Bruce Dickinson shares an update about his upcoming solo album

Bruce Dickinson, the singer of Iron Maiden, disclosed that he spent three weeks earlier this year recording sixteen tracks for his next solo album, as per Blabbermouth. The follow-up to “The Mandrake Project,” which was released by BMG in March 2024, will be Bruce‘s next album, which won’t be available until 2027. In January and February of this year, Dickinson recorded her eighth solo album at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in Northridge, California. Bruce talked about his health and a number of physical conditions in a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine. He also mentioned his next album. Dickinson recorded his next album with his touring band, which included guitarists Chris Declercq and Philip Röslund, bassist Tanya O’Callaghan, drummer Dave Moreno, and keyboardist Mistheria.

I got two metal hips, I got a busted Achilles I had stitched back together five years ago, various contusions and lumps and bumps. But I’m still running around like a lunatic, and the voice is doing great. I just finished a solo record: We did 16 tracks in 21 days, all 100 percent live. It’s like the anti-A.I. generation.

In February, guitarist Andreas Kisser of Sepultura disclosed that he plays percussion on Dickinson‘s latest album and posted pictures of him with Bruce at Studio 606. “The Mandrake Project” was mostly recorded at Los Angeles’s Doom Room by Bruce and his long-time co-writer and producer Roy “Z” Ramirez, who also played bass and guitar. Mistheria and Moreno, who also appeared on Bruce‘s 2005 solo studio album “Tyranny Of Souls,” completed the recording roster for “The Mandrake Project.”

In July 2025, Dickinson released “More Balls To Picasso,” a revised version of his iconic 1994 album “Balls To Picasso.” In 1982, Dickinson recorded his first song with Iron Maiden on the “Number Of The Beast” album. Blaze Bayley, the former main singer of the metal group Wolfsbane, took his position after he left the group in 1993 to focus on his solo career. Dickinson and former Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith released two traditional metal albums together before Dickinson and Smith returned to the band in 1999.