As you said this is one of those rare occasions where Adrian and Janick plays guitar solos and Dave doesnt, in fact its actually the ONLY time to this day that it happens

Definitely one of my favorite songs ever

Bruh did you hear about Maiden's new FUTURE PAST Tour!? I'm so freaking PUMPED! It's going back to Somewhere in Time!!

This is one of my favorite Maiden songs..🌞🌞

As always love your work, Brother😉 Keep up the great indepth break downs🤗 Maiden do have a lot of hidden Gems😜 Up the mighty Irons 🤘🤘🤘🤘

Thank you! What a song indeed 🤘 Remarkable

An excellent breakdown of one of their most unique songs. I don’t understand why this one doesn’t get more attention. The whole atmosphere of the song is something else. It really is a complete package. I’ve always thought the riffs under the solos are actually 2 of the best riffs they’ve ever written, which says something about the quality of the song really. Interesting how they took they chord progression from the clean section and reused it in lord of light too.

Most underrated Maiden album, IMHO, and one of my faves from it!

I’m over the moon with how deeply you analysed this gem of a song that always seems to be overshadowed by the other masterpieces in this album! I once visited a WWII memorial in Kagoshima, which is near the southern end of Japan. The wreckage of the fighter plane on display with a solemn note next to it condemning war and its senseless, inhumane violence reminded me painfully of this song. The mysterious, “unnatural” time signature, intense solos and the cri de coeur of Bruce’s vocal delivery never fails to give me shivers. I might’ve fallen in love with this song all over again. Thank you Nico for the fantastic video!

Just awesome, as usual. I really love these analysis of hidden gems like BTATS. I would love to see songa like Starchild, Mother of mercy, FF is kind of forgotten album imho. Something tells me, that we will see those things in future, so im just looking forward. I´m so glad the channel is growing, been there almost since the birth. Best Maiden channel by far!

Underrated af

Great song, great video. Congrats.

One of their best, one of my best

Thank you so much for this! I’ve always been very interested in this song…. Peak Maiden creativity!

Glad someone is covering this song! What an epic this is! One of the best albums of Maiden

Man, i hope that one day you'll make one of these breakdowns for Adrian's "Lord Of Light", another super-underrated track!

Man, when I watch your videos it’s like you supercharge the song for me, and makes me go and revisit whole albums with a newfound sense of wonder and precision in my hearing, and appreciation of the detail and interplays. It’s like listening to whole new songs. You have me scouring every square inch of every album. And I love it when you highlight and cover some small detail that I think only I noticed or appreciated (like when you said ‘moonchild-esque’ on your Hell on Earth vid for example 🤘). Your dedication and talent are immense. Chapeau, Sir!

I love these breakdowns. Been a fan for about 7 years, but I feel like I've barely scratched the surface! AMOLAD is one of my favorites, too.

Your Maiden guitars sound and tone, is so perfect and close to the originals songs, that sometimes i wanna cry!!! 😆😆❤

Awesome!! What a great breakdown, as usual, of course. Love this album. How about Breeg? One of Dave's finest and very heavy as well.

Oh man, this is such a great song, I'm going to listen to it now, chances are I'll end up listening to the whole album though. So it's a win-win situation.

One of my favourites

This song is so incredible, and to think that it's not even the best track on the album says a lot on how good of a record it is

One of my all time favorite riffs, hands down.

I love this man's channel. Maiden is my favorite band his breakdowns are pretty awesome.

one of my favorite Maiden albums

...thx again Nico, this is the stuff you won't find anywhere else!

Yeees more 2000 - 2010 maiden please!

Another great representation from you,good sir! Your passion for what you do,really shows. Keep it up!

A spectacular analysis Nico! I enjoyed this immensely!

Strange thing about this song the very 1st time I heard it , it didn't really grab me for whatever reason although the rest of the album wowed the Beast in me. However this CD stayed in my car's player for about 2 weeks straight and I'd listen to it to and from work. Somewhere around the fourth listen the song finally dawned on me pretty hard and I was like "How did this song not grab me and pull me in like this on the first few listens?" Somewhere about the fifth listen of the whole CD all the way through is when I realized this is my favorite Maiden CD and it had took the place of DOD as my favorite. Even after TFF BOS and Senjutsu it remains my all time favorite. Anyway , enjoyed the vid very much, love to see what they are doing in the ways of the riffs and licks. Keep up the fantastic work. Great Channel and I always look forward to the next new vid. Cheers! and Up The Irons!

Nico always at his meticulous best great observation as is always expected from this channel. 👍👍

Really great song! This album man, is amazing!

Great video, great analysis. This album is great. Once I saw a live of brazilian magazine Rodie Crew if i'm not mistaken, v=aFTsR4hZ1SA&t=4832s, one of them said that he loves this album. He said that this album doesn't have a big hit like Run to The Hills, or The Number of The Beast, but the album as a whole is great, he said that this album is better listened as a whole, like The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Thanks, Nico, brilliant video. I love the new background and setting, by the way. (even though it's not so new anymore.) Up the Irons!👍👍

Great stuff Nico, thanks for this breakdown. Absolute classic song, wish they’d play it live again.

Thanks! This is a fantastic breakdown of an awesome song. Two questions I've always been curious about: 1- When multiple band members are given credit for a song, does the order the names are listed in have any significance and what do you think each member contributes (lyrics, main riff, something else)? 2- How do you think the band chooses who gets the solo or solos in a song? Keep 'em comin'! These are great videos!

I don't play any instrument so I don't understad half of what you're talking about, but I love Maiden and these videos help me get new perspecitves on song I've listened to thousand of times. I really appreciate you taking the time to make these videos. If you had a patreon, I'd absolutely be a subscriber!

Unique song and album. Really heavy. Iron maiden's heaviest guitars ever!

That poster behind you Nicko it becomes a reality! The future past tour 2023 is here!... Its a fabulous song brighter than a thousands suns... There's a version in a Abbey road gig 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 tremendously version... Up the irons Nicko... Awesome this video 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

I rediscovered with pleasure this song, thanks to you! I love these deep analyses of songs ❤

The best IM album, IMO. This song, The Longest Day and The Legacy are my favourites on it.

Thanks for giving some love to AMOLAD 💪🏻💀 When I hear you play just that opening pedal riff it makes me want to go listen to the whole album again 😎 It’s crazy you take the time to learn the bass parts, too! Idea for a second channel focused on Judas Priest: Licks of the Priest. 😁

Great video Nico! Love this song! one of the greatest albums ever made. UP THE IRONS 🤘

I routinely play parts from this song for fun and warm-ups. It has all the good stuff! Dynamic shifts, great arpeggios, massive sounding refrain riffs, everything.

Played it differently, thanks for this Nico!

My favorite song from my favorite album :) Thank you for making this!

I requested you do a deep dive on this a little while ago. Thanks Nico! Brilliant work as always.

Great and detailed anaylisis as usual Nico of a song from my fave 21st century Maiden album. It sounds intrincate, dark and powerful and is guitar-oriented, it sounds as they really enjoyed its whole creation. Many thanks and horns up!!!

I've always loved the bridge part. Those chords sound so gritty and gives the song some great tension and a very emotional movement. Great video for one of my favorite songs!

Very interesting harmonically; thank you for describe that nice sounding chords, Nico 👍🎶

Great work! Thank you so much for sharing it with us.

I just bought this album recently haven't had a chance to listen to it yet tho but I will make time too asap ...thanks for sharing nico.atb.👍👍🤘🤘🇬🇧

Nico so glad you've gone through brighter than a thousand suns. As I said on your cover of janick solo this is my absolute fave maiden song it's so heavy !!!! I think maybe montsegur is as heavy but is not as dynamic. First time I heard it I had goosebumps I literally played it five or six times back to back. The whole album swings so well off this song brilliant. As you have said before maiden are so good at setting a visual scene in your mind as you listen to the songs. Looking forward to the new tour

This is probably one of your best posts - and that is saying something since all your posts are great! Thank you and Up the Irons!

Bruce's vocal is so so good. Right on the edge

My favorite and first Maiden album.

I wouldnt mind this song played with big orchestra. Btw, great job. Thanks for detailed analysis.

The longest day might be as heavy too. Great vid 🔥

6:38 The chorus is the same chord progression of the verses of Megadeth's Trust. No problem, since they're my two favorite bands ✌ ! Nice video! Amolad is their best "reunion" album!

Amico, that's why you had the solo video a few days back 🤘🏼 As for the song itself, really one of the best Maiden songs. Heavy, deep and just beautiful. But what else could you expect when Adrian is credited 🤌🏼

Great sound (and great job as always 🤘🏻🎸) appreciate all effort you put on those videos, and always nice hear your thoughts about all related their music and 🎸style! Up the Irons 🤘🏻

That open string in Adrian's solo is so classy

AMOLAD is truly a masterpiece of an album. You ready for their new Tour Coming Up??? I hope they FINALLY play No Prayer!!!!

don't know why i never liked the intro to this song... but the instrumental part and bruce vocals really blow me away! this, lord of light and benjamin breeg have some really heavy riffs which i love great analysis!

Excellent video thank you! Excellent analysis and it's one of my new favorite Maiden tunes. (Been listening since 1984).

Agree one of the best Iron Maiden album

Hey Nico, great video man, as always!! This is my favorite song from AMOLAD, and I have to say that my all time favorite riff by Maiden is that powerful riff behind Adrian’s solo in this song, it is so fun to play. And also, this song has everything, great lyrics, powerful riffs, both Adrian and Janick’s solos are great, playing it on guitar is very cool, and as you said in the video, this is a rare occasion where Jan and H take solos but Dave doesn’t (actually, this is the only song where that happens), and I love that, because the combination of the elegant and melodic style of H and the fast and raw style of Jan makes the song greater and more powerful. I loved this video Nico, greetings mate!!

My favourite song of AMOLAD, great solos, great singing of Dickinson, great acoustic section.

love your songs breakdown

I love this song and this album 🤟🏻

Great video, as usual, Nico!! This killer song shoulda been on the Oppenheimer soundtrack!!! The lyrics are so awesome!!! I love all things atomic/nuclear!!!! It's so fascinating!!!

This album has Nicko's most creative drum playing in my opinion, and this song is no exception and really compliments the main riff.

did anyone else notice that it sounds like Nicko drops his stick at the beginning of the first verse? the hi-hat disappears randomly and then comes back like a bar or two later

I love this song...seems like a perfect backing track for the project knothole grable film.

The thin line next please :)

Love this album. Great video. Thank you buddy!

Wow I didn't know Brighter Than a 1000 Suns is about the manhattan project. Great analysis.

My 3rd favorite song after The Longest Day (1st) and The Legacy (2nd) from my favorite record from the reunion!!! And they plaid it awsome at Abbey Raod

Nico, this was terrific. I love this song so much (it was the first track off of AMOL&D that truly "grabbed" me), and I loved hearing and seeing your breakdown of it. I want you to know that every time you do one of these videos (for songs that I like/love), it always ends up the same way for me - I think about it afterwards, and then I add it to my current Spotify playlist. Thank you for that. It enables me to have the opportunity to... Idk, "re-discover" all of these wonderful songs that I already loved - but relegated away from my current playlist. That is, quite honestly, so much fun to experience. In the event that you are questioning yourself, you need to stop that with the quickness. :-) Your videos are so entertaining, so enjoyable, so informative. Keep doing exactly what you're doing. As always, cheers from The Big Easy.

This is the Maiden song that I enjoyed the most trying to decipher the meaning of the lyrics. Obviously, I knew it was about the atomic bomb. But, what was the meaning of, "shadow fingers rise above, iron fingers stab the desert sky?" And, "are your children ready for the fall?" I loved working through the meaning of the lyrics and learned a lot about the Manhattan Project from researching the lyrics.

Very well done. It is one of my favourite songs. The intro i can play, i can spend hours just playing it. in a accoustic guitar sounds better than clean guitar

excellently done Nico, as usual!!

Amazing Song. And the 2006 show, when they've played the album in its entirery, was awesome, like a true theatrical piece.

Oh I absolutely love that all white Jackson San Dimas! That’s one of my 10 guitars I plan on getting in the next 5 years!

Fantastic breakdown - thanks Nico!! BTATS is my favourite on AMOLAD too - one of those songs that instantly catches you the first time you hear it. Great playing by everyone…and BRILLIANT vocals by Bruce!! 😉🤟🏻

Great song off this album... love it.

Wonderful...

Awesome..

My favorite song from AMOLAD. Amazing punch!! and the band tried different things

Please KZfaq.. Raise a monument to Nico for the best explanations of lick`s of the best band in the world! Up the Nicos :D (By the way, thank you so much for show me your VST and setup a few months ago :D)

I just love this Maiden song and I love to play it too...Love the sound and the notes/choeds aew obviously jusr perfect.

Your stuff is so good Nico. One of my fav songs of all time at this point, probably! \m/

I'm all about that AMOLAD love

I agree with you Nico as always, except for No Prayer... 😀 Anyway this is a very cool and powerful song, one of the best after the reunion in my opinion....

Nico, Stellar! Enjoying these breakdowns. I agree, Adrian has impeccable feel in the way he uses nuances. IMHO this album has a dark feel like X-FACTOR & possibly some of the songs could have been interchangeable? Brother, Thanks!

6:37 the same progression Megadeth use for the verse of Trust. Off topic but it really struck me. Phenomenal album, i remember skipping school so i can be the first in town to buy a ticket for the concert of this tour.

Heavy metal 💪 my favorite album with powerslave do you remember show in Milan 2006? Jesus!!!!! Up the irons!!!!!!

Picked up my guitar and learned all the parts along with you 😁

smith's solo on this is easily one of his best. he sure went hog wild with the whammy pedal on this record