow through Okay, are we ready for this? Yeah Look, I'm not going to focus On the two songs that we already know because everybody has heard it. Everybody has reviewed the first two singles I won't focus on those. I'll focus on the rest of the album. It's to the other eight That's it's a lot It's a lot, right that I missed something on the sort of beginning of this review I think I pretty much covered everything Look guys at the end of the day This is friggin iron maiden. Do you understand? This is friggin iron maiden. Let's get another album out by then I'm very excited about this album. I can't wait for it I'll tell you something about me like when I did the book of souls I was just so excited and yes, sometimes that excitement You know You're so excited. You just love everything but then over time after a year your opinion changes I don't think this will be the case with this album Yes, like final frontier my opinion didn't I love that from from the first time I heard it same thing with The whole life and death loved it book of souls. I went back and you're right. I was very excited about it I was dying for new maiden and it just kind of went away after a while I don't go back to it as much as the others. I think they got the double album right this time You know, they kind of I like book of souls. Don't get me wrong I don't think it's their best album, but I think they what they want that vision that vision of that double album They got it right on this album I when I first heard the album, I was like, it's just so much information And it's hard to absorb all this information and then you realize as I was breaking it down by verse chorus, etc Man, this is some seriously Mature excellent songwriting there, you know And has everything it has the fast tracks for the people who love the fast tracks. It's got the long epic songs Yes, it does But you know, you have to appreciate are in maiden for their intricacies their musicianship The vocal deliveries the topics like you said, you know a lot of interesting pieces of history you get to learn And the album cover again, they use Mark Wilkins. There you go. That's the album cover He came aboard on Book of Souls with the Mayan theme and now he looks like he's taken it to a Little ninja showgun warrior theme there. Yes. Yes. Yes You come out like that. All right. So here we go I'm oh and I wanted to tell everybody that Think of Ganges Kong when I when I say the word instrumental Danda, danda, danda, danda like it's sort of this galloping sort of A sound there's a lot of that I'm not saying it's all Ganges Kong. I'm just saying that's the type of instrumentals you're going to hear a lot of hypnotic Galloping grooves, there's a lot of that at the beginning of songs in the middle of songs So when I'm reference Ganges Kong as an instrumental, there's a lot of that within the song sort of think of Where Eagles Dale dare right the whole midsection. There's this long sort of two three minute Instrumentals, right? There's not solo after solo, but it's just this instrumental passages. We'll call it. Okay So let us begin here. You ready for this everybody Go grab a coffee grab a juice go to the bathroom because we are going to get into this right now. Okay Sin Jinsu the first song The lyrics is the art of war And in tactics, right? There's there's definitely a Japanese theme there Very difficult. I don't have a lyric sheet. I cannot I could I could only listen in here But I'm going with what the promo sheet talked about art of war and tactics This song is incredible And and I'll tell you it's it's it starts off with a tribal beat So a territory maiden hasn't really gone into it's a tribal beat And it just keeps building their slide guitar in it You know, it's just How can I explain this like you could hear this song opening a show and people gonna get start getting goosebumps I think you're getting a beep there Are you getting a beep? Yes. Don't worry about that. I swipe Now I'm just gonna say Bruce shines on this very up tempo song, but Very tribal and rhythmic drum pattern. So the people out there saying How does Nico sound on this this is where Nico shines with that tribal jump drum pattern And you know, it's sort of that feeling of we're going to battle or we're we're going to start a war is about to begin so Just phenomenal song senjitsu is What a way it's eight minutes eight minutes and 20 seconds But you don't feel it because you're so absorbed in the song I don't know. I would think they're going to start their shows like this and and again It'll give you goosebumps as it builds Now I'm going to go out on a limb here when they did for Matt our life and death They played that from start to finish. Can you see them trying something like that again? Or the audience wouldn't go for that. I I got to tell you mixed reaction when I was Coliseum during that a lot of people are angry a lot of people That's a good question. Kenny could I would think, you know, that's very dangerous terrain because There's a mix my personal feeling is it's great to have a lot of new music I'll give you an example. I went to see rush And the first half of the show was the album like the new album the last album that was out, right Clockwork angels they played it. I think all of it And then the second half was all the old rush That's people loved it people loved it But people exploded when the new rush came the old rush came in. Yeah Yeah, that happened at the I was at the nassau call scene They did the whole battle like that but they came out and did another hour and a half of the hits They did they came back out that little break But the last tour they did about half Yeah, yeah, and that's good. I think they got to do that. They got there's got to there's a there's a mix There's a mix. There's a mix, you know, you want to get people Here in the old and you want people to I think these songs that's where they'll shine They'll shine in a live situation It will be good luck. So sinjitsu and you know what I love about the songwriting I broke up sinjitsu into sort of like everybody knows a verse chorus solo It goes like this it goes verse chorus verse Slide guitar solo second solo then back to the chorus then bridge one bridge two solo bridge one chorus instrumental with keyboards solo And then instrumental and keyboards and solo and it ends it's just freaking the time change like the changes are like But but they're done the first song is song is done so right You don't feel it like you're not saying. Oh, this is dragging on forever. No, you enjoy it and the lyrics You know, there's certain words that that that that work with music the music is working with the lyrics So 10 out of 10 is a great song I'm not going to play and somebody saying will you play the album for us? No I will not play the album because it's illegal And I'm bound to secrecy and I respect the band and sorry guys I know people just everybody The album's coming out in a few days or you know It's a story about it's coming. It's coming. It's coming. I know I'm excited to all right second track Stratigo, we're not going to talk about it. We could play the game the board game later. Perhaps the writing on the wall The writing on the wall. I'm not going to talk about it But we know that you know, uh people seem are seeming to dig the first two tracks, right? Especially though the second one Stratigo, which is at about five minutes It's you know, sort of, you know, the that rock and tune, right? And uh, it's it's a great song. So let's get into Lost in a lost world Another Harris nine minutes and 31 seconds I gotta I gotta I gotta try to figure out how to say this It starts off like something like a song out of the moody blues Now people are saying, well, what does that mean? It's acoustic strumming Not picking it's just strumming And bruce has got sort of this Singing effects, which you really don't hear in iron maiden like sort of this echo effect on him Maybe a flange or a neck on him And then you got the sort of 60 70s harmonies in background. I'm not going to do it because I can't But it's like the ah Sort of thing like that in the background. So it's moody blues strumming And you go, I've never heard iron maiden do something like this ever which makes it even cooler Then everybody you hang on you're ready for this Then it goes into A mid-tempo blaze bear Bailey sort of virtual 11 You know the verse of lightning strikes That sound if you can remember that's that's what and you're going wait a second I might as blaze going to start singing here But he doesn't of course it's bruce That's and then it goes into a midsection that kind of reminds you of Sign of the cross And it's a super long mix midsection Lots of guitar solos that are super memorable Long instrumental passages I don't know man. Harmony guitars, you know, it's just it's it's very iron maiden So again, I just this is the when you've heard other reviews talked about there's a blaze Bailey sort of era influence Yeah, this is the song lost in the lost world And I'll tell you some lyrics here slaughter of indigenous tribes That again, I don't have the lyric sheet. I think it's it's something to do with indigenous tribes being slaughtered. So but Don't quote me on that. I'm getting some uh Spanish guys if I sorry, I don't read Spanish El esto vendo a vivo album If someone could translate please Tell me Saruba is saying is this album darker than Brave New World? Yes. This is a dark album. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, it is darker than Brave New World and I kind of like that and that's where that blaze Bailey Uh element comes in now Rudolf is saying virtual 11 is like wine tastes better every time now keep in mind This is when I say blaze Bailey era. I'm talking about the music You know not not the vocals like the music has that pattern and sound of the blaze Bailey era and I'd say a virtual 11 Sam is saying sounds like the lyrics might be a similar topic as run to the hills You know what run to the hill? Yes. I would tend to agree again. I can't hear the words. It's very difficult right Now someone's saying how is the music? I'll get to the darkest hour And saruba saying love the darker albums. Does it sound a bit like a matter of life and death? Okay, well, this is where it sounds like a matter of life and death A lot of the songs on a matter of life and death has that A soft intro And then it speeds up and then has a soft intro at the end has a lot of that Heads up everybody not in all the songs but a lot of that and you want to talk about right? Yep the same intro outro Can and metal madness is can you hear yannick dancing and throwing up his guitars? Yes I just said yes because a yes, that's all Uh marsy saying I like dark albums as well Ramegis is saying do you here recognize three guitars like dance of death? You know you have to have the headphones on yes Yes, there's a lot of this there's a lot of When bruce is singing the verse or the chorus there's a lot of the guitar that follows the notes Right so as he's singing the guitar is playing the notes bruce is singing. There's a lot of that Throughout the album, but not in an annoying way that I'm just stating a fact. There's a lot of that Some people that's kind of like the new thing that maiden does All right, so here we go That was lost in a lost world Again sounds very indigenous You know topical that way sounds like the blaze bail era. We got moody blues in there The moody moody blues if nobody knows what moody blues are just Go on youtube and listen to a couple of tracks very 60s 70s Was that right little prog metal on them? Yeah. Yeah little prog metal little sort of 60s 70s hippy stuff You know with the acoustic guitar folk perhaps There's effects on bruce's singing on that song and it's cool It's spacey, you know, I like it. I like it. I thought it was great I thought it was great because it's something you don't hear in maiden, you know, and and it's great that they're exploring other avenues. All right, here we go Days of future past now everybody get ready for this. This is the rocker. This is a smith dickinson composition This is the rock everybody's talking about we need those fast tracks This is it. This is the upbeat rocker of the album that was probably missing off of the last album I could see them playing this song live bruce and adrian What a great team because you have the you know the intelligent lyrics of bruce not to say everybody else Doesn't have intelligent lyrics, but you have that melody that they bring to the table, right? Uh, I would say definitely it would it could have been off of this album This song days of future past. It's four minutes long And what I love about this song is not only is it an upbeat rocker It goes double time at the end if everybody knows what the drums Like you're singing the song right the chorus is going and then drums are going double time So it really picks up the song in the dynamic This will satisfy the purest of iron maiden who love only the first five albums All right, Kenny It was death of glory on book of souls was kind of like that. It was kind of a rocker But not as catchy as a as a chorus Like you like this is a very And he's repeating death of glory, right? He's repeating that over. This is not the rep These are well constructed choruses very impressive. This is a winner So so far. I'm telling you the winners. Okay as we we go down the list here Sinjitsu excellent You know the first single Stratigo Everybody thinks about it. I won't comment. Everybody has their opinion. They're writing on the wall. I won't come I love those two songs by the way Lost in a lost world. I love it because I love the blaze Bailey era And days of future past like I said, this is the rocker. This is the short song rocker that we all wanted So it satisfies the purest the short song purest All right, let's look at the questions here Mark Brockman's end speed of light was short. Yeah, you're right. It was for myself speed of light I like it, but it kind of missed the mark for me. I don't know what it was. It was the production I'm not sure but this one definitely is three steps above speed of light Death or glory course was horrible. Yeah, it's a rapid it's a rapid repetitive Title Over and over right Addie saying the long songs are like the red and the black No, you know what there was no, uh crowd serve that, you know, oh You know that sort of like, uh, what do you want to call it? Um Sing cool single on course single on course a lot less of that How are the solos on the album the spectrum within saying how the souls they um, you know what? I would say half of them sound like iron maiden and the other half are a little more ambitious Uh, you know, we bring out the slide guitar. There's some effects going on Uh, and I found tomorello. Have you ever heard tomorello from age against the machine? Yes, the solo stuff is it's crazy. Yes Oh, there you go. You're getting a call from your wife Well There's a little bit of the tomorello. I don't want to scare everybody here What he does is he plays with the the sounds on his on his guitar And you can hear just a little bit of that happening throughout the album So maybe there's a little bit of an influence there new metal Yeah, a lot of audio slave. You're right. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Here we go the time machine now Again, I'm I'm just I know what the time it's hg wells. It's a book written in 1895 A very avalan I love avalon from the final frontier just the beginning And then this song you'll hear that tomorello sound effect solo And this is uh, you know a harris gures song A lot and by the way this album throughout the album, you'll hear little keyboards right in the back like faintly Like just just, you know chords being no solos and the keyboards just chords playing, right? Another winner of a song um Definitely has a vibe from the final frontier has that guitar solo very tomorello ish Great great vocals and throughout this album everybody out there lots of harmonies You'll hear and if people don't know what harmonies are like brusel sing here Then I'll sing above and I'll sing below so you got like these three part harmonies going on Sometimes there's two part harmonies. Sometimes it's three part. We hear a lot of that And an example of harmonies for those of you don't know think of run to the hills the chorus Think of flight of vicarus So you have those three part not more than that just make two or three part harmonies Any questions so far kenny? Nope, we're moving along. Uh, just days of future past What were the lyrics like that that's an old x-men comic big big time That was when they started going back in time and stuff with stuff. But is that what the lyrics are about? I couldn't tell And you know what I did I did see that sort of x-men reference online I just wonder if we had anything to do with it I don't know and there's a series of books right the days of future past. I believe I don't want to mislead anyone but yeah, you know good call there good catch Now let's see the darkest hour Well, I'm gonna leave you with a time machine again I don't know if it's about hg's well hg's well hg wells's book time machine guy goes in back in time. There's some problems It's hard to tell it's hard to tell but I'm gonna guess that steve likes to Watch movies Yeah, steve likes to read. Yeah. Okay. Here we go I'm looking at the comments Harmony vocals with adrian would be cool. I don't think it's with adrian I think it's actually bruce Layered layering them I could be wrong, but it sounds like bruce, but in the concert it's gonna have to be adrian doing it, right? And steve howard does it, but he doesn't have that. I don't think he has that Yeah, adrian syncs Listen to his voice on that and he released that earlier this year he sings Yeah, he could do it. All right. Now. We're gonna think of darkest hour Like you said seven minutes. This is a smith dickinson composition Yeah, highly now the lyrics I just grabbed one line. It says now on the beaches the blood runs red I kind of looked up the darkest hour. It was a screenplay for uh, winston churchell How churchell brought england back from the brink of world war two When I read the lyrics or I see hear the lyrics now on the beaches the blood runs red I can I could there is a war theme. I don't know if it's exactly from that book and movie and screenplay I don't know, but I can guess Sounds it has a definitely a war theme and some blood has been shed This my friend is the highlight of the album Oh Okay And you're saying jimmy What do you mean by highlight? This is a ballad It's a ballad. This is a ballad Again, it could have been off of this album Okay, I get you smith You know think of smith with his His melody Think of smith with his melody playing his solos think of bruce Stretching out those vocals and and you know, it's it's a mo this is The highlight of the album, you know, and when I mean ballad, I don't mean no docking alone again without you. I'm talking about That's looking Cinderella. I'm talking about a dynamic slow track You know, and you know, it starts off with the ocean the ocean waves right Kind of like natural science by rush The waves and it ends off with the waves Definitely I mean, it's too bad that sort of a little muffled on Bruce's voice, but this will definitely be a highlight when they play live, you know wasting love You know someone saying wasting love luez is saying yes Uh a ballad what yes a ballad, but not a love ballad There's a different a war ballad a war ballad Uh and and and dynamic that that's the key word Beautiful guitar work beautiful song Highlights seven minutes and 20 seconds of a beautiful song There you go death of the Celts There we go it does so someone saying Vernal saying does many songs have same endings as beginnings, you know, that's so A lot of this album. I said it like before right Starts off slow goes fast Starts and slow. So yes, that is that that is that pattern there But I think the middle part the big part is the middle part all sounds really cool A war ballad. Yes a war ballad ballads can be about war. Can they not? They did a whole album about war Man ballads can be about war. They write a lot of war songs Probably with your boots on just think about it, but it's a ballad though Die with your boots on is like a fast track a little bit. I'm just saying in general they write about war And for those people tuning in right now See die with your boots on is a perfect example of what they did in the past they repeated the title of the song If you're gonna die if you're gonna die if you're gonna die you're gonna die none of that They've got they've done away with or for the greater good of you know, they've done away with that These are well constructed choruses which and You're not getting verse chorus verse solo chorus fed That's a traditional song, right? You're getting bridge second bridge first midsection, you know You're getting a lot of instrumentals in the middle of songs You're getting a lot of instrumentals at the beginning of songs. You're getting a little bit of everything for everyone death of the Celts You see somebody said the angel in the gambler Perfect example of what you're not going to hear on this album, right? Death of the Celts now this is going to take you to the Klansman That's that's the vibe. That's the vibe. So now we're going back to the blaze era and what I mean by blaze I mean the music the the the sound Again, a lot of it's a mid a lot of mids mid-paced songs on this album a long intro like a super long intro acoustic intro and singing and Then you got I think the midsection is like five minutes long Like just to instrumentate the instrument instrumental So think of Genghis Kong in a song for five minutes something like that The bass is ripping on this song. So I think when you The bass trap the bass is just incredible job. He's just like just you know, he's just flying. He's just flying on that song great vocals overall death of the Celts got the Klansman vibe And very a lot of time chase a lot a lot of time changes. So I dug that track too Could be the Klansman part too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean there's no freedom freedom You know that part when they sing and then we start singing along. No, but this is a very well crafted song And death of the Celts, you know, it's got that. So I guess that Irish Sort of, you know, so like the Scottish for the Klansman, right? Now again, I'm not going to pretend to know what the lyrics are about. I don't I could just assume All right, let me look at the questions here The build-up Marcy the build-up. Yes, I believe a lot of the sadness and realism about war Yes soldiers who've been through war mental awareness. Yep, you got it, right All right, Craig is saying better than book of souls 100% better than book of souls 100% That's what I wanted to hear good blood 100% better than book of souls And I like and I like the book of souls and I like it right Klansman meets dance of death. You know what? Yes How is the production compared to brave new world? That's a very interesting question. So Brave new world dance of death have that sort of same production, right This has more of the the the instruments have more of an 80s feel Right like you mentioned before the power slave It does have that 80s feel and the production has a more of 80s field I do find the vocals were a little muffled in the production But not to the point where you're going to hate the album. No by no means I'm just saying a little bit, right? So think of the vocals on the two singles. That's what the vocals the sound sounds like, right? Yeah, how many solos on dance of kelts? I could tell you actually I wrote this stuff down But I don't want to start saying, you know, 17 of those 20 solos I could tell you right there one two Maybe three and a lot of the songs have two to three solos by the way They might not be like two minutes long, but they have like two three solos Can you tell who's doing the majority of them? Is it split or it's hard to tell it's hard to tell but you usually tell adren because he's more melodic Yeah, right, right, right. Good question. That's all we have you here for Kenny My voice is going now. My voice is going now Again, I think this is kevin surely loves muffled vocals Again, I don't want to I don't want to I don't want to push this too hard I'm just saying it sounds like a little bit like that, you know But it does not distract from the great song. Okay. I want to be clear on that Now the uh, pancrement That's the the on now we're on side two. I think actually side two started from Dark sour darkest hour started site two Oh second disc the second disc the pancrement. So people don't know what a pancrement is Before we had paper we have uh, you know some sort of We had before we had paper we had, you know that tree stuff that they wrote on Papias right was it called that can't remember what it's called and before that they had some I'm sorry Parchment paper like scrolls like yeah, well, we're on the the papias I think they called it right and then before that they had sort of the skin of the animal which they would write on And that's the pancrement Now again, I'm just looking at online and I'm listening to the lyrics. I'm trying to connect the dots There was a novel set in 70 ad by a Gerald T. McLaughlin And it spans 2000 years and includes the astronomers They include an astonishing pacrament that threatens the very foundation of the church and christianity It sounds like something our maiden would do Yeah, that sounds like an eye maiden song again again, you know, you know, again, I don't I just I'm listening. I'm looking at the words trying to put connected dots. Don't quote me It's pronounced parchment parchment parchment Thank you for the great pronunciation So the singles the worst ones on the album Whoa boy, you see And now now we're talking about it is a very loaded Dangerous question because everybody has a different idea of what they like. Some people love prog Some people love ballads. Some people love short sweet songs So when you say the singles are the worst ones, no, the singles are great, but they're different You know, think of rush. We always go back to rush You know, you have 2112 and moving pictures, right Two very different styles, but two 10 out of 10 albums So it's like that Right, you can't compare them Two different styles, yeah, yeah Okay, uh chris is saying the repetition of the title as a chorus can be brilliant It all depends on how you craft those courses chris I love run to the hills And yes done, right It's great, but this album doesn't have that And you know what it's good because they've done a lot of that repetition of the title and now they're doing something else, right You're not pronouncing senjutsu correct Always look like you hate the old maiden as they are repetitive. First of all, I'm going to tell you something flip I went to the number of the beast I bought killers when killers was released I knew maiden before even bruce was in the band So I'm the biggest maiden fan of all eras And I love them with diano. I love them with blaze and I love them with bruce. I love all maiden So there you go I and the first albums I bought were the first albums that were released I've been buying them since killers do jimmy. I came aboard the fillers Definitely and I remember I saw a bruce dickinson and a club on long island The beast on the road tour with the rods opening up It was maybe 150 people in that club and You can tell they they were on to something with bruce dickinson hit that stage that time because we really Only had the album for a little bit when we first saw them live with him I would say I love diano. Yeah me too. I didn't know what to expect and then I was like boom now I love this guy, you know, exactly. That's exactly how I was Now now blind dog is saying yes, it does writing on the wall writing on the wall is the one with the repetition Yes or no Yes or no. Yes or no. And you know what? I'm not even talking about writing on the wall in this review because we've already talked about it, right? Yes, but I mean if you listen to it's not writing on the wall writing on the wall writing on the wall It's not using the same words over and over again. It's can't you see the writing? You know what? I mean, there's there's it's it's more of Sentences built into the chorus, you know phrases, right? And if you understand what I'm trying to say, I'm not trying to sing here Okay Which songs should they play? I'll get to that Now the parchment the parchment This For all you power slave fans is a kind of power slave vibe. It's got the middle eastern arabic scales going on Bruce again is singing the lead Bruce is as he's singing you could hear, you know, the guitar playing to his voice The same notes that he's singing is the same notes that the guitar is playing a lot of that Long instrumental at the end Very hypnotic groove when I think of genghis kong. I'll throw that in again. I'm not saying it sounds like genghis kong I'm just saying it's got that You know, it's got that sort of marching on to war kind of thing In a way, this is probably the least Vocals on a song. So not a lot of that. Well, think of you where he goes there I mean, he doesn't really sing much other than the two verses and then the whole midsection, right? A very dynamic song Was much better When I first heard I go, ah, it's okay. Then I kept hearing it like a few more times I go, wow, this is a really really great song very mid tempo Again, I'm gonna emphasize this throughout the whole album. There's a little bit of keyboards always in the background And it's not keyboards like rick wakeman playing some solos. It's just the little the chords just In the background, yeah To make them more, you know to highlight sort of the the epicness of them all All right, let's go back to the questions Killers was my first exposure to main is there a song on the new album that gives you a vibe from the killer's album? Oh boy, that's a tough one if I was gonna say anything that even comes close to it was the song I told you Days of future past but keep in mind. We're talking about two different voices here. So it's really really difficult To uh, say that's a killer song killers is probably one of the greatest our main albums ever made Correct Kenny My favorite influence, you know generations of artists And by the way, paul diana will be inducted in the metal holofame And I'll be there That'll all that action happens on september 12 There's a priest. There's a pre party in new jersey And it's a watching party. We're gonna watch The people in new jersey are gonna watch on the big screen The virtual gala and for those of you who can't go to new jersey at two o'clock at september 12 You can see the inductions online at volume.com All right, volume.com volume.com Where paul diano and blaze bailey will be inducted. Okay Into the metal holofame. All right, let's get to the next track Hell on earth This is another harris composition. We're clocking at 11 minutes and 19 seconds Starts off a very fear the dark sort of When the wind what when the wild wind blows from final frontier Very slow beginning but definitely goes into the galloping Again bruce is singing to the lead notes, right Great dynamic ending very cool midsection That i've not heard before A lot of three-part harmonies happening in the midsection that i've not heard from our many before so there's something to look forward to Another good song and it's a song that you kind of have to listen to it a few more times I can't really break it down to other than what i just said But i would definitely if it had to fit anywhere it would finally it would fit on the final frontier You know as a song there Yeah, any questions? no What's the lyrics about did you get any vibe on them? Hell on earth hell on earth is hell on earth. It's it's it's i would maybe a sign of the dimes right I think we've covered All the songs and i'll take questions I Love this one Those two old farts really think that they can comment on the biggest heavy metal after sabbath Especially this one with the glasses on give me a break jesus bruce will spit on your face both ha ha ha So because we love iron maiden And i really liked it and i think this album is great bruce is going to spit on my face Thank you, jefferson. We are not in the album. You definitely weren't I think uh did i did i say a hit of the song anywhere? I did Never i think you kind of like it. I think you kind of really like it It's really strange, isn't it? Very strange, isn't it? I just complimented like every song I love this two guys opinion Yeah, well actually it's one guy's opinion because kenny hasn't heard the album I was supposed to i'm i'm here to interview jimmy about what he feels about the album Now you're mocking with them numb nuts You're mocking with them. You mean i'm mocking the band. I don't know man Maybe you should rewind the whole show after we're done And have a look and have a look and maybe you miss something there. I don't know Uh, what's your favorite song jimmy? You know, I would you know, I would go back to The highlight Is the ballad I think senjitsu if i'm pronouncing that right might be my favorite song Because it's got that sort of tribal sound that we've never heard from iron maiden I like the days of future pass because it's a short rocker You know, uh could have been that could have been off number the beast As a nice short rocker I like the darkest hour too. Uh, there's there's just a lot of Good stuff there I can't look at it. You know what and Common sense isn't very common up the arms. I'm talking about stratigo I mean, I think we've all heard stratigo. So we're not going to really get into that The best highest track. Okay. So here we go the best highest track. I'm going to tell you The best highest track in my opinion from the three from the four It's harris as a penning it by himself You know, I'm kind of stumped there like which is my favorite one I would I would definitely the pacrament If you pronounce that right the parchment I think that would be my favorite one from harris as he wrote it by himself Right. I'm going to give everybody a little Premise on myself. I love all again. I'm gonna say this again. I love all iron maiden eras I love the short stuff Probably one of your albums is killers, right? I love diano. I love blaze and I love bruce. So That's that's that's where I stand I'll take your questions Do you have uh Rudolph is saying what Change you love the most about the album I'll tell you exactly what I like most about this album The art remains a box pretend art remains a box. They like to go outside not too far away from that box They like to go and touch for example in this album. There's a lot of Harmony vocals I like that. They have been doing that in a long time. I like that. I like the slide guitar I like a lot more keyboards in the background, but very faint I like the time changes. I like the ballad a big ballad, you know, I like that so Definitely Much better than the last album Look the haters will hate and the lovers will love. What can I tell you? Right? Everything's got their own opinion. We all know what opinions are Uh, so guys as we have another can you hear bruce? Well consistently? Yeah, you get bruce Is stellar on this album stellar and and what I mean by that is He's really Singing he's not shouting. He's not pulling that like he's really singing like really well and and congrats to bruce dickinson He just and for the guy who said I was like putting him down. I I've said this maybe throughout the whole hour here We're doing this Bruce is probably one of his vote best vocals. He's not and it's not about power. It's not about Singing over everybody. It's about really coming up with melodies that are contagious And really singing well, you know picking those right notes Cam gambler is saying how does this compare to the other iron maidens post reunion albums? It's up there. You know, we're gonna have to revisit this in a year and really say, you know, how did it sit with us? Right, right kenny Yeah, exactly go back revisit it Maybe even six months Because you know, look, I'm just getting first impressions here I got a feeling we'll be revisiting this in december when we do our albums of the year I would definitely say this is a contender for the album of the year. Definitely sounds like it Somebody's saying did you hear did you listen to the cd or mp3 and i'll repeat this what I said at the beginning? um I I listened to it on a digital platform. It's like it's like a promo platform. It's digital. It's not cd. It's not mp3 A digital platform very I guess what's be similar to spotify, right? so How do you compare the heaviness of the album compared to the older stuff? Oh, that's a loaded question after how many albums Heaviness look again, this is a varied album. Maybe this will answer. It's a varied album Some parts are super heavy some parts are progressive and some parts are short and sweet so Yes, I know Best album since Best album since book assaults. I don't know Didn't love shirley's production either, but let's be fair if it steves harris production at the end of the day I'm gonna bring back rush as my my my go-to analogy here Rush does whatever rush wants to do throughout their whole career They started off as a sort of metal band They changed into this prog band and then they kind of went this new wave prog Never listened to anybody. They did what they felt was right. Iron Man's the same. They're gonna do whatever they want and And I think they've done a great job Highly recommend this album How do you feel about these songs? Will there be like life? I think because These will shine live these songs these songs will definitely Definitely shine live Yeah, someone asked you before to pick out which like four or five you think they'll be pulling life What do you think they'll be doing like you? You know, that's a great question Senjutsu if I'm pronouncing that right, definitely will be played. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the opener Yeah, you think they should open. Yeah, and of course the two singles right in a wall and stratigo Um, and if I was going to pick another song I would pick the darkest hour The darkest hour. Yeah, if I was going to pick four, that's what I would say the two singles the darkest hour in stratigo And not stratigo. I mean, uh, senjutsu senjutsu on a scale of one out of ten You know, it's a tough call One out of ten because this is what happens the excitement of aren't made with a new album will like the number will be so high, right? Definitely not lower than an eight out of ten. There's no frigging way. I think they're like far and often all cylinders here Uh six years. They've had a lot of time to write and think and just put things together A lot of time Not lower than eight out of ten and I'm sure over time it'll go higher than that but you know, probably eight and a half Ten out of ten. I think there's a lot of you know, I mean there's a little things here What's a I think a ten out of ten could only be realized after about five years You could say you know what that's a ten out of ten because it stood the test of time, right? But right now probably eight out of ten eight point seven out of ten maybe a little higher Any similarities between senjutsu and brighter than a thousand suns both heavy groove songs. Yeah, there's a lot of that heavy groove, but brighter Brighter than a thousand suns the difference is It repeats the chorus Right the title track is being and they got a lot less that so You know a matter of life and death has a lot of complex long songs A lot of that is present here It's their black album You know, I don't know man black album was to sort of like a big breakthrough commercial album. I think they've already broken through So they've already their black album was number the beast, you know, but the beast was their black album. Yeah, so actually Does it have aspects from everything from 2000? Yes And like kenny mentioned it has that sort of production of the 80s I was slave era the peace of mind. Yeah, definitely How's nicko's drumming on the album and his drumming is great as always He's it's a complex arrangements on this album. So you need a great drummer to pull that off Especially on the title track. That's that's where nicko shines title track Senjitsu, that's how you pronounce it is Is where he shines the most because he's bringing it home with that song Does the song senjitsu feature the words and jitsu in the lyrics? If it does I didn't hear it It's not like they're going to jitsu senjitsu, you know, like they I didn't hear if they did Any filler songs? No, no fillers. No filler. I think they did a double album Because it just had so much music And they go, you know what? Here's the music Do you think it'll sound better on vinyl or cd? I don't know I don't know. I don't know. You know, it's how you master it, right? Right Where do you rank this album in maiden's catalog? Whoa boy Again, I think you have to wait a little on it. Yeah A couple of times to get for you to rank in it This might actually be one of my favorites on the post bruce dickinson era So if that makes any sense Like you have brave new world to today. It probably be the best one in the post But again, this will change. I don't know You know, I would say definitely You got to let it sit with you for a little bit Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Do you feel Dave Murray's input a lot? Well, he didn't write any songs So Maybe you could say do you feel the a loss of his input? It would have been nice Is it true paul dianos taking credit for everything? No, this is not true Great show guys Well, I'm gonna say this and I'll leave you with this kenny Um as my voice is fading I really like this album I know that there's that element of It's brand new it's been six years. We're all hungry for iron maiden But I truly enjoyed I'm gonna listen to right after this. I truly enjoyed their work I truly enjoyed how they crafted the songs I truly enjoyed the singing and the solos I definitely I already have it ordered and I'm sure everybody else does too So I'm not going to say anything that's going to sway anything I'm curious to see what everybody's opinion is once this is released and we'll do a follow-up I'm here to celebrate with you kenny the release of iron maiden And their new album because to us maiden fans and we're hardcore maiden fans to us. It's It's like, you know, it's Christmas, right Yeah, I can't wait. It's five days away Five days away. I want to hear what everybody else's opinion and after is afterwards Uh, I loved it. I and I'll summarize. It's it's got a variety like bruce mentioned You need to sing us some of the tracks jimmy come on. I tried before did you hear me kenny? I heard The older stuff the older stuff because it's more popular right Doug what is saying greetings from All right, everybody just give me a quick text of where are you from from around the world? Just give me a quick text. I just want to know where everybody is I tried to make this early today. So we've got a global sort of audience What song do you think sounds most like classic iron maiden? It is okay Brazil Nepal India Hungary Chicago Greece Elada from Nepal Iceland. Oh, Austria. Cheers for oh my god, it's going too fast now. Jesus Iceland Austria Lisbon Portugal Ecuador India greetings from Slovenia. I'm from Italy. Good morning, Brazil, Poland, England, Marial Los Angeles New Hampshire, New York, UK, Poland, UK, Florida, Chicago, the Netherlands, Ireland, Spain, Croatia, Norway, Serbia, Bronx Around your parts. Slovenia Uruguay. Love it. Uruguay, Marial, St. Louis, Michigan, Portugal Erie Pennsylvania Kendo, where's Kendo? Orange County, California. Nice. I think you made a mistake. Italy Is that crazy Kenny? Chile. We went around the world today Jimmy. Day is a future pass versus the wicker man I like the wicker man Africa in The Perdue I made it's Peru, New Hampshire, Lebanon Lebanon, Kingston, Albania. Hello from Portugal everyone Montreal, Canada. Hey Dale, Pennsylvania. Will this record chart number one in the US finally? I probably think there's enough made in France to pull that off. Best solos. Too many solos to say Made in family taking the world by storm Argentina, California. It's as an end. Africa. What part of Africa? Well made in the global band, Jimmy. And made in the metal voices of made is a show too. That is global so Metal voice is a global show. What about time machine guy? Michalis, you're gonna have to rewind for time machine. I talked about Saskatchewan, Canada Sorry if you already answered this question, but is there something like rhyme of the ancient manner in salvo and those killer? Yes A lot of that A lot of that Beirut. Look at that Beirut Chile Okay, I think we're gonna stop now. You know what? I'm just holding on here just to sort of give everybody a little bit of a shout out Hit a shout out from everybody. What'd you think about the album cover by the way? I liked it. I liked it from the Listen, I don't know what happened with Derek Riggs. They thought it was a change and that was years ago they did that but They seemed to switch up the last two albums were done by this list. No, this is the second album done by this guy but um, I like the style he seems to and the singles will seem to follow with the You know the style of shogun, the shinjitsu Mark Marco Wilkinson who does the the album cover, right? It's Mark Wilkinson, right? Isn't he? He did a lot of priest stuff from Ramit down to uh Redeemer of souls. He did every album. He did Marillian too. I believe the first four albums or a few albums The fish solo albums a couple of them. Yeah. Yeah a great artist Place childhood. No, I'm almost positive. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's very good. Jimmy's from Marillian I knew I knew that from somewhere He's like a phenomenal artist man and and they really picked the right guy and I love Derek Riggs I mean, he's probably gonna go away from Derek Riggs. This this is a good direction And for all you made in fans, I'm gonna type you this I'm gonna type this up right now. Okay, September September 12th on volume dot com at uh 2 p.m. Eastern I'm typing this Paul dino Place Bailey and Derek Riggs will be inducted into the metal Hall of Fame It's a virtual gala you could see them and as they accept their their speeches So it's pre-recorded, but it's it's it's it's going to be shown live on volume.com. So Take a look at that And if you're in the new jersey area, I think that it's the Middletown Art Center. Yeah You can go it's free Just come and show up and they're gonna have a jj french there. Yep mark place a bunch of people The dictate isn't gonna play a set Yeah, I'll never push hard Joe, uh, eddy trunk is gonna host with Keith ruth from cirrus fm. Yeah, so it's it's not gonna be It it's not gonna be the inductees won't be there. It'll be like a pre-party watching party of the gala All right, it's a watching buddy Jimmy. Correct. Exactly. But they're gonna have other people there jj french They'll have other people gathered around and Should be a good time. Look at us. Kenny. We're just like selling it We got somebody from israel. Look at that. We got hamburg germany germany and yes mark wilkinson does fish and I think he did vigil of wilderness Right He does the clutching at straws. I think he did misplaced childhood. That's sort of style Can you please play five seconds of each song would love to but not allowed to and you know what? I'm not gonna piss off my favorite band ever are in maiden, right? Nope, not worth the jimmy Who wins made in japan or eddy on sinjitsu eddy? What do you think? Ah I'm classic. I gotta go made in japan eddy. I'm like that was a big thing for me that ep. I loved it Yeah, me too. That that's water They just do more with that action figure the other day. I saw it was released the made in japan eddy figure The guy's going sing the melody you don't want to hear me sing the melody. That's a thing From the sound of sinjitsu do you think made in will have another one in them? Yeah, I think so for sure. I mean They're they're still like in their 60s early 60s Thanks again, jimmy and kenny. Thank you and we're gonna let everybody go now as my voice is Thank you kenny for just jumping on it's sort of just you know Again kenny didn't hear the album. He was here to sort of like just give some sort of colorful commentary Oh Gabe jimmy and kenny. Do you meant did you mention the production kevin surely again? You know what? It'd be nice if they had another producer, but that's what they want to do. So Right, you know, it'd be nice just to change it up. You know, right All right, man. Thanks everybody All right. Thanks. Have a nice sunday everyone