aku paling suka pegi blog2 korang yang ada gambo makanan haha.
Anyway,
makanan2 best dan mur kadang boleh dapat kat mana2 je, termasuk kedai2 bawah blok whether we're in Msia or Spore.
Yang ni kat msia lak, advantage nye ialah like i say kedai bawah blok
sayo campo
dagings masak merahs
kailans masins, still boleh taruk all the seafood n stuffs banyak2
desop eko
Next, cuci mata, ntah cammana ni gambo boleh bocor, buat hati aku excited giler ni haha,
actually kena salute cammana album yang dorang dah rakam berbulan2 lepas, tapi sampai sekarang belum bocor2 lagi even worldwide demand dah tak sabar..
ni ntah dari printing company ke hapa ke aku tak tahu, siap ada orang cuba enlarge nak study liriks dia haha.
the leaked photo of the lyric sheets of the final frontier, mungkin dari printing company or whatever..
no one can live life in loneliness, only stars in the sky far away... [WELCOME everyone from everywhere, with intention or by accident - THIS BLOG IS BEST VIEWED IN WEB VERSION FORMAT as its how I envision it to be with the text and photos but still any layout format will work just fine.]
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
majalah mh september yang belum sampai kat kedai2 sini
aku sebenarnye nak tampal gambar makanan, tapi ni latest of the latest giler,
kat kedai2 majalah malaysia/singapore belum sampai majalah ni, tapi kat England , orang dah beli, dan siap scan mukasurats yang pentings huhu..
SPOILER K pasal siap ada scan, ( SEBELAH BAWAH )
full packed ngan maiden, walau patut lencana besi maiden per tu dia kasi bulan ni, ni dia kasi bulan ogos nye issue, bulan ni dapat mousepad ff per. Taktik untuk lariskan majalah ler tu.
Enjoy..
3d magazine cover
dapat mousepad per
content page
review ff pages
dan
Thanks to the mamat omputeh yang rajin scan untuk fans all over the world
Semoga korang smua terhibur, dan - DISCLAIMER - remember to buy originals huhu, ni kira macam tangkap stim kering download trial dulu la... dari saya yang menjalankan tugas huhu
up the irons!
kat kedai2 majalah malaysia/singapore belum sampai majalah ni, tapi kat England , orang dah beli, dan siap scan mukasurats yang pentings huhu..
SPOILER K pasal siap ada scan, ( SEBELAH BAWAH )
full packed ngan maiden, walau patut lencana besi maiden per tu dia kasi bulan ni, ni dia kasi bulan ogos nye issue, bulan ni dapat mousepad ff per. Taktik untuk lariskan majalah ler tu.
Enjoy..
3d magazine cover
dapat mousepad per
content page
review ff pages
dan
Thanks to the mamat omputeh yang rajin scan untuk fans all over the world
Semoga korang smua terhibur, dan - DISCLAIMER - remember to buy originals huhu, ni kira macam tangkap stim kering download trial dulu la... dari saya yang menjalankan tugas huhu
up the irons!
~ Labels ~
Books Comics Mags n News,
iron maiden
Friday, July 23, 2010
Bila Angin Bertiup, dan buku progrem Brave New World
Aku bagi dua topik ni post, merapu fast game nye..
Ni katun bernama When The Wind Blows.
( tengok foto2 scene kat cover ost ni )
Ada waktu boleh luang masa klik link bawah ni, korang tengok la, kartun untuk semua peringkat umur, dialog English accent, 1 jam lebih.
Cuma dua watak je dalam cerita ni, atok n nenek dua orang, tapi... dah cukup thrill giler. Selain katun , cerita ni jugak boleh adaptasikan untuk pentas, senang je pe, dua orang tua dalam rumah kampung.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3335238684076482887#
Cerita ni kisah kat satu kampung kat Britain, mula2nye cantik, pelangi sana sini, aman, bunga bunga, burung berkicauan,
duduk dua orang tua laki bini Jim & Hilda Bloggs. Dah tua, duduk2, minum teh, borak2 cerita2 lama dorang muda2.
Kat radio dorang dengar Britain ngah ada masalah ngan Russia. Si nenek Hilda ni, dia masih ceria dia cakap takpelah perang, dorang boleh sembunyik kat kubu, boleh cat cantik2 kubu, tanam bunga, macam dia ingat perang dunia kedua, tapi laki dia cakap takdelah , ni kali perang cuma pakai satu bom aje, nuclear bomb dan dia cakap masa hiroshima dulu, the explosion is BRIGTHER THAN A THOUSAND SUNS.
Jadi datuk Jim ni ambik risalah kerajaan belajar cammana nak sediakan diri untuk nuclear war.
Dan sambil tu celoteh la dorang laki bini macam serupa macam mana2 orang2 tua borak2 pagi sampai petang.
Satu hari tu betul2 Russia nuclear attack Britain, habis semua, laki bini ni selamat, dorang ikut cakap pamplet tu, lepas tu dorang keluar carik orang lain kat kampung dorang, semua dah hancur, rumah dorang pun actually dah berserak giler.
Takde orang lain, tapi dorang punye selenger, dorang masih tunggu suratkhabar la apa la. Hari hujan turun, dorang tadah air... padahal tu semua radioaktif dah.
Lepas tu berhari2, takde berita apa2, smua air, elektrik, smua takde, pelan2 nenek ni ngan atuk dah melalut...pelan2 nenek ni rambut gugur, badan bintik2 , dorang dah tak boleh diri betul2, huyung hayang, tapi dorang masih percaya Kerajaan akan selamatkan dorang..
last2 dorang dah berbual tak betul, merapu...dua2 selubung diri ngan paper bag, pasal pamplet kerajaan cakap ni tolong selamatkan dorang masa nuclear attack, Siap doa2 kat tuhan dorang, terkebil2, terketar2..., ending dia, semacam....
Aku tak pernah tengok katun macam gini....dia serupa sikit2 ngan Blackadder the very very very last episode gitu.. very disturbing.
And the GREATEST AND MOST LOVED BAND IN HISTORY, I believe is going to have an 11+ minutes version of their interpretation of this story.
Dan, aku tak sabar nak dengar intepretasi Maiden kat album FF. Ni satu2nye lagu album FF yang Steve Harris tulis sorang, dan its the last song, kira epic cam 80an nye album gitu. Apa aku tahu lagu ni bagi tiga bahagian melodi cam review kat Sweden Rock nye listening party. Apa aku tahu jugak lagu ni lain sangat..apa yang lain tu aku tak tahu. Lagu When The Wind Blows ni tak silap aku akan jadi lagu ketiga paling panjang dalam sejarah Maiden... huhu...mesti outstanding cam TSOTC ngan ROTAM. Maybe better becos seems its unusual even for Maiden's standard.
( Cerita ni tulisan Raymond Briggs yang jugak tulis cartoon Snowman, yang ada lagu Walking In The Air yang Maiden perform instrumental masa 1986 tour, dan berapa tahun lepas Nightwish cover version. aku pernah post sini links katun tu dulu somewhere here ).
part 2
Actually, aku ngah baca balik progrem book BNW pasal Blood Brothers kan Maiden tujukan untuk Ronnie James Dio masa skarang ni dorang tour USA/Canada.
So this are the pictures from the book.. Page by page photo ( not scan ) but clear ones of the details and information and pictures from the BNW programme book.
( Two versions were made, the one difference is on one of the advertisement of Metal-Is if I am not wrong )
Full photos as usual in my Multiply, but slowly I am uploading to FLickr too...As I think FLickr is clearer untuk korang yang minat nak baca word by word.
Selamat membaca, especially cerita pasal 1999 Bruce dan H masuk balik, 1999 tour, buat album BNW, segala maknenek nye cerita dan jugak Bruce word by word song by song description.
Orang macam Dave Ling ni semua kalo korang ingat, dorang semua writers glory days majalah2 rock british 80an..
ok nak baca penuh pegi Flickr aku, aku rasa ok la kot sana...Multiply aku tetap update la jugak kot FLickr buat hal.
Kalo belum update tunggu besok lusa tu pun kalo aku ada acess.
Last foto, size progrem book compare ngan lp Brave New World and Rock In Rio semua zaman sama, dan cd Beatles lagik haha
Ni katun bernama When The Wind Blows.
( tengok foto2 scene kat cover ost ni )
Ada waktu boleh luang masa klik link bawah ni, korang tengok la, kartun untuk semua peringkat umur, dialog English accent, 1 jam lebih.
Cuma dua watak je dalam cerita ni, atok n nenek dua orang, tapi... dah cukup thrill giler. Selain katun , cerita ni jugak boleh adaptasikan untuk pentas, senang je pe, dua orang tua dalam rumah kampung.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3335238684076482887#
Cerita ni kisah kat satu kampung kat Britain, mula2nye cantik, pelangi sana sini, aman, bunga bunga, burung berkicauan,
duduk dua orang tua laki bini Jim & Hilda Bloggs. Dah tua, duduk2, minum teh, borak2 cerita2 lama dorang muda2.
Kat radio dorang dengar Britain ngah ada masalah ngan Russia. Si nenek Hilda ni, dia masih ceria dia cakap takpelah perang, dorang boleh sembunyik kat kubu, boleh cat cantik2 kubu, tanam bunga, macam dia ingat perang dunia kedua, tapi laki dia cakap takdelah , ni kali perang cuma pakai satu bom aje, nuclear bomb dan dia cakap masa hiroshima dulu, the explosion is BRIGTHER THAN A THOUSAND SUNS.
Jadi datuk Jim ni ambik risalah kerajaan belajar cammana nak sediakan diri untuk nuclear war.
Dan sambil tu celoteh la dorang laki bini macam serupa macam mana2 orang2 tua borak2 pagi sampai petang.
Satu hari tu betul2 Russia nuclear attack Britain, habis semua, laki bini ni selamat, dorang ikut cakap pamplet tu, lepas tu dorang keluar carik orang lain kat kampung dorang, semua dah hancur, rumah dorang pun actually dah berserak giler.
Takde orang lain, tapi dorang punye selenger, dorang masih tunggu suratkhabar la apa la. Hari hujan turun, dorang tadah air... padahal tu semua radioaktif dah.
Lepas tu berhari2, takde berita apa2, smua air, elektrik, smua takde, pelan2 nenek ni ngan atuk dah melalut...pelan2 nenek ni rambut gugur, badan bintik2 , dorang dah tak boleh diri betul2, huyung hayang, tapi dorang masih percaya Kerajaan akan selamatkan dorang..
last2 dorang dah berbual tak betul, merapu...dua2 selubung diri ngan paper bag, pasal pamplet kerajaan cakap ni tolong selamatkan dorang masa nuclear attack, Siap doa2 kat tuhan dorang, terkebil2, terketar2..., ending dia, semacam....
Aku tak pernah tengok katun macam gini....dia serupa sikit2 ngan Blackadder the very very very last episode gitu.. very disturbing.
And the GREATEST AND MOST LOVED BAND IN HISTORY, I believe is going to have an 11+ minutes version of their interpretation of this story.
Dan, aku tak sabar nak dengar intepretasi Maiden kat album FF. Ni satu2nye lagu album FF yang Steve Harris tulis sorang, dan its the last song, kira epic cam 80an nye album gitu. Apa aku tahu lagu ni bagi tiga bahagian melodi cam review kat Sweden Rock nye listening party. Apa aku tahu jugak lagu ni lain sangat..apa yang lain tu aku tak tahu. Lagu When The Wind Blows ni tak silap aku akan jadi lagu ketiga paling panjang dalam sejarah Maiden... huhu...mesti outstanding cam TSOTC ngan ROTAM. Maybe better becos seems its unusual even for Maiden's standard.
( Cerita ni tulisan Raymond Briggs yang jugak tulis cartoon Snowman, yang ada lagu Walking In The Air yang Maiden perform instrumental masa 1986 tour, dan berapa tahun lepas Nightwish cover version. aku pernah post sini links katun tu dulu somewhere here ).
part 2
Actually, aku ngah baca balik progrem book BNW pasal Blood Brothers kan Maiden tujukan untuk Ronnie James Dio masa skarang ni dorang tour USA/Canada.
So this are the pictures from the book.. Page by page photo ( not scan ) but clear ones of the details and information and pictures from the BNW programme book.
( Two versions were made, the one difference is on one of the advertisement of Metal-Is if I am not wrong )
Full photos as usual in my Multiply, but slowly I am uploading to FLickr too...As I think FLickr is clearer untuk korang yang minat nak baca word by word.
Selamat membaca, especially cerita pasal 1999 Bruce dan H masuk balik, 1999 tour, buat album BNW, segala maknenek nye cerita dan jugak Bruce word by word song by song description.
Orang macam Dave Ling ni semua kalo korang ingat, dorang semua writers glory days majalah2 rock british 80an..
ok nak baca penuh pegi Flickr aku, aku rasa ok la kot sana...Multiply aku tetap update la jugak kot FLickr buat hal.
Kalo belum update tunggu besok lusa tu pun kalo aku ada acess.
Last foto, size progrem book compare ngan lp Brave New World and Rock In Rio semua zaman sama, dan cd Beatles lagik haha
~ Labels ~
cartoon kartun,
iron maiden,
my iron maiden collection
Thursday, July 22, 2010
madison square garden 12/07/2010 complete show both opener & headliner
Maiden sold out msg new york city 12hb lepas, ni complete bootlegs of both bands perform malam tu. A nice one to hear and keep.
DT dorang nye impian nak main kat msg akhirnye menjadi walau setakat opener ( korang dengar si drummer dorang nye speech kat lagu PMU ).
Maiden lak ni kali kelima headline msg dalam sejarah dorang, dan sold out everytime. An incredible feat for band rok macam dorang. ( ronnie james dio dedication kat lagu bb was nice )
(foto latest ni ngan yang onstage backstage kat bawah2 tu smua aku congkong dari maiden nye porum)
sila download kat bawah cd covers ni..
http://tinyurl.com/3xzqakl
http://tinyurl.com/2wfzxzd
http://tinyurl.com/2wpnzm8
http://tinyurl.com/3xny9eg
http://tinyurl.com/2ww5fmm
ni semua bukan msg, msg nye fotos kat maiden website belum keluar lagik..ni shows lain2 seminggu dua sebelumnye kat north amerika, aku suka tengok dari atas stage backstage nye fotos
DT dorang nye impian nak main kat msg akhirnye menjadi walau setakat opener ( korang dengar si drummer dorang nye speech kat lagu PMU ).
Maiden lak ni kali kelima headline msg dalam sejarah dorang, dan sold out everytime. An incredible feat for band rok macam dorang. ( ronnie james dio dedication kat lagu bb was nice )
(foto latest ni ngan yang onstage backstage kat bawah2 tu smua aku congkong dari maiden nye porum)
sila download kat bawah cd covers ni..
http://tinyurl.com/3xzqakl
http://tinyurl.com/2wfzxzd
http://tinyurl.com/2wpnzm8
http://tinyurl.com/3xny9eg
http://tinyurl.com/2ww5fmm
ni semua bukan msg, msg nye fotos kat maiden website belum keluar lagik..ni shows lain2 seminggu dua sebelumnye kat north amerika, aku suka tengok dari atas stage backstage nye fotos
~ Labels ~
iron maiden,
live recording sound clips
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
first bus
aku ni penakut, pemalu dan pelupa. Tapi, ada benda aku mesti ambik tahu, tanya sana sini dan maklumat mesti dalam fingertips aku.
Salah satu ialah public transport, terutama waktu2 bas awam, bas express, LRT, MRT, depending kat mana aku ada. Paling awal, paling akhir penting woo ni smua.
Masa, setiap minit dan saat, is very damn precious for me, and not forgetting to be budget-conscious wherever possible, so we can enjoy a bit of life here and there.
Kalo pandai dan rajin tukar2 transport ni, boleh jimat banyak masa dan belanja.
(kul 4 pagi, masa ramai tengah tido, tapi ramai dah alive dah)
Bas awam, public bas service, antara paling awal kat Malaysia dan Singapore ialah bas kul 4 pagi, Larkin Terminal gi Kota Tinggi.
Paling penting, sebelum gi Kota Tinggi, ni bas lalu bandaraya JB dan berenti depan City Square / ICQ. Very critical bas untuk orang macam aku yang kena susun strategi timing dan cost.
So maybe ni info will help some of you guys yang guna public transport jugak dan jugak untuk sapa2 minat tahu ni semua pasal aku tak bedek, interesting beb benda2 gini... life of its own tau kalo benda2 odd hours gini. Nanti aku sambung2. Ada gambo baru thrill cerita.
Sebenarnye aku banyak nak post, gambo makan, maiden, macam2 la haha, tapi nanti2 la.
Salah satu ialah public transport, terutama waktu2 bas awam, bas express, LRT, MRT, depending kat mana aku ada. Paling awal, paling akhir penting woo ni smua.
Masa, setiap minit dan saat, is very damn precious for me, and not forgetting to be budget-conscious wherever possible, so we can enjoy a bit of life here and there.
Kalo pandai dan rajin tukar2 transport ni, boleh jimat banyak masa dan belanja.
(kul 4 pagi, masa ramai tengah tido, tapi ramai dah alive dah)
Bas awam, public bas service, antara paling awal kat Malaysia dan Singapore ialah bas kul 4 pagi, Larkin Terminal gi Kota Tinggi.
Paling penting, sebelum gi Kota Tinggi, ni bas lalu bandaraya JB dan berenti depan City Square / ICQ. Very critical bas untuk orang macam aku yang kena susun strategi timing dan cost.
So maybe ni info will help some of you guys yang guna public transport jugak dan jugak untuk sapa2 minat tahu ni semua pasal aku tak bedek, interesting beb benda2 gini... life of its own tau kalo benda2 odd hours gini. Nanti aku sambung2. Ada gambo baru thrill cerita.
Sebenarnye aku banyak nak post, gambo makan, maiden, macam2 la haha, tapi nanti2 la.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
cd melayu tak dilupakan & dom lawson review ff
dalam aku ngah excited giler tunggu FF, rainbow deluxe etc etc.. lagu band melayu tak dilupakan k..
some ( not so ) very latest malay cds dari malaysia and singapore yang aku ada..
( click all to enlarge )
ministry of rock tu last year kot release dia , ni band featuring Jatt Ali black dog bone.
errr actually sri mahligai and sri mahligai jati tu nak kasi kat zan haha..
nanti senang nanti aku review ulasan sikit2 k.
moving on, advanced ff reviews especially dari france & italy nye listening party aku tampal kat metalterus, i think more relevant there,
sesekali tampal kat sini jugak, dom lawson reviews untuk majalah metal hammer dan majalah classic rock paling latest.
yang scan ni latest classic rock baru release kat UK hari ni mamat ni dapat terus dia scan rupanye.
ni lak metalhammer website.
IRON MAIDEN The Final Frontier Track-By-Track
Somewhere between the dark and menacing war stories of A Matter Of Life And Death and the prog-tinged melodic bombast of Brave New World, albeit with a vast amount of fresh ideas thrown in for good measure, The Final Frontier is every bit as strong as the last three Maiden albums. The difference between this one and its predecessors is that these songs repeatedly take the Brit metal legends into uncharted territory. This is a demanding album, but one that most Maiden fans are going to absolutely adore…
SATELLITE 15…THE FINAL FRONTIER
Everyone has heard the album’s title track by now, and it’s a straightforward and infectious slab of muscular hard rock that seems destined to open Maiden shows for the foreseeable future…but it’s the first part of this bi-polar album opener that is going to blow fans’ minds. A disorientating maelstrom of swirling distortion, thudding double kicks and bizarre spectral vocals, Satellite 15 is undoubtedly the weirdest thing the band have ever recorded. It’s heavy, it’s left-field and it’s utterly unexpected.
EL DORADO
Opinion seems to be divided about whether El Dorado is simply a solid, straightforward Maiden tune or something genuinely special. In fact, it’s a bit of both; a bold and boisterous seven-minute epic with an infectious chorus and a few deftly-executed twists and turns, all custom-built to go down an absolute storm live.
MOTHER OF MERCY
A dark and menacing song that could easily have been on A Matter Of Life And Death, this is one of those archetypal horrors-of-war anthems that Maiden do so well. It starts with a faintly proggy intro – a whiff of Steve Harris’ beloved Jethro Tull, perhaps – before morphing into a brooding, slow-motion gallop, not a million miles from Stranger In A Strange Land (from Somewhere In Time), but with a much more sinister overall vibe. “Sick of all the killing and the reek of death…” sings Bruce at one point.
COMING HOME
A bombastic, lighters-in-the-air ballad with a difference, Coming Home marries a giant, sing-along chorus to some subtly progressive riffs and a typically adventurous arrangement. Undeniably sentimental, this is plainly Bruce Dickinson’s song, as he sings about returning home and seeing the lights on the runway as his plane descends to Earth. Not many bands could pull this off without setting off the cheese alarm. Maiden do it brilliantly. A live classic in the making.
THE ALCHEMIST
Arguably the most old fashioned song on the album, this punchy four-minute burst of speed, energy and irresistible Lizzy-esque lead guitar harmonies would have fit neatly onto Fear Of The Dark and nimbly ticks all the necessary boxes to please the die-hards. Interestingly, this has the same title as a song from Bruce Dickinson’s classic solo album Chemical Wedding. The two songs are utterly dissimilar, however.
ISLE OF AVALON
Possibly the finest thing on The Final Frontier and certainly one of the strongest songs Maiden have produced in years, Isle Of Avalon takes the band into unfamiliar melodic territory, with a few unconventional time signatures and proggy detours adding to the intense freshness that pervades throughout its nine minute duration, and a simply enormous chorus that will surely translate extremely well live. There’s a vague hint of Paschendale (from 2003’s Dance Of Death) and a nod or two to Maiden’s Somewhere In Time album here.
STARBLIND
Another song that is full of surprises, despite Maiden’s unmistakable sound, this is another epic that brims with great riffs, melodies and subtle textural touches. Almost psychedelic in places, Starblind has a genuinely otherworldly feel, particularly during its intricate midsection which boasts a phenomenal bluesy lead break over some sumptuous, mellow guitar work from the Three Amigos.
THE TALISMAN
Another song that would have fit on A Matter Of Life And Death, The Talisman is dark and complex, but it also flows beautifully, spreading out from its folky intro into a powerful main verse riff and a seriously explosive chorus with Bruce bellowing at the top of his not inconsiderable lungs. Despite being nine minutes long, this one whizzes by in what seems like half that time.
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
An eerie, unsettling intro leads into some crushing, doomy chords before this sprawling epic switches direction and heads into a superbly catchy and muscular verse riff and another big chorus. Like many songs on The Final Frontier, The Man Who Would Be King seldom does exactly what you would expect, and yet it all makes perfect sense by the time its rambling, harmony-packed intro fades gently away…
WHEN THE WILD WIND BLOWS
Based on author Raymond Briggs’ grim post-nuclear fallout graphic novel (When The Wind Blows), the final track on Maiden’s 15th album is every bit as bleak and unnerving as its subject matter would seem to demand, and yet this is as musically fascinating and lyrically brave as anything the band have recorded. Densely-layered and uncompromising, this one will take a few listens to sink in, but there is an insane amount of atmosphere and countless inspired melodic touches on display here. A stunning finale.
Words: Dom Lawson
Iron maiden will release ‘The Final Frontier’ on August 16th
some ( not so ) very latest malay cds dari malaysia and singapore yang aku ada..
( click all to enlarge )
ministry of rock tu last year kot release dia , ni band featuring Jatt Ali black dog bone.
errr actually sri mahligai and sri mahligai jati tu nak kasi kat zan haha..
nanti senang nanti aku review ulasan sikit2 k.
moving on, advanced ff reviews especially dari france & italy nye listening party aku tampal kat metalterus, i think more relevant there,
sesekali tampal kat sini jugak, dom lawson reviews untuk majalah metal hammer dan majalah classic rock paling latest.
yang scan ni latest classic rock baru release kat UK hari ni mamat ni dapat terus dia scan rupanye.
ni lak metalhammer website.
IRON MAIDEN The Final Frontier Track-By-Track
Somewhere between the dark and menacing war stories of A Matter Of Life And Death and the prog-tinged melodic bombast of Brave New World, albeit with a vast amount of fresh ideas thrown in for good measure, The Final Frontier is every bit as strong as the last three Maiden albums. The difference between this one and its predecessors is that these songs repeatedly take the Brit metal legends into uncharted territory. This is a demanding album, but one that most Maiden fans are going to absolutely adore…
SATELLITE 15…THE FINAL FRONTIER
Everyone has heard the album’s title track by now, and it’s a straightforward and infectious slab of muscular hard rock that seems destined to open Maiden shows for the foreseeable future…but it’s the first part of this bi-polar album opener that is going to blow fans’ minds. A disorientating maelstrom of swirling distortion, thudding double kicks and bizarre spectral vocals, Satellite 15 is undoubtedly the weirdest thing the band have ever recorded. It’s heavy, it’s left-field and it’s utterly unexpected.
EL DORADO
Opinion seems to be divided about whether El Dorado is simply a solid, straightforward Maiden tune or something genuinely special. In fact, it’s a bit of both; a bold and boisterous seven-minute epic with an infectious chorus and a few deftly-executed twists and turns, all custom-built to go down an absolute storm live.
MOTHER OF MERCY
A dark and menacing song that could easily have been on A Matter Of Life And Death, this is one of those archetypal horrors-of-war anthems that Maiden do so well. It starts with a faintly proggy intro – a whiff of Steve Harris’ beloved Jethro Tull, perhaps – before morphing into a brooding, slow-motion gallop, not a million miles from Stranger In A Strange Land (from Somewhere In Time), but with a much more sinister overall vibe. “Sick of all the killing and the reek of death…” sings Bruce at one point.
COMING HOME
A bombastic, lighters-in-the-air ballad with a difference, Coming Home marries a giant, sing-along chorus to some subtly progressive riffs and a typically adventurous arrangement. Undeniably sentimental, this is plainly Bruce Dickinson’s song, as he sings about returning home and seeing the lights on the runway as his plane descends to Earth. Not many bands could pull this off without setting off the cheese alarm. Maiden do it brilliantly. A live classic in the making.
THE ALCHEMIST
Arguably the most old fashioned song on the album, this punchy four-minute burst of speed, energy and irresistible Lizzy-esque lead guitar harmonies would have fit neatly onto Fear Of The Dark and nimbly ticks all the necessary boxes to please the die-hards. Interestingly, this has the same title as a song from Bruce Dickinson’s classic solo album Chemical Wedding. The two songs are utterly dissimilar, however.
ISLE OF AVALON
Possibly the finest thing on The Final Frontier and certainly one of the strongest songs Maiden have produced in years, Isle Of Avalon takes the band into unfamiliar melodic territory, with a few unconventional time signatures and proggy detours adding to the intense freshness that pervades throughout its nine minute duration, and a simply enormous chorus that will surely translate extremely well live. There’s a vague hint of Paschendale (from 2003’s Dance Of Death) and a nod or two to Maiden’s Somewhere In Time album here.
STARBLIND
Another song that is full of surprises, despite Maiden’s unmistakable sound, this is another epic that brims with great riffs, melodies and subtle textural touches. Almost psychedelic in places, Starblind has a genuinely otherworldly feel, particularly during its intricate midsection which boasts a phenomenal bluesy lead break over some sumptuous, mellow guitar work from the Three Amigos.
THE TALISMAN
Another song that would have fit on A Matter Of Life And Death, The Talisman is dark and complex, but it also flows beautifully, spreading out from its folky intro into a powerful main verse riff and a seriously explosive chorus with Bruce bellowing at the top of his not inconsiderable lungs. Despite being nine minutes long, this one whizzes by in what seems like half that time.
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
An eerie, unsettling intro leads into some crushing, doomy chords before this sprawling epic switches direction and heads into a superbly catchy and muscular verse riff and another big chorus. Like many songs on The Final Frontier, The Man Who Would Be King seldom does exactly what you would expect, and yet it all makes perfect sense by the time its rambling, harmony-packed intro fades gently away…
WHEN THE WILD WIND BLOWS
Based on author Raymond Briggs’ grim post-nuclear fallout graphic novel (When The Wind Blows), the final track on Maiden’s 15th album is every bit as bleak and unnerving as its subject matter would seem to demand, and yet this is as musically fascinating and lyrically brave as anything the band have recorded. Densely-layered and uncompromising, this one will take a few listens to sink in, but there is an insane amount of atmosphere and countless inspired melodic touches on display here. A stunning finale.
Words: Dom Lawson
Iron maiden will release ‘The Final Frontier’ on August 16th
Thursday, July 15, 2010
beryani kat islamic
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aku suka makan apa saje yang halal haha. Kalo dah cerita pasal makan tak bleh stop.
ok ok, aku selalu dengar orang cakap kalo kat India, beryani dia memang lain. Whatever la pasal aku blum pegi India.
Lagi rabak, kalo sampai orang cakap " kat malaysia dan kat singapore, nasik beryani dia macam YELLOW RICE aje ".
Siak ah.
Kena kondemn gitu sekali
cuma aku heran, aku makan nasik beryani kat berapa tempat kat Msia, suka betul taruk telur rebus. Kat Spore lak takde. Sort of like roti canai & prata, karipap and epok2 discrepancy jugak la haha.
Anyway, setiap kita ada feberet nasik beryani stall masing2, lidah masing2..
tak kesah kat kedai ke, kat mesjid hari jemaat ke, paling best kalau ada orang belanja...
K, ni kali ceta makan kat Singapore nye tempat k.
Aku realise some friends and colleagues ( aloha to all old frens muahaha!! ), appreciate Islamic nye beryani. Forget it pasal new branch ke hapa ke, aku cakap pasal North Bridge Road nye, yang dah pindah tempat jalan sikit dari original nye yang besar giler dua tingkat tu untuk sapa ingat zaman late 70s and 80s tu..
So aku tak pernah review pasal Islamic nye beryani kan? so ni tu hari aku makan ngan kawan2 keja aku..
nice decor, and the beryani dia per plate is about 6 ketul (sing dollar), ok la.
So lain kali kalo korang datang Singapore ke hapa ke kalo gi Arab Street ke hapa ke, maybe boleh try kat sini, memang berlambak la makanan kat sana, tapi maybe boleh try beryani kat sini, aku dengar kat Geylang nye bangunan PKMS ( tak salah aku this stands for PARTI KEBANGSAAN MELAYU SINGAPURA for the uninitiated ), pun dah bukak branch , tapi still like I say, I dont care much for the branches. Nak makan gi tempat ori.
Although I understand dorang pun dah bukak satu branch kat KL.
and this place pun ada this roti with a weird name , roti maryam or roti mariam or whatever spelling dia aku tak tahu...
nanti la aku cerita lagi makan2....haha
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Benda cantik per.
Ni dah nak magrib dah..
dah penat, dah kotor, dah berlumpur, then nampak rainbow cam gini, kagum sey. Allah kasi benda cantik per punye, tak yah beli tiket.
Tak bedek la, people from all walks of life and backgrounds, ramai pause dan ramai start snap photos or whatever. Aku pun haha.
oooo yang ku nantikan, akhirnye berada di sini...
metal hammer bulan ni dapat this pretty little maiden badge. Cute kan?
Belum baca, belum bukak plastik pun.
Content bulan ni... ooo mick walls at kerrang, why u pissed of cause your daddy...haha. Mesti best dia tulis pasal Dio. Kat classic rock dio tribute tu, dia tulis macam2. Old timer ni
dah penat, dah kotor, dah berlumpur, then nampak rainbow cam gini, kagum sey. Allah kasi benda cantik per punye, tak yah beli tiket.
Tak bedek la, people from all walks of life and backgrounds, ramai pause dan ramai start snap photos or whatever. Aku pun haha.
oooo yang ku nantikan, akhirnye berada di sini...
metal hammer bulan ni dapat this pretty little maiden badge. Cute kan?
Belum baca, belum bukak plastik pun.
Content bulan ni... ooo mick walls at kerrang, why u pissed of cause your daddy...haha. Mesti best dia tulis pasal Dio. Kat classic rock dio tribute tu, dia tulis macam2. Old timer ni
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