Far from dying despite thirty years of music behind the tie, Iron Maiden continues to reinvent himself on his fifteenth album, The Final Frontier, while hoping to get the first place winners in North America.
Bruce Dickinson had expressed a wish to express to fans at shows that the legendary metal band was given in North America this summer, including that of Quebec on the Plains of Abraham, July 9.
“We want you to make sure that The Final Frontier is number one on his exit,” Dickinson had launched the Quebec public.
In a recent interview with MusicRadar dedicated website, the drummer, Nicko McBrain, acknowledged that a number one for The Final Frontier would be “fantastic, a nice hug.
“Is what it would mean the same thing for fifteen or twenty years? I do not know. What matters is that I know we have done an excellent album. It is a work of art in my opinion. And if not number one the first week, perhaps he will be the second or third? ”
Opening in two
Number one or not, if it is something he must concede to a sextet, is its aversion to treading water. Iron Maiden could easily just surf on its past success and we do the blow of ‘new album that sounds like its predecessors.
None of that with Iron Maiden. It reminds us from the opening track The Final Frontier, which begins with a rather lengthy introduction Technical Satellite (15).
Followed by a break of tone that brings us to the title track, a classic piece that reminds us of the good old Maiden.
Indeed it is no coincidence, since The Final Frontier was recorded at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, where the classic 1980′s Piece of Mind, Powerslave and Somewhere in Time had emerged.
“Going back into the studio was amazing. Nothing has changed. This is not a studio on the cutting edge of technology, but it still has the same spirit, “said guitarist Adrian Smith, in an interview with Le Journal de Quebec, last month.
Progressive rock pushed further
If the first part of the album is actually reminiscent of the era Maiden, explorations of progressive rock group then took the step. They reach a kind of apotheosis with the last song, When The Wind Blows Wild, a creation of eleven minutes signed Steve Harris.
“When Steve came up with this song, I instantly knew we had something special,” said McBrain, who does not believe that The Final Frontier is a step backwards.
“Instead, we revisited a lot of our history. Take the album A Matter Of Life And Death, for example: it is a very adventurous disc dips into the progressive rock underground of the late 60s and early 70s. Now, we returned to that territory and have gone further, much more than what we have done before. The segue, song structures, we did not put any restriction. “