OUT NOW: A new book from Christer Andresen that celebrates 50 years of Iron Maiden, going album by album and song by song through their amazing career.
Fonthill Media in the UK publishes Christer’s book Iron Maiden: Song by Song on 30 November 2025. Click here to order your copy:
The Song by Song series celebrates classic artists and their output through the years, and Christer applies his writing for Maiden Revelations in a critical and celebratory discussion of Iron Maiden.
From their beginnings in the late 1970s, through the glory days of the 1980s and the struggles of the 1990s, to their new golden era in the 2000s and beyond, every Maiden album and every Maiden song is put into perspective as essential puzzle pieces of the most enduring and beloved band in hard rock and heavy metal history.
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Maiden Revelations 
I look forward to reading it! 🙂
Thank you! 🙂
Hopefully it will be somewhat entertaining. To be honest, these song-by-song types of books aren’t my own cup of tea unless they come in the words of the artists themselves, but I have aimed to make this one a bit different.
Hi Christer, I ordered your book in October last year but I’m still waiting for it!
I presume another print is on it’s way?
Hi Craig, you would have to inquire where you ordered it. The book is widely available now, and the store where you ordered it is responsible for getting it to you. If they are currently out of stock, they should relay that information to you as well.
Hi Christer,
Thanks, I will chase them up.
Craig
Hi Christer,
I wanted to leave a big thanks for your book and the effort you have put in it! It’s the first time for me reading this kind of thing, so I can’t really compare it to anything other, but I found it quite entertaining. Especially the “Related Recordings” and “Listening Preferences” were quite interesting trivia.
What intrigues me most here is, how did you work on this – you surely have got to run into some listening fatigue over time? And here you probably must have heard their catalogue countless of times. Also, do you own all this different records or was there some collaboration with third parties going on? Anyhow, quite some deep dive into some of their “B”-stuff.
Some minor points I’d like to point out:
Something to mention here is that your book finally forced me to listen to the Blaze albums for the first time ever since becoming a Maiden-Fan some 25-ish years ago. And oh boy… I guess the negative build-up makes an objective take impossible, but that this is the same band, I simply couldn’t comprehend. Very maybe I found myself a bit grasped by Futureal, but the rest was a a bit of a tour de force.
Lastly some big thanks for your compiled history on this site, which I first found during the middle of the pandemic. Also a very fascinating read even for the 2nd and 3rd time! I wonder what the final chapter of their twilight years will tell us in whatever number of years down the road…
Greetings from Germany!
Thank you for the feedback, Danny!
I guess I’m one of those who never cared about the distinction between hard rock and heavy metal, so I probably mess up sometimes with those terms.
I have to admit that I own all the vinyl and CD versions that I talk about in the book. I know, I’m a nerd. But it was a pleasure to listen through the 1980s vinyl pressings. For example, Piece of Mind never sounded as good in any other version. The people who worked the mastering and pressing back then were masters of their craft.
And, haha, you’re right. The B-side stuff in the early days gets comically detailed. I know that when I look in the book now. I just didn’t know if I should leave it out. And when I decided to keep it in, Maiden’s early days are just extremely complicated when it comes to that stuff. So I decided to go all the way. Haha, well spotted.
I have a friend who loves The Apparition. So I feel bad about what I wrote. But the truth is I think the song sucks and would never have been on a Maiden album pre-CD.
I think I write in the book that The Final Frontier is my favorite sounding modern Maiden album. I know some people will disagree, but I think Kevin Shirley’s work on that one is amazing. And they got Bob Ludwig to master it. One of the legends of vinyl mastering in the 1970s. So it definitely sounds better than Matter does.
Thank you, Danny!
Best wishes,
Christer