Up the irons! IRON MAIDEN’S SENJUTSU - A SUPERFAN’S TRACK-BY-TRACK GUIDE + REVIEW 1. Four songs over nine minutes long, each composed solely by Steve Harris is enough to flood the imagination of every Maiden fan with limitless possibilities.Īlthough the release of Senjutsu is still weeks away (pre-order your copy here), I have some food for thought - some Piece of Mind, if you will - to prepare you for the journey that lies ahead.
The track listing and its respective writing credits alone have fueled countless conversations and debates, all of which have been purely wild speculation. Weeks, months even, are spent in a gleeful agony, waiting for anything new to come through the Maiden funnel. Then came the ‘Belshazzar’s Feast’ teaser campaign that sent fans racing to every corner of the internet to piece together clues and their ultimate significance in advance of the release of the animated music video for the lead single, “The Writing on the Wall.”Īs an obsessive Iron Maiden fan for over half my life, I’ve been where many of you are - scouring message boards and forums, eager to participate in and and all discussions and unfounded projections with the rest of the band’s unparalleled global fanbase. Rumors had lightly persisted in recent years that the venerable Maiden had completed a new record - singer Bruce Dickinson even lightly taunted fans with prospects of something new onstage during the mesmerizing ‘The Legacy of the Beast’ tour. Offering a preview of what to expect, we have prepared a track-by-track guide and review of the 80-plus-minute double album.
3, heavy metal legends Iron Maiden will release Senjutsu, their long-awaited 17th album and first since 2015’s The Book of Souls.