Aces High
Song by Iron Maiden
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Sep 26, 2026
Mack BHOST
So we kind of futz around, try to get out a couple different ways.
Mack BHOST
We hear the Churchill speech, and then they go into Aces High.
Mack BHOST
Now, Aces High may have had the best graphics just 'cause it was cool.
Mack BHOST
It showed the dogfight.
Mack BHOST
It showed shot-down planes crashing into the ground.
Mack BHOST
Wasted Years is about my favorite song, so I'm sad that we can't stay for that, but I was so happy to get the heck out of there, get to our ride.
Mack BHOST
We can still hear it behind us.
Mack BHOST
We could hear all of Aces High.
JustinHOST
welcome back all you shady ladies and outlawed gentlemen to another episode of rockology i am your host justin and tonight we are going to talk about songs that deal with the deadliest war in history world war ii so let's just get right into it first up we have uh aces high by iron maiden Which talks about the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain in 1940.
JustinHOST
And as they face off against the German Air Force, the Luftwaffe.
JustinHOST
You know, telling you the side of the heroic Royal Air Force.
Mack BHOST
So he kind of futz around, try to get out a couple different ways.
Mack BHOST
We hear the Churchill speech, and then they go into Aces High.
Mack BHOST
Now, Aces High may have had the best graphics just because it was cool.
Mack BHOST
It showed the dogfight.
Mack BHOST
It showed shot down planes crashing into the ground.
Mack BHOST
It showed... eddie flying past it's really cool and i'm glad i was just glad to see that one more time i i love the energy of fear of the dark so i'm sad that i missed it wasted years about my favorite song so i'm sad that we can't stay for that but i was so happy to get the heck out of there get to our ride you can still hear it behind us we can hear all of aces high we can hear some of the fear of the dark But it was great to just get to the car, bolt, and get home and get my soggy shoes off and take a shower.
Mack BHOST
Shoes that were soggy until the next day when we left
Gary Action JacksonHOST
for the airport.
BradHOST
Killers, Phantom of the Opera, Number of the Beast, Infinite Dreams, Power Slave, Two Minutes to Midnight, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Run to the Hills, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, The Trooper, How I'd Be Thy Name, and close the regular set with Iron Maiden.
BradHOST
Then Encore, Aces High, Fear of the Dark, and Wasted Men.
BradHOST
years.
BradHOST
Two off of the self-titled, three from Killers, three from Number of the Beast, one from Peace of Mind, four from Power Slave, one from Somewhere in Time, two from Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, zero from No Prayer for the Dying, one from Fear of the Dark, no songs from The X Factor through Senjutsu.
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SteveGUEST
I don't know why.
SteveGUEST
It seemed like the timing was off somewhere there.
SteveGUEST
Hell Be Thy Name, another... with the backgrounds was incredible that ai at the end where he's going up the thing it literally it had me faked out because i i'm like holy and and i and i'd seen it like even though i knew what was happening it had me faked out um like the first couple steps it looked like he was it was literally him going up the thing with the the i i would assume with the grim reaper chasing him iron maiden that like 4d eddie coming out that was like it was like he was literally just gonna like crawl over the back of the stage and into the crowd encore aces high probably the most incredible visuals of the show, in my opinion.
SteveGUEST
A lot of it, too, because of the color of it.
AshHOST
favorite
AnteHOST
song? Aces High.
AnteHOST
You
AshHOST
pilot.
RobHOST
Oh, man, really? So I remember thinking that Iron Maiden was going to open up back in the village.
RobHOST
Of course, they famously opened up with Aces High.
RobHOST
But I still do that today.
RobHOST
I was making a playlist of what I thought.
SamHOST
Oof.
Adam LanganHOST
And then the encore was Aces High, Fear of the Dark, and Wasted Years.
SamHOST
Oof.
Adam LanganHOST
I know.
DuffHOST
well.
DuffHOST
The set was Moonchild, Can I Play With Madness, The Prisoner, Two Minutes to Midnight, Afraid to Shoot Strangers, The Trooper, Number of the Beast, Phantom of the Opera, Run to the Hills, Wasted Years, Seventh Son, Clairvoyant, Fear of the Dark, Iron Maiden, Aces High, Evil That Men Do, and Running Free.
DuffHOST
Like, yeah, that would have been, that would have been
RexHOST
actually, that would have been a literal perfect set list.
SteveGUEST
this was absolutely fucking amazing
RayHOST
did you guys all know the aces high t-shirt one gym it was like him flying flying dog fire was all crazy I did watch my video back of this song, and you could tell Bruce was getting a little tired by the time they played.
RayHOST
He wasn't as perfect on this song as he was the rest of the night.
TimHOST
He's constantly screaming in this one, though.
Ryan BannonHOST
And then they came out with one of the best encore songs, visually, I think I've ever seen.
Ryan BannonHOST
They do the Churchill speech, and then they come back to Aces High, which was absolutely fucking mind-blowing with the screen behind them.
Ryan BannonHOST
Then they did Fear of the Dark, and then they closed with Wasted Years.
Ryan BannonHOST
Yeah, let me tell you, that screen, that screen does it all.
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