{"id":497619,"date":"2026-06-17T16:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/497619\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T16:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:53:08","slug":"bruce-dickinson-would-rather-iron-maiden-do-another-album-than-head-back-on-the-road-right-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/497619\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Dickinson would rather Iron Maiden \u201cdo another album\u201d than head back on the road right away"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iron Maiden<\/a> singer Bruce Dickinson wants the UK metal veterans to return to the studio before heading out on the next tour, but he\u2019s not convinced that bassist\/founder Steve Harris shares his vision.<\/p>\n

Talking to Kerrang!<\/a>, the vocalist, who joined Maiden in 1981, calls himself a \u201ccreative bunny\u201d eager to follow up the band\u2019s Gold-selling 2021 double-disc Senjutsu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201c[It\u2019s] a bit hard work to try and get straight answers out of six people about what should we do on Tuesday, but that\u2019s the reality of being together for this long,\u201d he says when asked about future plans.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPersonally, I would love to do another, another album,\u201d he continues. \u201cI would rather do another album than another tour. If I had to choose between the two, I\u2019d rather choose a new album, but Steve\u2019s the other way around. He will tour and tour and tour and tour until he probably dies onstage. Touring is fun, but it\u2019s not new. I’m a creative bunny, and I like making new, new things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harris, interviewed in the same article, corroborates what his frontman says, explaining that he doesn\u2019t want to \u201crush\u201d into a new songwriting and recording cycle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Bruce would love to do a new album, and I don\u2019t have a problem doing one. I just think if we do one, it\u2019s got to be at the right time,\u201d he says. \u201cBut everybody\u2019s got to want to do it, so we\u2019ll have to see about that. I don\u2019t want to say too much about it, but I\u2019m not saying we\u2019re not going to do one, I\u2019m just not saying we are eager to rush into it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dickinson\u2019s fatigue with life on the road is understandable, since he and his bandmates are currently in the middle of a busy touring year. Maiden are booked to play 91 gigs in 2026 as they continue their 50th-anniversary Run For Your Lives<\/a> world tour, which kicked off last summer. The setlist for the trek sees the band exclusively play material from their first nine studio albums, from 1980\u2019s self-titled debut up to 1992\u2019s Fear Of The Dark<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Run For Your Lives trek is in its second European leg, which will continue tonight (June 17) in Milan, Italy at San Siro Stadium. The run across the continent will be capped off by a show at Knebworth Park in Stevenage, UK, on July 11, when the band headline their own festival, Eddfest. As well as Maiden, performers include The Hu, Airbourne, The Darkness, The Almighty and the solo band of ex-Maiden frontman Blaze Bayley.<\/p>\n

Touring will pick back up again for a trek across the Americas, starting in August, then Australia and Asia. Maiden\u2019s final 2026 shows will take place at the K-Arena in Yokohama, Japan on November 24 and 25, and the band have said they will not return to the stage until 2028 at the earliest.<\/p>\n

During their 2027 downtime, members will focus on individual projects. Harris says it\u2019s likely that he will return to his hard rock outfit British Lion, while Dickinson will release his next solo album, the follow-up to 2024\u2019s The Mandrake Project<\/a>. The upcoming album was recorded at Foo Fighters<\/a> frontman Dave Grohl\u2019s Studio 606 facility in California in January, and members of Brazilian metal band Sepultura<\/a> seem set to make appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson wants the UK metal veterans to return to the studio before heading out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-497619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}