Metalsucks — This video has been making the rounds on the ‘net since Metal Injection discovered it a few days ago, but like I was sayin’ yesterday, I’m a few days behind on my RSS reading, so I just got to it now. But if you haven’t seen it yet, you absol... more info

Metalsucks — Iron Maiden are starting to rival KISS in the merch department, aren’t they? Oh. well. I still prefer Eddie’s grinning face smacked on everything rather than Gene Simmons’ obnoxious one. A new book entitled On Board Flight 666, which  chronicl... more info

Totally Fuzzy — No, not for the Copacabana! Or Barry Manilow! Duh! We got a whole line-up of full shows from last month's Rock In Rio for you on our video site... most of them in HD... grabbed from TV and in far better quality than the pretty lame and substandard ... more info

ContactMusic — Lady Gaga Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift are leading the way with nominations at Mtvs second annual O Music Awards The stars will all compete for the digital ceremonys Fan Army prize alongside acts including Iron Maiden Demi Lovato and Lil Wayne whil... more info

Altsounds — *An evening with Nicko - A Night of Drums and Drumming - The Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton: Tuesday 15th November 2011* Nicko McBrain hardly requires an introduction. Having joined Iron Maiden in 1982, Nicko has become an established and charismatic fi... more info

Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Dafydd Goff explains how a religious upbringing was no match for the seedy tales of Axl RoseI was eight years old when Appetite for Destruction was released in 1987 – and I wanted a copy more th... more info

ContactMusic — Heavy rockers Iron Maiden have raised more than 57600 36000 for the ongoing relief efforts in Japan following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 11 The band was travelling to Tokyo for two shows when the massive 9 0-magnitude tremor s... more info

Stereogum — I sort of can’t believe I’m typing this, but Ryan Adams has been straight killing it lately; his new songs “Lucky Now” and “Ashes & Fire” and his Iron Maiden cover are all varying degrees of great. And now here comes another song from the... more info

Stereogum — In the run-up to his new album Ashes & Fire, Ryan Adams has been on, uh, fire lately. First there was the lovely, scaled-back new single “Lucky Now.” Then, there was the equally (and improbably) lovely cover of Iron Maiden’s “Wasted Years.”... more info

Metal Injection — A little media trick for all you metal fans. It used to be fairly common practice for musicians to have live performances overdubbed with "playback" of the originally recorded song, in pop music particularly. Maiden was asked to perform on a German T... more info