A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

Music magazine Rolling Stone has published their first review of an Iron Maiden album since 1982's The Number of the Beast!

"A matter of life and death", Iron Maiden's fourteenth studio album, has all the traits of classic Maiden: multipart epics, time changes galore and the thick clank of Steve Harris' bass. There are some signs of wear -- the songs now march where they once galloped, and Bruce Dickinson's banshee wail can be slightly nasal, but there's still plenty of heft. The eight-and-a-half-minute "Brighter Then a Thousand Suns" could have gone on 1988's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. The only real departure from the past is "For the Greater Good of God," a somber meditation on Christ that sounds like an answer to the band's old anti-religion stance. Overall, it's a solid, unembarrassing latter-day record from one of metal's elite. Iron Maiden appear to be -- we dare say -- aging gracefully.

CHRIS STEFFEN
 
Maiden croatia said:
Čim uspijem.... Ploča je za razliku od neinvetivnog bookleta Death on the roda poprilično lijepa, picture diskovi su super, ima nekih još neviđenih fotkica, poput medvjedića, ili što je već ono, a zanimljivo je da se na ploči vide detalji omota, poput pločice na Eddieovoj košulji. Što na njoj piše, otkrijte sami. Povećalo u ruke i na CD.
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Stipe oće li ta slika?? :(
 
čini mi se kao da je nastalo malo zatišje oko AMOLAD-a, kao da su svi na početku bili oduševljeni, a sada kao da ste malo ishlapili. kod dod-a je bila obrnuta situacija.
a možda je ovo samo zatišje pred oluju (turneju)
 
Ivan said:
čini mi se kao da je nastalo malo zatišje oko AMOLAD-a, kao da su svi na početku bili oduševljeni, a sada kao da ste malo ishlapili. kod dod-a je bila obrnuta situacija.
a možda je ovo samo zatišje pred oluju (turneju)
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Zanimljivo!! :D
 
Ivan said:
čini mi se kao da je nastalo malo zatišje oko AMOLAD-a, kao da su svi na početku bili oduševljeni, a sada kao da ste malo ishlapili.
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pa vala i nemam neku namjeru non-stop trubiti o tome kako je album kul, kako je dobar, kako je fenomenalan, kako je ovo/ono....

sljedeca stvar koju cekam je neki dobar bootleg nadolazece turneje.....
 
Snake said:
pa vala i nemam neku namjeru non-stop trubiti o tome kako je album kul, kako je dobar, kako je fenomenalan, kako je ovo/ono....

sljedeca stvar koju cekam je neki dobar bootleg nadolazece turneje.....
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pa da, ali čini mi se da se dosta ljudi razočaralo, što mi je neshvatljivo
 
According to the upcoming releases list on Billboard, and as widely reported on this site for months, the second single from the "A Matter of Life & Death" album will be Different World. The single will be released on the 14th November (the date of their sold out show at Helsinki Hartwall Arena, Finland) though this is likely to be a US release date. UK will almost certainly see it at least one day before.
This single could see the inclusion of at least some of the previously mentioned 4 cover songs Maiden recorded while recording the Life & Death album.
 
EMI Finland has announced today that the new Iron Maiden album, A Matter of Life and Death, has been officially certified platinum in the Finland for sales in excess of 30,000 copies.

The album stayed in the number one spot for three weeks and latest chart position is #3.
 
eb Gottlieb from The Boston Herald has recently published an article about Iron Maiden, after a chat with Dave Murray.

"You know that’s what the guys in Iron Maiden must be thinking every time they feel they need to justify their increasingly gaudy, garish and grim live show. Iron Maiden may have a gargantuan, decaying-corpse mascot named Eddie onstage with it at all times, but KISS has kabuki makeup, silver, platform moon boots, and love songs with unlovely titles such as “Love Gun” and “Calling Dr. Love.”

There’s something else that distinguishes heavy metal’s two most ridiculous guilty pleasures. While KISS is living off royalty checks, Iron Maiden is still one of the biggest bands in the world: Its new album, “A Matter of Life and Death,” entered the charts at No. 1 in 10 countries and hit the Top 10 in 18 others; its world tour, which stops at Agganis Arena tomorrow, will shock and delight half a million fans in 18 countries..."

“Every band is only as strong as their latest album,” said founding guitarist Dave Murray from Iron Maiden world headquarters in London. “We’ve never done anything half-assed, and that’s why we’re still making records and touring. It’s on the strength of the material and the live show. We’re at the point now where we can put on the live show we always wanted with a big PA and lights and effects and Eddies.”

If Murray comes off as a classic heavy metal braggart, he’s not. That’s as narcissistic as he gets. He’ll complement his band mates endlessly, but he rarely lapses into stroking his own ego. After 30 years in Maiden, Murray has had half a dozen British chart toppers, rocked 300,000 fans at the 1985 inaugural Rock in Rio show, and made more money than the queen. Yet the self-avowed soccer fanatic spent the World Cup in a tiny pub with a few mates and a few more pints. He could have afforded to watch the finals from a hovering aircraft above the stadium but that’s not his style.

In 1999, Maiden added a third guitarist - something that would make the typical metal egomaniac guitarist bristle - yet Murray loves what it’s done to their sound. “It allows the band to be more heavy in places and more melodic in other places,” he said. “It’s working out really good. There’re no frustrations, we complement each other like the players on a football team. We’re here to make music and not compete with each other.”

Maybe it’s this all for one, one for all soccer attitude that keeps Maiden going. While American heavy metal bands such as KISS, Motley Crue or Metallica have spent the last few years at each other’s throats, Maiden marches to more platinum records, sold-out tours and songs about ancient Greek mythology. Murray doesn’t pretend to know the keys to their success, but said he’s loving life in Maiden as much as he ever has, and doesn’t plan on doing any vanity projects with Paul Stanley or Gene Simmons.

"I won’t be going on a solo tour anytime soon,” he said with a healthy British chuckle. “That’s way on the back burner. That’s in the barbecue.”
 
"After 30 years in Maiden, Murray has had half a dozen British chart toppers, rocked 300,000 fans at the 1985 inaugural Rock in Rio show, and made more money than the queen."

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

kak carski!
 
pa da, ja sam na jednom mjestu vidio da su zaradili više od david bowie-a i od duran durana
 
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