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"If you were after a girlfriend, by the time you’ve got ten minutes into A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers she’s usually jumped out the window." Bruce Dickinson on his prog heroes

Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson's 10-song solo album The Mandrake Project will be released on March 1

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“They must have realised it was a bit stupid”: Metallica have never covered a Saxon song, and Biff Byford has a theory why

Metallica have never covered Saxon on record – could an incident at their second ever show explain why?

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"I couldn’t tell you a pentatonic scale from a gin and tonic." Bruce Dickinson's new album The Mandrake Project will be the first time he's ever played guitar on record

Iron Maiden legend Bruce Dickinson discusses his imminent new solo album

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The 10 best Bruce Dickinson solo songs

As we await the arrival of The Mandrake Project, get caught up on the greatest standalone moments from Iron Maiden’s Air-Raid Siren

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"My name is Lucifer, please take my hand, is such a memorable lyric": Ghost's Tobias Forge on the satanic hymns which lured him to the dark side

Ghost might not exist had these Satan-praising sounds not seduced Tobias Forge as an impressionable teenager

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Iron Maiden's Powerslave at 40 and the Greatest Albums of 1984: Only in the historic new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Mick Mars, Tony Clarkin, Van Halen, Black Sabbath, Spinal Tap, Ace Frehley, Big Country, Frankie Miller, Don Henley, Blackberry Smoke and much more

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"It’s not that Maiden albums aren’t fun, but we don’t get to play like children." Bruce Dickinson is on the cover of the new Metal Hammer

The Iron Maiden frontman reveals the secrets of his new solo album and comic series – The Mandrake Project

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The 10 best 21st-century Iron Maiden songs

We all love the ’80s classics, but these later Maiden jams still show The Beast at their best

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Bruce Dickinson announces album signing appearances at five UK record shops

Want to have Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson sign your copy of The Mandrake Project, his first solo album in 19 years? Then try to keep some time free in early March

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“Headbanging is more fun than going through a windshield!” Watch Iron Maiden star in the bizarre seatbelt safety advert from 1991 that almost got them a meeting with the President Of The United States

Iron Maiden appeared in a Crash Test Dummies commercial in the early ’90s, and Bruce Dickinson almost met the President because of it

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“I had a couple of solos mapped out, but for the most part I just go for it... I think that you lose all the soul if you think about it too much”: Roy Z on keeping things simple and song-serving with Bruce Dickinson and Rob Halford's solo bands

Having served as the guitarist and producer for the solo bands of not one, but two, metal giants, Roy Z says that the secret is to focus on what the music needs, and not overthink

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“It’s a big, festering, open sewer – it’s nothing to do with music”: Watch Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson eviscerate hair metal in a 1990 interview

Iron Maiden’s frontman didn’t mince words when talking about the hedonism of certain ’80s metal bands

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The 10 best cover songs by thrash metal bands

Metallica, Slayer and Sepultura have all given classic songs a high-octane boot up the back side

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"The Mandrake Project is possibly the maddest idea in a career full of mad ideas." Bruce Dickinson's new comic book is weird, dark, funny and far more than a rock star vanity project

The Iron Maiden frontman has roped in some heavyweight comic book names for his latest endeavour - and it's worked rather well

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10 metal bands’ first-ever concerts caught on film

Want to see Ghost, Rage Against The Machine and Spiritbox’s first times on a stage? These clips have got you covered!

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10 amazing covers by massive metal bands that you’ve (probably) never heard

From Iron Maiden going full prog to Black Sabbath smashing Smoke On The Water, only completists will have heard these extraordinary covers

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"Someone from the BBC said my outfit revealed ‘too much penis’. I’m not a Ken doll!": Lord Of The Lost reflect on a wild 2023

They played Eurovision, met the king and toured with Iron Maiden - but 2023 was just another wild year for Germany's Lord Of The Lost

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"Steve Harris was very suspicious. He said: Why do you wanna come back?": Bruce Dickinson on rejoining Iron Maiden with a mission to "sweep away the past"

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson recalls exactly what he sought to achieve by rejoining the band in 1999

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The 50 greatest metal EPs of all time

From the early days of Def Leppard and Iron Maiden to modern classics via the likes of Sleep Token and Spiritbox, these are the best metal EPs in history

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Tony Moore played keyboards for Iron Maiden at one show in 1977: Now he's back on the road with Steve Harris

British Lion are currently on tour with support from prog rock one man band Tony Moore: "If Tony could play guitar back then the way he does now he'd probably still be in the band", says Steve Harris

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"I didn’t recognise him straight away and my son said, 'Dad, that’s Brian Johnson!'" Nicko McBrain on playing the "stunning" Power Trip Festival, his stroke recovery and what's next for Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden drummer and living legend Nicko McBrain opens up on a whirlwind 12 months

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“Kirk Hammett said, ‘Ah, Cannibal Corpse – that’s an interesting name!’” 20 legendary metal bands remember their first shows

Everybody starts somewhere! Metallica, Iron Maiden, Slipknot and more remember their first times onstage.

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Sophie Lloyd: 10 records that changed my life

From Van Halen and Iron Maiden to Disturbed and Bring Me The Horizon, these are the bands that helped Sophie Lloyd become a shred goddess

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“The phone rang, it was Steve Harris: ‘Are you interested in joining Maiden?’”: this is what it’s like to audition to replace Bruce Dickinson in Iron Maiden, by three singers who went for the job

In 1994, Blaze Bayley became Maiden’s new singer – but he wasn’t the only contender for the job

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Watch Indian politician Conrad Sangma rip through guitar solo from Iron Maiden's Wasted Years

Heavy metal-loving politician from India is a huge Iron Maiden fan – and he knows his way around a fretboard too

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