Nicko Discusses The Final Frontier
Music Radar has posted an interview with Nicko McBrain, in which the drummer discusses the new album, among other things.With the release of The Final Frontier, Iron Maiden's 15th studio album, the veteran heavy metal band have reinvented themselves. Refusing to become an oldies act, doling out thinly disguised versions of Run To The Hills or The Trooper, they've achieved something extraordinarily rare for a group of their vintage, reaching new levels of creativity, hunger and vision.
Oh yeah, they've also done something else that's more than a little remarkable: they've gotten cool.
"Yeah, we're cool. I'll take that!" says drummer Nicko McBrain with a loud laugh. The affable, 56-year-old is enjoying a night off at a Chinese restaurant in London, but he's happy to hold forth, theorizing that, like Rush, another 'people's band,' the critical tide has turned in Maiden's favor because "the people who are writers now were our fans back in the day. They always liked what we did and now they're in a position to write about it. That's what happens when you hang around long enough, I guess."
Head here to read the whole interview.
The same website also has an in-depth review of The Final Frontier.