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Iron Maiden celebrate The Future Past with new vinyl releases of Powerslave and Somewhere In Time

Powerslave 40th anniversary edition will be reissued on zoetrope picture disc, while Somewhere In Time will arrive on yellow vinyl with tour lenticular

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“I sing in pictures – as I sing I see myself standing on the deck of a bloody great boat in Rime Of The Ancient Mariner”: How Powerslave pointed the way to Iron Maiden’s epic future

Iron Maiden’s monumental Powerslave album was released 40 years ago today

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Iron Maiden are currently touring Australia and Steve Harris has made the TV news for his off-stage activities

Watch Steve Harris weave his way past a stranded defender before sliding the ball past a helpless goalkeeper

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''Listen to as many people as possible, and don't try and stylise yourself on one person": Iron Maiden's Steve Harris gives advice to young musicians and songwriters

Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris imparts songwriting wisdom and shares advice to musicians trying to find their own sound

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“There is a legitimate straight line from me being intimidated by John Petrucci to picking up the acoustic guitar”: Mike Dawes names 10 guitarists who shaped his sound

One of today’s foremost acoustic virtuosos names the players who inspired his awe-inspiring percussive style and changed the game – and offers his pick for “the most criminally underrated name in guitar”

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“I just had to tell him, ‘You’ve outdone me, you bugger!’” Iron Maiden used to merely hint at their prog credentials… now they flaunt them

A selection of the NWOBHM veterans’ longest, deepest and weirdest tracks – and they weren’t all written by Steve Harris

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"I remember thinking, 'Good God, I'd love to front that band.'" Bruce Dickinson on the first time he saw Iron Maiden live - long before he became their singer

Bruce Dickinson was very impressed by what he saw in Camden Town that night

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“When we heard it, we were in shock. The producer had tried to make us sound like Def Leppard”: how Anthrax defied the odds to deliver a thrash classic with Among The Living

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“When you’ve got a singer that is so eaten up with jealousy for the headliner, it never goes well”: Sharon Osbourne remembers pelting Iron Maiden with eggs, still doesn’t like Bruce Dickinson very much

Iron Maiden were egged by Sharon Osbourne and had their power cut during a co-headline set at Ozzfest 2005

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"Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong": Praying Mantis once vied with Iron Maiden for attention, but setbacks and bad decisions took them on a very different journey

Praying Mantis ran alongside Iron Maiden in the early days of the NWOBHM race, but only Maiden shot to fame

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“It’s almost like we’re so preposterously uncool that somehow we became cool”: the turbulent story of Dream Theater’s Images And Words, the album that changed the face of prog metal

The turbulent story of Dream Theater’s Images And Words, the album that changed the face of prog metal

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“People are gonna think it’s either the last album or that we’re Trekkies”: how Iron Maiden made The Final Frontier and silenced rumours they’d reached the end of the road

In 2010, Metal Hammer joined Iron Maiden on the road in Texas to ask the question: would The Final Frontier really be their last album?

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"Think Maiden’s Death On The Road or Metallica’s Quebec Magnetic as opposed to Live After Death or S&M." Within Temptation reaffirm their arena-conquering status on new live album Worlds Collide Tour: Live In Amsterdam

Recorded during Within Temptation's co-headline tour with Evanescence, Worlds Collide shows a band at the apex of their powers

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“Whenever you make an album you’re baring your soul. People will shoot you down. You’ve just gotta bulldoze through it”: how Steve Harris stepped away from Iron Maiden with his debut solo album

In 2012, Steve Harris launched British Lion - the solo project that took 20 years to get off the ground

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“Be there or be square!” Watch Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris play a charity football match this weekend

The Maiden bassist will be raising money for disadvantaged children in Portugal

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Bruce Dickinson is worried that Iron Maiden don't "challenge" themselves enough when it comes to writing music: "We have this devoted following and they’re happy with the way we are"

Iron Maiden leader Bruce Dickinson is concerned that the band might be over-catering to their fans instead of pushing themselves creatively

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Iron Maiden weren’t part of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, says ex-singer: “We felt like we were on our own”

Former Iron Maiden man Paul Di’Anno has distanced the group from Def Leppard, Saxon and the rest in an exclusive Metal Hammer interview

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“I said, Adrian, why aren't you singing in Iron Maiden? Be the singer!” Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham once encouraged Adrian Smith to return to Iron Maiden as the band's frontman

In 1997, Scott Gorham suggested that Adrian Smith should rejoin Iron Maiden in place of Blaze Bayley

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“Nothing against Maiden, but their songs have gotten so long”: Kerry King critiques Iron Maiden’s recent albums

The Slayer guitarist admits he doesn’t have the attention span for Iron Maiden’s double albums The Book Of Souls and Senjutsu

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Bruce Dickinson review – metal’s charismatic star indulges his goofy side

Letting rip with that still thrilling and propulsive voice, the Iron Maiden frontman performs an all solo material set – keytars, bongos and demonic laughter included

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"It was all a bit exhausting and emotionally draining": Meet the man who auditioned to replace Bon Scott in AC/DC and Paul Di'Anno in Iron Maiden

Terry Slesser, singer with Paul Kossoff’s Back Street Crawler, recalls the days when AC/DC were a humble support act

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"We were like, ‘These guys are just like us, this is crazy! We want to hack things up with machetes with them!’” Members of Metallica, Megadeth, Ghost and more talk the years that made Slayer into the ultimate thrash icons

Slayer might not have been the first band in thrash metal, but they became the genre's ultimate champions

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“To promote an album and play some football, it’s the ultimate for me”: The bizarre story of the time Iron Maiden became a football team

In 1998, Iron Maiden tried to promote Virtual XI by putting on football games with journalists and professional players. It was all a bit weird.

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Gallop guitar is the metal equivalent of riding to war on horseback – and Iron Maiden are masters of the craft

This action-packed metal lesson will hone your palm-muting and cram Maiden’s triple-guitar approach into one all-action rhythm part

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“Not even in the territory of prog metal – closer to dyed-in-the-wool prog rock”: Iron Maiden’s Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son remains their best prog album

A good-versus-evil concept story featuring keyboards and a nine-minute title track set the scene for records that would arrive in future decades

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