{"id":564711,"date":"2026-08-10T13:22:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564711\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:22:26","slug":"its-heavy-as-iron-maiden-frontman-bruce-dickinson-gives-update-on-new-solo-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564711\/","title":{"rendered":"“It’s heavy as ****!” Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson gives update on new solo album"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iron Maiden<\/a> legend Bruce Dickinson<\/a> has offered fans a tantalising insight into his upcoming new solo album, which is expected some time early next year. Speaking to VSX<\/a>, the singer promises that the follow-up to 2024’s well-received The Mandrake Project will be a heavy affair, though it will in no way be a direct sequel to that album.<\/p>\n

‘I’ve got a new record coming out next year, new solo album,” he confirms (as transcribed by Blabbermouth<\/a>). “It’s kind of standalone. There’s one song that has a bit of something to do with Mandrake. The album is heavy as shit.”<\/p>\n

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Explaining why he didn’t simply want to churn out a Mandrake Part 2, Bruce continues: “I try to not repeat – not because it’s bad. You want to move on and put different nuances on things. It’s like, I would say, if you have an amazing girlfriend and you start thinking, ‘Yeah, I’m getting a little bit bored’…just turn the lights down and turn it a different way, and you see a side that you think, ‘Oh, my God, she’s absolutely incredible.’ Just the red light there or the green or whatever, and you see the same person in a different day, in a different light.<\/p>\n

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“Music is something which you try not to stick too much of a format,” he continues. “I’m within a particular style, for sure. But I try and vary it as much as I can.”<\/p>\n

The Mandrake Project marked Bruce’s first solo album in almost 20 years following 2005’s Tyranny Of Souls, meaning that he’s operating at a relatively prolific pace as a solo artist right now. That’s on top of Iron Maiden’s ongoing Run For Your Lives world tour, which finished up its latest European leg at a spectacular show at Knebworth<\/a> in the UK last month, with North American, South and Central American, Asian and Australasian dates still due to take place across the rest of the year.<\/p>\n

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