Iron Maiden "Fear of the Dark" Vocal Analysis | where the heck does he get the energy?!

My sophomore year in high school, my English teacher borrowed my Powerslave cassette tape for her classes to study “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. We need more teachers like this!

Bruce was asked in an interview "Is singing physical?" He answered "It is the way I do it."

Fear of the Dark is possibly my most favourite live tune, ever. What you won't know is that, he doesn't always introduce it as he did in Rio, but on literally the first guitar note, the crowd knows, and starts, and my god, what an experience it is to be a part of it. Magical doesn't even start to describe it.

I just saw them live in october.... they are STILL hammering it home and haven't lost a beat (And I've been listening to them since '85)

Singing along in a crowd like this is a chilling ... energising experience ... brought tears to my eyes ... saw them 2 times at Graspop in Belgium. The main rule for the crowd of Iron Maiden: you are part of the band, so sing

I couldn't recommend their song dance of death live more, you'd love it!

One of the best audience participating songs of Maiden's. Other to check out live - Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Dance of Death, The Clansman, and Blood Brothers.

More Maiden is always the answer to everything! I am so glad you are returning after doing Hallowed. I am coming up on my 40th show & Fear of the dark is always a blast live! Rime of the Ancient Mariner gets the next vote, but if you want something different that other reviewers haven’t hit yet I will throw out The Book of Souls & The Talisman. ….Or Revelations from 2008 in Australia now that I think of it 😊

Also let’s not forget, Bruce is becoming 65 this year and recovered from a cancerous tumor at the back of his tongue (2015) making a full recovery after 7 weeks of chemotherapy .. The stamina and energy he still can produce to this day, is fenomenal, and many metal vocalists can learn a thing or 2 from this man! 🤘🏼🤪🤘🏼 Up the Irons ❤

I'm old ... original Metal head. I've seen Maiden live SO many times! I have NEVER heard Bruce sound any different. He is the most consistent vocalist I've ever witnessed. And THE BEST front man you can imagine! Perfection.

Bruce is amazing. He recently released 2 "behind the scenes" videos where he talks about what he does between and sometimes during songs, including voice care. Might check it out.

19 de Janeiro de 2001. Eu estava lá. Era praticamente impossível ficar parado nesse show. Mesmo se você não quisesse pular, a multidão obrigava você a pular junto. A energia era tamanha, que eu fiquei com essa vibração durante dias após essa noite. Simplesmente, o melhor show da minha vida.

My two favorite parts of this performance are the crowd participation with them singing a lot of the melodies and Bruce riding the camera trolley. Lol

I highly recommend reading Bruce's autobiography "What Does This Button Do?". Very interesting story and it's written in a way that it's almost like he's there with you telling stories. It also explains how he can do what he does on stage.

Bruce's work out programme? He's always kept fit. He was a top 10 Great Britain foil fencer in the late 1980s and competed in the Commonwealth Vetrans Champs last summer. How do I know? The bastard knocked me out! 🤣🤣🤣 First time we'd fenced since 1989. And I won that one 😉

Seen them twice, and going to see them again next year. Their show is like modern opera; Great music and composition, stories they tells and on live they can arrange songs to create complete act or songs wrap around theme, and then the setup and the performance. It is like full show of everything i love. And the feeling you get when you are among the others who love them as much as you. So incredible band.

Dance of Death, the En Vivo version. If you like story telling and the way the vocals tell the story it is an essential Iron Maiden song. One of their most theatrical.

About the crowd singing the melody: It IS magical, after being an Iron Maiden fan for 16 years at that point, I watched them live in 2016, and when this song started everyone at the venue started singing: The feeling of taking part in something that big (There were 16.000 people that night) is a memory that I'll never forget, I immediately started crying to the point that my friends were worried about me. Great reaction as as always, if you want to keep going, I will recommend "Dance of death" or "Blood Brothers"

Julia, the comment that you typed out in this video about it being worth seeing Maiden live because you get so much more that just a song is "spot on". They are just as active on stage today as they were years ago. Saw them live this past October and it was the best concert I've experienced live.

Probably the best reaction to this song I have seen , This is an amazing song one of my all time favorites ! Thank you .