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From lonely female vampires who long for death to a reworking of an Iron Maiden classic, The Mandrake Project proves that Bruce Dickinson really can do anything

The Mandrake Project is a bold return for Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson

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Demon bikers, resurrections and ritual sex magic: Bruce Dickinson takes us behind the scenes for The Mandrake Project. "We're going full Hammer Horror"

Between Iron Maiden albums, tours, getting his pilot's license and beating throat cancer, it's been a long road for Bruce Dickinson's The Mandrake Project, but it's all proved worth it for one of the most ambitious multi-media releases of 2024

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Slayer, Slipknot, Iron Maiden, Mötley Crüe and many more confirmed for massive Aftershock lineup

Organisers are calling Aftershock 2024 "the largest rock and metal festival ever put together in California"

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"But oh my God, he's just awesome. Power, resonance, tone... fabulous": Bruce Dickinson names some of his favourite singers

Iron Maiden man Bruce Dickinson talks about his favourite vocalists in the lead-up to the release of new solo album The Mandrake Project

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"The Mandrake Project flies by but still feels like an epic journey": Bruce Dickinson's first solo album in almost 20 years is a resounding triumph

The Mandrake Project sees Bruce Dickinson return to solo output almost 20 years after A Tyranny Of Souls

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"It's not over": Bruce Dickinson is ready to start writing again for the follow up to his forthcoming new solo album The Mandrake Project, says he "already has 10 or 12 different ideas for it"

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson is a busy man, and is already keen to start work on his next project

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“It’s amazing that this was recorded!” Listen to the only time Iron Maiden have ever performed 80s classic The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner live

Despite it being a fan favourite on Somewhere In Time, Iron Maiden have only played The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner to one very lucky audience in 1986

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10 heavy metal bands that wouldn’t be the same without Dune

From Iron Maiden to Sleep, many metal bands have taken Frank Herbert’s psychedelic sci-fi saga to heart

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"As long as you can talk, you have a voice": An epic Bruce Dickinson interview

Bruce Dickinson fronts the UK’s most successful heavy metal band, holds a commercial pilot’s licence, releases solo albums, write novels and screenplays, and more. A full life? Not half

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"Iron Maiden is a popular band among taxonomists and museum curators": Scientists in Peru name a new species of lizard after Bruce Dickinson

There's a newly-discovered lizard in the mountains of Peru named after Iron Maiden's frontman Bruce Dickinson

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“That activity that a very, very small minority of people do is so selfish and so disturbing”: Bruce Dickinson admits he “lost his temper” when a fan lit a flare at an Iron Maiden show in 2022

The Iron Maiden singer admonished and swore at a fan for igniting a flare during a performance of The Number Of The Beast in Greece

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The 11 most WTF collaborations in rock history

Bruce Dickinson and Mr Bean? Ozzy and Miss Piggy? Metallica and Ja Rule? Prepare to cringe at these heroically wrong-headed collaborations

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"It is so dark...it's not accessible like some of the other Maiden albums." Ex-Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley explains why he feels many fans didn't warm up to their divisive The X Factor album

Is The X Factor Iron Maiden's most underrated record?

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The 50 metal albums you need to hear in 2024

From returning icons to underground heroes and metal's next generation, these are the albums you should be excited about this year

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"If you were after a girlfriend, by the time you’ve got ten minutes into A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers she’s usually jumped out the window." Bruce Dickinson on his prog heroes

Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson's 10-song solo album The Mandrake Project will be released on March 1

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“They must have realised it was a bit stupid”: Metallica have never covered a Saxon song, and Biff Byford has a theory why

Metallica have never covered Saxon on record – could an incident at their second ever show explain why?

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"I couldn’t tell you a pentatonic scale from a gin and tonic." Bruce Dickinson's new album The Mandrake Project will be the first time he's ever played guitar on record

Iron Maiden legend Bruce Dickinson discusses his imminent new solo album

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The 10 best Bruce Dickinson solo songs

As we await the arrival of The Mandrake Project, get caught up on the greatest standalone moments from Iron Maiden’s Air-Raid Siren

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"My name is Lucifer, please take my hand, is such a memorable lyric": Ghost's Tobias Forge on the satanic hymns which lured him to the dark side

Ghost might not exist had these Satan-praising sounds not seduced Tobias Forge as an impressionable teenager

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Iron Maiden's Powerslave at 40 and the Greatest Albums of 1984: Only in the historic new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Mick Mars, Tony Clarkin, Van Halen, Black Sabbath, Spinal Tap, Ace Frehley, Big Country, Frankie Miller, Don Henley, Blackberry Smoke and much more

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"It’s not that Maiden albums aren’t fun, but we don’t get to play like children." Bruce Dickinson is on the cover of the new Metal Hammer

The Iron Maiden frontman reveals the secrets of his new solo album and comic series – The Mandrake Project

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The 10 best 21st-century Iron Maiden songs

We all love the ’80s classics, but these later Maiden jams still show The Beast at their best

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Bruce Dickinson announces album signing appearances at five UK record shops

Want to have Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson sign your copy of The Mandrake Project, his first solo album in 19 years? Then try to keep some time free in early March

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“Headbanging is more fun than going through a windshield!” Watch Iron Maiden star in the bizarre seatbelt safety advert from 1991 that almost got them a meeting with the President Of The United States

Iron Maiden appeared in a Crash Test Dummies commercial in the early ’90s, and Bruce Dickinson almost met the President because of it

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“I had a couple of solos mapped out, but for the most part I just go for it... I think that you lose all the soul if you think about it too much”: Roy Z on keeping things simple and song-serving with Bruce Dickinson and Rob Halford's solo bands

Having served as the guitarist and producer for the solo bands of not one, but two, metal giants, Roy Z says that the secret is to focus on what the music needs, and not overthink

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