Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson is Making Another Solo Album
Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson is currently working on a new solo album. The effort will be his seventh overall and his first since Tyranny of Souls arrived in 2005.
Speaking to Loudwire, Dickinson explained that he’s already been working with long-time collaborator Roy Z. on music, but plans to buckle down after finishing his upcoming spoken word tour of North America:
“When I get to the end of the one-man show in the end of March, I’ve got about three weeks pulling my feels somewhere — I might lie down in a darkened room for a couple of days and recover from the tour and then put my singing head on and go and have a chat with Roy.
“We’ve already got a bunch of material — demos and everything — but we need to organize it a bit more properly and be a bit more serious about it. Maybe write a few more tunes and then basically leave it down to Roy. He can go off and start doing backing tracks and things like that.”
With a slate of Iron Maiden touring set for the spring and summer, Dickinson may have to do some of that work remotely. But he’s been down that road before and is fully comfortable with it, explaining:
“Obviously, I’m going to be going out on tour with Maiden, but we made ‘Tyranny of Souls’ that way. ‘Tyranny of Souls’ was done kind of remotely — I wasn’t physically present when some of the backing tracks were done, but he sent me the backtracks and I listened to them and, some of them, I wrote the words to the backtracks. Mixing and matching like that sometimes gets great results.”
We will keep you posted on any developments concerning Bruce’s next solo album.
Bruce’s upcoming spoken word dates:
Jan. 17 – Ft Lauderdale, FL @ Parker Playhouse [tickets]
Jan. 18 – Orlando, FL @ Plaza Live [tickets]
Jan. 20 – Tampa, FL @ Theatre [tickets]
Jan. 21 – Jacksonville, FL @ Florida Theatre [tickets]
Jan. 23 – Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle [tickets]
Jan. 24 – Raleigh, NC @ Meymandi Concert Hall at Duke Energy Center [tickets]
Jan. 26 – Nashville, TN @ Polk Theater [tickets]
Jan. 27 – Columbus, OH @ Jo Ann Davidson Theatre [tickets]
Jan. 29 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead [tickets]
Jan. 30 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore [tickets]
Feb. 01 – Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY @ Buffalo State Performing Arts Center [tickets]
Feb. 02 – Albany, NY @ The Egg [tickets]
Feb. 04 – New York City, NY @ The Town Hall [tickets]
Feb. 05 – Boston, MA @ Schubert Theatre at the Boch Center [tickets]
Feb. 07 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore [tickets]
Feb. 08 – Washington, DC @ Warner Theatre [tickets]
Feb. 10 – Cleveland, OH @ MGM Northfield Park [tickets]
Feb. 11 – Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre [tickets]
Feb. 13 – Minneapolis, MN @ Pantages Theatre [tickets]
Feb. 14 – Milwaukee-Racine, WI @ Pabst Theater [tickets]
Feb. 16 – Des Moines, IA @ Hoyt Sherman Place Theatre [tickets]
Feb. 17 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Rose State College Hudiberg Chevrolet Center [tickets]
Feb. 19 – Kansas City, KS @ Uptown Theater [tickets]
Feb. 20 – Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre [tickets]
Feb. 22 – Dallas, TX @ Majestic Theatre [tickets]
Feb. 23 – Houston, TX @ Stafford Centre [tickets]
Feb. 24 – Austin, TX @ Paramount Theatre [tickets]
Feb. 26 – Phoenix, AZ @ Mesa Arts Center [tickets]
Feb. 28 – San Diego, CA @ Balboa Theatre [tickets]
Mar. 01 – Los Angeles, CA @ Orpheum Theatre [tickets]
Mar. 03 – San Francisco, CA @ Palace Of Fine Arts [tickets]
Mar. 04 – Portland, OR @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall [tickets]
Mar. 06 – Seattle, WA @ The Moore Theatre [tickets]
Mar. 12 – Las Vegas, NV @ House Of Blues [tickets]
Mar. 14 – Vancouver (New Westminster), BC @ Massey Theatre [tickets]
Mar. 16 – Victoria, BC @ Royal Theatre [tickets]
Mar. 18 – Edmonton, AB @ Winspear Centre [tickets]
Mar. 20 – Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre [tickets]
Mar. 21 – Calgary, AB @ Jack Singer Concert Hall [tickets]
Mar. 23 – Montreal, QC @ MTELUS [tickets]
Mar. 26 – Ottawa, ON @ Algonquin Commons Theatre [tickets]
Mar. 27 – Quebec City, QC @ Palais Montcalm [tickets]
Mar. 29 – Hamilton, ON @ FirstOntario Concert Hall [tickets]
Mar. 30 – Kitchener, Centre In The Square [tickets]
Upcoming Iron Maiden tour dates:
May 22 Zagreb, CROATIA – Arena Zagreb (Lord of the Lost) [tickets]
May 24 Belgrade, SERBIA – Stark Arena (Lord of the Lost) [tickets]
May 26 Bucharest, ROMANIA – Romexpo Open Air (Lord of the Lost) [tickets]
May 29 Kyiv, UKRAINE – VDNG (Airbourne & Lord of the Lost) [tickets]
July 13 Sofia, BULGARIA – Arena Armeec (Lord of the Lost) [tickets]
July 16 Athens, GREECE – Olympic Stadium (Airbourne & Lord of the Lost) [tickets]
September 07 Mexico City, MEXICO – Foro Sol (Special Guests to be announced) [tickets]
September 11 El Paso, TX, USA – Don Haskins Center (Trivium) [tickets]
September 13 Austin, TX, USA – Moody Center (Trivium) [tickets]
September 15 Tulsa, OK, USA – BOK Center (Trivium) [tickets]
September 17 Denver, CO, USA – Ball Arena (Trivium) [tickets]
September 19 Salt Lake City, UT, USA – USANA Amphitheatre (Trivium) [tickets]
September 21 Anaheim, CA, USA – Honda Center (Trivium) [tickets]
September 25 Chula Vista, CA, USA – North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre (Trivium) [tickets]
September 27 Concord, CA, USA – Concord Pavilion (Trivium) [tickets]
September 29 Seattle, WA, USA – Climate Pledge Arena (Trivium) [tickets]
September 30 Spokane, WA, USA – Spokane Arena (Trivium) [tickets]
October 03 Sioux Falls, SD, USA – Denny Sanford Premier Center (Within Temptation) [tickets]
October 05 Chicago, IL, USA – United Center (Within Temptation) [tickets]
October 07 Columbus, OH, USA – Nationwide Arena (Within Temptation) [tickets]
October 09 Detroit, MI, USA – Little Caesars Arena (Within Temptation) [tickets]
October 11 Toronto, ON, CANADA – Scotiabank Centre (Within Temptation) [tickets]
October 12 Hamilton, ON, CANADA – FirstOntario Centre (Within Temptation) [tickets]
October 15 Ottawa, ON, CANADA – Canadian Tire Centre (Within Temptation) [tickets]
October 17 Worcester, MA, USA – DCU Center (Within Temptation) [tickets]
October 19 Belmont Park, NY, USA – UBS Arena (Within Temptation) [tickets]
October 21 Newark, NJ, USA – Prudential Center (Within Temptation) [tickets]
October 23 Washington, DC, USA – Capital One Arena (Within Temptation) [tickets]
October 25 Greensboro, NC, USA – Greensboro Coliseum (Within Temptation) [tickets]
October 27 Tampa, FL, USA – Amalie Arena (Within Temptation) [tickets]
