{"id":37389,"date":"2026-08-10T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=37389"},"modified":"2026-08-10T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:07:00","slug":"bruce-dickinson-says-upcoming-solo-album-is-heavy-as-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=37389","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Dickinson Says Upcoming Solo Album Is &#8220;Heavy as S**t&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-id=\"1616948\" data-title=\"Bruce Dickinson Says Upcoming Solo Album Recorded at Dave Grohl\u2019s Studio Is \u201cHeavy as S**t\u201d\" data-url=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/08\/bruce-dickinson-upcoming-solo-album-heavy\/\" data-page=\"1\" data-pages=\"1\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/bruce-dickinson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bruce Dickinson<\/a> has teased that his upcoming new solo album, recorded earlier this year at Dave Grohl\u2019s Studio 606, is \u201cheavy as shit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Iron Maiden singer has confirmed that the new album will come out in 2027 as the follow-up to 2024\u2019s <em>The Mandrake Project<\/em>, which was accompanied by a comic-book series and other multimedia aspects. He said the upcoming record is a return to a more traditional album release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vivid-seats.pxf.io\/c\/1882189\/952533\/12730?subId1=iron-maiden%2Adickinson-grohl-button&amp;subId2=&amp;subId3=&amp;sharedid=&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vividseats.com%2Firon-maiden-tickets%2Fperformer%2F378\" class=\"button button-ticket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Get Iron Maiden Tickets Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dickinson said of the forthcoming album, \u201cIt\u2019s kind of stand-alone. There\u2019s one song that has a bit of something to do with <em>Mandrake<\/em>. Now, the album is heavy as shit. I\u2019m not digging into <em>Mandrake<\/em>\u2018 I think <em>Mandrake<\/em> has a life now on a comic book level, so it can just go on the basis of story and everything else. I don\u2019t need to associate music with it unless it\u2019s a really good idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>The recordings took place in January and February of 2026 at Grohl\u2019s Los Angeles studio with producer Brendan Duffey, who also helmed the <em>Mandrake <\/em>sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Dickinson recently performed <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/07\/bruce-dickinson-billie-joe-armstrong-all-the-young-dudes-cover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cAll the Young Dudes\u201d<\/a> with Billie Joe Armstrong\u2019s cover band the Coverups as part of Comic-Con festivities in San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/iron-maiden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iron Maiden<\/a> are currently preparing to embark on their upcoming \u201cRun for Your Lives\u201d North American tour with Big Four thrashers Megadeth and Anthrax as support. Tickets are <a style=\"display: inline !important;\" href=\"https:\/\/vivid-seats.pxf.io\/c\/1882189\/952533\/12730?subId1=iron-maiden&amp;subId2=dickinson-grohl&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vividseats.com%2Firon-maiden-tickets%2Fperformer%2F378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See Bruce Dickinson\u2019s full interview with VCX below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Entrevist\u00e9 a Bruce Dickinson de Iron Maiden - VSX Project\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zRgF1HovfcU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=1;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\t\tfbq('init', '1753966171496536');\n\t\tfbq('set','agent','tmgoogletagmanager', '1753966171496536');\n\t\tfbq('track', \"PageView\");\n\t<\/script><script defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v7.0&#038;appId=434175690014\" nonce=\"6gwmbCtM\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Dickinson has teased that his upcoming new solo album, recorded earlier this year at Dave Grohl\u2019s Studio 606, is \u201cheavy as shit.\u201d The Iron Maiden singer has confirmed that the new album will come out in 2027 as the follow-up to 2024\u2019s The Mandrake Project, which was accompanied by a comic-book series and other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/consequence.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/iron-maiden-2025-uk-european-tour.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}