I bought Power slave when it was released. I can not hear it for years, yet I know every lyric, every guitar riff, every bass chug, every drum fill, every meter change - just a masterpiece. I was 14 when this came out and was a total Maiden fan. Near 4 decades later and still a Maiden fan - literally for life. Up the Irons! 🤘

I like the way you analyzed, thanks a lot

The first I ever heard of this song was in the 1986 horror film 'Creepers', believe it or not. I was 11 and already a huge horror movie enthusiast by that time. You only hear some of the beginning riff section, but it's played a couple of times through out the film. I loved it instantly and was able to learn the song's title during the credits. 'Creepers' didn't especially endear itself into my psyche, however Iron Maiden's Flash Of The Blade did. It's an often overlooked gem, and I'm glad to see you reacting to it. Keep rockin', stay heavy, and up the Irons 🤘

The song that you've heard with a similar riff is probably A7X's Not Ready to Die, tbh. The influence was there, anyway. 😅 This song was written by Bruce Dickinson. It's about dueling; being a kid and fantasizing about a lot of the things young people grow up to fantasize about with great adventures. They want to be awesome duelists, and battle dragons and giants, then they finally take up the sword for themselves as they realize becoming such a master is possible, even if great mythical beasts aren't real. When touring with Iron Maiden became taxing and the band members needed a break, Bruce took up fencing as a hobby, then joined England's Olympic fencing team and became a fencing instructor so that he could do things he loved without being worn down by them. This song is considered obscure by Iron Maiden fans and doesn't come up in a lot of discussions. Powerslave is one of their top albums, but this song and The Duellists are very underrated tracks. Aces High, 2 Minutes to Midnight, and Rime of the Ancient Mariner get most of the glory, as you can imagine.

@satanihelvetet

2 жыл бұрын

Flash of the blade is mostly shadowed by a lot of other fantastic song in their huge cathalogue, even if you look only at only the Powerslave album, wich is fantastic all through. But it's definitly ab awsome song and I'm som glad over this reaction that stick out of the reason at choosing this song.

@chrismeadows4216

2 жыл бұрын

@@satanihelvetet I love it for the mythological deliveries. A lot of people mention Iron Maiden and think of the power metal bands that they've influenced, but Maiden themselves have seemingly few folkloric songs in their entire discography, leaning more toward modern literature and ancient history. This song is one of those really uplifting ones featuring legendary figures and events, in the vein of Dio or Jethro Tull without being overdramatic. It's beautiful, I feel!!! 😃😄

@badmoose01

Жыл бұрын

Wow. At this point what hasn’t Bruce Dickinson done?

@chrismeadows4216

Жыл бұрын

@@badmoose01, retired!!! 😎

Great reaction

Deep cut Maiden - NICE!

Talking about melodies and Iron Maiden, they do a song called The Talisman and about a minute in the melody does my head in because I know 100% I have heard it somewhere else and have no idea where from.

Cool song.

So great that a band that I grew up with is still putting out new music. Senjutsu released last Friday ✌️

hello my dear -- take a peek at cheese rolling ( its down our local hill) will horrify and make you laugh all in one Gloucestershire cheese-rolling, the hill is near on vertical on the top half

Second part of this song is - Duelists 😀

After this do Hell on Earth next time by Iron Maiden from Senjutsu witch came out this last friday

Pretty rare to see a reaction to this one. I've always liked this song. Suggest you check out "To Tame a Land" lyric video.

Do "Be Quick or Be Dead". And do it quick, or be dead! Please. Thanks.

This song is in a horror movie but i cant for the love of god remember which.

@chrismeadows4216

2 жыл бұрын

It was called Creepers in most places, but Phenomena in Italy before that, and it came out in 1985. Great film, but a lot of scenes were cut. An awesome Italian band named Goblin composed several parts of the score, and if you've ever seen the original Phenomena without all of the international cuts, Locomotive by Motörhead was also in it. Jennifer Connelly and Donald Pleasance were two of the stars, if you haven't seen it in awhile. I'm probably the only person born in the '90s who knows it exists. Thank you, Iron Maiden!!! 😅

@dolphin8077

2 жыл бұрын

Phenomena by Italian director Dario Argento

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What I love about this song is that it suits Iron Maiden's reputation in a way that a lot of songs don't. The stereotype of heavy metal bands like Iron Maiden, and other bands later influenced by them who became known under the genre of Power Metal, is that they write songs about dragons and sword fighting like Dio a lot of the time. This is actually the only Iron Maiden classic to mention dragons, and I think that's fascinating. David is obviously the Biblical king who killed the giant Goliath with a slingshot. The iron mask is an integral part of fencing gear, so the duelists don't poke their eyes out or have their faces scarred. It's a whimsical little song. I love that!!! 😄❤

@alancraig782

2 жыл бұрын

St George of England and St David of Wales, according to myth, both took on dragons 👍

@chrismeadows4216

2 жыл бұрын

@@alancraig782 St. David's a different case though, in that he didn't slay the dragon. As a bishop, he wasn't permitted to murder. On that note, it can probably be assumed that King David of Israel is the one in the song, even with a similar parallel.

@alancraig782

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrismeadows4216 yeah that's kind of why I used took on the dragon. Would like to listen to more stuff from Iron Maiden and glad A7X paid homage to them in that sense you know. Wish there were more bands like A7X or older bands they look up to.

@chrismeadows4216

2 жыл бұрын

@@alancraig782 I usually take it clinically and listen to direct influences, then bands that toured with them.

Most of Ma8dens s9ngs arr written by the basists so they tend to be bass centric.

Know what you mean about the melody, frustrating when the answer is close enough to kiss, but elusive in name. One thing about this, like quite a few Maiden songs, that I'm not in love with, is they way the bass is written in as such high notes. Look at that, I found something the whinge about. The rest of the song it great. (bracing myself for the endless piles of hate mail....LOL) Dear old Brucey boy did w convincing cover of Ozzy's Bark at the Moon. Seems as though he sang over the original sound recording with Randy Rhodes on guitar.

Caught Somewhere In Time by them please 🙏🙏🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

You wont understand the lyrics dear ,this guys are genious

hey they just dropped new album Senjutsu 2021 two days a go.. a masterpiece ! ---try song "The Parchment , Days of Future Past, Hell on Earth" ..

Don't bother with the Avenged Sevenfold version. Not near as good and not worth your time