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ALBUM REVIEW: Judas Priest – Firepower

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With eighteen studio albums and almost fifty years under their bullet belts, Judas Priest, alongside Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden, have managed to become a household name even in houses where the occupants haven’t even heard of Heavy Metal. Their legacy is inarguable. In fact, there is so little left to say about the band that hasn’t already been documented in some way over the last four (now virtually five) decades, that all you really need to know is this: They’re Judas fucking Priest.Continue reading →


Iron Maiden Concert Album – The Book Of Souls Live Chapter Due This Month

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Iron Maiden having wrapped up the massively successful Book Of Souls World Tour will now release a live concert album from all over the world. The Book Of Souls: Live Chapter on November 17 worldwide, via Warner Brothers and through BMG in the US. The tour covered thirty-nine countries across six continents during 2016 and 2017, and was seen by over two million fans, ended on July 22nd in Brooklyn NY. The Book Of Souls: Live Chapter will be released physically in CD, deluxe CD and vinyl audio formats, with the concert film available to stream at all digital servicing platforms.Continue reading →


Bruce Dickinson Kicks Off His Book Tour In New York

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It was a packed house of 400+ fans last night at Book Revue bookstore in Huntington, NY as fans descended on the sleepy Long Island town to participate in Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickenson’s first stop of his US book tour. Bruce is coming to the fans in intimate settings and local bookshops to promote his autobiography What Does This Button Do? Out now via HarperNonFiction. Bruce spoke for over an hour, curated a hilarious slideshow of images and stories from his life and the book, read a chapter aloud, conducted a Q and A segment, and signed autographs for fans.Continue reading →


Bruce Dickinson Announces U.S. Book Tour For “What Does This Button Do?”

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Iron Maiden‘s Bruce Dickinson will be releasing his long awaited memoir, “What Does This Button Do?,” on October 19th via HarperNonFiction, and it’s going to be quite the read. Here’s the official synopsis: “In “What Does This Button Do?”, Bruce (a man who famously never gives interviews about his personal life) shares, for the first time, the most fascinating recollections, including his thirty years with Iron Maiden, the early days, his childhood within the eccentric British school system, going solo, realising his dream of flying jumbo jets and his recent battle with tongue cancer. Dickinson is so much more than the frontman of one of the biggest bands on the planet. A rock icon, a true renaissance man, Bruce has been, and remains, a man of legend.”

To celebrate its release, the legend has announced a U.S. book tour, where he will talk about writing the memoir, read excerpts, answer fans questions, and more.Continue reading →


Bruce Dickinson To Release His Memoir, “What Does This Button Do?”, In October

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If there’s anyone who has some stories to tell, it is Bruce Dickinson. Apart from being the legendary vocalist of Iron Maiden, Bruce is, or has been, an airline pilot and captain, beer brewer, film scriptwriter, twice-published novelist, actor, world-class fencer, and more throughout his life, and now his story will finally be told in his long awaited memoir. Continue reading →


As Lions – Selfish Age

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While it is unrealistic to expect the son of a world-renowned musician to naturally sound like (or even want to sound like) his father, the fact is, when your last name is Dickinson, people are going to judge you based on preconceived notions. Author Joe Hill knows all about it; his father is master horror storyteller Stephen King, and when Hill started out, he intentionally took on his mother’s maiden name (bad pun, sorry, couldn’t resist) to avoid the inevitable comparisons to his old man.Continue reading →


Watch Testament’s Chuck Billy Discuss His Musical Heroes

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ROME, ITALY- JULY 27, 2016: Testament photographed at The Roman Collisseium in Rome, Italy on July 27,2016. © Gene Ambo

Testament. Photo credit by© Gene Ambo

Testament’s Brotherhood of The Snake is out today via Nuclear Blast. In an exclusive video at Ghost Cult, watch Chuck Billy discuss his musical heroes: Continue reading →


Flotsam And Jetsam – Flotsam And Jetsam

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In theory, the new Flotsam and Jetsam album Flotsam and Jetsam (AFM Records) should be called Regeneration. Their press brief says that the band really started in 2015 with the line-up of Eric AK, Mike Gilbert, Michael Spencer, Steve Conley, and Jason Bittner (Shadows Fall). For this, I gave Flotsam and Jetsam a fresh listen, forgetting the past albums and attacking Flotsam and Jetsam as a new separate entity. The new album Flotsam and Jetsam is twelve songs lasting 56 minutes. It’s an hour that goes quickly by as the tracks seamlessly blend from one song to another.

The first thing that struck me was the heaviness of opening track. ‘Seventh Seal’ is has a heaviness that weights it down. If it weren’t for the guitar lines and jaunty pace of the song, it could be a doom song. There is something about the song that claws at you and keeps you earthbound. ‘Life is a Mess’ has the same thundering drumming as ‘Seventh Seal’. The vocals have this nu-metal rap feel with 90s metal singing. I hear shades of Testament in the guitar parts. ‘Taser’ opens up like a muscle car on an open backwoods Texas road. It’s fast and it’s wild. The vocals are a bit strained, but the music more than makes up for it. ‘Taser’ has a swagger about it. I went into ‘Iron Maiden’ wanting to love it because I love Iron Maiden. True to form, it’s a Bruce Dickinson epic lyrics love fest. It’s a bit of the ‘Trooper’ in new clothes. I nice wink wink nudge nudge to a great band.

The rest of the album is more of the same. Solid tunes that follow the tried and true metal formula. Flotsam and Jetsam the album has lots of guitar solos in all the right places and heavy drumming and bass playing keep everything solid. Some of the songs are a bit chunky and plodding while others have interesting accoutrements. If you like Overkill and Testament, you’ll enjoy Flotsam and Jetsam.

7.0/10

VICTORIA ANDERSON

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