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Iron Maiden — Flight 666: The Original Soundtrack

By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) June 9, 2009 1:20 pm

While Flight 666: The Original Soundtrack borders on a redo of the classic 1985 Live After Death record, there are three reasons it succeeds. The first is Bruce Dickinson's voice. It's starting to show some cracks and imperfections, like when he has to go just a little bit lower on "Wasted Years." We're not talking Chris-Cornell-...

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Maiden's Flight 666 Is About Fans

By Andre Mihsin (CHARTattack) April 17, 2009 1:53 pm

Filmmakers Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen have already created two favourites among the banger populace with Metal: A Headbanger's Journey and Global Metal. With Iron Maiden: Flight 666, they've managed to produce yet another great documentary that not only gives fans a more intimate look at the normally reclusive band, but also provides spectacular...

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Iron Maiden & The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal

By Andre Mihsin (CHARTattack) June 10, 2008 3:55 pm

You're probably thinking, "Great, another heavy metal documentary that takes us back to the working class streets of Birmingham, England, where Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler..." well, you get the idea. Normally these metal documentaries quickly name-check every major player, with references to top acts like Maiden, Priest, Motorhead and, if...

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Iron Maiden Focus On Classics

By Shayne Stephens (CHARTattack) March 17, 2008 2:00 pm

Four hours before Bruce Dickinson, Steve Harris, Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, Jannick Gers and Nicko McBrian will explode on stage before sea of mano cornuta at the Air Canada Centre, room 9-195 of the Fairmont Hotel is a beautiful picture of excess. Surrounded by empties and sleeping on bare mattresses, two men, who your reporter has chosen not to...

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Iron Maiden — Live After Death

By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) February 5, 2008 3:11 pm

Anyone with the most rudimentary sense of musical awareness will instantaneously be able to figure out the importance of the Live After Death two-DVD set. Recorded in 1984 and originally released on VHS at the height of heavy metal, by a band at their commercial, creative and touring peak, and ripe with every cliche associated with the genre —...

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Iron Maiden's Gamble Pays Off

By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) October 18, 2006 4:30 pm

For a legendary metal act like Iron Maiden it was a bold and brash gesture when, four songs in, singer Bruce Dickinson declared they were going to play their entire new album, A Matter Of Life And Death, from start to finish. That would mean 10 dense songs, a few of the more sprawling numbers licking just under 10 minutes in length, eating up...

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This Is Metal Compilation

By Shehzaad Jiwani (CHARTattack) December 13, 2005 2:30 pm

The name really says it all with this one. This bitchin' compilation covers pretty much the entire metal music spectrum, from thrash to sludge and everything in between. Spanning three discs and filled to the brim with double-pedal bass kicks and ripping guitar solos, This Is Metal is almost exhausting in its extensive coverage of metal sub-genres...

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I Fought The Law... For The Week Ending May 27, 2011

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 27, 2011 3:38 pm

A bunch of ex-KISS guitarist Vinnie Vincent's dogs are dead. Really dead. As in not just "playing dead." That sucks, but at least he's not being charged over it. The Battle of the Cloud has taken a different turn: the Recording Industry Association Of America sued business management website Box.net this week because users have apparently been...

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I Read The News Today... For May 12, 2011

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 12, 2011 3:42 pm

Jane's Addiction played Google's I/O 2011 After Hours Party on Tuesday, and you can watch the full set below: Dan Deacon's short film Hilvarenbeek might be the weirdest thing I've seen so far this year, and if you watch it and don't get it, that's probably because you maybe just aren't. supposed. to.MTV Hive presents... an incredibly...

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I Read The News Today... For March 28, 2011

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 28, 2011 3:25 pm

Guided By Voices, Neko Case, No Age, Kurt Vile and a bunch of other Pitchfork types got added to... the Pitchfork Music Festival. The Strokes are going to start working on yet another Strokes record that sounds like Is This It next month. —Consequence Of Sound You can add Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner to the list of people who dislike...

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I Fought The Law... For The Week Ending Feb. 11, 2011

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 11, 2011 4:29 pm

The Game has been ordered to pay about $91,000 U.S. (about $90,000 Canadian) for some custom jewelry he commissioned three years ago and... never paid for. Yeah... I don't even think I own $10 worth of jewelry. —TMZ In this week's installment of ridonkulous lawsuits that will go absolutely nowhere, two women from Texas are suing rapper Jim Jones....

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16th Annual Year-End Readers' Poll - Best Video

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 8, 2010 10:22 am

#8 The Thank You Much—Ly Award 2010 (Best Video)customer surveys Next Question: #9 The That Rocked Award (Sweet Happenings In Music This Year)

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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 21, 2010

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 21, 2010 1:35 pm

Looks like 102.1 The Edge and Dean Blundell are in some trouble again. The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said Wednesday that comments Blundell made suggesting Justin Bieber was "gay" and that his fans were "likely 12 years old" violated part of the council's "equitable portrayal code" because they had "inappropriately sexualized children."...

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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 19, 2010

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) August 19, 2010 4:05 pm

Wyclef Jean's in hiding in Haiti after receiving several death threats and messages from people who said he should leave the country. He says he wants to run for president in the country's elections, which take place Nov. 28, but his run has been criticized by the likes of fellow former Fugees member Pras and Arcade Fire's Win Butler....

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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 3, 2010

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) August 3, 2010 12:55 pm

Evolve Festival organizer Jonas Colter was arrested by a Mountie in Halifax last weekend and charged $4,500 for postering. The Chronicle Herald Yellowcard are releasing a new album on Hopeless Records after a two-year hiatus. They'll continue to be overshadowed by more popular emo bands that no one gives a crap about, either. Alternative...

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Video Of The Day: Iron Maiden's "The Final Frontier"

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 29, 2010 3:15 pm

Iron Maiden's awesome video for The Final Frontier's title track features plenty of references to films, from Star Wars to Alien and even Raiders Of The Lost Ark (see if you can spot that one; it's pretty clever). Eddie also shows up, but he looks far more badass than usual and even more metal... literally.The Final Frontier is out Aug...

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