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Friday Morning Metal – Vitamin String Quartet – Number of the Beast

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Last weekend my best friend ever got hitched. As a fellow metalhead, he wanted to get something rockin into the evening’s playlist, but grandparents don’t really want to hear Seventh Son during such a big evening. Instead, he found Vitamin String Quartet, a band what plays covers of various metal and pop hits, and snuck a couple tracks into the mix. It’s pretty fun to listen to, I definitely feel like if I owned a country club or some other hoity toity thing, this would be most of the music played.

Anyway, here’s their cover of Number of the Beast.

Friday Morning Metal – IRON MAIDEN

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Hey so Monday Iron Maiden are playing White River Amphitheater in Auburn. So I figured you should get as much Maiden as you can. Because, seriously, Iron Maiden.

The Trooper. Probably one of the first Iron Maiden songs I ever heard, thanks to Carmageddon II.

Run to the Hills.

Wildest Dreams. With some funky creepy CG work.

Flight of Icarus. Kinda has a Dio-like Intro. Also he flies. On his way. Like an eagle. Flying as high. As the sun.

Be Quick or Be Dead. Another kickass track I heard while piling into cars in Carmageddon II.

Two Minutes to Midnight.

Aces High. If you hear the Churchill lead in live and don’t get goosebumps, they’ll take your ticket and send you home.

Fear of the Dark. First time I saw them live was the Flight 666 tour. It’s eerie hearing the crowd this locked in. But you’ll be hard pressed to hear another band draw this out of 30,000+ fans.

The Number of the Beast. Because let him who have understanding reckon the number of the beast.

The Wicker Man. Bees? Not the bees!

Wasted Years. They realize they’re living in the golden years.

Can I Play with Madness. When you hear it live it sounds like they yell “Can I play with Agnes?”

Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier

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I didn’t start listening to Iron Maiden until 10th grade when I got Carmageddon 2 and a few choice tracks were part of the game: Aces High, Be Quick or Be Dead, and the Trooper. I guess there was a track from when Blaze Bayley was the singer, but I don’t think that counts. Kind of like Gary Cherone in Van Halen. But it wasn’t until I got into college that I started enjoying them in earnest. Having a roommate who used Pantera’s The Great Southern Trendkill as an alarm made it easy to learn more about the various forms of metal through history.

Anyway, Iron Maiden’s newest album, The Final Frontier, arrived on my doorstep Tuesday, and I’m pretty sure I’ll be listening to it a ton for quite some time. It’s a lot like the last three albums, and anything involving a Space Eddie automatically kicks ass.

Hell, they even made a short movie to coincide with the title track.

The Final Frontier – Director’s Cut

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