Artist: Iron Maiden

To me, nothing is as fully sweet like pop music played heavy and with controlled virtuosity. It's like a famous master chef whipping up simple, delicious hot dogs for my face; it seems foolish to abandon such classic fare to high-volume/low-margin assembly lines, right? Hence my devotion to the jamz of Rush, Bay Area thrash, [...]

:: Maiden fans rejoice as Iron Maiden is gearing up for some touring in 2012 ! :: Converge fanatics listen up! Drum tracking is finished for a new album. :: Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox of Deerhunter ) announce tour dates for Japan and North America for February and March. :: More new releases are in the works. Bring Me the Horizon will begin to write a new record next month, while Trivium is set to [...]

Ah, eighties metal. Fun, fun stuff. Virgin Steele takes all that was good from the eighties metal pool and mixed it up to spit out a great record. They have screechy male vocals, indulgent guitar solos, and hard hitting songs. The styles fluctuate throughout the record, some sounding like Iron Maiden while the next song is thrashy like old school Metallica . In the first three seconds of the very first song on Virgin Steele's Age of Consent , I thought, "Wow." And not in a bad way, no [...]

Last week I told you that Iron Maiden would be releasing a double disc DVD of their performance in Santiago, Chile called EN VIVO!, and now the band has released the trailer for the DVD. You can check that out above. The release date for EN VIVO! is March 27 for the US and March ...

Self-titled albums are one thing. But when a band names one of its songs after itself - or, alternately, when a band names itself after one of its songs - it's a pretty big deal. The song itself comes off looking something like a mission statement, an encapsulation of everything that the band means. When Bad Company names a song "Bad Company," they want you to know that this song is what they're all about . Not too many bands have been brave enough to attempt this trick throughout history. For some reason, a lot of [...]

Iron Maiden decided to film a concert DVD back last year when From Fear to Eternity came out, set in South America, during The Final Frontier World Tour. For those of you who have been waiting eagerly, the concert DVD has been filmed and will be released on March 27 in the US and Canada, ...

Power metal to get you through the snowy wastes of winter.

Yesterday we ran a very silly post in which we hypothesized about possible new vocalists for Killswitch Engage, except that the majority of candidates we named are not realistic possibilites (more on that in a second). I know that there are people who were bummed that we didn't consider more realistic potentialities, but there was a [...]

Friday Five : \'frī-(,)dā,-dē 'fīv\ : On the sixth day of every week, I hit the shuffle button on my iTunes, then share the first five tracks and thought for each track. Sometimes there is a playlist involved, occasionally we'll have a guest, but most of the time it's just me. The rest is up to you, our friends and readers! Fire up your media player of choice and share the first five random track of your shuffle in the comments. The Five: " Dreams " by Van Halen [...]

Adrian Smith , chitarrista degli Iron Maiden e il front man degli SikTh , Mikee Goodman si sono avventurati in un nuovo progetto da studio dal nome Primal Rock Rebellion . L'album di imminente pubblicazione, mette insieme due approcci molto diversi alla musica; la voce oscura di Mikee e il melodismo chitarristico riconoscibilissimo di Adrian, che tra l'altro, suona anche il basso per tutte le tracce dell'album. Contributi e ospiti sono quelli di Abi Fry di Bat for Lashes e Dan Foord alla batteria, già con il progetto SikTh. L'album, [...]

We expected a lot from the various members of SiKth after they split up for good in 2008. All we've really gotten to date was a decent but ultimately "wow factor"-lacking record from Pin's Aliases last year, a project that kinda sounded like SiKth gone djent (ironic given the fact that SiKth unwittingly played a [...]

Todays cover is of Iron Maidens' "Wasted Years" as performed by Ryan Adams. Thanks to listener Eddye G.

I was a teenager when singer Bruce Dickinson departed Iron Maiden. It was 1993 and years away from the internet, soon to be our tool for crawling up the asses of any celebrity, even a metal musician. So at the time, I was left to make sense of his resignation using only his words and [...]

TV Shows - Full Episode Video - Reality TV Shows My heavy metal DVD shelf was once pretty bare, displaying only The Decline Of Western Civilization and a load of one-view concert films. But just since 2005, it's been sagging under the weight of classy, addictively watchable feature-length documentaries like Heavy Metal In Baghdad, Get [...]

Look, there's absolutely no point in us writing anything here, as you're just going to go watch the video right away, aren't you? This isn't some kind of shocking new sensational footage, in case you were wondering. It's just something we stumbled across thanks to the wonders of YouTube. Now that we've burst your bubble [...]

We at MetalSucks have dealt with the paradoxes involved with conducting a poll to determine great guitar players (read our 25 Best Modern Metal Guitarists poll here)! So we get that in a unweighted vote, the top-ranked axemen may just represent those liked by the largest number of voters; i.e. a dude who we agree is [...]

The airline for which Bruce Dickinson, is Marketing Director and a pilot for has gone into administration. Astraeus is no more :(

Note: This Metal Monday column is guest-written by Pop Candy reader Leo F. To contribute, e-mail popcandy@usatoday.com

We got our grubby mitts on On Board Flight 666 and it's an excellent book so we had a chat with photographer, John McMurtrie about his journey with Iron Maiden.

Ok, I'm calling it. Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson is like the James Bond of metal. Or perhaps a metal superhero. By day, he flies around Ed Force One, bringing people across the Atlantic, and by night, he rocks tens of thousands of faces with Maiden. And, he's a doctor! Now, Bruce wants to share his ...