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Which rock concert had the biggest impact on System of a Down vocalist Serj Tankian? The singer instantly called up his first ever concert with Iron Maiden when asked that question, while also naming off another legendary concert tour as well. Tankian was speaking with Monsters, Madness and Magic (as heard in the player below) when the topic of impactful live shows came up. Surprisingly, Tankian revealed that he wasn’t necessarily a fan of Iron Maiden when he went to see them play, but the show definitely had an impact on him afterward. Serj’s First Concert “Maiden” Impact“The first one that I...
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Bruce Dickinson explained why he sometimes wonders if Iron Maiden pushes themselves hard enough. The singer said he faced the recurring concern that the band limits their creativity to keep their fans happy – and also discussed his solution. “Iron Maiden fans are on another level,” Dickinson told the Big Issue in a recent interview. “And it’s a whole life term. I don’t support a football team, but I look with astonishment at how supporters react. READ MORE: The Best Song From Every Iron Maiden Album “I don’t think there’s a word for the level of commitment and devotion people have to a footbal...
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Pearl Jam may not showcase much of a heavy metal influence, but guitarist Stone Gossard did indeed love metal growing up and shouted out some of his favorite metal albums as a kid during a recent interview. Gossard’s response came in a wide-ranging interview with KLOS DJ Matt Pinfield (who also co-hosts The Power Hour on AXS TV) on his “New and Approved” radio show. The two chatted about Eddie Vedder‘s lyrics on the title track of Pearl Jam’s new album, Dark Matter, and how there’s some ambiguity in the meaning of some of the lines. As the guitarist notes, “Dark Matter” features the lyric “Kin...
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Pearl Jam may not showcase much of a heavy metal influence, but guitarist Stone Gossard did indeed love metal growing up and shouted out some of his favorite metal albums as a kid during a recent interview. Gossard’s response came in a wide-ranging interview with KLOS DJ Matt Pinfield (who also co-hosts The Power Hour on AXS TV) on his “New and Approved” radio show. The two chatted about Eddie Vedder‘s lyrics on the title track of Pearl Jam’s new album, Dark Matter, and how there’s some ambiguity in the meaning of some of the lines. As the guitarist notes, “Dark Matter” features the lyric “Kin...
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Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson said he was the victim of beatings regularly during his teenage years. He attended a boarding school in England during the ‘60s, where bullying was rife and there was nowhere to hide after the day’s lessons had ended. “I was on my own in boarding school and I got the shit kicked out of me on a regular basis. Like, every night,” Dickinson told The Quietus in a new interview. READ MORE: The Best Song From Every Iron Maiden Album “The lights would go out in the dormitory and 15 kids would beat the crap out of me. It was pretty horrible, but it builds up a degr...
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Bruce Dickinson felt like he had a "golf ball" growing on his tongue when he was diagnosd with cancer. The Iron Maiden frontman couldn't understand why people said the tumour he had was "tiny" and he admitted the radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatments he had to go through were very "tough". Speaking to Pedro Bial on Brazilian TV show 'Conversa com Bial', he said: "I recorded the Iron Maiden album 'The Book of Souls' with that thing growing in my throat. What was it? Stage 3 cancer. "I had a 3.5 cm tumor on my tongue and a 2.5 cm one on the lymph node. People said, 'It was tiny. He caught it ...
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Iron Maiden have released 17 studio albums since 1980, but which 10 albums do fans own the most? Like any band that has been around that long, some albums tend to be much more appreciated than others. This means some titles are among most sought by fans and collectors while others are reserved for the most die-hard Iron Maiden listeners. Discogs is a database for record collectors to log what they currently own along with which hard-to-find titles they’ve been trying to procure. We recently went through the listings for all of the Iron Maiden’s albums on the popular platform to find which titl...
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Rapper OsamaSon claims he is being sued by Iron Maiden after ripping off a Powerslave era piece of Iron Maiden art for the cover of the deluxe edition of his latest album. As seen below in a screenshot of OsamaSon’s Instagram Story (which has since expired), news outlet Kurrco shared the news of the alleged lawsuit. “Iron Maiden is suing me so… ……cover is gone,” the rapper wrote, tagging the band’s handle. The X post also shows the artwork for the rapper’s Flex Musix (FLXTRA) deluxe edition album, which was released in February, as well as the Iron Maiden World Slavery tour art in question. Th...
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Rapper OsamaSon claims he is being sued by Iron Maiden after ripping off a Powerslave era piece of Iron Maiden art for the cover of the deluxe edition of his latest album. As seen below in a screenshot of OsamaSon’s Instagram Story (which has since expired), news outlet Kurrco shared the news of the alleged lawsuit. “Iron Maiden is suing me so… ……cover is gone,” the rapper wrote, tagging the band’s handle. The X post also shows the artwork for the rapper’s Flex Musix (FLXTRA) deluxe edition album, which was released in February, as well as the Iron Maiden World Slavery tour art in question. Th...
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Bruce Dickinson says he wanted to front Iron Maiden from the first time he saw the band in action. In a recent interview with Record Collector, the vocalist said he’d already heard about Steve Harris’ group when Samson, his own outfit at the time, hired them as openers for the show at the Music Machine, London, in May 1979. “We were headlining because our management had bankrolled the gig and said, ‘We want the top slot’ – although we didn’t really deserve it,” Dickinson recalled. “That became obvious when Maiden came on, because the whole place was rammed. I’d heard rumors about how good they...
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