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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 thought you might like to do a little bit of singing!” Watch Bruce Dickinson play Iron Maiden classic Alexander The Great at a solo show in Greece

It marks the first time Dickinson’s played an Iron Maiden song with his solo band in 22 years

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"I can't do it!" Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain reveals which classic song he has to play differently live since his stroke in 2023

Incredibly, the beloved Iron Maiden drummer went out on tour just months after suffering a stroke

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Steve Harris's British Lion announce West Coast US shows and first dates in Australia and New Zealand

The Iron Maiden man's side project have lined up a series of Pacific rim dates for later this year

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“I believe we’ve made a huge leap forward this time. This is our Radiohead moment!”: how Iron Maiden made a 21st century masterpiece with A Matter Of Life And Death

In this classic Metal Hammer interview, Bruce Dickinson and Steve Harris reveal the story behind Iron Maiden’s 2006 album A Matter Of Life And Death

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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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“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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"It was very British, but it shot round the world. It changed music": How the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal was born, by those who were there

In the late 70s, rock music was given a steel-booted kick up the backside by a new breed of band.The NWOBHM would go on to rule Britannia – and the world

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Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris to play intimate fundraising concert with British Lion this month

The Iron Maiden bassist’s side-project have also announced a short European tour for later this year

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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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“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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“I grow the nails on my right hand as long as I can, so I can get that trebly sound”: Steve Harris delivered one of the coolest bass guitar intros in the history of metal on Iron Maiden’s Wrathchild

Every would-be metalhead should learn from the best: Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris

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"Everything up to then had been about climbing the mountain. With Powerslave it felt like we were looking out over the rest of the world": How Iron Maiden grew up

When it came to making the follow-up to 1983’s Piece Of Mind album, Iron Maiden knew they needed to come up with something a bit special. That was Powerslave

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We reviewed every film Iron Maiden have ever written a song about

From Charge Of The Light Brigade to Children Of The Damned, we’ve watched and critiqued every movie The Beast have taken a track from

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The 10 best Blaze Bayley Iron Maiden songs

Showing some love to Iron Maiden’s most under-rated period

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"They’re one of the greatest rock bands in history." Why Lady Gaga loves Iron Maiden (and vice versa)

Lady Gaga and Iron Maiden have a longstanding mutual respect that might surprise some, but we're absolutely here for it

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“My being fired was premature… We’d wrapped pre-production on Killers but I never got the chance to record”: Meet Dennis Stratton, the man who brought harmony guitars to Iron Maiden

Armed with a Les Paul Custom copy and an obscenely heavy old combo amp, Stratton only discovered metal when he joined the future giants – and left them the legacy of harmony guitar attack

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“It was all a bit Jethro Tull-y and witchy-woo”: the iconic Bruce Dickinson solo song that began life as an idea for an ‘acoustic’ Iron Maiden album that was never made

How a rejected Iron Maiden song written in the mid-80s became a Bruce Dickinson classic almost 10 years later

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The 8 songs Iron Maiden have played live the least

If you’ve seen The Beast perform any of these rarities at a show, you’re in a very exclusive club

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“It might be significant that my two favourite pieces of music of all time are Supper’s Ready and Thick As A Brick”: What Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris learned from prog

The guiding light of NWOBHM geeks out on Peter Gabriel leaving Genesis, covering Jethro Tull but not wanting to meet Ian Anderson, the length of ELP solos, his struggle to get into Marillion and more

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Mission From ’Arry: How Iron Maiden turned a sweary argument into the funniest metal “song” ever

Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris and drummer Nicko McBrain had a farcical falling out during a 1983 tour. When they found out Bruce Dickinson recorded it, they decided it’d fit perfectly onto 2 Minutes To Midnight’s b-side.

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Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris wants to write an autobiography: “It’s just a question of time.”

Iron Maiden’s bassist and founder would love to write a book – he just needs to sit still for five minutes first

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‘The Bene Gesserit can kill with their voices. That’s what I try to do’: the musicians mining Dune for tunes

Iron Maiden, Fatboy Slim and Grimes have all made music inspired by Frank Herbert’s 1960s sci-fi epic. So what makes ‘Dunecore’ different to other interpretive genres?

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"My business is to create. It’s what I do." How Iron Maiden legend Bruce Dickinson struck out on his own, got weirder than ever and created some of the boldest music of his career, over 50 years in.

Bruce Dickinson has finally dived into the next chapter of his solo career - and it sees him in as creative and determined form as ever

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