Powerslave

Album: Powerslave (1984)
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Bruce Dickinson
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 12

  • Marcelo from San Jose, OtherThis song will appear in the Flight 666 movie! Live in Costa Rica! when they played for the first time here...february 26 2008! I will never forget that day!
  • Damien from Edmonton, CanadaYou're right, Ernesto- In fact, in the "Piece of Mind" liner notes, there is a picture of the band sitting at a dinner table looking at a plate with (Eddie's?) brain on it, and in the background, in the entrance you can see Death! Same thing on the Trooper poster I have on my Bedroom door.
  • Jaymz from Ayr, ScotlandThis song reminds me of the video game that was released on the Playstation back in something like 1996/97 it is called ("Exhumed" UK release) and ("Powerslave" US release) it is set in Egypt and has a mortal man with god-like powers given to him in order for him to annihilate the dangers in Egypt that threaten Ramses and the others.
  • Addison from Kaysville, Utdimmu borgir covered this song its way gnarly
  • Devon from Westerville, OhThis is a great song. I recently realized the creed thing. When I learned this song on guitar I realized the chorus part after the vocals is very similar to Higher from creed.
  • Ernesto from Tucson, AzI used to have a lot of the Iron Maiden posters in my bedroom when I was a teenager, and I thought it was weird and cool that in most of them you can find the sillouette of Death in the back ground or near the edges.
  • Francisco from South Gate, CaThis is my favorite and first Maiden song i heard
  • Jose from New York, NyYou're totally right "e". Creed did ripp off Maiden. The song is called 'Higher' btw.
  • E from Vancouver, Canadalovin the riff... Creed actually ripped it off in their song "Take Me Higher". I think thats what its called.... anyway iron maiden is awesome.
  • Rex Jackson from Sleze Lans, MaCheck out the cover to this album...On the bricks leading in you can read, "Indiana Jones was hear '41" and there is a picture of Mickey Mouse...Riggsey...best artist ever
  • IngÃ?lfur from ReykjavÃ?k, IcelandWhen the band were recording the Powerslave album in the Bahamas, in the summer of 1984, they kept experiencing unexplained incidents in the studio-sudden and inexplicable equipment failure, the breakdown of the air conditioning-which continued to disrupt every time they worked on the title track. When the air conditioning suddenly stopped working, the guys who came in to fix it brought this step-ladder with them, and stood it in the corner of the studio while they worked on the broken a/c system. "The funny thing is" Nicko says "The minute the step ladder was set up in the room all the rest of the recording equipment suddenly started functioning properly! I know it sounds ridiculous, but that's what happened...and we all started staring at this step ladder and ribbing each other going 'It must be the step ladder-it's shaped like a pyramid!' I tell you, we didn't let them take that step ladder away for days!"
  • Master_apocalipticus from Roma, ItalyAn incredible song. The sound of overall album is filled with a reverb that remember the ambience in what could be the chambers of a pyramid. Dickinson voice is, as always, perfect with his echoverb. Precious solo with a stunning bass arrangment by Steve Harris. Really a beautiful song, you listen this and you know is Iron Maiden.
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