I think The Trooper was one of Iron Maiden’s best songs, loved it as a kid, love it now. So while listening to this mashup of The Trooper with The Monkees’ I’m a Believer, my kid came running out and yelled “Shrek!”, which made me realize how much the music of our childhood can make us grin. Yes, a song about charging headlong into battle knowing you face certain death makes me smile. Especially when mixed this way:

Wow, almost an entire Monday without an update. Well, I assure you I have a very good excuse. The fact is that I started a new/old job today. I went back to work for my old employer in a new position. First day on the job “The Man” had me bustin’ my ass for 10 hours.

With that said, there is also this to say: May 31st will be my last day with Metal Martyr. It’s been a fun [almost] two years of bitching, ranting, misspellings, grammar butchering, hatred, (sometimes senseless) negativity and most important of all interacting with readers …read more

Iron Maiden has filed a lawsuit against a comic book creator for the name of his comic which is titled Iron And The Maiden. The band says that there is a “Confusing similarity” between the bands name and the comic book title. According to Blabbermouth, the creator and spokesperson for the comic book company, Jason Ruben, stated the following.
“The Iron and the Maiden legal team believes that this case is completely without merit. It is outrageous to claim ownership of the well-known term ‘Iron Maiden,’ a medieval torture device that predates rock and roll by centuries and is part …read more

The early to mid 1990’s delivered a harsh blow the heavy metal. Grunge overshadowed heavy metal but thankfully did us all a favor by killing the glam-rock era. While a lot of metal bands continued to release solid metal albums, they still had grunge to deal with in both marketing and touring.
I was in my mid teens, working as a dishwasher during the time. My coworkers were all in to the grunge thing and were neo-hippies to boot. We had a prep room where we would prep food and had a cd player in there to listen to …read more

IronMaiden.com reports that Iron Maiden’s latest rockumentary documenting their Somewhere Back In Time tour, will be released on DVD, Blue Ray Disc and Live Double Album soundtrack on June 9th.
Below are only some of the details for Iron Maiden Flight 666. If you’d like to know more about the release visit IronMaiden.com

A lot of contests going on as of late. Here is a chance to win a 7″ vinyl from Black Tide, entitled Road Warriors. It contains two tracks, Warriors Of Time (Live) and their cover of Iron Maiden’s Prowler that has never been released.
Here is how you can win: Since the 7″ has an Iron Maiden “Cover” on it, let’s do this: Artist Derek Riggs has done countless artwork for Iron Maiden over the years. From tour flyers to posters to album covers, he’s been responsible for bringing Eddie to life in so many different ways. On every piece …read more

Always a great video, song and live performance, Iron Maidens classic “Run To The Hills” from The Number Of The Beast is a favorite among almost every Iron Maiden fan. Some are tired of it and you can understand as it’s one of Maiden’s most played songs and probably the song they are best known for even by non-Maiden fans. Here is a clip from the Iron Maiden film Flight 666.
 

Iron Maiden’s new rockumentary Flight 666 has seemed to be getting some rave press lately. They showed it at the SXSW music and film festival and it was the winner of the “24 Beats Per Second” award for best music documentary. Flight 666 is coming to select theaters starting on April 21st. Check the list of theaters below and check out Ironmaiden.com for more dates. I’ll just probably wait until it hits DVD, but looks to be a great documentary. If you’ve seen it, chime in and let us know what you thought. Here is a preview of Iron Maiden: …read more

Americans riot over Guns N’ Roses. Columbians riot over Iron Maiden. How foolish does that make us look? When you have 111 Columbians that didn’t or couldn’t buy tickets to see Iron Maiden, things heat up. I imagine there was actually more people than that and they only arrested 11 people.
The Latin Tribune Reports:
The report said that about 25,000 people attended the Saturday evening concert in Simon Bolivar Park, “however, the embarrassing acts perpetrated by a group of malcontents who wanted to enter without tickets” ruined the social scene in the area around the venue.

They even said a Columbian …read more

A slight case of sleeplessness brings you this early edition of the Scrap Metal Report today. Just a few things to run down in the news.
God Forbid are streaming their entire new record, Earthsblood on their Myspace. Earthsblood sees it’s release on century Media on February 24th.
Hatebreed guitarist Sean Martin has decided to resign from his duties in the Connecticut hardcore band. No details on the circumstances of is decision but there doesn’t seem to be any bad blood. Original guitarist Wayne Lozinak will step back in to the band to fill Sean’s vacant spot.
Tool Guitarist Adam Jones and …read more