Iron Maiden legend Bruce Dickinson’s last solo album was 2005’s “Tyranny of Souls.” Since then the singer has been plenty busy fronting Maiden albums and touring the globe. But in a new interview with Loudwire, Dickinson said he’s getting back to work on a new solo effort this spring, and he will again be working with longtime collaborator, Roy Z. “I am obviously coming over to (America to) do the one-man show. When I get to the end of the one-man show thing at the end of March, then the idea is I’ve got about three weeks cooling my heels somewhere. I’ll lie down in a darkened room for a couple of days and recover from the tour and then put my singing head on and go and have a chat with Roy. ‘Cause we’ve already got a bunch of material, but we need to organize it a little bit.”
“We have demos and everything, but we need to organize it a bit more properly and be a bit more serious about it — maybe write a few more tunes. And then basically leave it down to Roy. (Once) we’ve got what we wanna do, he can go off and start doing backing tracks and things like that. Obviously, I’m gonna be going out on tour with Maiden, but we made ‘Tyranny Of Souls’ that way. ‘Tyranny Of Souls’ was done not exactly remotely — well, kind of remotely in that I wasn’t physically present when some of the backing tracks were done, but he sent me the backtracks and I listened to them and went, ‘These are cool.’ And some of them I wrote the words to the backtracks, and the tunes and everything. And some of them we had already done. So mixing and matching like that sometimes gets great results.”
Previously, Dickinson said his next solo album would likely include a reworked version of “If Eternity Should Fail,” which is the opening track to Maiden’s 2015 album “The Book Of Souls.”
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