By David Flaherty, from the entertainment liftout of this weeks Sunday Mail (!!):
Possessing one of metals most famous voices, Bruce The Air-Raid Siren Dickinson enjoys a long and celebrated career as the frontman of Iron Maiden. His first solo offering in seven years, the mystical Tyranny of Souls, finds Dickinsons vocals at their wailing finest.
The album goes beyond the Iron Maiden dynamic with a gritty guitar approach that covers an array of heavy music styles. Tracks such as Soul Intruders and Power Of The Sun are galloping cuts with melodic leads and glorious choruses that will appeal to Iron Maiden fanatics. Believil and River of No Return have a strong industrial edge and Devil On A Hog is a chest-thumping foray into hard rock.
The recordings most surprising cut is its Bowie styled ballad Navigate The Seas Of The Sun. The song has a tender magical flavour as Dickinsons spectacular voice takes on a haunting Ozzy Osbourne type quality.
Im happy to see Brucie getting some respec from the mainstream press, but Im wary of placing too much stock in the reviewers opinion. He called The Glorious Burden the best metal album of 2004
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Possessing one of metals most famous voices, Bruce The Air-Raid Siren Dickinson enjoys a long and celebrated career as the frontman of Iron Maiden. His first solo offering in seven years, the mystical Tyranny of Souls, finds Dickinsons vocals at their wailing finest.
The album goes beyond the Iron Maiden dynamic with a gritty guitar approach that covers an array of heavy music styles. Tracks such as Soul Intruders and Power Of The Sun are galloping cuts with melodic leads and glorious choruses that will appeal to Iron Maiden fanatics. Believil and River of No Return have a strong industrial edge and Devil On A Hog is a chest-thumping foray into hard rock.
The recordings most surprising cut is its Bowie styled ballad Navigate The Seas Of The Sun. The song has a tender magical flavour as Dickinsons spectacular voice takes on a haunting Ozzy Osbourne type quality.
Im happy to see Brucie getting some respec from the mainstream press, but Im wary of placing too much stock in the reviewers opinion. He called The Glorious Burden the best metal album of 2004
. W
He also interviewed Hilary Duff, which was pretty funny.
