Thank you for supporting the channel! I apologize for all the ‘likes’ in this vid as I got very amped up LOL!!! ❤️💚💙 up the irons 🤝

The poem is Anthem for Doomed Youth By Wilfred Owen

Paschendale is a city in the provence West-Flanders in Belgium. Throughout WW1 West-Flanders was the scene of fierce battles The most famous and best known poem "In Flanders Fields" was written in 1915 by John McCrae a Canadien army doctor

One of my favourite post 2000 maiden songs. Knowing my great grandad stayed behind with a box of ammo and a gun so they the rest of his men could escape and live another day and died doing it during that battle makes this song special for me. Thank you maiden.

Anthem for Doomed Youth BY WILFRED OWEN What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? - Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,- The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for them from sad shires. What candles may be held to speed them all? Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes. The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

Some people truly take for granted how great maiden have been from 2000-present.

And that's why my fair Maidens, Iron Maiden is the best that's ever been!!! Up the Irons! 🤘Long Live Rock n Roll🤘

I like that his helmet and coat are too big for him, underlining that the soldier in the story is just a kid, still. Also, performance wise, there's a great one of "dance of death" where you can really see his storytelling come to life.

The next…Dance of Death live 🤘

Saw Bruce Dickinson explain in a documentary he didn’t want a fake uniform for this song but insisted on an authentic WW1 used uniform which was hard to find and insisted on real barbed wire. Every detail is epic with Maiden. Up The Irons

Hands down the best band you can ever see live. I have at least 15 tours under my belt and twice as many shirts to match, cause that's what you do. Started in Long Beach when I couldn't afford a shirt however. Up the Irons.

Anthem For Doomed Youth is the poem

You cannot deny Iron Maiden, they are the greatest live band, IMHO, they just are so tight as a unit. Steve Harris on bass, is a master of his chosen craft, just love him in the driving seat, and all the other band members feed off his energy. Peace ❤!

Steve Harris is a lyrical genius.

Great analisys as always. If you like Iron Maiden's story telling, try with Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, specially the Flight 666 version so you can see a 50 year old Bruce Dickinson singing. By the way, Rime Of The Ancient Mariner is a master piece, my favourite Iron Maiden song/story/composition. Cheers from México, blood brother!! 🤘🏻

The fact that they wrote such an incredible legendary song 30+ years into their careers is a testament to how great this band is. Up the irons!!

I’ll back what someone else said in the comments. U must do Rime of Ancient Mariner live, from Flight 666. Then When the Wild Wind Blows from En Vivo.

Iron maiden are story tellers just amazing I am 44 years old listened to them since I was like 8 years old had posters of Eddie all over my walls, honestly whenever I am feeling down i listen to maiden and just get a feeling I can't describe love em

Maiden manage to tell stories with their songs like no other band I know. I've seen them live dozens of times and their ability to suck me into their stories through the music gets me every time.

How about those drums too. Nicko’s drumming throughout is spectacular especially if you listen close to what he is doing under the guitar solos (which are themselves spectacular).

The opening poem is "Anthem for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen: my all time favourite poem, actually. Thanks for the A+ in grade 11 English, Iron Maiden.

IRON MAIDEN IS THE KING OF LIVE PERFORMANCE , nothing close !! Perfect sound , perferct stage presense , perfect whit the audiance and WHAT A STAGE IMPRESSIVE WHIT IMAGE AND EDDIE TO COME WOW

Ah so much to take note of. Not many almost 50 year-old bands are still going *this* strong so they're clearly doing something right

Great reaction bro. Love seeing people with an understanding and appreciation of music breaking songs down and analysing them like you do. Please do a video reaction of their songs: Talisman, live en vivo Rime of the ancient mariner, live flight 666 Dance of death, live en vivo They are 3 awesome songs with even better performances

There are many like me - grew up with Maiden since early 80's, bought killers when I was 12 and haven't missed a single song since. This is the soundtrack to my life, Maiden touched lives all over the world for over 4 decades and they continue to. Just sheer talent with an (almost) obsessive adherence to their sound and their goal. It has been a treat to have a third guitarist added to the fold - for as good as the bass, drums and Bruce are - the riffs and the synergy in the guitars is the part that always stuck in my head. Janick is the perfect add to Dave and Adrian.

The poem is "Anthem for a Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen.

You have Harris nail the lyrics while Smith is writing insanely good guitars... and have one of the best and most experienced bands and vocalist in the world perform it - this is what you get. A masterpiece. I love how you love it 🙂 "Is it ok if we hear the guitar solos again?" My friend, you don't even have to ask !

I bet every Maiden fan has been rewatching those solos same like you did, it is just epic, awesome reaction bro.

"RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER " LIVE

It's refreshing to hear a professional musician analyse part by part a song and show how good Maiden is. A follower already!!!

More Maiden and Nightwish! Nice vid, nice react! Cheers from Brazil!

More maiden please!! Don't change your style, your insight is valuable and informative. No Maiden fan is ever going to complain about having to listen to any part again. If you want to up your stage/presence game then you need to study Maiden a whole lot more!!

If you want to check out more Maiden, listen to Dance of Death. Peak story telling in that one. Specifically, check out their performance from En Vivo! in Santiago, Chile.

...I'm old enough to be your father.. First Maiden show in 1983..... saw the thumb nail..this pretty-boy.. rick Springfield looking guy is gonna suck....I was wrong! Good job young fella! You get it!

A lot of iron maiden songs are based on historic events or literature. Examples include Aces High (Battle of Britain) and Rhyme of the ancient mariner ( from poem by Coleridge)

I love the contradiction in the lyrics that very simply explains a soldiers plight "Home far away from the war A chance to live again...Home far away from the war NO chance to live again" very poignant

I'd love it if you reacted to 'Writing on the Wall' from the Senjutsu album. The video is great! Plus it really shows Bruce's voice after his throat cancer - it's different but still amazing!

Cant wait to see MAIDEN for the 18TH time next week in Greensboro, NC.

Iron maiden is simple one of the best live bands ever

Really enjoyed your reaction and breakdown of the song.There are so many epic Maiden songs to look at and listen to.Welcome to the family.Up the Iron's

That is the first time I have heard Steve Harris sing harmony live. He writes most of the songs and is always singing without a mic but to hear how good he is live blew my mind.

I was fortunate enough to see all of the "Live after Death" shows in Long Beach and Irvine. I also saw them this year in Anaheim and I've got to say, Bruce Dickersons' voice is just as good as ever. I believe he had throat cancer at some point in the years between the shows I saw. It was amazing to see him sing with just as much vigor as he did in 1982. You should think about reacting to Judas Priest. Rob Halford is another incredible singer who can still nail his older songs. Including " Pain Killer" which I thought there was no chance of him performing in 2022. He was spot on both of these guys represent the best of old classic metal and put many younger bands to shame at f'n 70+ years of age. We old f%&ks can still rock your asses off Rock on Mother F'ers! Your one of the best reaction channels

First time I heard this song when I bought the cd, I liked it. Second time I loved it, every time I hear this song, somehow I like it more, for years now, and the poem before the song… absolute perfection.

I started laughing when the "x like" started coming up over and over again 🤣

Great reaction. I like the real time analysis and repeating the parts of the song that inspired your reaction. Keep up the excellant work. I watch reaction videos to see the reactions to songs I've listened to for years.

Best Maiden reaction and breakdown ever!!

To put this into context, have a look at some of footage of the first, second and third battles of the Somme. You will see the conditions they were expected to fight in. It's enough to make you cry.

What a great pick to continue your Maiden journey. 🤘

You should check out "The Tailsman" from Maiden. The story of traveling to America from Europe.

Subbed so I can be here for the Rime of the Ancient Mariner reaction, preferably the Flight 666 live version which will blow you away. Great reaction brother, Up the flipping Irons!

The tapping at the beginning and throughout the song you reference represents Morse code which was used a lot back then for message sending. Just another layer of just how good they are at writing stories to music. Bruce calls it theatre of the mind.

Love your reactions Plz do more maiden

The descending intro motive that comes back (appropriately) for the outro, this is the music of eternity... One of my Top-5 MAIDEN songs easily. For another one - try dissecting their take on the classical story of "Rime of the Ancient Mariner".

One hell of a performance

If you wanna see superb fan engagement and some more amazing storytelling, you *MUST* react to Iron Maiden's Fear of the Dark live. We harmonize to most of the song when we're not singing along with Bruce.

You wanna succeed as a band, tell stories. That's how the biggest names in Metal became big.

IRON MAIDEN - Dance Of Death (Live Chile)

If you really want to enjoy Bruce's voice, I'd recommend you listen to Tears of the Dragon. It is from his solo work, and it is very different from his work with Iron Maiden.

It is said that the drum is a symbol of morse code

Love to see you enjoy an amazing preformance!

Dance of Death would be fun, the en vivo live video, Bruce is over the top acting out the song.... freaking awesome. The, the Number of the Beast, he let's out a primal scream you've got to hear.

These are so professional.. I first saw them in 1980 opening for Judas in the US.. Paul D was singing....I have been hooked ever since... and great break down and reaction vid!!!

The best epic Maiden song post 2000 without equal. Up there with Hallowed be thy Name for me. That whole album is great; back to their 80s form.

You need to go and see Iron Madien live on their current tour and document it. Then post a video of your experience to the whole evening.

Greatest storytellers of all time.

Maiden made history class in high school cool

This concert is awesome, i really love all the performances, specially Dance Of Death

2 of the greatest battles in WW1 were Paschendale and Vimmy Ridge. Both had other allied troops try to take the ground. But in these 2 battles Canadian troops went farther and harder and took more ground than any other army. In WW11 Canada's troops stormed the "supposed" 2nd best defended. so 2nd toughest beachheads to invade. Yet by the end of the day Canadian troops had reached farther into France than any other countries.

The self-deprecating ‘Like’ count….fantastic 😂

They are absolutely awesome lyrics, but also very sad.

You should try Fear of the Dark from Flight 666. The crowd almost drowns out the band with the singing

You need to check.out their 2001 Rock in Rio performance. Sign of the Cross. Blood Brothers. The Clansman to name just a few

Pascendale is a spine tingling song in every respect. The studio version has some orchestration which makes it even cooler. And yeah the lyrics are really poignant.

Great reaction to a brilliant live performance.

Just wanna say great video,if i could make a suggestion about the next Maiden video,probably wont be a live performance but you have to check out "The Writing on the Wall",not only is it an awesome song,but the animated video is spectacular too,and its off the newest album so you'll get to here the most up to date version of the band and how they've evolved. again,great video dude

There's only one Dave Murray.

Bruce recently released a two part behind the scenes about his vocal care and costume changes while touring.

City of Sound should do a Maiden cover! 🤘🏼🤘🏼😆

and filmed in Westfalenhallen in Dortmund,

15:27 "This guy" is Mr. Adrian Smith, the main song writer of the song along with Steve Harris on lyrics.

The music is written by Adrian Smith (second solo)

Thinking man’s metal.

Iron Maiden Hallowed be thy name live is tremendous Aces High Fly To The Sky Like an Eagle is great

Great reaction! There’s no band like maiden! React to the talisman live ! That’s another amazing performance

I think you would love “ the clansman “ it’s about what the English did to the Scottish . Such a good song ! I seen them last year , it was epic , he had wrist bands on that shot huge flames .

A faction of the fans criticized this song when it came out in 2003, because it has many pauses (which is partially true)... which is the reason why the rest of the fans loved it lol. I like how it mimics the rhythm of the battle and the mechanic fire of the gatling guns, and how the whole song is basically a death march. If you're not familiar with the Battle of Passchendaele, read the Wikipedia article. One of the deadliest battles of WW1, almost immediately considered a total fiasco and one of the worst disasters in British military history. The campaign took place in a swamp in Belgium, it lasted three months, and one of battles happened under a heavy rain ("Blood is falling like the rain"...). At the end, both factions lost tens of thousands of soldiers. Another cool thing about the song is that the solo section is constantly descending in tonality, from E minor (first solo, Dave Murray) to C# minor (second, Adrian Smith) to G# minor (verse: "Blood is falling like the rain"); third solo (Janick Gers) is in D minor, a tritone from G# minor.

Kick ass 🤘

Steve Harris is one of the best lyricists ever imo. I love watching him mouth the words while shredding his bass at the same time. I have seen them 11 times and only once did they play this. A lot of the crowd did nor know it. Oh Brother..I Did! One of my personal favorites.

Bruce wrote it the poem. The tapping of the hi-hat is supposed to be morse code.

Im late to the show but if you like the story of Pashendale you should check out the band Sabaton with their song ¨the price of a mile¨

More iron maiden?

Please react to Brice's performance from this past March. Tears of the Dragon in Europe. Man is a Machine! He prides himself on his singing. He doesnt back down from those high notes... Great channel sir. Subbed

U should listen to a similar song thats about the same battle, sung by Lee Kernigan called Oh Passchendaele on the album Spirit of the Anzacs.

I am a very die-hard Ironman fan I am a mature adult I remember money formed in 1975 they've had several lead singers but I believe that Bruce Dickinson is the best in my opinion they all give unique qualities but I guess I'm just biased

the lyrics *drool

If you haven't you need to list to the ryme of the achinet mainer

Longest day, WW2 song they did.. excellent also.. check it out

The really horrible thing about Paschendale is that as many soldiers died drowning in the mud as from enemy fire.

If you like this style be sure to try Sabaton

Check out Longest Day. A song about D-Day.