Swedish Newspaper Sneak Previews New Album!

The swedish newspaper Aftonbladet have been attendig "Maiden Week", an extended press conferance of sorts, where they have been played the new Iron Maiden studio album.

Mattias Kling writes;
(freely translated by MaidenNorway.com)

MIGHTY, MAIDEN!

Bruce Dickinson

There's no doubt about it - if you like "Brave New World" and "Dance of Death", the new album will be like a long lost friend coming out of nowhere giving you a pad on the back. Iron Maiden continues down the progressive path, the material evermore fluctuating between soft and hard. Merely one track, the album opener "Different Worlds", is shorter than five minutes long, and the giant "For the Greater Good of God" measures almost nine and a half minutes. It is big, bigger and biggest that matters. With no real exceptions."

"Friends of grand arrangements will get their appetite fed and most of the songs reuses the complex structures that defines Iron Maiden. Then add something of a ballad in the same style as "Children of the Damned", and Bruce Dickinsons solotrack "Tears of the Dragon", in "Out of the Sahdows" and you've got an album that's way up there."

"A Matter of Life and Death" is due for release in september, and two months later Iron Maiden will embark on a full World Tour" - perhaps the Tour of Life and Death?. One thing is for sure - 2006 is Maidens year. The year of the Beast.

You can read the full-lenght article here (in swedish):
http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/story/0,2789,845339,00.html.

Thanks to Aftonbladet for the article and to Maidenfans.com for posting a notice about it.

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