bruce is good, but not quite as good as halford currently is.
Speaking of Halford; I'm not a huge fan of Goolust Priest, but Painkiller is classic, so I'm curious as to what the new Priest will sound like. New Maiden is well...Maiden, so of course it's good, but it certainly is not in league with the first 7 discs. Especially Somewhere In Time.
The new Maiden makes me so happy. I love listening to it. I love singing the songs. I love loving Maiden.
I was listening to it on a crowded 39 bus the other day and had to laugh out loud just because Maiden is so great, thus seeming like a crazy asshole .
The record is incredible for the very fact that Bruce overdubs harmony vocals for just the words 'the falling rain' in the 1st verse of Paschendale. That is just wonderful. There are tons of other things that make this record great too, too numerous to list.