During an August 14 appearance on SiriusXM’s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”, Bruce Dickinson talked about the new solo album that he and his bad are preparing after “The Mandrake Project” that was released on March 2024.
Dickinson said: “We are gonna do a new album — we are recording the new album, rather — in January next year here in L.A. So, this is a great way of just getting the band locked in into the mentality of that. In fact, we were in the studio, well, just yesterday for three or four days, doing updates on the demos that we did with drum machines and things like that. Well, we’ve done them with the whole band now, and that just takes the songs to another level for the new album.”
He was also asked if the new album will be conceptual like “The Mandrake Project” and he said: “Well, ‘Mandrake’ was kind of semi-conceptual. It was conceptual in its visual approach more than the music. There were elements of the music that were connected with the comic. And we’ve actually just published the book, the first book of the first four episodes of the comic. So that’s something that people can get that’s got some solidity to it. They can look at it and go, ‘Oh, yeah, I get what this is all about.’ But the albums have always got to be standalone units. And the stuff we’ve got — we’ve got 18 tracks demoed for the album. And we won’t record 18 tracks, but I think we’ve probably settled on — nine, 10, 11 of them are absolute bangers, and the other ones we’ll just see where we go with them and what it ends up like. But the band are on fire.”
Finally he refereed to what his fans should expect from the new album: “It will be a different feel to the album because this is gonna be recorded live. I mean, ‘Mandrake’ was a bit like stitching together Frankenstein‘s monster, ’cause it was stuff from 2014 and then it was stuff from after COVID, and all of it glued together. So sonically it was a little bit all over the place.”
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