BRUCE DICKINSON's Upcoming Solo Album Will Include Collaboration With His Son AUSTIN
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At this weekend's San Diego Comic-Con, IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson revealed to Steve Harkins of TalkShopLive that his upcoming solo album will include a collaboration with his son Austin. Bruce's oldest son, the 35-year-old Austin is a musician best known as the former frontman for the metal bands RISE TO REMAIN and AS LIONS. Bruce said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I'm really lucky that my kids, in particular my oldest son Austin, is a writer. So the conversations that we have, he bounces ideas off me, I bounce ideas off him. And he's a musician as well, and he's a great singer. He had three albums. He was in a band called RISE TO REMAIN. They did a couple of albums. And then he [sang in] a band called — it was his band, actually — AS LIONS, and they had a bit of a hit and stuff. But it's tough trying to make a living [playing an up-and-coming band]. I mean, he toured the States and everything and had radio hit. So he got into script writing, which he's very, very talented. But, of course, that's no guarantee of success. You just gotta keep plugging away. But he wrote a tune for me on my new record. And when we were recording it, he came round the studio and was just loving it. And it's gonna be one of the key tracks on the record. And I'd love to work with him again. I mean, he's what I would describe as a pure creative. His whole life is doing stuff. And you've gotta put it somewhere."
Dickinson went on to say that the follow-up to "The Mandrake Project", which came out in March 2024 via BMG, will arrive in early 2027. "Tracks will be out this year, a little bit, so people can hear a little bit of it," Bruce said. "At some point this month, I'm shooting four or maybe five videos for it."
He added: "I'm pretty busy in '27. And I think everybody's gonna be very happy with what I'm busy with —in every sense of the word."
This past April, Bruce revealed that he recorded 16 songs for his new solo album over a three-week period earlier this year.
Dickinson's eighth solo album was recorded this past January and February at Dave Grohl's Studio 606 in Northridge, California.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Bruce touched upon his upcoming LP while discussing his health and various physical ailments. He said: "I got two metal hips, I got a busted Achilles I had stitched back together five years ago, various contusions and lumps and bumps. But I'm still running around like a lunatic, and the voice is doing great."
He added: "I just finished a solo record: We did 16 tracks in 21 days, all 100 percent live. It's like the anti-A.I. generation."
Dickinson's upcoming album was recorded with his touring band, consisting of keyboardist Mistheria, drummer Dave Moreno, bassist Tanya O'Callaghan, and guitarists Chris Declercq and Philip Näslund.
In February, SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser shared photos of him with Bruce at Studio 606 and revealed that he plays percussion on Dickinson's new LP.
Bruce and his long-term co-writer and producer Roy "Z" Ramirez recorded "The Mandrake Project" largely at Los Angeles's Doom Room, with Roy Z doubling up as both guitarist and bassist. The recording lineup for "The Mandrake Project" was rounded out by Mistheria and Moreno, both of whom also featured on Bruce's previous solo studio album, "Tyranny Of Souls", in 2005.
(Source: www.blabbermouth.net)
