“Welcome home”, goes the chorus. “It’s been too long, we’ve missed you”, go the fans. Bruce Dickinson found himself with his fourth solo album. And it was closer to home than he might have imagined. Continue reading
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Review: Best Of The Beast (1996)
Iron Maiden released their first compilation album in 1996. But did Best Of The Beast serve to capture new fans, or did it simply shed a harsh light on the state of the band in the mid-1990s? Continue reading
Review: Bruce Dickinson – Skunkworks (1996)
Bruce Dickinson decided to make a band. His own name would fade into the background, while Skunkworks took center stage. How did Dickinson’s biggest solo gamble turn out? Continue reading
Torgrim Reviews: The Bruce Dickinson Experience
On Saturday March 2nd the legendary Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson visited Ole Bull Teater in Bergen and made the capacity crowd grin with laughter for the close to three hours long event. Torgrim Øyre was there to report. Continue reading
Review: Bruce Dickinson – Alive In Studio A (1995)
The birth of the band Skunkworks, but a strange intermission in the solo career of Bruce Dickinson. The singer’s first solo live record feels unnecessary. Continue reading
Review: Bruce Dickinson – Balls To Picasso (1994)
He tried once. He tried twice. At the third attempt Bruce Dickinson finally got another solo album together, his first music after leaving Iron Maiden. What does Balls To Picasso say about the solo singer? Continue reading
Review: Live At Donington (1993)
Live album fatigue sets in with the third (!) concert release of 1993. But the last record out of the gate is also the best of them, for two important reasons. Continue reading
Review: A Real Dead One (1993)
The live album onslaught of 1993 continued in the fall of the year. But the production and performances of Iron Maiden at the end of the first Dickinson period do not hold up well. Continue reading
Review: A Real Live One (1993)
Eight years after the colossal Live After Death, Iron Maiden have another four studio albums to plunder for their setlist. And so they decide it is time for another live album. Here is a look back at Maiden’s controversial second concert record. Continue reading
Spring speculation: Legacy of the Beast European Tour 2018
Here we go again. Iron Maiden will be back on the road in two months, and Maiden Revelations takes a peek in the crystal ball to see what might be coming our way this time. Continue reading
