#262 IRON MAIDEN SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON - Album Dive

“If Bruce Dickinson wants more cowbell, we should probably give him more cowbell…”

You’ve heard of movies based on books, but what about albums based on books? IRON MAIDEN’s seventh studio album, SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON, released on April 11, 1988, is inspired by Orson Scott Card’s 1987 novel “Seventh Son” and is their first official “keyboard” album, confirming IRON MAIDEN’s progressive metal mastery as one of the finest progressive metal albums of all time.

Get ready to take on an army of “Roided up Roos” who are “boxing the trees” and always remember the following: “there’s no such thing as bad publicity”, “you can’t push a rope” and the odds of 2 different people asking the exact same question within a day or two is not just some “random coincidence”.

Understand why “Steve Harris with distortion” is almost as weird as “Slayer with keyboards”, find out “who’s the outfielder?”, discover the secret code behind “French Toast and Waffle Dust”, and tell all the Trans-Ams and Transformers you know that “I measure from my middle back” before you JOIN US for a dive into “the heart of prog Maiden” with IRON MAIDEN’s progressive metal magnum opus, SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “Buuuuuhhhhhhtttttt…” / #WTFHappenedASMR / “Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die…” / #BlackSabbathReflectionsASMR / “Which is ‘code’ for drugs…” / #notourbill / #constantly (“We already know what we think about blackouts…”) / #completelymiss / “There’s no way…”/ “You can’t push a rope, honey…”/ #youcantpusharope / “It’s hard…it’s not…that’s why it’s hard…”/ “It’s all night and I’m never gonna finish…”/ #sorrybabe / #hiddentrackepisodes / #hiddentrackcast #hiddentrackpodcast / “We have nothing but #Docket today…”

(03:13): “We’re making up for #DryJuly because #MoistAugust is gonna be…” / #CFA #ChikFilAPostMealWrapUp / “It’s blessed, man…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / #motherfucker #NickoMcBrainASMR / “It’d be weird…you are now.” / “I feel a little dirty…”/ #wholehand / “Put your hand out like that…”/ #iclosedaroundit / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST WITH ALL OF THE DELICIOUS AND APPLICABLE ANESTHESIA!!!*** / “You were wet during July and I was not…”/ #thinkaboutthis / “We should do another…” / #Chronicles #GlovesOfShame (“I didn’t say #KISS, I said #GlovesOfShame …”) / “Were they #GNR before #GNR?” / “People with #poons …” / #MetalHealthASMR / #PictureDiscReflectionsASMR / “You ever take a pitcher of a pitcher?” / #bassplayerASMR / #pitcherdisc / “Yes you do…”/ “The creepiest thing about #DiaryOfAMadman (the #albumcover)?” / #hulk #bookofspells #saintpetrinecross (“That probably f**cked some people up!”) / “You’ve gotta read it with your ears…”/ ***Go check out “I AM OZZY”, Ozzy Osbourne’s hilariously profound autobiography!!!*** Go read with your ears, your eyes, and your mind! ***/ NOTE: Two bottles…of Hennessy!? / #thepressLOVEyou / “Maybe, I dunno…”

(13:13): “No lube, no warm up, no reflections…it’s okay…” / #seepreviousepisode / METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON / “It was our #StAngerEpisode it was fine…”/ #doit / “I’m sure that’s what people say about…”/ #itwasourgarbagecan / #BruceMaiden / “Not to be confused with the #lastinline …” / #TopThreeIronMaidenAlbums #OldSchoolMetalNerderyPodcast / “It depends on what we’re calling prog…”/ “You weren’t, this was #PreRussell …”/ #conceptalbum #progressivemetal #progmetal / “It’s almost 5 years old!!!” / #OldMetalNerderyEpisodeASMR #Era #HodgesEra / “There is a story to it…but the #tourmerch back in ’88…”/ “Who opened for them on this tour?” / “I’m sure it was #TheOmni …”/ “Noooo….NO! That’s a weird…NO!!!” / #GnRASMR / “Which is weirder…?” / “See that makes sense…”/ “They had some #amazingopeners on that tour…”/ “Back…when you had to go…to a place…”/ “Which is sad…”/ Released April 11, 1988 / #stoppayment / “Just stop…send them a hand printed picture…”/ “I don’t know if y’all have seen that…” / #investigatethemselves

(21:55): “I’m sure it was that…” / #birthdaysoundtrack / “Something about it…”/ #onmicburp / “You sure?” / #youheardithere / MOONCHILD “Seven Holy paths to Hell and your trip begins…” / #youarenumbersix / “Yeah, exactly…#Cathedral …” / “Listen to those chords…”/ #readthoselyrics / #killeropener / “I had no idea…that this was a book…” / #OrsonScottCard #SeventhSon #booklearning #audiobooks #audible #ironmaidenwhispersASMR #DudeHaveYouHeardTheNewIronMaidenASMR? / “That singer must write all the words…”/ “It’s getting old, bruh…I said talent beyond their bass playing…” / INFINITE DREAMS / “That’s prog right there…all day…” / #whenitkicksin / #STFURussellASMR / #weirdtransition / “Yeah, you’re right…”/ “When this came out, I was already…and then I progressed…”/ “To be fair…” / #apparently #allegedly / “I wonder if he can pole vault?” / CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS / “That’s a LOT of #cowbell …”/ “To be fair…” / #biggerthanballs / “Adam is to Maiden like I am to Sabbath…” / #theweirdyears / #commonground / “4,5,6,7…”/ #middleback / “Some people, this is #heavy to them…”/ #greatanalogy / “This was HIS heavy…”/ #thiswashisballs / THE EVIL THAT MEN DO #allthecokelines #killercloser #sideone / “This sounds like #OldMaiden …”/ #AND / “It’s the harmony part…”/ #IronMaidenDualGuitarHarmoniesASMR / “You can hear the clicks…”/ “It’s like #drumsteroids …”/ #strappedroo

(04:30): SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON #titletrack #killeropener #sidetwo #progmetal / “I could listen to a whole album of this…”/ #onandonandonandon / “We’ve gotta get to the #ontheboat part…” / #woetoyou #youarenumbersix #motherfucker #hahahaASMR / “Today is born the seventh one…” / “It’s not as long as you think, though…”/ #cantbeloudenough / “Here we go…this is almost #ThrashMaiden …”/ “That’s like a double dose of…” / “Did you see tits at that show?” / “I found some #oldtickets …” / “That had to be with…”/ April 24th, 1991 (#Pantera and #WrathchildAmerica ) / #Rathchild #Tikuhhhtmasstur #spellczech / “It wasn’t before #intelligence …”/ #unpopularopinion / “By ‘Wrathchild America’ I mean with a ‘W’…”/ “How many other metal bands do you know of?” / THE PROPHECY / “This is like clean #weedlywoos in a way…”/ #usethoseheadphones #misheardlyrics / “He’s done everything, dude…”/ “The flying thing is interesting…”/ “I feel like pilots get a shitload of #skypoon don’t you think?”

(53:06): “We’re not even 18 hours in…” / THE CLAIRVOYANT / “Dude, this should be your #favoritesong …” / #STFUASMR #WOEASMR / “That’s the good stuff, right there…” / “Does that keyboard help this song at all?” / “That sounds like #Styx … that sounds like #RockyIV …”/ “Where he’s boxing the trees…”/ “Dude, when we do #TheShroomChronicles again…”/ #SurvivorInsideTheMetal / “I’m now making up stupid shit and I apologize…” / “The album, not so much…”/ “I can’t believe we haven’t done a #RigorMortisBehindTheMetal …”/ “I know we did #Obscure and #1988 …” / ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG #killercloser #sidetwo #albumcloser #lasttrack #untilthenext / “All the evil seem to last forever…”/ “It’s Russell’s favorite part…” / #bassbone / #basssolotakeone / “That’d be weird, dude…nahhh…”/ “It would be as weird as…”/ #SteveHarrisDistortedBassSoloASMR / “don’t even worry about it…” / “How do you think they fuck?” / “Have you ever in your life EVER…met someone…and the first thought out of your brain is…?” / #OMG #samequestion #whataretheodds / “I’m sorry for all the #bassplayerhate I give you…” / #synchronicity / “Who’s the outfielder?” / #oldcouple (“And now I’ve thought about it…”) / “Would you watch that?” / #attractiveatninety / “I’d still probably hit it…”/ THANK YOU TO IRON MAIDEN AND TO OUR ESTEEMED PATREONS!!! / #TransAms #TransFormers / “I don’t know, dude…” / “I tried to put myself in a box this morning…”/ “a little #waffledust on top…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AND GO SUPPORT IRON MAIDEN AND BUY THIS ALBUM!!! / #Like #Subscribe #Comment #Notifications #SocialMediaConditioning #PodcastReview / “It numbs it up down there…”/ #untilthenext / #recordscratch / #preoutroreel / ***COME ON DOWN TO THE BUNKERPOON GIFT SHOPPE TO GRAB YOUR #METALNERDERYPODCASTMERCH !!!*** / metalnerdery.com/merch *** / “I kinda closed around it…”