Harris stated, "It was our seventh studio album and I didn't have a title for it or any ideas at all. The idea to base the album around the folklore concept of the seventh son of a seventh son came to bassist Steve Harris after he read Orson Scott Card's Seventh Son. From 2012–2014, the band revisited the Seventh Son era on their Maiden England World Tour. The band played over 100 shows, including the Monsters of Rock festival at Donington Park, and recorded the Maiden England video at Birmingham's NEC. It was also the first Iron Maiden album to feature keyboards, after the band had introduced non-keyboard synth effects on their previous LP, Somewhere in Time (1986).Īfter his contributions were rejected for Somewhere in Time, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son features several songs co-written by lead vocalist Bruce Dickinson, who states that his enthusiasm for the band was renewed during the album's production stages.įollowing the album's release, the band embarked on the Seventh Tour of a Seventh Tour in which Derek Riggs' cover artwork was recreated on stage.
3 in the UK Singles Chart.Ī concept album inspired by the novel Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card, the record incorporates elements of progressive rock, seen in the length and complex structure of the title track. The lead single " Can I Play with Madness" was also a commercial success, peaking at No. Like The Number of the Beast (1982) and later Fear of the Dark (1992), The Final Frontier (2010), and The Book of Souls (2015), the album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart. It was released on 11 April 1988 in the United Kingdom by EMI Records and in the United States by Capitol Records. Anyone can visit the valley and even go for walking trails or just relax at the sightseeing point.Seventh Son of a Seventh Son is the seventh studio album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. It is a picaresque range made of striated rock. This entire scene was filmed on Horsethief Canyon, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada. Long after Gregory leaves her behind imprisoned, Malkin regains her dark powers and raises again on the centennial night of the blood moon. Seasons keep on changing on the mountain range but she remains trapped. In this scene, Master Gregory locks Malkin in an underground prison, despite Malkin’s requests to have mercy on her. The opening scene of ‘Seventh Son’ is set on the top of a mountain. All these scenes were filmed in parts of Canada and the United States. Here are all the places where ‘Seventh Son’ was filmed.įrom the beginning to the end, ‘Seventh Son’ shows beautiful sceneries, 16th-century environment and the magical places such as the witches’ fortress or the spook’s home. As the master and his apprentice go on facing every obstacle and move closer to their win, various fascinating spots including the mountains, rivers, waterfalls, and dense woods are left behind.
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