Bruce Dickinson will soon be back in studio for his next solo album

In January, Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer for Iron Maiden, will begin recording his second solo album, as reported by loudersound. Chris Jericho, the frontman of Fozzy and a professional wrestler, stated on the Talk Is Jericho podcast that he and his solo band will record the follow-up to his 2024 release, “The Mandrake Project”, live in the studio.

We’re doing it old-school, live, in January. [We’ll be] going into the studio and recording everything on the floor. We’re doing it, everybody on the floor, with the intention of keeping it all. Not with, ‘Oh, we’re gonna do it, everybody on the floor, and then we’re gonna keep the drums and re-record everything.’ No! The idea is, we’re gonna keep it all. Only if it really stinks will we redo it.

The singer goes on to say that just before the lineup began practicing for their now-concluded North American headline tour, they demoed the songs for his upcoming album in April then redid them in August. Dickinson said he thinks that “85, 90 percent” of the album will be recorded during the three weeks the band has scheduled in the studio next year.

Everybody’s pretty switched on. You didn’t need to tell anybody twice. Really, really impressive; musical chops, off the charts.

Dickinson‘s band concluded their North American tour on Sunday, October 5, at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, after beginning the tour on August 22 at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California. The Iron Maiden song “Flash Of The Blade“, which was composed exclusively by Dickinson for the 1984 album “Powerslave” and has never been played live by Maiden, was notably performed by Dickinson‘s band on the tour. Dickinson will be back on the road with Maiden for the second part of the band’s 50th-anniversary “Run For Your Lives” tour in May, but as of the time of publishing, he has no confirmed solo dates. The tour will conclude on July 11 with a huge show at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire, England, after several festival appearances. Iron Maiden has stated that the “Run For Your Lives” tour will go to other countries in late 2026 after the European performances. After that, the band will stop performing live in 2027.