Get to see them in 3 months today i think :) can't wait.

page 999 cooo

Hooray.

[QUOTE=Symbolic;13409532]page 999 cooo[/QUOTE]
:eek: we're edging pretty close to the 20000 post too :)

/prays* to get 20,000th post, just for extra awesomeness...
i love having a walkman phone, it means i can take AMOLAD around with me without my mp3 player :)

*to Eddie, not any other crappy god.

Paul looks so wierd now. If he wasn't introduced as Paul Di'anno, I wouldn't have believed that it was actually him. He certainly still can sing though :)

/hasn't posted here in ageeees

[QUOTE=Symbolic;13409532]page 999 cooo[/QUOTE]mine's page 666 omg

NP: The Longest Day

i love the "enter hell's gate" bit, Bruce sounds so evil on that part :evil: and on all the verses really.
one of my favourite songs on the new album. i just downloaded the bootleg as well, so i'll give that a listen soon.

The bootleg is pretty enjoyable.

i'm printing off a load of lecture notes, so i'm going to de-compress it and listen in a few minutes. are all the tracks tagged?

I would download the bootleg but I don't want to ruin the live experience of the current tour (that and my computer is totally out of memory)

EDIT: Page 1000 claimed :cool:

gah, you bastard.
:p
i know i'll still love seeing them live, it's just because i'm curious as to how the songs will turn out live.

Yes the tracks are tagged.

goodie. just putting them on my mp3 player, then i'll give them a listen :)

EDIT: just put it on now, i love that they use Mars from The Planets as the intro piece :)

EDIT2: onto the end part of Brighter Than..., IMO the songs are coming out much better live. :)

[QUOTE=Josh;13411229]NP: The Longest Day

i love the [b]"enter hell's gate" [/b]bit, Bruce sounds so evil on that part :evil: and on all the verses really.
one of my favourite songs on the new album. i just downloaded the bootleg as well, so i'll give that a listen soon.[/QUOTE]

That part is one of my favorite parts on the whole album :)

Could anyone possibly upload the boot to YSI or something, megaupload keeps saying that there is not enough ports for my country :(

It's all about the second verse for me:

" The rising dead, faces bloated torn
They are relieved, the living wait their turn
Your number's up, the bullet's got your name
You still go on, to hell and back again

Valhalla waits, valkyries rise and fall
The warrior tombs lie open for us all
A ghostly hand reaches through the veil
Blood and sand, we will prevail"

^ Yeah, maiden have really surpassed themselves with lyrics this album. Bruce really knows how to write 'em!

Yep.

Some amazingly good riffs as well.

Most of the ones from TROBB, as well as the counter-riff behind the bit where Bruce is singing "For the greater good of God!" come to mind.

It's just a damn good album overall i can't fault it in any way, even live it sounds fantastic :)

Indeed.

i reckon it sounds better live, the vocals definitely do.

I finally caved in and downloaded A Matter Of Life and Death this weekend. I was trying to hold out until I had some money to actually buy it, but if that's 98% of what they're playing on this tour I figure I better at least know the songs. I'm still going to buy it when I get some money though. It's decent. I don't think it's nearly as good as some reviews I've seen have made it sound. It's definately not "The best album by Iron Maiden since Number Of The Beast" as so many have said. It's still good though.

Exactly one week from this time I'll be almost to Detroit to see them. :D

i have to wait 2 months 7 days :( but it should be worth it :)

EDIT: stuff off the IMOC from the Boston show:
Boston Videos

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Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden (Live 2006 Boston)
[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=VeklbgtCkrE[/url]

Eddie on tank
[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=zrZpjUG2C_0[/url]

Hallowed be thy Name
[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=iT5bm-TT1SY[/url]

Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark (Live 2006 Boston)
[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=pySDxoh7FlA[/url]

Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes To Midnight (Live 2006 Boston)
[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=veU-B4ULY_o[/url]

Iron Maiden - The Evil That Men Do (Live 2006 Boston)
[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=ywiwQBbSZNk[/url]

Iron Maiden - The Evil That Men Do (Live 2006 Boston)
[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=0SFPVJTzGGc[/url]

Iron Maiden - The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg Live 2006
[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=u9fIs7S5TVc[/url]

The Longest Day
[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=JdH5MG12ry0[/url]

the stage looks awesome, especially how the tank spins around.

:) 6 days left for me

[QUOTE=LegionsofMarduk;13417152]I finally caved in and downloaded A Matter Of Life and Death this weekend. I was trying to hold out until I had some money to actually buy it, but if that's 98% of what they're playing on this tour I figure I better at least know the songs. I'm still going to buy it when I get some money though. It's decent. I don't think it's nearly as good as some reviews I've seen have made it sound. It's definately not "The best album by Iron Maiden since Number Of The Beast" as so many have said. It's still good though.

Exactly one week from this time I'll be almost to Detroit to see them. :D[/QUOTE]

Thats exactly how i felt when i bought the album. But, it really does grown on you. At first i was a tad dissapointed, bur after a week or so it got to the point where it was the only thing i was listening to (still is :p )
Just give the album some time

To Josh: Great find with thsoe videos. I wish i could go see them :(, ive been so bummed out lately that i dont get to catch this tour

[QUOTE=Quiksilver26;13418274]:) 6 days left for me[/QUOTE]

Same show I'm going to. :chug:

:wave: nice, I really can't wait. Also not looking forward to the day after haha... I've got class at 8, should be interesting to say the least =\

Anyone else see this clip..? it's like 5 seconds long, sneak preview for the Different World video (i think) [url]http://www.ironmaiden.com/homepage.php?section=0&subsection=0[/url]

it's the oct 11 news link

Yeah I'm taking a half day at work. I figure if I leave work at around 11:30, by the time I get home, get changed, pick up the guy that's going with me and get on the road it'll be somewhere between 12:30 and 1:00. About a 3 hour drive puts me in line sometime between 3:30 and 4:00. Plenty of time to stop somewhere and get a case of beer to drink in line before we get in. And I'm taking the following day off work altogether so I'll be able to sleep in a little bit since I probably won't make it home much before 3:00 in the morning.

Sounds like a fun day Legions. A couple concerts I went last year to required 5+ hours of transportation. I got home at 6am for both of them. It was fun until about 4am. :p

[QUOTE=Josh;13417164]i have to wait 2 months 7 days :( but it should be worth it :)

EDIT: stuff off the IMOC from the Boston show:
Boston Videos

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Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden (Live 2006 Boston)
[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=VeklbgtCkrE[/url]

Eddie on tank
[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=zrZpjUG2C_0[/url]

Hallowed be thy Name
[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=iT5bm-TT1SY[/url]

Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark (Live 2006 Boston)
[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=pySDxoh7FlA[/url]

Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes To Midnight (Live 2006 Boston)
[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=veU-B4ULY_o[/url]

Iron Maiden - The Evil That Men Do (Live 2006 Boston)
[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=ywiwQBbSZNk[/url]

Iron Maiden - The Evil That Men Do (Live 2006 Boston)
[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=0SFPVJTzGGc[/url]

Iron Maiden - The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg Live 2006
[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=u9fIs7S5TVc[/url]

The Longest Day
[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=JdH5MG12ry0[/url]

the stage looks awesome, especially how the tank spins around.[/QUOTE]

haha awesome stuff, the tank rocks :)


Woohoo! Crag gets the 20000th post :)

Crag got post no. 20,000 :eek:

Also the clip that I saw for Different World looks so amazingly cheesy.

Chart positions for the new album:

# 1 Germany, Sweden, Italy, Finland, Greece, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, Brazil
#2 Canada, Switzerland, Norway, Hungary, Colombia
#3 Chile
#4 UK, Austria, Spain, India
#5 France, Ireland, Arabia
#6 Iceland, Belgium
#7 Holland
#8 Denmark
#9 USA
#10 Mexico
#11 Portugal, Japan
#12 Australia
#15 Hong Kong
#16 New Zealand

Indeed. Good stuff! Though it's a shame that LoG's new album was higher here than Maiden. :mad:

so...can anyone YSI me the boot?
plz

Yeah actually.. I was unable to download it as well. For some reason the only bloody thing that works for my computer is YSI =\

Im going to see Iron Maiden tonight. Is it true that they play the new album in its entirety?

I believe it is. I know they played the whole thing at the first show, but I haven't seen any of the other setlists. It wouldn't differ too much if it does change anyway. Have fun man :thumb:

[QUOTE=Quiksilver26;13427437]I believe it is. I know they played the whole thing at the first show, but I haven't seen any of the other setlists. It wouldn't differ too much if it does change anyway. Have fun man :thumb:[/QUOTE]

Trust me, I will. They could fart into the mics and I would be a happy guy.

[QUOTE=Janick Gers via Blabbermouth]I've never thought of us as a metal band, and I never think about metal. Bruce [Dickinson] will go on about us being a metal band, and maybe people see us that way, but I think there's more to us than that. If people want to call it heavy metal, that's fine with me, but I don't think of it that way.

I think of this record as more progressive. The lyrics are subtle and moving, and the music has a powerful progressive thing, an orchestral feel and thematic melodies all the way through.

For a band our age, we took a few chances, but we have the musicianship to expand songs to what we feel is the right length. If we feel a song needs to be eight minutes long, it's gonna be eight minutes long.

I hear albums now and they sound unbelievable — everything's piled on top of everything else, and they're produced to the hilt. Then you see the band live and it sounds like any other band, because it can't have what the record has. Everything's done to a click track and there's no air. It doesn't breathe.

Adrian [Smith] is using a guitar synth on this album, which is great. It adds a bit of sparkle. But what I don't like are all the processed sounds. You press the Jimmy Page button and end up with a supposed Jimmy Page sound.

But you know, Jimmy Page didn't have a button to be Jimmy Page, and that's what made it exciting.[/QUOTE]

He's got a very good point at the end.

Anyone going to see Maiden on their first European dates (Denmark)?