Maiden A–Z

Time to dust of the remaining artifacts from last weeks tomb-raid.

Thanks to Erik Arkö for preforming and putting together the alternative show tune "Iron Maiden at Home" as well as to Steven Morris and werc85 on YouTube for extra music in the intro and outro segments.

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Back at it!

We team up with Ben Webster to open this ancient tombs and discover mysteries of knowledge lost.

Thanks to Erik Arkö for preforming and putting together the alternative show tune "Iron Maiden at Home".

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Summer is over, and thus we conclude the Martin Birch Summer Special - also known as Marvin A-Z.

As a way of both rounding of this sub-series and reapproaching the Maiden A-Z main quest we dive into Martins most important, and personal favorite, collaboration - recording and producing IRON MAIDEN.

We hope this series will be considered a worthy anthology and tribute to the Birch legacy!

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The penultimate edition of our Martin Birch summer special.

All early 80s this time, 1980-1982 to be precise.

Up the Birches and beware the headmaster!

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Dedicated to the memory and legacy of Martin Birch, Mo Foster & Bernie Marsden.

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In this installment of "Marvin A-Z" M.R. and J.H. get into some of Martins, most prolific and famous studio work + some additional sugar and spice.

Up the Birches!

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Mattias Reinholdsson (Dead Kosmonaut) is our guest host and guest producer alike as we continue our extensive Martin Birch exposé.

Beware the Ninja!

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Mattias R joins in as guest host AND producer alike as we open up our extensive Martin Birch exposé.

Beware the Farmer!

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CONTAINS SPOILERS!

What follows Man Predictions™? Man Reactions™!

Featuring Dr Traynor and Henrik J.

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CONTAINS SPOILERS!

In two teams of two we begin breaking down the highly anticipated and curently ongoing Future Past tour.

Erik is in with Fearghal T whereas Jon gets the steady support of Henrik Js vast Iron Maiden know-how.

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What's with the gloryhole of the lord?

We hop on the Mayflower and sail for new lands to rediscover porn and god alike!

Jesus pulls his best partytricks and Ritchie Blackmore, as per usual, looms over the horizon.

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Behind the cavernous walls of this opera house lies terror, unspeakable terror.

Who was this Phantom, plotting and scheming behind so grotesque a mask?

The thundering organ - his throne of doom!

The empty theater - his altar of death!

Come, if you dare!

Phantom of the Opera - Atto Secondo

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Mr John Gaffney from Lair of the Alchemist, or Gaffneyson as our mutual buddy calls him is indeed back at the eagles nest and ready to talk more Maiden.

And what a song we are in for, I don't even know where to begn? Well I gues it would make sense at Apertura moving into Atto Primo.

Gradire!

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Erik is joined by his bestie and former podcast partner Alexis for this special detour episode.

Can gory movies and extreme metal help get thru bad mental health days? We attempt to answer that. Kind of.

Be warned: This one is a bit different than what you're used to. Next week we will be back to our regularly scheduled programming.

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With Erik across the pond Jon decided to bring back "Drummer Pete" for a detour review of the new Metallica album.

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Big song this week, let's see what this Smith/Harris 2003 war epic is made of.

In order to do this and to do it well, we called upon the expertise of Anton Bryvall and Henrik Johansson.

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We are still in the most dust ridden section of the library, accompanied by Dan Mortimer & Joel Brink.

Let's ride!

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Joined by up and running guest hosts Joel Brink /Maidenpodden/ and Dan Mortimer /Armstrong Gun/

we go straight for the dustiest part of the entire local library.

It is time to tackle track the longest of the long on Senjutsu.

The Parchment.

Part 1 of 2

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Mr Feck himself, Fearghal Traynor, is back on Maiden A-Z!

And, let's get down to brass tax here:

Does any of this really exist?

We're all living seperately.

We can't disguise ourselves with this anymore.

We don't have another chance

...and we're all gonna die!

Let us peregrinate, Out of the Silent Planet!

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I can't even recall last time we did two songs in one single episode..?
Hitting up such a heavy duty this very week, of course we needed Judas Priestcasts own George Silano and his firepower.
Let's see if he can help us not only analyze these two tunes but also find anything of a link between this seemingly unmatched pair.
Let the undead live within us!

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Maiden A-Z & Axel continue descending, further into the infernal depths.
Phrase up those sacred chants and reckon THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST.
For it is your warped mind, straring back at you!
The evil face, that twists your mind -
and brings you to despair!

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Axel Brink (Maidenpodden) is back with us not long after his blood brother - and we are IN FOR IT!
Blaze up those torches and reckon THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST.
For it is, a human number.  

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Long time listener and prime Cornwall correspondent, Kevin Burt joins to zoom in on this oft forgotten 1990 title-track.
For reasons obscure this episode has the following dresscore: Wooden leg.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6vuenZ159FTngCJmmjcyzb?si=a893757821004972
^ The "Kiss for fans of Iron Maiden" playlist. It's due for a little update soon, courtesy of Anton B.

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Paul Lacayo is finally back for a proper guest feature, and he did indeed bring his polygraph.
So...
No More Lies!

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Of course, Joel Brink (Maidenpodden) stuck around with us for this week, with his favorite song coming right at us.
The Nomad.
In many ways this was a perfect match, and one we had confirmed since many, many moons.
However, upon hitting record Jon fell into the agonizing notion that this might well be him ruining someones favorite tune.
Somones favorite Maiden tune...
...ouch!
Well, at least he might actually live to tell the tale.*
Ladies & Gentlemen:
The Nomad.

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New letter!
New songwriter!
New Frontier.
No more M.
Yet, we are still feeling M, and this week M, of course, stands for:
MAIDENPODDEN!
Joel is back with us, and this time to have a sweet slice of that music and lyric analysis cake.
We are stoked to, in some way, temporarily resurrect Maidenpodden.
Let's talk 2003, when ISDN and ADSL were up to date, and cloned mammals was talk of the town.
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For this week's episode, we attempt something very different. Jonatan and Fearghal battle in a good old-fashioned pub quiz created by Erik. 

This is just a bit of fun and likely won't be for everyone. Fear not! Next week we will be back to our usual mischief!

A bit of warning: This week we most definitely earned our explicit content warning.

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Joined by Andreas Lindgren [Killerslave] we venture into the ever-smiling world of Mr David Michael Murray.
The nicest man in rock, and his immortal contribution to the world of music.
The trill of it al.
Andreas chimes in on both microphone and electric guitar.
It's Murray Madness!

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If you'd be so kind as to indulge us in mapping out why Murders in the Rue Morgue is truly the epic track on "Killers", then tihs one is for you!
Featuring re-occuring guest host Henrik Johansson as well a brand new guest of honor in Mr John Gaffney from https://www.youtube.com/@LairoftheAlchemist

Enjoy!

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In this grand special we are joined by our resident bass man, and our agenda is getting our Jule-Mode going, 

But, maybe even moreso we are in to recap our two year anniversary fiesta and share some sweet sonic bites of what went down on stage that fine evening.

Enjoy!

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Go' Jul, Up The Irons & Skål from the north!

OG Maiden A-Z guest and Persian correspondent Fateme is back with us, calling in from Teheran.
We gathered up for two songs that would equal "The Mother Duet" and this episode represents the second of the two.

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OG Maiden A-Z guest and Persian correspondent Fateme is back with us, calling in from Teheran.
We gathered up for two songs that would equal "The Mother Duet" and this episode would be the first of two mothers.

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After the escapists of Fort Montségur went full DRUID, just about everybody did wonder either
A, Who were they? or: B, What were they doing?
To have this mystery solve they chose to summon the bornless one, the Moonchild...
...Gemini is Rising!

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We finally reunite with Frankstons finest, Mr Ben Webster.
Not entirely sure if we ever told any of you about our time machine?
Regardless, we set it back to 1244 and made our way to southern France.
Objective: Make sense of what went down at Montségur.

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It is the spookiest day of the year so we wanted to give you a bit of bonus fun!

To help us out  there was of course only one man to call. In other words, Fearghal is back!

It should be pointed out this is just a bit of off-topic fun. There is very little Maiden talk. A regular song episode is dropping this Friday.

Happy Halloween, up the irons and skål from the north!

Andy Feehan a.k.a Book of Skulls Boardgame joins in as a brand new guest and helps us thoroughly tackle Maiden A-Z style analysis of these two new-millenia era tracks.

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Right on the edge of tripple digits we fall down with Michael Douglas.
With briefcase and lunch we went over to Buffalo's finest: Greg DiPasquale.

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The one that we let get away.
By far one of the least famous pieces of music by Iron Maiden.
So, what will we make of this pen ultimate penned by Dave Murray and Mr Steve Harris?!
As per usual, there is only one way to find out...

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On what was already to be a terrific October Thursday, Iron Maiden announced the 2023 "The Future Past Tour".
A fusion of Senjutsu and Somewhere in Time, Han-Solos & Samurais.
Of course this podcast had to get in on the action with some juicy Man Predictions!
And for those to be juicy enough, of course we needed our pal Fearghal Traynor back on the panel.

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Wait a minute... this is not my world!?
DIS-A-PPOIINTEEEED

Much like Kevin Sorbo, your A-Z boys get Lost in Lost in a Lost World.
But are we equally DISAPPOINTED!?
There is one immediate way to find out.

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We love the instrumentals - and quite frankly: so should you!
This is the third out of four to go under the Maiden A-Z blade.
Losfer Words, from the mighty Powerslave.

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Strengthened by Mr Erik Arkö and his electric bass we analyse a couple of deeper cuts from the 90s and 00s respectively.
Feels good to be back on track with our main game: Analysing every Maiden track in alphabetical order.

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We are finally back to tackling the song list! To help us get down to business (so we can get back to the business of getting down) we have Henrik and Mattias at our side. The target this week is a somewhat odd bird from the mid 90s. Namely: Lord of The Flies
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Recurring guest hosts Henrik Johansson and Mattias Reinholdsson join Jonatan in embarking into the third part of our series on Maiden recording songs by other bands. This time we head into songs originally by Marshall Fury, Golden Earring, Nektar & Thin Lizzy.

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Henrik and Jonatan continue with discovering the legendary Hammersmith Odeon and it's significance to Iron Maiden over the years.

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[in Seinfeld voice] :

What's the deal with Hammersmith?

Henrik and Jonatan set out to discover the legendary venue Hammersmith Odeon and it's significance to Iron Maiden over the years.

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Up the Irons and skål from the North!

This week we do a brief recap of our recent voyage to Gothenburg.

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We pick up right where we left off last time with your badass fantasy festival line-ups!

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We are back! Festival season is in full swing and we're celebrating it by going thru the fantasy lineups you guys sent in!

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We have a quick summer-themed chat before going on summer vacation. But don’t worry! We’ll be back before you know it!

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