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Blaze Bayley – Bannermans, Edinburgh 11/12/11

I’ve been fucking bored of heavy metal these days. I couldn’t even remember what I liked about it. Nothing could pull me out of this depression. Not Manowar’s first Glasgow date in 200 years, not a Priest-Maiden live one-two punch to my ear scrotum, not Joe Elliot performing Animal right at me personally. Shut up, he did. No, the thing that finally restored my faith in the mystical properties of denim & leather was a bald man in his late forties thrusting his beer gut enthusiastically into a half-filled cellar of sweat & beards.

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Iron Maiden Announce UK Tour Dates

For the first time in 5 years, Iron Maiden are hitting the UK for a full arena tour.

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Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier

Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier

Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier

The release of a new Iron Maiden album has almost become more than simply music. Along with Priest and the other elder statesmen of the genre, every new release is an affirmation of the continuing health of a beloved musical institution and, by extension, metal itself. For a metalhead a new Maiden album should be greeted with the sort of rapturous masturbation usually reserved for a teenage boy that’s just flicked over to babestation for the first time, and so it was as a loyal acolyte that I made the pilgrimage to HMV to pick up a copy of The Final Frontier, Iron Maiden’s 15th opus.

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The Top 8 Concept Albums – Part 1

The Top 8 Concept Albums – Part 1

The Top 8 Concept Albums – Part 1

Hello. Here is my take on the 8 greatest concept albums of all time, or at least the ones I have A) Heard and B) Remembered for the purpose of writing this piece. WASP’s Crimson Idol, Iced Earth’s Framing Armageddon double album and others were unlucky to miss out on merit, I totally forgot about Orphaned Land until writing this little intro, had massive reservations about Priest’s Nostradamus, wasn’t sure if Painkiller was really a concept album and generally made a right bollocks of the whole thing. With your expectations now suitably dampened, I present numbers 8-5 on this countdown to conceptual glory…

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Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier : Video Premier

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