Bruce Dickinson says Maiden wants to tour playing the entire new album

Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson said in an interview with Chris Jericho (Transcribed by Blabbermouth) that the band wants to tour playing their entire new album “Senjutsu”. But according to him, this would happen in another tour in the future, since the Legacy Of The Beast tour, where the group plays classic songs still have postponed dates to happen.

The singer also said that the tour where they would perform all the songs of the recent album probably would have to be in smaller venues, since many fans wouldn’t want to go see them since they wouldn’t play the old classics.

Bruce Dickinson said about Iron Maiden playing the entire “Senjutsu” album live on tour:

“The plan we’ve got — it’s not really a secret; I think everybody else has chatted about it — we will, I hope, we’ve talked about doing the entire [‘Senjutsu’] album start to finish, but not this time around. And we all appreciate that that is something that really diehard fans will probably love and other people will go, ‘Hmmm, I’m not gonna go see that.’ So the answer is you play smaller venues so that they sell out with just your diehard fans. ‘Cause it’s a musical thing to do — it’s a musical thing.”

“Senjutsu” tracklist

1. Senjutsu (Smith/Harris) 8:20
2. Stratego (Gers/Harris) 4:59
3. The Writing On The Wall (Smith/Dickinson) 6:13
4. Lost In A Lost World (Harris) 9:31
5. Days Of Future Past (Smith/Dickinson) 4:03
6. The Time Machine (Gers/Harris) 7:09
7. Darkest Hour (Smith/Dickinson) 7:20
8. Death Of The Celts (Harris) 10:20
9. The Parchment (Harris) 12:39
10. Hell On Earth (Harris) 11:19

In an official statement about the album, Steve Harris said:

“We chose to record at Guillaume Tell Studio in France again as the place has such a relaxed vibe. The setup there is perfect for our needs; the building used to be a cinema and has a really high ceiling so there’s a great acoustic sound. We recorded this album in the same way we did The Book Of Souls in that we’d write a song, rehearse it and then put it down together straight away while it was all fresh in our minds.”

“There’s some very complex songs on this album which took a lot of hard work to get them exactly as we wanted them to sound, so the process was at times very challenging, but Kevin is great at capturing the essence of the band and I think it was worth the effort! I’m very proud of the result and can’t wait for fans to hear it.”