Adrian Smith and Dave Murray never seem to make "top guitarists" lists, but they're both top 10 for me. 🎸🤘

My great grandfather fought and died at the 3rd battle of Ypres, otherwise known as Paschendale, his body was never found. I went there last year to commemorate 100 years since the end of the war and found his name on a wall at Tynecot cemetery. It was a very humbling and moving experience, this song means so much to me than ever before. Great reaction and thanks for the suggestion Ryan

The muddy, bloody fields of Paschendale... Tell them Bruce, tell them of the vile disaster that was WWI. Thanks, Steve. If empire of the clouds is next, get tissues!

Iron maiden,one of those bands that is more than its parts,more than music. Up the Irons 🤘🤘

"I'm still not sure if anything can beat the Mariner one" - one of the basic philosophical questions of Iron Maiden fandom :D

At the Menin Gate in Ypres, from where most of the troops marched towards Passchendale during the First World War, every night at eight for almost a hundred years now, the Last Post is played on bugles for the lost and missing of WWI. Menin Gate is a memorial since 1927 that has all the names engraved in its walls of British and Commonwealth soldiers that were never found and never got burried at one of the dozens of memorial graveyards. Five major battles took place around Ypres. The Third Battles is known as The Battle Of Paschendale and took around five months to finish. 300,000 Brits were killed there of which 30,000 still have no grave. My grandfather was a volunteer who survived all five battles and spent three and a half years in the bloody trenches...

What if Iron Maiden was set up by teachers to secretly teach people literature and history?

Great reaction Kristin Amazing band Bruce Dickinson - Iron Maiden

I've been a Maiden fan since 1980. I've seen them 9 times. The best band in my book. And still jam to them, and always will.

This is such a great performance. When Steve & Bruce sing together, it always gives me chills.

one of my all time fav songs

Never knew they had a song about Paschendale, so cool! I go there (Passendale) and the surrounding area a few times each year for research and veteran duty at the memorials.

I have been listening to them since the early 80's when I bought Number of the Beast and Piece of Mind albums. Their shows back then live were almost as amazing as Pink Floyd. When I saw them with Quiet Riot they had a 20ft tall Eddie puppet behind them it was amazing music and amazing show. Thank for the video and the memories of the old days brought back to me.

please review Iron Maiden "Alaxander the Great"

I don't know, there are no great enough words to describe this band in all they do and stand for.........i can't.

Thank you Ryan for all the Maiden suggestions. My favorite band for about 35 years now.😃 Wish I knew why I'm not getting the notifications though. I really enjoy your reactions to Maiden Kristin. 🏆

Absolutely amazing musicianship, phenomenal band and my favorite, pure magic, just beautiful composition and beautiful harmonies and Solo's and stage presence. Sincerely Lorenzo gig harbor Washington.

Just FYI, the words Bruce speaks at the beginning are the first half the poem "Anthem for Doomed Youth" by renowned WW1 poet, Wilfred Owen. It was written in 1917 while Owen was in hospital in Edinburgh suffering from "shell shock" (what we now call PTSD).

I'm with you Iron Maiden is ROCK!

The passage at the start is an exert from the poem Anthem for Doomed Youth written by the British officer Wilfred Owen, he served in the trenches in early 1917 (a little before the period of the battle this song is about) was injured and returned to the front in 1918 to be killed in action in the final month of the war, November 1918. He wrote a number of powerful and moving poems during the approximately 18 months of his combat service and convalescence. This song does a great deal of honor to the poet and those brave doomed souls he wrote about, including tragically himself.

If you can do a little bit of research on Paschendale, you'll find it was one of the bloodiest conflicts ever fought in WW1. It was a terrible battle and cost so many lives. There was a painting a man saw once of a battlefield and he said surely it must be over painted, over exaggerated, but once he participated in WW1, he realised it was under-painted. There was so much carnage and so much death and despair in WW1 and this battle in particular. If you haven't done Alexander the Great by Iron Maiden, I'd suggest doing that, as they are great at story telling and giving you a history lesson at the same time.

saw Maiden 4 times, last year I brought my son for his 13th birthday.

Best version of this to review.. An amazing song and performance as always from Maiden

Empire of the clouds nuff said

I've loved iron maiden since I was 16, I'm 42 now and it still amazes me how good they are,i honesty think they sound better live than in the studio recording half to time

Glad you enjoyed it! I get to see Iron Maiden for the 3rd time this Saturday and I am stoked!!!

Wonderful to see your reaction, never be afraid just because it's metal, embrace it... As you are already and just lose yourself in it, there's a whole world of it for you to savour... As for maiden, I'd recommend rime of the ancient mariner, and the trooper ...and if you ever get over to England and maiden are on, I'll take ya to see em! Don't worry bout fainting :-)

Oh forgot to say, you really must check out there new one!! Only been out a few weeks, the writing on the wall, with an excellent video animated by a few fellas from Pixar... And at 62 and recovering from throat cancer... Bruce's voice is still in top form! Up the irons!!

So, perhaps for context, WW1 on it's European front, was one of the most mindless wastes of human life in history. Big armies dug trenches a 100yds from each other and then spent several years throwing men at each other in an endless wave of pointless death. Paschendale was just one of many futile pointless battles, Bruce captures the irony and bitterness so well. We're so fucking stupid.

You definitely must go to an Maiden's show!!!

"jamming on the guitar like people eat cereal" I love it!

You must see the song iron maiden on this show too you won't be disapointed,saludos desde Buenos Aires, Argentina

as a new zealander paschendale is very real for me. always get emotional. on the 12th of October new zealand suffered its darkest day in our history 850 men killed by fire from both sides. stuck on barbed wire and hiding in shell creaters. still brings me to tears. i love my home. thank you for your sacrifice so i can enjoy it.

You've wondered how they do it! Such energy! It´s simple, They have fun! They are good friends! and it shows! BTW! you need more viewers! Your reactions are superb!

This song never ceases to give me chills, and as the one comment on that video says, it's a criminally underrated song. Do some reading on the battle of Pachendale. It was absolutely tragic. An estimated 520,000 or so casualties over a period of a bit over 3 months.

Just saw them. Really wish they played this.

*Hell yeah!! This is one that deserves to blasted full volume* 💯💯🤘🔥 #Trainsquad

hOPE YOUR'R DOING WELL...LOTS OF LOVE!

That crowd is nothing compared to Woodstock 99, but is big, Iron Maiden makes beautiful metal music and puts on the shows to go with it

Best way to learn history . From MAIDEN.. UP THE IRONS

One of the German High Command generals in 1917 described the British army infantrymen as "Lions, led by donkeys". Such pointless sacrifice of men on both sides, carrying out the orders of generals and politicians who simply didn't care about them and built careers on the sacrifice of others. "The glory of nations, paid for with the blood of the ordinary man." In my eyes, nothing ordinary about any of them on either side, just true patriots. X

That's só good and amaizing thank you

FYI, Adrian is the guitarist with the beard, usually he is standing in the center of the stage. He is one of the main songwriters in Iron Maiden and lots of Maiden's most iconic songs like this one were written by him. He is an absolute legend.

Fuck, this song is so good... great reaction!!!

🤘 Eddie Lives 🤘

love maiden first show i've seen was in the early 1990's still hooked to them btw Adrian did some serious research before he wrote this song

Forget school history lessons kids should just listen to Maiden...

Kristin rime of the ancient mariner is also my favorite. But so many are so good. I don’t think I ever heard a song I didn’t like from Maiden and I’m 65 years old.

Nice ☺

Please, Infinite Dreams - STUDIO version.

At 11:28,I just LOOVE your comment,Kristin,you made me laugh ! Great choice again,Iron Maiden tell stories,it´s not "just shouting & screamy heavy metal"..& they are masters on "changing tempo".

Their best new era song

Close your eyes & mouth, open your mind and put yourself there thru the lyrics, those men were in hell .. many of us had family there or somewhere then WW1.

You should check out No more Lies or Journeyman. Both are from death on the road and are both awesome.

Try " The longest day" another powerful piece of art !!!!

Don't forget that other big banger from the same album, called: Montsegur!

Remember reading how when Bruce and Adrian came back and going with 3 guitars they were going to become a novelty act and they were washed up passed their prime. Instead they probably got better

OK so now you can progress to WW2 and do “The Longest Day” Iron Maiden. The lyrics in that are confronting also.

I read somewhere that Bruce had a cold during this show. If that’s true he still sounds amazing.

its so important for the world to remember this Belgian battle and the scores of British and Canadian who perished in it due to disregard for soldiers lives and their families. it is illustrative of the multitude of such battles which were poorly strategically planned and the import of which was quickly abandoned in favor of more stategic locations. and on a larger scale the horror and toll of the entire ww1, wich was set off due to prideful and resent driven motivations of the european elite. whats even more disturbing and melancholy about it ,is that it also in part set the stage for ww2......... but on a serious note, what kind of fashion statement do you think Bruce's helmet makes?

Have you listened to "Your in Love" video. By RATT.... OH. PLEASE DO......

Maiden fans are similar to jinjer fans,if you dont like a particular song we are quick to suggest another 😁

The Clansman rock in Rio 2001, When the wild wind blows en vivo

Hit the thumbs up before watching 😁😁🤩👍

Iron Maiden - Phantom Of The Opera (Live At Ullevi, Sweden)

Have you checked out the band Rush?

Love this song ever since it came out but it is sad that several hundred thousand people died maybe close to 1 million and just one battlefield over a few months back in World War One. Don’t quote me on any of that because I’ve just use Google to look some of the stats up But it definitely was a horrible battle in the First World War. The movie passion Dale was also awesome in this regard. War is horrible but We all should learn from the past and trying to avoid it happening again:) At the irons and rock on:)

The battle of Paschendale (WW1) is well known by Canadians who know their history

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Passchendaele (aka The Third Battle Of Ypres) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ntl7jJCg2rzRkmw.html (there's also a movie in theatres starring Paul Gross from couple years ago just called Passchendaele )

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When I listen to Maiden, so do my neighbors.

Paschendale not covered in history at school? Yes,WW1,so many lives lost at paschendale. look it up. Iron Maiden teach history through song.

Lolthis is whrn maiden are too olx to play

Lol your reviews are silly