The critically acclaimed double album debuted one place higher than 2015's "The Book Of Souls" and 2010's "The Final Frontier", which both peaked at No. Nearly 90 percent of the LP's 64,000 equivalent album units earned came from pure album sales. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, charting higher than even the band's early classics like "Powerslave" and "The Number Of The Beast". It features three tracks whose running time exceeds 10 minutes each.įor "Senjutsu" - loosely translated as "tactics and strategy" - the band once again enlisted the services of Mark Wilkinson to create the spectacular Samurai-themed cover artwork, based on an idea by Harris.
IRON MAIDEN's first album in six years, "Senjutsu" was recorded in 2019 in Paris with longstanding producer Kevin Shirley and co-produced by bassist Steve Harris. It marks MAIDEN's second consecutive double album behind 2015's "The Book Of Souls" which is the longest MAIDEN album, with a running time of 92 minutes. So given that, don't complain that they did what they said they were gonna do."Ĭlocking in at a hefty 82 minutes, "Senjutsu" came out in September. It's gonna be plain as the nose on your face. If you don't wanna go, you don't buy a ticket. It'll be fantastic."Īddressing the fact that MAIDEN infuriated some fans by forcing them to sit through the band's then-new, 75-minute "A Matter Of Life And Death" album on tour in 2006, denying the crowd the greatest hits they'd come for, Bruce said: "Nobody has to buy a ticket. But I think 'The Writing On The Wall' is gonna be a great song - I mean, a crowd singalong song. And then once you've done that - and we'll have a stage set to go with it - once you've done that, you're back to the kind of 'Legacy' world at that point. And I just think 'Senjutsu' is just such a great opening song - so dramatic. 'The Writing On The Wall' they already know, so everybody should know the first three tracks.
But the first three tracks are probably gonna be the first three tracks on the album. "The 'Legacy Of The Beast' tour, people have all paid their money to see the 'Legacy Of The Beast' show, with Spitfires and flamethrowers and Icarus and everything that goes with," he said. 'Cause it's a musical thing to do - it's a musical thing."ĭickinson went on to clarify that the 2022 leg of MAIDEN's "Legacy Of The Beast" tour, which is scheduled to kick off in late May in Zagreb, Croatia, will once again focus primarily on a decades-spanning setlist of fan favorites. And we all appreciate that that is something that really diehard fans will probably love and other people will go, 'Hmmm, I'm not gonna go see that.' So the answer is you play smaller venues so that they sell out with just your diehard fans. The 63-year-old singer discussed MAIDEN's future touring plans during an appearance on the latest episode of the "Talk Is Jericho" podcast, hosted by FOZZY frontman and wrestling superstar Chris Jericho.īruce said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "The plan we've got - it's not really a secret I think everybody else has chatted about it - we will, I hope, we've talked about doing the entire album start to finish, but not this time around. Bruce Dickinson has confirmed that IRON MAIDEN is planning to stage a tour where it will perform its new album, "Senjutsu", in its entirety.
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