Maiden Voyage

Well, dear listeners, we've reached the end of our Maiden Voyage. Ed and Stu discuss the second half of Iron Maiden's 17th studio album, Senjutsu. There is a significant and nearly catastrophic drop-…

THIS IS IT! We have reached the final (so far?) Iron Maiden album with Senjutsu! Their 17th studio album was released in September 2021, just one day shy of 6 years after their last album, beating th…

We're back for the second half of Iron Maiden's first double-album, The Book of Souls. Ed and Stu discuss Bruce's health, the length of this album and the band's longest ever song (Empire of the Clou…

We're nearing the end of our work as Ed and Stu discuss Iron Maiden's 16th studio album, The Book of Souls. The band's first ever double album was released in September 2015, over five years after th…

Ed and Stu are back to discuss the second half of The Final Frontier. This was the band's longest album when it was released and Ed challenges Stu to guess the second and third longest albums. The fe…

We're heading into outer space to cover Iron Maiden's fifteenth studio album, The Final Frontier! Ed and Stu discuss the end of the band's 30-year relationship with EMI records (sort of), the half li…

As we continue talking about the band's fourteenth studio album, we discuss the "easy" recording process, how Steve Harris and co-producer Kevin Shirley decided not to master the tracks to achieve a …

We're covering Iron Maiden's 14th studio album, A Matter Of Life And Death, released in late August and early September of 2006. The album has a loose theme around war and religion and also being a r…

Ed and Stu continue their coverage of Iron Maiden's thriteenth studio album, Dance of Death. This half of the album features the band's first fully acoustic track, "Journeyman," and the first song co…

This week we discuss Iron Maiden's thirteenth studio album, Dance of Death, which was released in 2003. We talk at length about the album art, which may be one of the worst album covers of all time, …

We continue with the second side of Brave New World and discuss the album's mostly very positive reviews, the band's return to chart success around the world and the widely anticipated tour that foll…

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 After a no longer applicable welcome to the new season (…

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 …

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! 

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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 F…

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 m…

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 f…

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, begin…