Iron Maiden did everything to prevent the leak of the “Senjutsu” album: “We were all sworn to absolute secrecy”

Heavy metal legends Iron Maiden have just released their long-awaited new album “Senjutsu”. There is always an attempt to protect albums of this magnitude from premature leakage online until the last minute, but these days that task seems almost impossible.

Now the band’s drummer Nicko McBrain says in a recent interview with radio station WGRD 97.9 that the band was sworn to complete secrecy about the album. The album was completed back in 2019, but the band members themselves only received a copy of it shortly before its release.

“Basically, what happened [was] Steve [Harris, bassist and founder] has had the only copy that he took on his computer of the album — the finished product. That was it. There were no copies sent to anyone. There was no advance media — of course, there was no advance listenings for any of the record companies around the world. So it was all kept under wraps. I got my digital download of it from Steve three and a half months ago. Only the band — each of the members of the band — had a copy of it. Bruce [Dickinson, singer] had a copy earlier in the year, obviously, when Steve went over to England prior to the COVID really getting bad, Bruce did have a copy of it on his computer. But we were all sworn to absolute secrecy with it. We couldn’t even tell our friends about it, like, ‘Oh, we’ve got a new album. It’s done. And this is the title of it,’ and whatnot. So we had to keep it a secret. And I think we did a pretty damn good job of that.”