Die With Your Boots On

Died.

You know the old song, Die With Your Boots On? Great Iron Maiden track.

Yep.

She died with her wig on.

All right.

So Number of the Beast kicks off with Invaders, and I threw Die With Your Boots On up against it, both somewhat upbeat tracks.

So Steve, what you think?

Die With Your Boots On, for sure.

I like Invaders.

I think that song gets a lot of unnecessary shit.

It doesn't even fit the song.

I'm like, duh.

Yeah.

Including the run of The Trooper, Revelations, Flight of Icarus, and Die with Your Boots On, which nobody in the crowd will have heard at this point, which is mind-boggling.

Also have Still Life and To Tame a Land tucked in there for good measure.

There's raw energy to this show that feels like it still has a foot in the Di'Anno era, before they went stratospheric and the arenas and elaborate stage shows really kicked in.

Yeah.

So this, this'll be, this'll be the set list for that.

Where Eagles Dare, Sanctuary, Rothschild, The Trooper, Revelations, Flight of Icarus, Die with Your Boots On, 22 Acacia Avenue, Number of the Beast, To Tame a Land, guitar solo, drum solo, Hallowed Be Thy Name, Iron Maiden, Run to the Hills, Drifter.

Fucking hell.

I've played Chasing Supernovas, Dead.

Followed up with Slaughter, Mad About You, Iron Maiden, Die With Your Boots On.

Now I've got brand new music from Theory of a Dead Man.

I just saw them a couple nights ago with Seven Dust.

If you're gonna die.

If you're gonna die, die with your boots on, if you're gonna try, well stick around.

Gonna cry, just move along.

If you're gonna die, you're gonna die.

Gonna die, die with your boots on.

If you're gonna try, well stick around.

Gonna cry, just move along.

If you're gonna die.

You know, it's just very dry.

But here, you know, stuff like Die With Your Boots On, The Trooper, Power Slave...

Sorry, not Power Slave.

Die With Your Boots On...

They've got a bit of a kick up their arse, so they're not fast, but they're at the pace they should have been on the album.

Especially Revelations.

Nice.

Where Eagles Dare, The Trooper, Die With Your Boots On, Quest For Fire.

Great album.

Awesome album.

If you're going to die.

Die With Your Boots On.

That's right.

Number three.

The first song I heard by Sonata Arctica was their amazingly brilliant cover version of Scorpion's Still Loving You, taking a perfect power ballad and turning it into an amazing speed metal song.

They also did a terrific version of Iron Maiden's Die With Your Boots On on another tribute album.

These two songs were enough to convince me that I needed to listen to this band and see what they could do with their own music.

And so I did, getting both this album and its predecessor, Ecliptica, and playing the hell out of them.