Iron Maidenin basisti kertoi British Lionin seuraavasta levystä: ”Musiikki on raskaampaa ja vahvempaa”

Iron Maidenin basisti Steve Harrisin kertoi Kerrong!-lehden haastattelussa luotsaamastaan sivuprojektista British Lionista. British Lionilla on jo materiaalia toista studioalbumiaan varten, ja yhtye on soittanut uusia kappaleitaan keikoillaan. Bändi on parhaillaan Euroopan-kiertueellaan, josta on katsottavissa fanien kuvaamia livevideoita. British Lionin kiertue nauhoitetaan ja siitä ilmestyy live-albumi ensi vuoden puolella. Katso tästä Steve Harrisin kommentit uudesta materiaalista sekä fanin kuvaama livevideo ”Us Against The World” -kappaleesta:

Steve Harrisilta kysyttiin soittaako bändi testimielessä keikoilla uusia kappaleitaan, johon tämä vastasi:

”To be honest with you, we just didn’t have enough material [on 2012’s self-titled debut to fill a headlining set]. We had to do that stuff. In an ideal world, we probably wouldn’t have done. It’s weird, though, really, because years ago I had an idea that you couldn’t really do now because of the Internet and that. Back in the day, I thought maybe you could have released a MAIDEN album with all-new live material. That would have been possible, maybe. But now you couldn’t because obviously no matter where you go in a band, you can’t get away with anything, because people film it on their cameras on their phones. It is what it is; it’s a different thing now.

”I know some people have probably checked out YouTube footage of the new songs. I still don’t think it’s going to be as good a version as what we put on the proper album. Hopefully people will still want it. Of course, there’ll be other songs as well. It’s nice, like you said, road-testing them — I think it makes them better. The way we’re playing the songs now is a lot better than the first album was.”

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”The band’s been evolving anyway and the songs have been evolving with it, or vice versa. We’re finding our feet as a band, finding more of a sense of what we are. Without analyzing it too much, I think the [new] songs are really probably going, if anything, maybe in a heavier direction perhaps. I mean, ’Spitfire’, to me, sounds like really heavy THIN LIZZY. But others might think something different about it. But they’re really good songs, really powerful songs, and they certainly stand up against any of the other songs, really. And some of the ones we have got up our sleeves are just as good.”

British Lionin live-albumista Harris comment:

”We’ve been talking about a live album for a while,” Harris told Kerrang! ”We recorded the last couple of tours, and obviously we’ll record stuff from this tour and get as much stuff as we can to get a good cross-section of stuff and then we’ll definitely put a live album out, because I think it’s important.”

Fanin kuvaama livevideo ”Us Against The World” -kappalesta

Uutiskuva: British Lion -promokuva