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https://www.europesays.com/es/749345/ ¡Sólo para coleccionistas! Iron Maiden celebra sus 50 años con reediciones de lujo #50Años #BruceDickinson #Entertainment #Entretenimiento #ES #España #gira #huracan #IronMaiden #Music #Música #reedicion #Spain #Vinilos
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Billie Joe Armstrong convida Bruce Dickinson, do Iron Maiden, para cover surpresa
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Lion’s Share – Inferno Review By Andy-War-HallSome bands need no introduction; somehow, Lion’s Share do. Hailing from Sundsvall, Sweden, guitarist Lars Chriss and keyboardist Kay Buckland formed the group in 1987 and, between 1995 and 2009, cranked out a smattering of respectable, high-octane heavy metal records before seemingly falling off a cliff. Lion’s Share were never condemned to obscurity,1 but they never reached the level of acclaim their fans believe they deserved. Now, seventeen years after 2009’s Dark Hours, Lion’s Share attempt to swing back with Inferno, something Chriss claims as “the strongest, heaviest and most focused Lion’s Share record of our career.” There’s a lot working against Inferno: seventeen years between albums could either stoke the flames of ambition or see them snuffed out, and vocalist Nils Patrik Johansson most recently came off a plain bad solo record in War and Peace. But can Lion’s Share overcome these challenges and stumbles to claim the throne they deserve with Inferno?
Lion’s Share raise their Inferno through the ancient metal magiks of the early 80s. Ruled by the riff as first envisioned by the likes of Exciter, Diamond Head, and Dio, Inferno sneers at any notion that heavy/proto-thrash doesn’t deserve consideration this side of 2000. For the most part, Inferno’s throwback nature proves engaging. “The Lion’s Trial” evokes Dio’s “Holy Diver” with its dramatic synth intro and anthemic structure, while “We Will Rock” teeters the line of homage and plagiarism of Dio’s “We Rock,” borrowing heavily from its chorus riff and vocals. Inferno flirts with select 90s innovations, like Primal Fearesque power metal in “Live Forever” and “Another Desire” and brooding groove in “Pentagram” and “Baptized in Blood,” which catches similar waves as Bruce Dickinson’s The Chemical Wedding. The only break from the formula is closer “Run for Your Life,” which blends doom riffs with symphonic elements and full-on hair metal sleaze into a ridiculously fun package. Inferno sees a band that doesn’t just mimic the sounds of old but realizes them authentically.
Lion’s Share sound spry as ever on Inferno. Vim drives Inferno, bestowing it great volumes of speed (“We Will Rock”), brawn (“Pentagram”), dirt (“Another Desire”) and drama (“Run for Your Life”). Inferno’s biggest surprise is Johansson, who sounds simply robust, and his Dioisms feel more like a feature and less like a caricature than on War and Peace. I think because Lion’s Share is riff-centric, NPJ doesn’t have to carry the material himself and put too much pressure on his voice. When Inferno does call on him to take the lead, the results range from the strained hiccup of “Live Forever” to the chest-pounding victory of “The Lion’s Trial.” But the highlight of Inferno is Chriss’ soloing, which evokes the gnarly excess of Vivian Campbell and Eddie Van Halen in their shreddy melodicism. Lion’s Share may have been away from the studio for some time, but age doesn’t seem to have taken its toll on Inferno.
Lion’s Share don’t do much you’ve never heard before, but Inferno is just too fun not to feel like a total victory. There’s little bloat on Inferno, bar some over repetition on “Chain Child” and “Live Forever,” and the mix is clear and dynamic enough for what Lion’s Share do. The hooks are massive without being overbearing: I’ve been humming “Baptized in Blood” and “The Lion’s Share” all week, and “We Will Rock” escapes the knock-off label with a ridiculously catchy verse all of its own. Inferno’s lyrics are silly but delivered so convincingly it rarely comes off as corny but more tongue-in-cheek: when “We Are What We Are” calls for a heavy metal revolution, or NPJ describes himself as the “Anti-Social Warrior” on “Inferno,” I laugh with Lion’s Share. Overall, Inferno crackles and rages with simple heavy metal goodness.
Lion’s Share are so easy to root for, and Inferno proves why. Good songs, good performances, excellent solos, and an undying allegiance to their craft make Inferno a blast all around. With how good “Run for Your Life” turned out, however, it makes me wonder if Inferno could’ve ascended beyond mere enjoyability if Lion’s Share went in more adventurous directions in their songwriting. But there isn’t a whiff of pretension on this thing, and I get the sense that this is exactly the record these guys wanted to make. Lion’s Share are probably not going to take the world with Inferno, but if you like your metal loud, beefy, and dated circa 1981, it’s just the record you want to hear.
Rating: Good
#2026 #30 #BruceDickinson #DiamondHead #Dio #Exciter #HeavyMetal #Inferno #LionSShare #Mar26 #MetalvilleRecords #NilsPatrikJohansson #PowerMetal #PrimalFear #Review #Reviews #SwedishMetal
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mps
Label: Metalville Records
Websites: lionsshare.org | lionsshare.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/lionsshareband
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10 Metal Singers Who'd Fit Perfectly in Other Bands
Just imagine the possibilities!https://loudwire.com/metal-singers-fit-perfectly-other-bands/
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The Led Zeppelin song that Bruce Dickinson picked as a favorite
https://rockandrollgarage.com/the-led-zeppelin-song-that-bruce-dickinson-picked-as-a-favorite/
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Today In Metal History 🤘 August 7th, 2024🤘
BRUCE DICKINSON, PETE WAY, BLACK SABBATH, EXTREME, BEHEMOTH#BruceDickinson #PeteWay #BlackSabbath #Extreme #Behemoth #IronMaiden #Samson #Helloween #UFO #Waysted #IanGillan #TonyMacAlpine #AntagonistAD #ReverendBizarre #TheAbsence #DrowningPool #StillRemains #Throwdown #Behemoth #Memorain #CattleDecapitation #FearFactory #Krisiun #MissMayI #Avatar #Batushka #BlackCrownInitiate
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BRUCE DICKINSON On Cursing Out Fan For Lighting Flare At IRON MAIDEN Show: 'I Shouldn't Have Called Him A Greek C***'#IronMaiden #BruceDickinson #GreekCunt #Flare #Concert #TheNumberOfTheBeast
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Today is the halfway point of our current 6 Degrees series, connecting albums from The List. And, again, because we’re doing a bit of a Prince-theme, we’ll be picking out some fun Prince-connections in/below the set.
Okay, carrying on from where we left off last time…
6 Degrees of Separation: Bruce Dickinson to Explosions In The Sky
Bruce Dickinson – The Chemical Wedding (list number 509)
>> As noted in our feature on Tagaq’s album (which ended Part 3), she’s keen to someday cover Iron Maiden, whose frontman is Bruce Dickinson. Dickinson’s solo album contains both lyrics and artwork by the 18th/19th century English poet and painter William Blake…Prince – For You (623)
…who the writer John Higgs delightfully compares at length to Prince in his piece in The Quietus called “Visionaries Across Time: The Shared Magic of Prince & William Blake“. …Iggy And The Stooges – Raw Power (814)
…William Blake also pops up in Jim Jarmusch’s 1995 film Dead Man, as the main character, also named William Blake, may or may not be the reincarnation of the English poet. Dead Man features a cameo by Iggy Pop, who is regarded as the “godfather of punk”. …Minor Threat – Minor Threat (609)
…And, if anyone could similarly be called the “godfather of hardcore” (or could command as much devotion from Henry Rollins), that would be Ian MacKaye, of Minor Threat and…Fugazi – Repeater (422)
…Fugazi, whose tour for The Argument album featured the post-rock greats…Explosions In The Sky – Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever (73)
Explosions In The Sky. <<Prince 6(ish)
This group of artists are a bit far removed from The Purple One, so the connections are tough for this set. Let me know in the comments if you know of any other connections!
- Iron Maiden and Prince both had a rigorous release schedule in the 80s and early 90s, with both releasing an album (and a hit album, at that) nearly every year. E.g., Iron Maiden’s 1st self-titled album came out the same year as Prince’s Dirty Mind (1980), as did Killers and Controversy (1981), The Number of the Beast and 1999 (1982), Powerslave and Purple Rain (1984), etc. (Prince didn’t have an 1983 album to match Maiden’s Piece of Mind, likely due to working on the Purple Rain film/album.) ((I feel like there should be an accompanying string of surveys on Mastodon asking people to pick their favorites from the above pairs…))
- The Swedish author and professor Per Nilsen has written music biographies on Prince as well as Iggy Pop and the Stooges (and David Bowie).
- While there’s no direct connection between Minor Threat and Prince, I found this Flavorwire article interesting that links the American hardcore scene with Prince by way of fellow-Minneapolis band Hüsker Dü (who is on The List, and who was signed to SST Records, the label of Greg Ginn of Black Flag, who Henry Rollins, Ian MacKaye’s bff, was the vocalist of from 1981 to 1985). Essentially, the author argues that location tied Prince and Hüsker Dü (as well as The Replacements) together just like Seattle, Detroit, and Memphis did for the bands that came from those cities:
- “Trying to separate the success of Prince and The Revolution from the impact the music of The Replacements and Hüsker Dü would go on to have smacks of punk rock elitism, and is almost like somebody saying that Nirvana shouldn’t count as part of the now-legendary Seattle scene simply because they got too big… Prince…and his lasting impact on his hometown’s music scene are just as vital as the influence attributed to a couple of punk bands he has probably never even listened to.”
- Fugazi’s Repeater came out the same year as Prince’s Graffiti Bridge (1990).
- Explosions In The Sky’s Those Who Tell the Truth… came out just a couple months before Prince’s Rainbow Children (2001), just a week prior to 9/11. Explosions In The Sky had some hub-bub around their album since the artwork had an airplane with the caption “This plane will crash tomorrow”, including one of the band members being detained by airport security. I wonder if the reception of Prince’s album would’ve been different if it wasn’t released during this time, as it seems that Rainbow Children is one of those that gets missed. ((Indeed, it should be on The List – I would add it myself, but I’ve cut myself off – somebody else want to submit it???))
- Prince died on Iggy Pop’s 69th birthday.
Tune in on Wednesday for Part 5, to see how we get from Explosions in the Sky to Rainbow! And in the meantime, tomorrow we will have a regular spotlight that provides a bit of a spoiler to Part 5…
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/04/15/6-degrees-of-separation-part-4/
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Watch: BRUCE DICKINSON Performs 'Starchildren', 'Book Of Thel' And 'The Tower' At Second Whisky A Go Go Concert#IRONMAIDEN #BRUCEDICKINSON #WhiskyAGoGo #TheHouseBandFromHell #AccidentOfBirth #Starchildren #TheChemicalWedding #TheMandrakeProject #TheBookOfThel #TheTower #TearsOfTheDragon #ResurrectionMen #RainOnTheGraves
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42 Years Ago: Iron Maiden Unleash 'The Number of the Beast'
On March 22, 1982, Iron Maiden changed heavy metal forever.https://loudwire.com/iron-maiden-the-number-of-the-beast-anniversary/
#IronMaiden #TheNumberoftheBeast #Anniversary #HeavyMetal #BritishBand #MetalAlbum #1980s #IconicSongs #MusicHistory #EddietheHead #BruceDickinson #SteveHarris #DaveMurray #AdrianSmith #CliveBurr.
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Soeben habe ich den Linux-Kernel mit der Versionsnummer 6.6.6 installiert. Mir doch egal, wie platt das ist, natürlich lautet nun die einzig passende Musikverlinkung:
yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=WxnN…
Das Intro sollte ursprünglich wohl Vincent Price sprechen, seine Gagenforderung war aber nicht mit den Vorstellungen der Band kompatibel.
#Musik #music #MusikZurNacht #IronMaiden #BruceDickinson #SteveHarris #DaveMurray #AdrianSmith #CliveBurr #metal #HeavyMetal #AirRaidSiren #TheNumberOfTheBeast #Linux #Kernel
