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Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson’s next album features Sepultura members and is being recorded at Dave Grohl’s studio

Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser lets some big details slip in a new social media post

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“I haven’t written anything on the new album. I started to write ‘very heavy metal’ things, but I ended up writing for bagpipes, folk things like Jethro Tull. Oh well – bang go my royalties!”: When Bruce Dickinson was Iron Maiden’s odd man out

“There was none of me on that record – I was just AWOL mentally”

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"I sang Smoke On The Water with Deep Purple when they came to our school for a music clinic": This is the soundtrack of H.E.A.T frontman Kenny Leckremo's life

H.E.A.T frontman Kenny Leckremo picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and talks a lot about Iron Maiden

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“He’s always had more to say than can be expressed in just one band”: Every solo album by Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson ranked from worst to best

Even if you take The Beast out of the equation, Bruce Dickinson has had a magical career. Here are his seven albums in reverse-order of excellence.

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“It’s a story about a bloke who’s not sure whether he’s died and been reborn, or whether he’s just been dreaming. Kind of like a bad hangover!”: The Iron Maiden anthem inspired by near-death experiences

Plus: Bruce Dickinson on the epic Alexander The Great

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"They got all these Iron Maiden and Ozzy Osbourne albums and burned them…then ran away because they were scared." Car crashes, Satanism and 28 Years Later: the story behind Iron Maiden's classic anthem The Number Of The Beast

From ominous omens to a horror film that got everyone talking, the legacy of The Number of The Beast is bigger than ever

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"We all had that feeling that nobody had ever heard anything like this before": How Iron Maiden got their man and made the album that sent them stratospheric

An exclusive extract from Iron Maiden – Infinite Dreams: The Official Visual History

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“It gave us loads of publicity. The kids who did want to buy our records were like, ‘Oh cool! The religious right are burning their records! I better buy half a dozen!’”: The controversial Iron Maiden classic featured in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

“Six six six, the one for you and me!”

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Release the beast! How Iron Maiden and a naked Ralph Fiennes created the ultimate big-screen needle drop

The Number of the Beast lights up an unforgettable scene in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple thanks to director Nia DaCosta expertly blending ‘craziness and romance’

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“After scrapping two albums I went to the accountant to find out how many pennies were left in the piggy bank. The answer was not many”: How Bruce Dickinson gambled everything on his second solo album – and ended up leaving Iron Maiden because of it

Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson never intended to quit – but Balls To Picasso changed his mind

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"The only reason you look in the rearview mirror is to see how cool you look going forward." This is what happened when Metallica's Lars Ulrich interviewed one of his heroes, Iron Maiden legend Steve Harris

In 1996, the leaders of two of the biggest metal bands on the planet sat down to discuss their respective journeys in music

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"After he died, his body was dug up and moved seven times because people thought his fingers were possessed by the Devil": Bruce Dickinson's unreleased rock opera may be the greatest untold story of them all

Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson is a man of many talents, but his rock opera about the philandering violinist Paganini has yet to see the light of day

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"I looked around and nobody was happy. And I was thinking: 'This is going to be rough'": What happened when Bruce Dickinson made the decision that changed his life

Becoming a band’s new singer is never easy. But when Bruce Dickinson saw Iron Maiden play, he knew he was the singer they needed

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“War is senseless, it’s stupid, and in the end you could end up dead… but in some ways it is glorious”: From the Crimean War to the Stranger Things finale, the story of Iron Maiden’s The Trooper

It didn’t live up to prior singles’ chart success, it was banned when it came out, and it’s got the band booed onstage. But, The Trooper is a song that Iron Maiden have never left behind.

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Steve Harris reveals the song he wants to bring back to Iron Maiden’s setlist: “It’s difficult to do a set from any part of our career and not miss things out”

The second European leg of the band’s 50th-anniversary tour kicks off in the spring

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“If we’re stuck with stories about Satan, it’ll mean that people will never understand us”: How Iron Maiden pushed metal to its most colossal, then pushed a bit further, to make Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

Sick of being known as ‘the devil-worshipping band’, the heavy metal legends wrote a sweeping track about a Romantic poem. They had no idea it’d be 13 minutes long, though.

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“I had a thought: ‘I wonder if she could foresee her own death?’ I went to Bruce and he said, ‘Yeah, it’s a great idea!’”: How a dead psychic and singer with a point to prove inspired Iron Maiden to make one of the maddest concept albums of the 80s

Maiden’s seventh album is the ultimate fan favourite

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"It was a time of turmoil. Writers had it in for us: 'Oh my God, haven’t you died yet? Don’t you know, grunge is here!'" The story behind the underrated Iron Maiden classic that helped keep them alive in the 90s

Iron Maiden looked in real trouble after Bruce Dickinson left. They regrouped, brought in a new singer and produced some of their darkest material

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Bruce Dickinson reflects on the fan outcry after he split from Iron Maiden: “When you left, it didn’t matter if you’d made the best record in the world – nobody could listen to it”

The legendary singer discusses how the controversy surrounding his departure from The Beast coloured fans’ thoughts on his 1994 solo album, Tears Of The Dragon

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Quiz: How much do you know about Iron Maiden's breakthrough masterpiece The Number Of The Beast?

Test your knowledge of one of heavy metal's defining albums

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"I’ll be honest, I wasn’t sure." Steve Harris had his doubts over Bruce Dickinson's 1999 return to Iron Maiden

How different things could have been if Steve Harris had blocked Bruce Dickinson's Iron Maiden comeback

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What do Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson, extreme icons Napalm Death and the cold expanses of space have in common? A new documentary featuring music from some of metal’s finest

Seas Of The Sun: The Story Of The Cluster Mission is about the European Space Agency and their 24-year-long study of space plasma

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“When Bruce came back I wasn’t 100% sure of the reasons behind it. I was like, ‘Well, okay, let’s see.’ I’ll be honest – I wasn’t sure”: How Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris made his peace with singer Bruce Dickinson

“Bruce is unusual – which is probably what makes him so good”

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“There was no way we were gonna put out the full hour-and-a-half video, because it would have been a rip-off”: The story of the great Iron Maiden live album that was lost for 20 years

Beast Over Hammersmith shows Iron Maiden in thunderous form at the height of their success. This is why it has never been seen in full.

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“I said, ‘Before we start, you know that if I audition I’ll get the gig. But be warned – I’m gonna be a pain in the arse!’”: Bruce Dickinson recalls his audition for Iron Maiden – and his crazy times with his previous band

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