These words have been etched into the annals of heavy metal history, signaling the onset of one of the genre's most venerable songs:Iron Maiden's "The Number of the Beast." The album, taking its name from the potent track, was released on March 22, 1982, thrusting Maiden onto bigger s...
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast (1982)The creation of the metal-epic...The beginning metal-scene had to progress quite a lot from heavy rock'n roll to the varied and inventive scene we know today. This album still stands as a landmark in the development of the genre. From now...
Despite being in Iron Maiden since 1982, McBrain was the second most-recent addition to the lineup, save for guitarist Janick Gers who joined in 1990. Ina statementshared on Sunday, Dec. 8, Iron Maiden have now revealed that drummerSimon Dawsonwill take on the role of drummer for the ba...
The world got its first listen to future Iron Maiden air-raid siren Bruce Dickinson on Samson’s sophomore album, ‘Head On’ – though he was known as Bruce Bruce here (a Monty Python reference) and that character on the cover is drummer Thunderstick. We point this out by way of explai...
that’s three guitarists), bassist Steve Harris and drummer Nicko McBrain stoking the flames of the Iron Maiden brigade. The hits stopped coming long ago, but the group still likes to mix it up with some truly progressive metal epics. There’s the haunting “The Reincarnation of Benjamin Br...
Iron Maiden's Nicko McBrain revealed in a little-publicized interview last year that he was diagnosed with stage 1 laryngeal cancer in 2020. The drummer made the admission while speaking to the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine in September 2021, shortly after the release of ...
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A day after drummer Nicko McBrain announced that he would be retiring from touring with Iron Maiden, the iconic metal band has revealed that Simon Dawson will be taking over behind the kit in 2025.McBrain played his final concert with Maiden last night (December 7th) in São Paulo, Brazil...
Things with Paul hadn’t been going terribly well, and they’d made the decision to get rid of him. So they came and took a peek at me. Clive [Burr, Maiden’s then-drummer] had been in Samson for three years, and “Killers” was being made at Zomba Studios [in northwest London]...
Although the set list changes on this trek are minor, they emphasize one of Iron Maiden's most admirable qualities: their willingness to give equal weight and credence to every chapter of their storied career. The grizzled sexagenarians (save for drummer Nicko McBrain, who turned 70 this yea...