The Official IRON MAIDEN thread!!!!!!!

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

You know what? I am done listening to other people about albums. I picked up "Dance Of Death" today, not expecting much because I've always heard it was weak, boring, etc. I was just grabbing it for the Maiden catalog.

But DAMN! I gotta say, this is good! I am really digging it! How anyone could think this was even close to being a poor album is off their rocker! Lots of energy, Bruce sounds great and I love the melodies!!

It actually took me awhile to warm up to the album, seeing them perform a few of these tracks live won me completely over on this album.

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

You know what? I am done listening to other people about albums. I picked up "Dance Of Death" today, not expecting much because I've always heard it was weak, boring, etc. I was just grabbing it for the Maiden catalog.

But DAMN! I gotta say, this is good! I am really digging it! How anyone could think this was even close to being a poor album is off their rocker! Lots of energy, Bruce sounds great and I love the melodies!!

Have you listened to the other post-reunion albums?

MEGATRON wrote:

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

You know what? I am done listening to other people about albums. I picked up "Dance Of Death" today, not expecting much because I've always heard it was weak, boring, etc. I was just grabbing it for the Maiden catalog.

But DAMN! I gotta say, this is good! I am really digging it! How anyone could think this was even close to being a poor album is off their rocker! Lots of energy, Bruce sounds great and I love the melodies!!

Have you listened to the other post-reunion albums?

Yeah...I have them all now.

Heh, I happen to have been listening to Dance of Death the past couple of days. It's a good album and I break it out every so often. I'm especially fond of No More Lies, Montsegur, and Paschendale, although I enjoy the whole thing.

EMI are proud to announce the highly anticipated release of the Double Disc DVD MAIDEN ENGLAND ‘88 on 25 March. Now available for the very first time on DVD, this live show was filmed across two sold-out nights at Birmingham N.E.C Arena, UK in November 1988 during the band’s “Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son World Tour”. Disc one contains the concert which has been specially upgraded and extended from the existing 1989 longform VHS release and now includes three previously unreleased encores: Running Free, Run To The Hills and Sanctuary thereby completing the full concert with a total running time of 110 minutes . Maiden’s own Film Producer and Director Andy Matthews went back to the 1988 edit and painstakingly remastered each shot digitally; colour correcting and grading to give the image the best possible look from that time. As well as the VHS stereo sound track by Martin Birch, the band’s producer between 1981 and 1993, the DVD also includes a brand new 5.1 audio surround mix by Maiden’s current producer Kevin Shirley. The concert was meticulously directed and edited by bass player and founder member Steve Harris, so as to capture the performance from a fans-eye view of the stage, focusing fully on the music, the elaborate stage production and the lighting. Add into the mix an electrifying set list and of course Eddie, and Maiden England now offers a snapshot of a bygone era in which the band, as they continue to do today, devote their all in delivering the ultimate live experience for their fans.

Disc two is an extensive bonus disc featuring an exclusive documentary charting Part 3 in the History of Iron Maiden. This 40-minute film comprises recent interviews with the five band members and manager, Rod Smallwood. Picking up the story in the aftermath of the ‘84/85 World Slavery tour, this interesting and insightful documentary sees the band speak candidly about their memories of an exciting and occasionally turbulent period from which would emerge the albums Somewhere In Time and Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son. As the Eighties began to draw to a close, so did another chapter in Maiden’s compelling history.

Other special extras on the bonus disc include Twelve Wasted Years. First released as a longform VHS in 1987 and available for the first time on DVD, this documentary runs for 90 minutes and includes archive interviews and dynamic live footage from the band’s beginnings in the now legendary Ruskin Arms pub, via London’s Marquee club and three World Tours. Five promo videos for the singles from the aforementioned albums are also featured and have been carefully restored and improved upon from the original films using the very latest software with the audio remastered in digital stereo.

Manager Rod Smallwood comments “We've been busy upgrading this concert footage for a long time, with our in-house Film Producer and Director Andy Matthews working tirelessly to weave his magic yet again!. The 1989 VHS video has been largely unavailable for many years and we know how eagerly our fans have been awaiting the new version so we wanted to give it the best possible treatment. The current Maiden England World Tour which continues later this year revisits much of the set list and production from the initial 1989 VHS release so it will be interesting to compare just how much has changed in terms of our 2013 live show production, especially with all the advances in modern technology and the improvements we've been able to make to the set”.

The Maiden England ‘88 concert soundtrack will also be made available on 2CD album, Limited Edition double vinyl picture disc and Digital Download formats. The audio had previously only ever been available before on CD as part of EMI’s 1994 Sound And Vision Series packaged alongside the VHS, but with two tracks fewer than the video contained. Can I Play With Madness and Hallowed Be Thy Name were not featured as there was no space on the 1CD disc. Now with the three encores also included the double disc offers a total of 5 tracks previously unavailable on CD making this the first full and complete audio recording release of this historic tour.

DISC ONE – MAIDEN ENGLAND ’88
Set List –
Moonchild
The Evil That Men Do
The Prisoner
Still Life
Die With Your Boots On
Infinite Dreams
Killers
Can I Play With Madness
Heaven Can Wait
Wasted Years
The Clairvoyant
Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
The Number Of The Beast
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Iron Maiden
Run To The Hills*
Running Free*
Sanctuary*

*previously unreleased.


DISC TWO – THE HISTORY OF IRON MAIDEN PART 3
The History Of Iron Maiden - Part 3
12 Wasted Years
Wasted Years promo video
Stranger In A Strange Land promo video
Can I Play With Madness promo video
The Evil That Men Do promo video
The Clairvoyant promo video

Killer news because my '12 Wasted Years' VHS color is starting to fade! Looking forward to owning it.

Looks like a great set, too bad it isn't available on blu-ray though.

I hear Steven Wilson is already remastering it into 6.8 stereo surround sound on 16 blu-ray discs, so it's just a waiting game, SD.




**just busting your cojones**

S.D. wrote:

Looks like a great set, too bad it isn't available on blu-ray though.

They have released their last few DVD's in the blu- ray format, so I am sure they will on this release.

I'm just glad they are including the original Martin Birch stereo mix, he was a much better engineer than Kevin "tin ears" Shirley.

Now I can get rid of my dodgy VHS rip -this looks great!

WHOO!! Maiden England!!!

I can finally get a legal version of the album, whooo!

Oh yeah, I saw the new tour and can't wait to get this. I've not seen the vhs. It is strange that Blue ray isn't offered considering the last couple of live discs have. I've heard so many fans speak of the Maiden England concert vhs, so I'll finally get to see what all the talk is about.

If you haven't seen Maiden England and you can't wait for the DVD, just watch this:

I ain't rippin', and I have only ever browsed this thread. But, really? Everyone slags Kiss for marketing every single penny they can get. There has been nothing worthwhile to purchase in the Iron Maiden catalog since the First Ten Years series back in 1990. The Castle or Raw Power or whatever they were, remasters were fun, but even they were just for collectors that wanted each album to come with an extra disc with the b-sides.

Iron Maiden has not released anything significant since Fear of the Dark. And you are all suckers for buying into Kiss UK.

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