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“I think every serious fan of hard rock music would love Stargazer. It’s one of those all-time epic masterpieces. It’s Ritchie Blackmore in his most experimental mode”: How guitar hero Blackmore created his magnum opus with Rainbow

The legendary track that inspired Metallica, Opeth, Dream Theater and Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson

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“Only if it really stinks will we redo it”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson to record his next solo album in January

Dickinson reveals that he and his solo band will record the follow-up to 2024’s The Mandrake Project live in the studio

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“Let me just put this record on and clear the room! Or play it to a girlfriend and then wonder why she threw herself out the window”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson on the cult prog rock mavericks who inspired him – but were too out-there to be successful

They played a gig at Bruce Dickinson’s school when he was 15 years old

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Order your exclusive Iron Maiden bundle featuring an Eddie T-shirt you won't find in shops

The bundle also comes with an alternate Metal Hammer cover

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I'm an Iron Maiden fanatic and decided to rank every single one of their live albums from worst to best

Iron Maiden are the undisputed heavy metal daddies of live albums. Here's every one they've released so far, in reverse order of excellence

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Iron Maiden thought about retiring after Nicko McBrain left touring lineup

The remaining Iron Maiden members considered calling it quits after Nicko McBrain was forced to retire from touring.

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"We had a decision to make as to whether we wanted to carry on or not": Steve Harris on Nicko McBrain's departure from Iron Maiden

Nicko McBrain announced his retirement from touring with Iron Maiden earlier this year

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"I always thought power metal is cheesy. We are not cheesy, **** that." Pumpkins, power metal and the mostunexpected reunion in metal: Helloween are better than ever

How Helloween's Pumpkins United has reinvented power metal's first breakout stars

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Iron Maiden announce epic Knebworth show for 2026 - plus two huge festival dates

Iron Maiden's Run For Your Lives world tour has added three massive dates for next year

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"You're surrendering your senses completely to this little fascist in your hand." Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson really hates mobile phones

Iron Maiden singer despises cell phones at gigs and doesn't want to perform for "a bunch of Android twerps"

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“It reminded me of discovering Deep Purple when I was 15 years old, except updated. Everything was really pushing forwards”: Bruce Dickinson reveals the Pau Di’Anno song that convinced him to join Iron Maiden

The song that changed the course of Iron Maiden

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Nine classic deep cuts Iron Maiden need to dust off for their 2026 Run For Your Lives shows

Iron Maiden are returning to Europe for the second stint of their 50th-anniversary tour next year. These are the obscure tracks we’d love them to play.

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“This is the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world!”: Iron Maiden are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer. And it comes with three exclusive gifts!

The new issue features exclusive interviews with Bruce Dickinson and Steve Harris – plus a 50th-birthday patch, keyring and art print

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Iron Maiden announce more European shows for 2026, including phone-free Paris concert and secret UK date

The UK metal heavyweights will continue the Run For Your Lives tour with a second European leg in the summer

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Watch members of Iron Maiden and Tool jam a Jeff Beck song at a wedding last week

Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith and partially-retired drummer Nicko McBrain performed with Tool bassist Justin Chancellor at Smith’s daughter’s wedding on Friday

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Iron Maiden sign up as ambassadors for National Album Day 2025

“Albums matter,” says Bruce Dickinson, whose band are one of four “Album Champions” alongside Architects, Nova Twins and Wolf Alice for this year’s rock-themed event

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Wolf Alice, Iron Maiden, Nova Twins and Architects named Album Champions for National Album Day 2025

National Album Day returns on October 18, with this year's theme set as rock music.

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Watch Iron Maiden legend Bruce Dickinson sing the Star Spangled Banner for 66,000 NFL fans in Pittsburgh

The Iron Maiden frontman sang the American National Anthem ahead of the Steelers vs Seattle Seahawks encounter

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You haven’t felt the power of heavy metal until you’ve seen a room of grown men cry

Here in metal-mad Finland, I see the 50-year-old genre is still in rude health – and helping people see the light in dark times, says Mike Watson, media and art theorist based in Finland

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Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson says he’d have been “comfortable” if cancer treatment irreparably affected his singing voice

“That’s when the thought formed, ‘What do I actually do with my life?’ Am I just a human noise generator? Or am I actually telling stories?”

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Watch Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson sing Judas Priest with a busker on the streets of New Orleans

The odds of a metal icon joining you for a singalong on a random street corner are low, but never zero

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“I almost cried when I first saw John Frusciante live. But when I got involved in extreme music, people would say, ‘Don’t mention RHCP’”: How Arve Isdal carved his own extreme metal path with Enslaved – and became Norway’s answer to Slash

The blues-schooled shredder shows off some unlikely examples in his guitar collection, explains why he quit an Iron Maiden icon’s band and shares the fate of his supergroup with Dani Filth, Rob Caggiano and John Tempesta

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"The entire world could burn and we would still absolutely love each other and love what we do." How Lzzy Hale beat her demons with a little help from her Halestorm bandmates on new album Everest

Lzzy Hale faced her biggest challenges yet going in to make Everest. Thankfully Halestorm were there to help her pull through

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“Those two are really strong, powerful albums and people will appreciate them later”: Steve Harris defends The X Factor and Virtual XI, Iron Maiden’s most derided albums

Maiden’s bassist/founder addresses the hatred towards two of their least-liked releases, while also admitting his band have never made “the perfect album”

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