Paul Di'Anno - In Memory Of Paul Di'Anno (2025) [FLAC] {Metalville MV0414}
Release Info:
RLSDATE: 2025/06/02 RTLDATE: 2025/05/17
GENRE: Heavy Metal FORMAT: 420 MB
SOURCE: CD RUNTiME: 51:17
RiPPER: EAC 1.8 ENCODER: FLAC 1.5
DRiVE: ASUS SW-16D1X-U ORiGiN: Germany
RELEASE: Metalville MV0414
MATRiX: MV0414 AP35477-01 manufactured by optimal media GmbH IPFI L578
with log/cue/nfo/m3u/sfv/300 dpi scans.
TheRazorsEdge (dot) rocks adds. . .
Scheduled for release on the day before what would have been Paul Di'Anno's
sixty-seventh birthday, In Memory of… is a dozen songs from the big man's time
at Metalville Records, including a couple of never-before-issued-on-physical-
media tracks.
Divided into (almost) halves, In Memory of... is made up of five live tunes from
Paul himself and a series of songs issued under the Architects of Chaoz name,
including a live rendition of Maiden's Killers from Wacken Open Air in 2015.
The live section of the record is taken from Paul's album Hell Over Waltrop -
Live in Germany 2020 and features three tracks from the 1992 record, Murder One.
Impaler kicks things off with some rampant drumming and heavy guitars.
Unrelenting and uncompromising, it's a masterclass in fast and furious metal,
delivered by a seasoned craftsman. The Beast Arises continues the band's hard
and heavy metal assault, while the speed metal, Venom-vibes of Marshall Lokjaw
evoke plenty of audience interaction.
That's relative, I suppose, as the final two Waltrop tunes are Running Free and
Blitzkrieg Bop, neither of which would need an introduction - though Paul
includes a Joey-inspired one-two-three-four - and both play to the Big Man's
punk credentials. You can hear the sheer power of this gig bleeding through your
speakers and, while some live albums only hint at the in-concert experience,
this is a full-blown pit all of its own.
The other five, previously available, tunes come from Paul's 2015 Architects of
Chaoz album, The League of Shadows and is something of a smorgasbord of styles
and ideas. First to arrive is Switched Off (Released) which comes with an
atmospheric opening, walking bassline and haunting voices. At seven-minutes it
reminds one of Remember Tomorrow’s melancholia, uplifted by a soaring solo, it
is both timelessly metal and beautifully fragile, and it is hoped that this
release will make it available to a wider audience.
Apache Falls is equally epic in scope, concerned with native Americans through
the use of tribal instrumentation, it could be a tune from one of Maiden's more
modern records. Guitars cascade and the extended outro gives way to a dreamlike
piano conclusion.
Both Rejected and You've Been Kissed by the Wings of the Angel of Death see Paul
dipping his toe into the European power metal stylings of a Helloween or Blind
Guardian, incorporating gang vocals and rampant gallops, embracing the genre's
bombast and singalong, anthemic choruses.
The final Architects of Chaoz tune is a cover of Deep Purple’s Soldier of
Fortune, voiced by David Coverdale on the Stormbringer album and a blueprint for
how to wring every drop of emotion out of a song. For all his punk credentials,
Paul matches Coverdale with every line of this version, bringing a tear to the
eye of al but the most stoney of heart.
The final two songs on In Memory of... are so far unreleased in a physical form.
Architects of Chaoz’s encore of Iron Maiden's Killers from their 2015 Wacken
appearance is the sort of high energy performance that will have turbo-charged
the German crowd. Paul admits to being nervous about the show, saying so in the
most self-deprecating way, endearing him to the gathered masses. It's not a
perfect rendition, but it's live and it's true and that's all that really
matters.
The other unreleased song is the galloping, Maiden-like Je Suis Charlie, and
deals with the serious subject of the curtailment of free speech. Taking its
title from the murder of twelve journalists in January 2015 at the Paris offices
of the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, resulting in the titular hashtag, it
lets us know Paul was a serious songwriter.
His passing in October 2024 came at a time when his star was on the rise once
more and, according to his stage chat in Blackpool last August, he was intending
to head out in 2025 with a set of his own material.
Sadly, the Fates had other plans for Paul, and called him home instead, leaving
us to rediscover the legacy of his music post-Maiden. This release, alongside
the previously available Book of the Beast form a fine starting point to begin
those investigations.
Ripper's Notes:
Quickie exploitive compilation capitalizing upon Paul's death. Material is slim,
but, when he only had two releases for Rockville, that's to be expected. If
you've followed me (or Paul lol) at all, you know that Je Suis Charlie is not
previously unreleased, as a matter of fact, I've ripped and shared it myself on
the Architects Of Chaoz vs. Perzonal War split EP. The AoC version of Killers
is sloppy and thrashy, but at least it's truly the first time it's been
available. Unless you REALLY need those tracks, skip this and buy Hell Over
Waltrop and (the excellent) League Of Shadows instead.
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