Fan-filmed video footage of IRON MAIDEN‘s August 18 performance at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands, Texas as part of the “Maiden England” tour can be seen below.
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Eagle Rock Entertainment will release Re-Machined – A Tribute To DEEP PURPLE‘s Machine Head on September 25th in North America. The album features a list of hard rock/metal heavyweights including METALLICA, IRON MAIDEN, CHICKENFOOT, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY and more.
Iron Maiden’s ‘Space Truckin’’ cover was actually recorded back in 2006. Lead singer Bruce Dickinson (pictured at left with Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan) explains, “Initially we didn’t think we’d be able to contribute anything due to our touring commitments. Then we remembered ‘Space Truckin’, which we’d recorded as a single B-side during our A Matter Of Life And Death album session, but never used. However now, thanks to Kevin Shirley’s remixing skills, we’re able to include it on Re-Machined.”
Check out a new trailer below:
Machine Head is cited as one of the influential masterpieces in the history of hard rock/heavy metal. Deep Purple‘s sixth studio album was recorded through December 1971 in Montreux, Switzerland, and released in March 1972. The album reached number one in the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and Canada.
Re-Machined – A Tribute To Deep Purple‘s Machine Head tracklisting:
‘Smoke On The Water’ – CARLOS SANTANA / JACOBY SHADDIX
‘Highway Star’ – CHICKENFOOT
‘Maybe I’m A Leo’ – GLENN HUGHES / CHAD SMITH
‘Pictures Of Home’ – BLACK LABEL SOCIETY
‘Never Before’ – KINGS OF CHAOS
‘Smoke On The Water’ – THE FLAMING LIPS
‘Lazy’ – JIMMY BARNES with JOE BONOMASSA
‘Space Truckin’ – IRON MAIDEN
‘When A Blind Man Cries’ – METALLICA
‘Highway Star’ – GLENN HUGHES, STEVE VAI, CHAD SMITH, LAUCHLAN DOLEY
The cover of ‘Highway Star’ is currently streaming online at BraveWords.com – head to the left-hand-side of the site to launch the KnuckleTracks Online Audio Player.
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Video footage of TESTAMENT guitarist Alex Skolnick tracking harmonies at Spin Studios in Long Island City, New York for the band’s cover version of the IRON MAIDEN classic “Powerslave” can be seen below. The song is included on the CD/DVD and vinyl versions of TESTAMENT‘s new album, “Dark Roots Of Earth”, which sold more than 20,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No, 12 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD arrived in stores on July 31 via Nuclear Blast Records.
TESTAMENT‘s previous studio album, “The Formation of Damnation”, opened with 11,400 units back in May 2008 to debut at position No. 59.
“Dark Roots Of Earth” was produced, mixed and mastered by acclaimed British producer Andy Sneap (ARCH ENEMY, NEVERMORE, ACCEPT, EXODUS). Special bonus tracks were recorded, mixed and mastered by Juan Urteaga (MACHINE HEAD, EXODUS, TED NUGENT, NIGHT RANGER) at his Trident Studios. The cover artwork for the effort (see below) was painted by Eliran Kantor, who has previously worked with ATHEIST, SIGH, ANACRUSIS and GWAR, among others.
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According to InGoal Magazine, backup goaltender Chris Mason of the NHL hockey team Nashville Predators is set to debut his new mask, featuring another tribute to British heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN in the shape of the band’s mascot Eddie.
The design in question utilizes Eddie from the Egyptian-themed cover of MAIDEN‘s “Powerslave” album, which also produced the single “Aces High” and corresponding Eddie included on Mason‘s 2011 Winnipeg Jets mask. Both covers were originally created originally by artist Derek Riggs, who inspired the mask’s artist, Steve Nash of EyeCandyAir.
Nashville Predators signed Mason earlier this summer to a one-year contract worth $1.25 million and $250,000 in potential bonuses for a cap hit of $1.5 million.
The 36-year-old Mason previously spent eight seasons with the Predators — from 1998 to 2002 and 2003 to 2008. Since his most recent departure from Nashville, he played two seasons for St. Louis (2008-2010) and two seasons for Atlanta/Winnipeg (2010-2012).
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Guitar Center TV has uploaded video footage of IRON MAIDEN‘s Adrian Smith talking about his roots, relationship with Jackson and his Jackson Adrian Smith Signature SDX guitar. Check it out below.
Jackson Adrian Smith Signature SDX features a basswood body, bolt-on maple neck, compound-radius rosewood or maple fingerboard, HSS configuration (high-output Jackson bridge pickup, noiseless middle and neck single-coil pickups), white pickguard (rosewood fingerboard model) or black pickguard (maple fingerboard model), five-way blade selector switch, Jackson tuners, Floyd Rose Special tremolo system and black hardware.
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British heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN this week landed at position No. 3 on Billboard.com‘s “Hot Tours” list of top-grossing tours this week with $4.8 million in ticket sales from seven performances on their 2012 tour through North America. The 34-date “Maiden England” trek is based on the band’s “Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son Tour”, with a setlist almost exclusively from the 1980s featuring all the classic songs and hits. The same spectacular stage set as was used on the original 1988 tour has been recreated, complete with a magnificent light show, pyro and a newly reincarnated Eddie.
Asked by AZCentral.com what inspired the “history of MAIDEN” series of tours, MAIDEN drummer Nicko McBrain said, “The primary reason is there were these new generations of fans. We thought, ‘These kids weren’t even thought about when we went out with this particular tour and that particular tour.’ And that’s how it all started. So it works out well for us. When you’re doing a brand-new record, you’ve got to see how the sales go on that, you’ve got to go on tour and promote it, which we’ve always done a great job of in the past. But it’s nice to not have to take that side of the industry with you every time you go out on tour.”
Regarding whether re-creating what he did in 1988 stirred memories of that time in IRON MAIDEN‘s history for him, Nicko said, “I think if you ask everybody, we kind of just know we were there but we don’t remember a bloody thing about it. [laughs] But going to these places we played in that period of our lives, you sometimes get these memories jogged. It’s like when you sit around a table with your childhood mates, and somebody will say one little thing and it just conjures up this memory. For me, I find it more so when I’m actually playing a song at a particular venue. I might be halfway through a song, and I’ll go, ‘I remember what I did after the gig that night. This is where I took my wife out and whatever happened.’ Well, she wouldn’t have been my wife then. [laughs, and then in a much louder voice] It might have been someone else’s. [laughs]”
McBrain, who joined IRON MAIDEN in 1982 as the replacement for drummer Clive Burr, tells AZCentral.com that he still think very highly of the “Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son” album, especially now that he has had to re-learn all the material from it. “It’s a masterpiece,” he said. “What I tended to do was listen to the ‘Maiden England’ video. And I’d go, ‘Gosh, I can’t believe we played that song that fast.’ So what we’ve done is — we still have a lot of energy, but as a player, I’ve realized that we couldn’t play these songs at that speed today and make it work. We were younger, and it was a lot more crazy. We’re a bit more refined with where we go with the tempos now. There are still nights where I get a bit quick, and me and Steve [Harris, bass] get going together and the rest of the band moan and groan at us because we think we’re young kids again up there. [laughs] But it was really nice listening back to the old stuff because I rarely revisit the older MAIDEN material when I’m listening in my car to music.”
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