A Millennium Tribute to Iron Maiden (2012)
From the official website :
A two-disc set that covers the legendary new wave of the British heavy metal outfit's entire career, from "Killers" and "Number of the Beast" to "Wicker Man" and "Fear of the Dark," Two Minutes to Midnight: A Millennium Tribute to Iron Maiden, features a strong supporting cast of seasoned players, including Tim "Ripper" Owens (Judas Priest, Iced Earth, Yngwie Malmsteen), original Iron Maiden vocalist Paul Di'Anno, Chris Poland (ex Megadeth), Keri Kelli (Alice Cooper), Derrick Lefevre (Lillian Axe), and current/former members of Metal Church, Ratt, L.A. Guns, Fuel, Michael Schenker Group, Lizzy Borden, W.A.S.P., Mountain, and Lita Ford. As well Ratt, Slash's Snakepit, LA Guns, Fuel, Mountain, Michael Schenker Group ~ James Christopher Monger
This is also one of the latest 2012 Iron Maiden tribute album release. The disc were organized by Versailles record, it is also part of the label's series of "A Millenium Tribute to ...... " that covered Van Halen, Metallice, and many others. The line up for our Iron Maiden tribute are pretty solid.
I mostly interested to Run to The Hills which featuring Chris Poland. The drum theme is slightly softer than the original. Lilian Axe former singer sings in clean and high pitches style. Chris Poland solos use a muddier guitar distortion. In Be Quick of Be Dead, band name React put a nice punk style version of it, the singer comes with female duet partner. In the very first track, The Number of the Best, it come with clever idea, a girl to do the spoken intro. Richard Kendrick of former Lilian Axe leads this song. American melodic guitarist Neil Zaza is team up with Tim Ripper Owen in Aces High, one of the highlight of the album. Then Mystic Force give a hard rocker heavy crunchy version in Revelation. Killer as usual is a versatile song to reproduce and Electric Sister modified it into punk-ish screamo version. Same goes to Children of the Damned that easily transformed into '80 slow rock ballad by Fierce Atmospheres, well it is indeed an '80s song. Then Canadian Mind Mechanics cover another good track in the album for a song Moonchild. There were even two version of The Trooper by two different bands, and another two version of Die With Your Boots On and Still Life.
This bulky double disc album covered almost all essential Iron Maiden songs. The bands range from well known heavy metal/hard rocker band gone into obscured bands. But the quality is quite good, they are all very close to original. This CD perhaps to be use as Iron Maiden standard cover version. 3.5/5 rating. Styles: heavy metal, hard rock, punk
The song track order of CD are different in some version. They were two CDs, but I split it into three post just for technical reason that I want to label each song for song statistic.
2 Minutes to Midnight
A Millennium Tribute to Iron Maiden (2012)
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CD 1
01 The Number of the Beast - Lisa & Regan Kendrick (intro) Richard Kendrick & Chris Neufeld of Downshifter
02 Still Life - Ronnie Monroe
03 Wasted Years - Martian Honey
04 Killers - Electric Sister
05 Wrathchild - Leaving Eden feat. Tattoo Frank
06 Revelation - Mystic Force
07 Die With Your Boots On - Threat Level
08 The Evil that Men Do - Hachiman
09 Rime of the Ancient Mariner - bugBRAIN
10 Children Of The Damned - Fierce Atmospheres
11 Two Minutes to Midnight - American Hellbilly
12 Hallowed Be Thy Name - SoupBone
13 Rainmaker - Devil May Cry / D3vilmaycry
14 Only the Good Die Young - Sonema
15 Running Free - Paul DiAnno
16 Iron Maiden - Dark the Sky
see CD 2
appear on promo but not included in the CD
New all stars tribute to Iron Maiden from year 2012
A Millenium Tribute to Iron Maiden
On the 2-disc edition of this they messed up the track listing with what's on the discs. "Still Life" was covered by both Ronny Munroe and Antiquus. The version on disc 1 is actually Antiquus and "Still Life II" on disc 2 is actually Ronny Munroe. They're switched in the track listings.
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