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Years active
  
2006–present

Associated acts
  
Record label
  
Maiden United

Labels
  
Private Management

Website
  
www.MaidenuniteD.com

Genre
  
Acoustic music

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Genres
  
Acoustic rock, influenced by heavy metal

Albums
  
Across the Seventh Sea, Mind the Acoustic Pieces, Remembrance

Members
  
Profiles

Maiden united the trooper


Maiden uniteD is an acoustic project. Musicians from different bands join together to play an all-acoustic tribute to English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. The songs are played with new arrangements.

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Maiden united the trooper


About

In 2006, Joey Bruers was asked to perform a tribute at a convention for the Dutch Iron Maiden fan club in Dynamo, Eindhoven. Together with several musicians he played a set of acoustic Iron Maiden songs. Steve Harris attended the convention and gave the band ‘two thumbs up’.

There were a few more shows like this and then he started to write new acoustic arrangements for a series of songs with Ruud Jolie (Within Temptation).

They began to search for musicians to record these songs and on 9 December 2010 their first album was released; Mind the Acoustic Pieces, an all-acoustic reinterpretation of Iron Maiden’s classic album Piece of Mind.

The album was supported by the "Pieces Over Europe Tour" (December 2010 - April 2011). Maiden uniteD played at the 2011 Wacken Open Air festival in Germany and they played at the 2011 Download festival in the UK.

Their second album 'Across The Seventh Sea' was released in September 2012 and followed by a European tour in November and December. This album contains rearranged songs from several Iron Maiden albums. Perttu Kivilaakso (Apocalyptica) plays cello on the tracks 'The Evil That Men Do' and 'Infinite Dreams'.

Maiden uniteD brought their third album Remembrance out in 2015. There are also special guests on this album such as ex Iron Maiden singers Paul Di'Anno and Blaze Bayley. Next to them are Wudstik, Marcela Bovio of Stream of Passion and ex Iron Maiden drummer Thunderstick also on the album. A European tour follows from September through December.

Albums

  • Mind the Acoustic Pieces (2010)
  • Mind the Acoustic Pieces (ltd. Vinyl edition) (2011)
  • Across the Seventh Sea (2012)
  • Across the Seventh Sea (ltd. Vinyl edition) (2012)
  • Remembrance (2015)
  • Singles

  • The Trooper/Sun and Steel (with Anneke van Giersbergen on vocals) (2011)
  • Strange World (2015)
  • Current members

    Damian Wilson (Threshold, Ayreon, Headspace): Vocals
    Ruud Jolie (Within Temptation, For all we Know): Guitar
    Joey Bruers (Up The Irons): : Bass
    Stef Broks (Textures): Drums
    Thijs Schrijnemakers (Orgel Vreten): Keyboards

    Guest Members on Tour

    Perttu Kivilaakso (Apocalyptica): Cello
    Anneke van Giersbergen (formerly The Gathering), (Devin Townsend), (Ayreon): Vocals
    Luke Appleton (Iced Earth): Bass
    Lee Morris (formerly Paradise Lost): Drums
    Huub van Loon (Dearworld): Keyboards
    Joe Lazarus (Voodoo Six): Drums
    Martijn Balsters (The Dust Connection): Guitar
    Wudstik (Ayreon), (For all we Know): Vocals
    Tom Sikkers (Daybroke): Guitar

    Former Members

    Marco Kuypers (Cloudmachine): : Piano
    Mike Coolen (Within Temptation): : Drums

    Concert tours

    {List of Maiden United concert tours}

    Songs

    Strange WorldRemembrance · 2015
    The Evil That Men DoAcross the Seventh Sea · 2012
    ProwlerAcross the Seventh Sea · 2012

    References

    Maiden uniteD Wikipedia


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