Bruce Dickinson - Tyranny of Souls

[Legion]

One intro and nine songs. Three are appaling (blatant fillers is you ask me) and the rest are top-notch. All the material is pure solo-artist stuff. You know, let's have fun and blow away the crowd. Love the usage of Slipknot-style percussions on Abduction, the first single. Devil on a Hog is the best track though, with these lyrics:

You wanna know where legends live
At the rainbows end I’ll be there
There’s a place in inner space
That’s where I'll get to you

I’m not the shy retiring kind
Like a supernova for the blind
I used to sit at God's right hand
But I quit that show to do my one night stands

Coming outta nowhere I’m a Godhead rider

You won’t see my face no more
My machine has left the floor
Leave my rivals in the dirt
I've seen your world and I got the shirt
Before I leave and go my way
I’ve loved it but I couldn’t stay
There’s nothing left for you to feel
Just remember me

You might see me in Tokyo
To the rings of Saturn hey, let's go
And you’ve the trip of your life with me
But your one time chance is never free

I'll see you baby once again
Maybe three score years and ten
I'l be driving a different ship
That's when I'll take you down for your final trip

Coming outta nowhere I’m a Godhead rider

You won’t see my face no more
My machine has left the floor
Leave my rivals in the dirt
I've seen your world and I got the shirt
Before I leave and go my way
I’ve loved it but I couldn’t stay
There’s nothing left for you to feel
Just remember me

Coming outta nowhere I’m a Godhead rider
Coming outta nowhere I’m a Godhead rider

You won’t see my face no more
My machine has left the floor
Leave my rivals in the dirt
I've seen your world and I got the shirt
Before I leave and go my way
I’ve loved it but I couldn’t stay
There’s nothing left for you to feel
Just remember me

;D

(4 out of 5)

[Copelasmatron]

I'll be buying it soon but I hear that Devil on a Hog is out of place on the album. A rock n roll biker song on an album full of Bruce's usual dark imagery. I really don't like Bruce doing rock n roll. He simply hasn't got the voice for it. He's too good a singer.

A rundown of the other tracks Raccis?

[Legion]

Devil is no rock'n'roll. Or, if you want, is as rock'n'roll as Bruce can get. Actually, before reading the lyrics I thought it was a rather tragic song. It's pretty epic. The album is not completely dark, too. Devil on a Hog, Kill Devil Hill and Navigate the Seas of the Sun all are quite non-dark (and great songs too). All the production is pretty raw/heavy/brutal anyway, with a nice non-Maiden effect. There goes the rundown:

1 - Mars Within. 2- minutes intro. Bruce about stars and professor Quatermass.
2 - Abduction. The single. Extremely good, pretty brutal, melodic and very solid. Bruce gets abducted by the aliens. Very nice "two-layered" Slipknot-like percussione here and there.
3 - Soul Intruders. Frantic drumming plus guitar at beginning and end. Good verse, great chorus. About demonic/spirit possession if I'm not mistaken. Very enjoyable.
4 - Kill Devil Hill. Epic crescendo about flight pioneers, with a slow coda. Pretty moving and very good.
5 - Navigate the Seas of the Sun. Semi-acoustic one about space-travelling pioneers. Very visionary, Maiden's Strange World-like, only better. Excellent.
6 - River of No Return. Some might like it but I didn't. Sounds cobbled together to me. Filler.
7 - Power of the Sun. Instant deja vu from somewhere else in the album. It's a filler but not as bad as Believil (see below).
8 - Devil on a Hog. Top peak of the album. Space-travelling Satan, boasting incredibly good AND cheesy lyrics and a great melody. A party metalhead's heaven ;D
9 - Believil. IIIIIIIIII believe, yoooooooooou and me, IIIIIIII believe, EEEEEEEVIL. Ugh.
10 - A Tyranny of Souls. Almost visual violence and the album's dark abyss. Great song. Reminded me of Sabbath's attitude. The way choruses start, with a moment of silence followed by another moment of Bruce without guitars, are particularly effective. Bruce definitely strikes me as a man who can make a great chorus out of the word Pentecost.

;D

[Copelasmatron]

Not convinced by this album so far. Only one listen but it sounds uninspired, like it's a half arsed attempt at recreating Chemical Wedding. Abduction is a great opener but most of the rest left me cold. I think Bruce is going over the top with his poetic lyrics too, becoming a bit of a parody of himself. Adrian Smith is missed too, I find Roy Z's lead guitar a bit one dimensional and soulless.

[Legion]

How comes I was expecting a Raccis-Copeland review divergence?

;D

[Copelasmatron]

It was in the stars. Which incidently is kind of the theme of this album.

I had such high hopes for it when I heard it was coming out. I just think it lacks true quality. Soul Intruders sounds to me like a cross between Starchildren and Machine Men from his last 2 albums.

[Legion]

Still, you sure do like Devil on a Hog. Yes? ;D

[Copelasmatron]

well it's one of the better tracks on the album and far better than I thought it would be.

Rundown of some of the tracks from my point of view:

Intro/Abduction - Excellent. Like a typical maiden single. Really catchy. Not keen on Roy Z's soloing but a great track. 4/5

Soul Intruders - Very average and run of the mill. Sounds like some earlier Bruce songs rehashed. 3/5 and I'm being kind there.

Kill Devil Hill - Great chorus. Not much happening in the verse but a chorus that just sings itself in your head. 4/5.

Navigate The Seas of the Sun - Rubbish. Tune is nice enough but pretty bland. Lyrics are bloody awful and the 2nd song on the album where bruce bleats on about living "half lives". Quite Spinal Tap at times, especially the Spanish guitar solo. 2/5

River of No Return - Not bad. Very 80s intro. Chugs along reasonably well but nothing too inspring. 3/5.


First 5 songs gets an average of 3/5 from me. More to come when I've listened to the rest again but Believil is definately gonna keep the average low.

[Legion]

Aye Believil is rubbish.

[Copelasmatron]

Listened some more:

Power of the Sun - Lively enough but not very interesting. Embarrassing delayed wail from Bruce at the start and finish. Not worth more than 3/5.

Devil on a Hog - Very catchy. Cool fun song. 4/5.

Believil - Not as bad as I first thought. Musically it sounds ripped off from Alice Cooper's Dragontown. 3/5.

Tyranny of Souls - Good track. Not amazing but worth 4/5.

I calculate my average score to be 3.33 so I give it 3/5.

I think Roy Z's riffing is very good, but without Adrian Smith there, he's revealed to be a dull, unimaginative soloist.

[raydo]

ya i like the hole album it is his best to date

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