“I’ve been in the demo studio for the last three weeks”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson has 18 songs ready for new solo album, will record it “early next year”

Bruce Dickinson performing live in 2024.

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson is already hard at work on his next solo album.

During a recent conversation with Ryan J. Downey as part of the Musicians Institute’s M.I. Conversation series, the singer, who released his long-anticipated seventh solo outing The Mandrake Project last year, reveals he’s demoed many songs for his next album.