More than 45 years into their career, Iron Maiden show no signs of slowing down. I caught their performance at Trondheim Rocks in 2018, and it remains one of the most memorable concerts I’ve attended. Now, six years after The Book of Souls, the band returns with their seventeenth studio album, Senjutsu, an ambitious, 82‑minute epic that leans heavily on long‑form songwriting, with three tracks stretching beyond the ten‑minute...

Iron Maiden is one of those bands who never let their fans down, and the fact that they have always stayed true to their style and never moved too far away from the winning formula that captured the heavy metal hordes in the early stages of their carreer is probably the main reason that they are still around nearly 40 years later. It's been five years since the release...

Mye av det Iron Maiden har levert de senere årene har vært av litt varierende kvalitet og således ikke så veldig spennende. Dette har i sin tur resultert i at jeg hadde mistet litt av troen på bandet, så når ’A matter of life and death’ ramlet ned i postkassa forventet jeg meg egentlig bare ”another mainden album”. Da er det selvfølgelig ekstra hyggelig å kunne slå fast at...