Leonard has been a busy organism these days and apologizes profusely for "ditching the blog". So, many of you are familiar with the book, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, but a fewer population is familiar with the album and song, "Brave New World", Iron Maiden. As you can see in the picture, the city portrayed in the album cover represents the city described in Huxley's book. The thing I like about this song is that there are actually references to the book within the lyrics. For example, "Mother love is no more, bring this savage back home", clearly refers to John the savage in the novel. I could go on analyzing, but I'll leave that up to you and move on to the musical aspects of the song.
The beginning of the song is instrumental, as are many metal beginnings, and gives the track a very mellow feel. The vocals chime in and also is, initially, very soft, kind of like a metalish ballad. Once the drums begin, the tempo increases and the vocals go up the octave, giving you the "heavy metal" feel. The song continues in this fashion, including a very awesome guitar solo, until it nears the end when the initial mellow feel takes over again. This track probably made my "favorite songs list" and i highly recommend giving it a shot.
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