New Maiden album announced - The Book of Souls

[Spiff]

New double album out on September 4. Weee.

http://www.ironmaiden.com/new-iron-maiden-studio-album-the-book-of-souls.html

 

[Southy]

Looking forward to this big time \m/

 

[Winmar]

Woohoo an album and a sticky! Looking forward to it. Lots of ofs in the song titles.

 

[Spiff]

Previous songs with 'of' in the title:

Phantom of the Opera
The Ides of March
Children of the Damned
The Number of the Beast
Flash of the Blade
Sea of Madness
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Chains of Misery
Fear of the Dark
Sign of the Cross
Lord of the Flies
Fortunes of War
Judgement of Heaven
Justice of the Peace
Ghost of the Navigator
Dream of Mirrors
Out of the Silent Planet
Dance of Death
Gates of Tomorrow
Out of the Shadows
The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg
Lord of Light
Mother of Mercy
Isle of Avalon

 

[Southy]

They just need one called 'The of song"

 

[Winmar]

Hah nice one! I was trying to think of a few myself; that's quite a list.

 

[Spiff]

No 'of' songs on Piece of Mind (I guess the title makes up for it), No Prayer for the Dying or Virtual XI.

 

[phlogiston]

There's so long between new albums I keep forgetting what the anticipation feels like. I want it.

 

[Spiff]

Nothing will beat the anticipation for Seventh Son, and I had only been a fan for two years at that point. I was 12, though, so it was a sixth of my life.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Fuck I am keen on this. I love reunion era Maiden so much and a double album couldn't have me more excited for a new release!

 

[Spiff]

They've released a little snippet of a song. Now for the other 91 minutes and 30 seconds...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBDanCsgVkM

 

[phlogiston]

I know Spiff has pre-ordered already, but is there any point, really? Is there really a danger they're not going to have it when I walk in the doors on Friday? Seems a bigger risk that it won't be delivered in time and I'll have to wait over a weekend for it anyway.

 

[Spiff]

I pre-ordered on iTunes because I'm too lazy these days to rip the CD. I'll be buying the physical album as soon as I can (hopefully Thursday afternoon as is the JB tradition).

 

[The Amazer]

Sooo...

Speed of Light is goddamn awesome. That main riff is huge, love the chorus hook and the lead riff in the pre-chorus and bridge bit is vintage.

Even the clip is incredible.

 

[bozza]

https://twitter.com/Bozza03/status/628904792270639104[/QUOTE] make of this what you will, but AJ favourited my tweet after Glide Magazine deleted an interview with Janick (and although it's back it was still deleted at the time I decided to take a selfie with my silly old school printed meme), in which he said that the Book of Souls tour would commence late January or early February.

He did say it depends on Bruce's health and that late Jan could instead mean South America, so am not jumping to any conclusions as my pic suggests.

Assuming six BoS songs in the set as the interview suggests, a set list like the below would be sweet:

1. If Eternity Should Fail
2. Speed of Light
3. When the River Runs Deep
4. Infinite Dreams (more realistic: Can I Play With Madness)
5. Heaven Can Wait
6. The Trooper
7. The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg
8. Sign of the Cross
9. Tears of a Clown
10. The Book of Souls
11. Powerslave (Would be an awesome song to have Mayan walk on Eddie, in my opinion)
12. Fear of the Dark
13. Iron Maiden

Encore:

14. The Man of Sorrows
15. Killers (more realistic: Wrathchild)
16. Hallowed Be Thy Name

 

[Spiff]

Tour update: we get them in May. No Soundwave.

 

[Spiff]

With regards to the setlist, I'm not going to speculate on what new songs (other than Speed of Light) we'll get. However, I don't think we'll get any songs from AMOLAD or The Final Frontier except for maybe El Dorado.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Has there ever been an album opener that they haven't played live? I don't think so, so you can expect the trend to continue.

 

[Spiff]

Invaders

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Caught Somewhere in Time?

Interesting!