![]() Poor chap has no idea what he’s going to go through in the next 41 years. It’s your fifth birthday, and we’ve got a very special surprise for you.’ ‘Oh no,’ says Eddie. ‘Son,’ he says, ‘today’s a very special day. So five years go by, and there’s Eddie the ‘Ead, as his parents have called him, sitting on the mantelpiece, when in walks his dad. ‘Bring him back in five years time, and we’ll probably have a body for him’. ![]() Right, enough with the intro’ing! Let’s shift the attention to our very first day of Iron Maiden week! Take ‘er away, Rydawg. Ī wife had a baby, but it was born with only a head and no body. Expect to see some sort of link / invite this Friday on the homepage, through FB, and on Twitter, and we hope to see as many of the old-school Metal Review forum folks lurking about as possible. No clue if the Discord server side of the plans will really work, because that obviously requires, 1) interest, 2) “digital community app” platform aptitude, and 3) some level of civility, but we’ll give ‘er a go. What we WILL have, however, is a stack of other fun lists that…obviously kicks off today, and we will reserve Friday for a possible NEW excursion that involves creating a very temporary weekend Discord server that’s Last Rites-centric and open to whomstever might enjoy spending Friday (Sept 3rd) gathered enmasse to discuss all things Senjutsu / Iron Maiden…which is probably what Eddie would most want us to do anyway. ![]() So, yes, we don’t have any sort of inside scoop on the new Iron Maiden, and we will not have a review for Senjutsu leading up to its release this coming Friday. However, unlike our two other week-long dedications to a single band-Judas Priest week back in 2018 to coincide with the release of Firepower, and our love-fest with Opeth back in ’19-we will be walking into Maiden’s seventeenth full-length on the very same level playing field as all of you, because we remain underground underdawgs whose celebrity (*cough*) does not grant us promotional considerations from the almighty music group known as Warner (who are probably at least 10% responsible for the above-mentioned loosely buried aliens. Plus, there’s a little event entitled Senjutsu dropping this coming Friday, which was clearly the impetus for this 5-day celebration. But that steady servility is largely relegated to ongoings behind closed doors at LR HQ, and this week we get to be freaks out in the open amidst all the birds and the bees and the wild flowers and the Bigfoot scat and the loosely buried radioactive alien corpses and, yeah, just generally out here in front of the whole world, so we’re extra enthusiastic. Wait, what? Isn’t, like, every week at Last Rites effectively Iron Maiden week? Well, yes… Yes, it is. ![]() Some guy having a meltdown amidst wild flowers ![]()
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