Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson hopes to launch his subsequent solo album in 2027 – and bassist Steve Harris already loves the brand new materials.
Speaking solely to Metallic Hammer, Dickinson, who launched his newest solo album The Mandrake Challenge in 2024, reveals that solo LP quantity eight can be out in two years’ time, after Maiden have performed their as-yet-unannounced dwell dates in 2026.
The vocalist tells us: “We’ve acquired, like, 18 tracks demoed, which I did in April. We’re going to do a brand new album – not for subsequent 12 months, clearly. We’re busy subsequent 12 months with different issues, clearly Maiden issues and every thing, which is nice, however ’27 that’s when it’s going to come out.”
The singer goes on to explain what we will count on from his subsequent launch, teasing “bone-crushingly heavy” songs in addition to moments that “are similar to tugging on the heartstrings”.
“If it’s heavy, it’s heavy,” he provides, “but when it simply occurs to be acoustic, it’s acoustic. That’s the deal, you already know?
“It’s regardless of the track dictates, regardless of the story is you’re making an attempt to inform, however it’s actually thrilling. I’m so stoked about these tracks. I performed the demos to some folks within the report label and stuff, and everyone is like, ‘Wow!’”
One other fan of the upcoming music is Harris, who based Maiden in 1975 and has served because the band’s de facto chief and first songwriter ever since. In keeping with Dickinson, the bassist simply so occurred to overhear a few of the new stuff, catching it because the singer performed it for a few of Maiden’s workforce within the subsequent room over.
“I used to be taking part in the demos to the workforce, the administration, as a result of I’ve acquired it on a little bit pill,” Dickinson remembers. “So I mentioned, ‘You need to hear some new stuff?’
“I didn’t realise Steve was having his physio within the room subsequent door. And he got here out and he went, ‘Is that your new stuff?’ I went, ‘Yeah.’ He goes, ‘That’s the most effective stuff you’ve ever accomplished. That’s the most effective stuff I’ve ever heard from you!’ I went, ‘Properly, thanks very a lot, boss!’”
The three-year wait for brand spanking new Dickinson music can be nothing in comparison with the gestation interval for The Mandrake Challenge, which was launched 19 years after its predecessor Tyranny Of Souls. The singer defined the wait throughout an interview with Basic Rock.
“It’s been on the boil since 2014,” he mentioned. “Then I acquired recognized with throat most cancers [in late 2014], then we had fucking Covid, so there have been two years after I couldn’t go to the USA. So by the point I reconvened with [guitarist and producer] Roy Z, every thing had moved on.”
Final week, Dickinson reissued his second solo album Balls To Picasso, initially launched in 1994, with the brand new title Extra Balls To Picasso. The reissue options remixed overhauls of the unique recordings, in addition to live-in-the-studio takes of the songs God Of Conflict and Shoot All The Clowns. Pay attention under.
In the meantime, Maiden just lately wrapped up the European leg of their Fiftieth-anniversary tour, Run For Your Lives. The trek is predicted to increase into 2026, however no upcoming dates have been revealed at time of publication.
