Bruce Dickinson is gearing up for another solo album – the studio search is underway

Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson discussed the impending publication of “The Mandrake Project: Year One” book, which compiles the first four issues of the comic series that coincided with the release of his most recent solo album, 2024’s “The Mandrake Project,” during an Instagram Live session with Z2 Comics on March 27.

Well, it’s 12 episodes, so these are four of them. And then there’s another four, and then there’s another four, and then we’re gonna have one giant book at the end. But yes, the answer is yes. And there’s gonna be, of course, a sequel to ‘The Mandrake Project’, to the album, with The House Band Of Hell. And funnily enough, I was in a studio today, scoping out the studio where we are going to record the new album. So that’s exciting.

Dickinson toured extensively last year to promote his solo album, and he spoke about performing tracks off of it too.

It was brilliant, actually — so much so that I’m doing it again. We did a couple of warmup shows here [in Southern California], the [Whisky A Go Go] and then the one in Orange County. But now we are — well, we’re doing about 20-something shows across the whole of the USA and Canada. So, yeah, we’ll make a start at introducing people to me and The House Band Of Hell and everybody. We’re gonna do some stuff off ‘Mandrake’ which we didn’t do in Europe — ‘Shadow Of The Gods’, which I think is the most played track on the record, certainly at least on YouTube and stuff like that. And it’s a pretty cool song, so we’ll be doing that. And some other stuff.

Looks like the setlist is going to change slightly.

Shortly we’ve got a re-release, completely remixed, re-imagined, re-engineered with additional parts, orchestras, string sections, horn sections, ‘Balls To Picasso’… And that’s coming out, I think, sort of like midsummer. So that’ll be out at the same time as the tour as well.