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metalsongoftheday · 20 days
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Friday, March 8: Halford, "Handing Out Bullets" [ENCORE]
The Today’s Metal Tune tumblr posted its first song March 5, 2014.  Amazingly, 10 YEARS LATER we are still here and going strong.  A huge THANK YOU to everyone that has followed, liked, reblogged and commented over the past 10 years, this tumblr has been a passion project that took on a life of its own and far exceeded humble expectations, and that is all because so many have listened and gotten in on the fun.  To celebrate the past decade, we are revisiting some favorites from the early years.  Stay Metal everyone, there’s much more still to come…
“Handing Out Bullets” angrily made the case for Rob Halford’s continuing engagement with and relevance to heavy metal circa 2002.  The song was classically constructed and crafted, and not only felt of the moment and raged with the kind of energy that musicians 30 years younger would struggle to keep up with, but also roared with a timelessness that makes the tune continue to resonate over 20 years later.  Everything was just so perfectly massive and heavy, and so perfectly metal: the jabbing riffs were a nonstop gut-punch, Bobby Jarzombek’s double-bass barrage was unrelenting (and actually got faster as the song progressed), and the Metal God himself seethed in a way that demonstrated why he still deserved the moniker.  Furthermore (and more than a little surprisingly), “Handing Out Bullets” contained some of Rob’s best lyrics: railing over international conflicts that are sadly still relevant today, the song spoke harsh truths with an insight and maturity not entirely expected from a man known mainly for screaming about robots and the awesomeness of heavy metal.  But most of all, “Handing Out Bullets” just raged so spectacularly that it remains one of Halford’s- both the man and band- best songs, an evergreen headbanger that will never fail to sprain some necks.
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ghostreapersoul · 10 months
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For too long now
There were secrets in my mind
For too long now
There were things I should have said
In the darkness
I was stumbling for the door
To find a reason
To find the time, the place, the hour
Waiting for the winter sun
And the cold light of day
The misty ghosts of childhood fears
The pressure is building and I can't stay away
I throw myself into the sea
Release the wave, let it wash over me
To face the fear I once believed
The tears of the dragon for you and for me
Where I was
I had wings that couldn't fly
Where I was
I had tears I couldn't cry
My emotions
Frozen in an icy lake
I couldn't feel them
Until the ice began to break
I have no power over this
You know I'm afraid
The walls I built are crumbling
The water is moving, I'm slipping away
I throw myself into the sea
Release the wave, let it wash over me
To face the fear I once believed
The tears of the dragon for you and for me
Slowly I awake, slowly I rise
The walls I built are crumbling
The water is moving, I'm slipping away
I throw myself into the sea
Release the wave, let it wash over me
To face the fear I once believed
The tears of the dragon for you and for me
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dickinson-devotee · 19 days
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“Yeah, I played guitar on that song. Roy actually kept my one-finger guitar solo on it. So that’s me playing the one-finger guitar solo. Maybe I used two; I can’t remember.” “That’s a first,” reiterates Roy. “That was cool, because I pushed him. He didn’t want to do it. And I’m like, ‘Come on, no, this is your solo record, man. Let’s do stuff that you’ve never done before. So here’s the guitar. Let’s go for it.’ And he was upset. He was upset at me. But now, as they say in England, he’s chuffed because he can hear himself do a guitar solo on one of his records. I back him on the bass and it was just a lot of fun. And he did it in one take. It’s interesting for somebody that doesn’t play guitar all the time for them to do a solo, especially as a singer, because he was singing through the guitar and I really like that—he’s vocalizing on that solo. It’s a nicely composed solo and it’s fresh; it’s not like somebody on YouTube, learning how to play guitar.” —Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson presents: “Metal for Grownups”
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longliverockback · 28 days
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Bruce Dickinson The Mandrake Project 2024 BMG ————————————————— Tracks LP One: 1. Afterglow of Ragnarok 2. Many Doors to Hell 3. Rain on the Graves 4. Resurrection Men 5. Fingers in the Wounds 6. Eternity Has Failed
Tracks LP Two: 1. Mistress of Mercy 2. Face in the Mirror 3. Shadow of the Gods 4. Sonata (Immortal Beloved) —————————————————
Tanya O’Callaghan
Chris Declercq
Bruce Dickinson
Mistheria
Dave Moreno
Roy Z
* Long Live Rock Archive
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metalkilltheking · 2 years
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1997. Accident of Birth
is the fourth album by Bruce Dickinson.
Dickinson's second collaboration with guitarist/producer Roy Z, the album is markedly different in style from his previous effort Skunkworks. As well as Roy Z, Dickinson was also joined for the album by fellow former Iron Maiden member Adrian Smith; both Dickinson and Smith would later return to their former band in early 1999. Thanks to the slightly bigger success of this album compared to his previous solo releases.
This is a good starter album for those unfamiliar with Bruce's solo career, or a must-have for those who enjoy his other solo material, This is one of those great albums that you’ll struggle to find fault with. Sometimes when a solo artist releases an album the music takes a backseat, but not here. On this album.
Highlights: "Darkside of Aquarius", "Starchildren", "Road To Hell"
Bruce Dickinson Adrian Smith Roy Z Eddie Casillas
David Ingraham
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mikeladano · 3 months
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REVIEW: Bruce Dickinson - "Afterglow of Ragnarok" (2023 single)
BRUCE DICKINSON – “Afterglow of Ragnarok” (2023 BMG 7″ single) In 2024 we will be graced by a new Bruce Dickinson platter, his first solo album since Tyranny of Souls in 2005.  He’s back with Roy Z, and a forthcoming concept album called The Mandrake Project.  This single is billed as a “prequel”.  It comes with a beautiful, full colour comic book insert, installed in the middle of the gatefold. …
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metalshockfinland · 1 year
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Producer Roy Z: "New BRUCE DICKINSON solo album is being worked on & sounds brilliant"
Producer Roy Z: “New BRUCE DICKINSON solo album is being worked on & sounds brilliant”
For The Metal Voice Former Anthrax singer Neil Turbin spoke to Producer Roy Z  (Bruce Dickinson, Rob Halford) at the Bowl for Ronnie Charity on Thursday, November 17, 2022 at PINZ Bowling Center in Studio City, California. When asked if he had any updates on the upcoming Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden) Solo album“I can’t really say much, it’s being worked on, it sounds fabulous and all that,…
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simplyyearning · 5 months
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a good dog stays in its place
"Mysterious Skin" Scott Heim // 1X08 Prague // Introduction "The Odyssey" Emily Wilson // S3? lol // Things I Can't Tell My Therapist "Conversations Over Sanguinaccio Dolce" I.B. Vyache // What Can You Do? Ruth Stone // // 4X10 With Open Eyes // Where to begin? Sue Zhao
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zahri-melitor · 8 months
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You know that my wish was? Not to be G.A. -- you can have the job, man. But dammit, just once, I wanted to get the chance to stand in front of him, worth, and have him ask. I would've said no, but he could've asked.
Arsenal #2
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He asked someone to fill in for him. Jean Paul Valley -- formerly known as Azrael. And he didn't ask me? Would you have accepted? If he needed me. All right, but would you have wanted to accept? No. And he knew that, Nightwing, he said you've become your own man -- beyond his shadow.
Batman #500
Looks at Roy. Looks at Dick. Looks back at Roy. Looks back at Dick.
The issues that you both have.
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389 · 1 year
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Roy Cranston - 286/365
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ace-artworks · 9 months
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Sometimes the Side Ships are better than the Main Ships
My examples!
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Reply or Reblog with your favorite side ships!
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metalsongoftheday · 11 months
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Friday, April 21: Halford, “Screaming in the Dark”
“Screaming in the Dark” was one of three new studio tracks tacked to the end of Live Insurrection, acting as something of a victory lap for the Halford band after the warm reception awarded to Resurrection.  And as the only newly written studio number (the other two were refurbished from unused Priest demos), the tune was sort of a bridge between Resurrection and Crucible, leveraging the trad metal framework of the former with the increased bite of the latter.  And with the chugging central riff over which Rob Halford literally screamed in the dark the entire time, it felt like a natural predecessor to Crucible’s “Betrayal”.  Halford as a band wasn’t a commercial juggernaut, and years later Rob would claim that he only started it up to show his former colleagues in Priest he was ready to make traditional heavy metal again in hopes of them taking him back. This was unfair to the band, because the songs and performance were all there, and “Screaming in the Dark” was a killer banger in its own right.
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hadeswearsprada · 11 months
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I’m a Willa Ferreyra stan first and foremost if that means I also have to believe in her cringe failure malewife husband then so be it
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dickinson-devotee · 2 months
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Rain on the Graves
January 24th, 2024
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onemagpie · 2 years
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eggcompany · 1 month
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