After splitting from Iron Maiden in 1993, Bruce Dickinson’s solo career ascended to a stunning creative apex with 1998’s The Chemical Wedding, a heavyweight William Blake concept opus providing sharp relief against the contemporaneous Maiden disc, low-point Virtual XI.
Hatchets have long since been buried, and Bruce’s creative focus has remained Maiden-centred for nearly 20 years, assimilating his eccentric force of personality into a six-way endeavour. Unloosed again at last from these democratic checks and balances, Bruce’s extraordinary voice – in every sense: larynx, character and attitude – resounds from guitarist Roy Z’s spectacularly thick, fervid production.
