Reason Iron Maiden Fans Still Setia, Bruce Dickinson: We Don't Use Backing Tracks

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JAKARTA - In a recent interview with Dave Gleeson of Australian Triple M radio station, Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson was asked about the courage of him and his bandmates to put many new songs on their list.

Not without reason. Despite performing new songs, they did not accept rejection from fans.

"Yes, that's because they - it's because, strangely enough, they actually like the music. [Obviously] Which one's weird, isn't it? I know it's a very strange concept now where people go to a concert to listen to music," Dickinson opened.

"But that's because we're not fashion icons or the like. We're always how to say it? We're straightforward, people see it. I mean, the songs aren't necessarily straightforward, but the attitude is like that," he continued.

"And we're still playing all the songs in the original chord; we didn't drop, downtune and stuff like that. We're still playing everything too fast, because we're all excited. We've never played using a backing track or some kind of time code and something else, because I'm seeing a lot of bands now, and I'm saying, 'Wait a minute. Hey, you sing it without moving your brain.' So there's all the backing vocals being flown to the left, right and center and so on. But we didn't do all that. "

"Everything is analogous and real. So we are a bit ancient in that regard. But I think it paid off because the audience understood that the reality is getting rarer today."

Iron Maiden just finished the "The Future Past" tour in 2023. On this tour, they performed songs that have never been shown before from Maiden's latest studio album, Sen totaling focus on the album Feeling In Time (1986), plus other classic pieces.

Sen happened to be released in September 2021. This marks Iron Maiden's second doubles album in a row after The Book Of Souls (2015) which is Iron Maiden's longest album with a duration of 92 minutes.

Iron Maiden's first album in six years, Sen Total was recorded in 2019 in Paris with producer Kevin Shirley and co-produced by bassist Steve Harris. The album features three tracks each longer than 10 minutes.