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Lionheart – The Grace of a Dragonfly (2024) – Review

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You gotta love the promo dude. “LIONHEART (ex-IRON MAIDEN)…” in huge letters. The headline shrilly hollers its wares at the audience like some seethingly bright neon sign over at Times Square. So, naive RMR fully believed that staged Heavy Metal would grace our turntable and started looking for Iron Maiden‘s newest clone or something. But upon a closer look, the situation is a tad different.

Dennis Stratton indeed once rocked with Iron Maiden back around 1980 before Dickinson was even invented. And he only plied the one and only self-titled debut album. So, THAT’s the sole claim for fame … [...] Click to raid more!

Video: Bruce Dickinson braves the Rain on the Graves!

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You gotta give it to him. Bruce Dickinson still has energy to spare at the ripe old age of 65 years.1 Apart from his heavy duties at the helm of the mighty Iron Maiden, he’s off to new pastures on his solo endeavor.

So, here he is with his newest video Rain on the Graves siphoned off his solo album The Mandrake Project. Dickinson in priestly garb, no less, on a journey to sell his soul to you-know-who. He might not be the best of all actors out there. But the cinematography is pretty solid, with a … [...] Click to raid more!

Iron Maiden – Senjutsu (2021) – Review

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Some six years ago, Iron Maiden hit us with The Book of Souls. A 92-minute behemoth that – at first – we had some trouble wrapping our heads around. And in truth, the piece almost ended up in the oubliette somewhere. Yet, it nonetheless garnered an incredibly high score back then, which made modern RMR scratch his head in dismayed confusion.

So, before starting with this review, we gave the maidens’ last book a particularly long and hard look all over again. Sadly, the former stellar rating did not survive today’s standards and a severe downgrade had to be … [...] Click to raid more!

The Writing on the Wall by Iron Maiden!

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Oh my. A new clip from Iron Maiden is out in the open, and we didn’t see it coming. The RMR deck crew is eagerly awaiting that new full-length record. This elusive new piece is so overdue, it starts to feel like AC/DC that were pronounced officially dead, before making an about-turn back to reality. In this light, any new track that surfaces is an indicator of new delights heading our way, right?

So, The Writing on the Wall arrives out of the left field after some six years of radio silence. And it comes in the form of … [...] Click to raid more!