Bruce Dickinson - Chemical Wedding
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Artist: Bruce DickinsonEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks
CD Release Date: 2005-06-21
Music Label: Sanctuary Records
Soundtracks:
- King in Crimson
- Chemical Wedding
- The Tower
- Killing Floor
- Book of Thel
- Gates of Urizen
- Jerusalem
- Trumpets of Jericho
- Machine Men
- The Alchemist
- Return of the King [*]
- Real World [*]
- Confeos [*]
Music reviews of Chemical Wedding
Music Review: The jaw dropping masterpiece of Bruce Dickinson's solo career thus far.
Rating: 5 Stars
After leaving Iron Maiden after their 1993 tour for their terrible 1992 album "Fear of the Dark" (which came after 1990's equally bad "No Prayer for the Dying"), vocalist Bruce Dickinson would release a couple of really good solo CD's entitled "Balls to Picasso" and "Skunkworks" which were met with mixed reviews.
Most people/critics scoffed at the fact that Bruce was actually trying to do something different than just straight ahead metal and more in the realm of what was going on in the early 90's music wise with the gruge explosion of Seattle.
But on his next CD "Accident of Birth", this release would see Bruce returning to the world of metal music and it was met with much acclaim by people as a return to form for Bruce.
His last solo CD in 1998 before returning to Iron Maiden in 1999 was "The Chemical Wedding" and like the new liner notes in this remastered & expanded edition of this fantastic CD states, nobody was expecting this album to be as awe inspiring as it turned out to be.
Basically, this album is what Maiden should have been doing throughout most of the 90's instead of the dreck that they would release near the end of Bruce's tenure as singer and throughout their terrible 2 albums with Blaze Bailey before thankfully getting Bruce back behind the mic.
Over the years, all of Bruce's 90's solo stuff had gone out of prints and Sanctuary records has seen fit to remaster, release and expand all 4 of his 90's solo offerings so that people who haven't heard or were aware of his solo stuff can now see what Bruce was up to while he was out of Maiden.
The Chemical Wedding has a bit of a slower feel than Accident of Birth but that slower feel benefits the album's darker and more foreboding feel. Not to say that there are some awesome up tempo tracks on here (like the awesome track Tower), but this is a more brooding album and it benefits from that approach immensely.
Producer/guitarist Roy Z. and ex-Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith even strung their guitars with bass strings on a few tracks to give the songs an even deeper feel.
From start to finish, this album is majestic and a wonder to behold for fans of classic metal or just great music in general. Bruce's voice is awesome as usual and his band on this CD (which was the same lineup he had on Accident of Birth) is smoking throughout.
Maybe it was the high quality of this album which caused the troubled Iron Maiden to come crawling back to Bruce.
This expanded edition really doesn't sound all that different despite being "remastered", but the original release sounded great to begin with.
The real reason why this particular re-release is warranted is due to the inclusion of 3 bonus tracks in the fantastic "Return of the King" (which was only found on the Japanese release of The Chemical Wedding). The other 2 tracks (Real World & Confeos) are from the CD single for The Killing Floor. "Real World" has some great music despite a bit of a repetitive chorus and "Confeos" is sort of a joke (but cool) track in which the boys are clearly having their tongue stuck in their cheek.
Along with the other 3 reissues, the new liner notes are excellent and they also designate who did what guitar solo where.
I've always thought that all of Bruce's solo material was great stuff and in some ways better than what Maiden has been doing for quite some time.
It's a great thing that these 4 out of print CD's have been given a new lease on life for people to discover without having to pay hefty prices getting the original Cd's off of Ebay.
Any fan of metal or just great music in general would do wise to pick this up as it's easily (so far) his crowning achievment of his 6 solo Cd's so far.
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