New Interview With James LaBrie

[KevShmev]

Not really.

https://youtu.be/-rZLe7LjihE?t=155

Someone did a nice job of speeding up the Pull Me Under vocals there to make it fit.

Note: we had this discussion here years ago, and while there are arrangement similarities, that doesn't mean they were trying to recreate I&W.  Bands reuse arrangements all the time.

[MirrorMask]

Yeah, don't want to start up old discussions either, but as always the truth is in the middle; *some* songs on the album have structures that resembles some other songs on I&W, sometimes more precise, other times more loose (see the piano intro in Lost Not Forgotten, or the chorus in Outrcy, Metropolis supposedly is the basis for Outrcry but it has no chorus) - to take it from here and say that the *entire* album was a recreation section by section of I&W, without even knowing why the similarities are there (for all we know it could have been a songwriting approach just to see what was coming out and the results were appreciated), is a bit too far.

[Evai]

I'm saying they tried to make an album that sounds like I&W already, so if they try it again it'll probably sound like ADTOA (except with an 8 string)

[MirrorMask]

Well, when Iron Maiden toured for the Early Years, playing songs from only the first four albums, the year after they came out with A Matter of Life and Death, which was as removed from those records as it could be. So I don't expect too much of a correlation between what they feel now, and how they'll feel when they'll enter the studio 

[obscure]

Lovely interview... great accent