Maiden Voyage

Feb 06 2025 29 ep. 39 mins 20
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A chronological journey through the band's discography, Ed and Stu discuss, critique and celebrate the work of Iron Maiden.

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Episode 23 - Brave New World (Side A)

Feb 06 2025 44 mins  
The Blaze era has come to an end and Bruce Dickinson rejoins the band with the release of Iron Maiden's twelfth studio album, Brave New World. After a no longer applicable welcome to the new season (remember what we said in the Season 2 Intro about ignoring references to the Blaze albums being behind a paywall?), Stu and Ed enjoy the band's return to form! ------------------------

BONUS - Blaze Bayley (Part 3)

Feb 03 2025 22 mins  
BONUS ALERT! THIS IS GETTING TO BE A HABIT! We've reached the end of our bloviating Blaze-based bonus content. After focusing our first two Blaze bonus eps on songs by Wolfsbane, the final in our series moves to listening to a few of his most recent releases. Ed listens to a single released in September 2024, "Ghost in The Bottle," and the title track from Blaze's most recent studi

Episode 22 - Virtual XI (Side B)

Jan 30 2025 50 mins  
We've reached the end of Blaze Bayley's time as singer of Iron Maiden, as the show covers the second side of Virtual XI. Ed and Stu talk about Bruce Dickinson's solo work overshadowing Iron Maiden's output, but still not selling as strongly as the band's mediocre work with Blaze. The guys also discuss how Virtual XI may be the most Steve Harris dominated album Iron Maiden has ever

BONUS - Blaze Bayley (Part 2)

Jan 27 2025 17 mins  
BONUS ALERT! AGAIN! We're back with the second in a series of Blaze-based bonus content. Here, Ed listens to two tracks off Wolfsbane's second studio album, Down Fall The Good Guys, released in 1991. The two singles from the album, "Ezy" and "After Midnight," sound better (production-wise) than the songs from the first album, but did the songs wind up too polished? ---------------

Episode 21 - Virtual XI (Side A)

Jan 23 2025 43 mins  
Ed and Stu dive headfirst into the second, and final, album of the Blaze Bayley era, Virtual XI. They discuss how Iron Maiden's 11th studio album feels like the ebb of this whole podcast process! Released in March 1998, the album was apparently titled Virtual XI to tie-in to both Iron Maiden's computer game, "Ed Hunter," and, naturally, the fact that the FIFA World Cup was happeni

BONUS - Blaze Bayley (Part 1)

Jan 20 2025 14 mins  
BONUS ALERT! Ed is bringing you the first of a series of bonus episodes listening to some of Blaze's non-Maiden related music. In this first installment, Ed listens to two tracks off Live Fast, Die Fast: Wicked Tales of Booze, Birds and Bad Language, the 1989 debut album from Wolfsbane, the band Blaze left to join Maiden. ----------------------------------------------------------

Episode 20 - The X-Factor (Side B)

Jan 16 2025 48 mins  
We're only two episodes in to the second season and Ed and Stu are already not enjoying themselves. They discuss how this album took the longest to produce of any Iron Maiden album to date, with 18 months of writing, rehearsing, recording and mixing. Blaze reportedly did not enjoy the lengthy process, which aptly describes how Ed and Stu feel about listening to this album! If you

Episode 19 - The X-Factor (Side A)

Jan 09 2025 62 mins  
It's official! We're back or the start of Season 2 of Maiden Voyage, where Ed and Stu cover the first side of Iron Maiden's 10th studio album, The X-Factor! Released in October 1995, this marks the first album with the band's third singer, Blaze Bayley. Ed and Stu jump right into the thick of it, discussing the wonderfully absurd lyrics of the album's opening track, "Man on the Edg

Season 2 is coming...

Jan 05 2025 7 mins  
That's right, friends! After a lengthy hiatus, Maiden Voyage is returning to continue the chronological journey through Iron Maiden's studio albums. Stu and Ed will pick up where they left off, beginning with the band's 10th studio album, The X-Factor. In this brief Season 2 intro, Ed offers "reasons" for the lengthy delay in releasing new episodes, looks back at the album ranking

Episode 18 - Fear of the Dark (Side B)

Dec 31 2020 78 mins  
Well, dearest listeners, we've come to the end of our first season and Stu and Ed go out with a bang in this too long epic episode covering Side B of Fear of the Dark. It's the end of an era for Iron Maiden as Bruce Dickinson departs the band for the next 8 years and 2 studio albums, but while this album side is, at best, not great, it closes on a high note with the iconic titular