That was fun, wasn’t it? Ingeniously so. Those Belshazzar’s Feast posters at the Download Pilot, the cunning use of Twitter accounts where even the follows were a Maiden nod (The Killers was a good one, We Rate Dogs as a reference to The Number Of The Beast belongs in the Tate), Bruce Dickinson seemingly playing chicken with himself for how much of a clue he could drop without actually giving anything away – it’s been a fun road waiting for Maiden to make their big reveal. Loads of people guessed new music – it’s been six years since we last had any from them – but nobody came close to guessing this, did they? Things you weren’t expecting: that twangy, American folk-styled intro, or the dramatic main riff. And you definitely weren’t expecting such a packe...
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