A serpent slithers fervently

on a rock,

attempting to escape the clutches of a rapacious eagle,

in vain,

whose loaned nest catches glimpses of merchant

and maiden

talking of times past and present and a time future.

Faina:  *Snicker*

Maiden:  ?

Faina:  *Snort* Look at the shadow…

Maiden:  … OMG! /lulz

Maiden:  You’ve got to get a screenshot of that…

Faina:  One step ahead of you! ^^

NEWS

Boeing Dreamliner ready for maiden flight
By Patrick Oppmann, CNN

Boeing CEO Jim Albaugh on the 787: ” It’s going to change the way people travel.” It’s set to take its first test flight Tuesday.

Everett, Washington (CNN) — Fighting its way through more than two years of delays, Boeing’s latest aircraft, the 787 Dreamliner, is scheduled to take its maiden flight Tuesday.

“We think it’s a game changer because it provides so much value to the customer,” Jim Albaugh, Boeing executive vice president and CEO, said in a CNN interview. “We think this is going to be a very efficient airplane. It’s going to change the way people travel.”

Despite the delays, Boeing’s first new commercial airliner in over a decade will still be relevant, Albaugh said Monday.

“It’s more environmentally friendly, it’s more efficient, uses less fuel, it’s going to cost the operator less to fly, it’s going to allow the passengers to pay less and feel better when they land.”

Boeing’s claims of the Dreamliner’s much-touted efficiency are tied to its design. It’s the first major airliner to be made of mostly composite materials. Boeing has staked its reputation on claims that the aircraft’s relatively lighter, faster body will save airlines up to 20 percent in fuel costs.

The company also says the new material will hold up better to the wear and tear of flight than traditional aluminum. Boeing says it has orders for more than 850 of the planes, which officially sell for around $150 million each.

Depending on the configuration, the Dreamliner can seat between 200 to 300 passengers and can travel more than 2,500 nautical miles. The target market is carriers traveling point-to-point international routes.

But despite the promise of a new more efficient airplane, production delays and technical problems have stolen some of the Dreamliner’s luster.

Many of the delays and snags in the supply line with the first Dreamliners have been blamed on the army of partners Boeing brought in to help with the construction.

“They did too much outsourcing, too soon, with too little oversight,” said Scott Hamilton of the aviation consulting firm Leeham Co. “The customers have been mightily (upset) over the creeping delays.”

Albaugh conceded that “in hindsight” the large amount of outsourcing done with the 787 was not the best strategy. “There a few things we might have kept inside, yes.”

Even though 787s won’t start flying passenger routes until at least 2011, Boeing executives said they hope a successful first flight will at least begin to quell doubts over the future of airplane production at the company.

The test flight “is going to validate the airplane to an extent,” Albaugh said. “We’ve got 10 months of flight tests in front of us. … There’s a lot of work to do.”

For Tuesday’s scheduled test flight, the Dreamliner will take off from the hanger where it was assembled in Everett, Washington, and undergo a battery of tests during a five-hour flight before landing some 40 miles away at Boeing Field just south of downtown Seattle.

“We are going to shake this airplane out to demonstrate that it can do everything we’ve advertised it to do,” Albaugh said.

© 2009 Cable News Network.

Alright, the wallpaper pack is back and I’m going to fulfill KatanAnime request for another cute girl wallpaper pack (Well, at least they are what I think to be cute girls). I also haven’t done “Beat of The Day” thing and there is this song which got stuck in my head. I seem can’t get it out from my head as I continue to repeat the song over and over again. Anyway, here’s the wallpaper pack and enjoy them.

Amainala was trembling. How many times had Cynric urged her to return home? How many times had she refused? The lingering feel of an orc’s hand against her naked collar bone, the imagined wetness where the vile being’s tongue had once been on her neck, and even the sick churning of her stomach from that gleam in his repulsive eyes were nothing to the ache of what he’d taken… Nothing to the anger.

The Elven maiden felt the tears sliding down her cheeks and leaving a stinging trail along the open wound the orc had put on her neck and collar bone. She couldn’t bring herself to move, couldn’t bring herself to push forward from the wall he’d had her pinned against. Not for the smell of his fresh corpse at her feet, not for the body that lie beside it in two pieces. ‘He saved me.. and.. and.. and it cost him his life.. Oh Cynric..’ Her stomach retched and she bit into her lip hard to keep from expelling the contents of it, leaning forward, hands braced on her knees. The tattered remains of her tunic did little more than keep her decent, but she had no care of that.

“Cynric! Why?! Why would you be so stupid?” the accusatory scream rent from her lips, loud, clear, a broadcast to anyone else that might remain in the town which had been their battlefield. And the Elven lady collapsed, her heart heavy with guilt. If she’d gone home, he wouldn’t have needed to save her. If he hadn’t needed to save her, he’d still be alive. Green eyes which had seen far more violence than any noble Elven lady should have fallen witness to in any single lifetime lighted on Cynric’s head where it lay severed from his body.

“You did it to save me. This is my fault.” Saying it hurt more than the wound over her collar bone. Admitting to herself that painful truth of their circumstances was more painful than admitting to herself that he was dead, but she couldn’t lose herself. Doing that would make his sacrifice for nothing. Amainala swallowed and stood, her skin burning where the nasty cut was open on her neck. She moved around the orc and started to kneel to pick up Cynric’s body when she heard something.

The sound of something grinding against the dirt of the ground, and then again. ‘Gods, there’s more!’ she thought as her had shot to the courtblade which had fallen at Cynric’s side. Delicate fingers curled around the hilt of Aza’esti as she stood and turned, finding herself facing three orcs running toward her, their feet grinding into the soil of this place where her brother had fallen. She could run, but doing so was forfeighting his body to the enemy… To the enemy who might just raise it as one more of his many walking dead minions. But there were three of them and she was not the best of warriors despite the training she’d forced her brother and the armsmaster to give her.

She took a step backward, away from his body. They would be upon her in moments, she had moments to decide.. ‘Do I stay to fight, or do I run to fight another day?’ she asked herself. Then more soberly, ‘Could I fight my brother’s body even knowing it was not his soul?’ Seeds of doubt were sewn in her mind as her moments slipped away.

Be strong. We can fight them.

The voice was more clear than anything she’d heard in her entire life. “Who?” She asked, but no answer came before the orcs had set upon her, no answer came before she found herself engaged in a battle more dangerous and precise than any she’d known in her life. They wore armor, she wore tattered cloth garments. They fought with blunt hammering weapons, she had to make precise attacks with the graceful, but slightly awkward courtblade that was bigger than her training one had been.

Still, as one attack followed the next, she found herself leading the battle. The sword moved in harmony with her, almost as though it followed her lead in a ballroom dance. It sang through the air with each graceful arc that led it to the weapons, the hands, the flesh of the orcs, it sounded in a resplendant note for every parry, and in the end Amainala stood amidst the corpses with a courtblade in hand and not an injury to be seen on her skin save the one from before her brother’s death. She knew by then whom she had heard speaking. “Thank you, Aza’esti, Light of the Elves.”

It is not enough to thank me, Amainala of Celene. You will carry on your brother’s quest, lead his men, your people. You will bring an end to this evil war.

Her voice was strong and pure, decided in a way that Amainala felt she could not dispute, and yet she knew she had not the strength of Cynric. “But.. I am not strong enough. I do not possess the skill and grace of my brother. Surely Leonsohl would be a better candidate.”

My wielder must be of the royal line of Celene. Your father is the queen’s brother. He will not fight this war. She has no sons or daughters. It falls to you, Amainala. I will not force your hand though I easily could control you… But know that if you hand me off this war is lost to your people… The Light of the Elves will be extinguished with your brother’s life.

The blade’s voice fell silent, and it was more complete than any silence Amainala had ever known. The soft and glowing warmth she’d felt from the hilt while fighting the orcs had become the cool, smooth feel of a leather grip, and the elegence of the blade was lessened though the form had not changed. The lady looked at it for a time, took in the blade so silvery, metallic, and cool. ‘I have no choice.’

She sighed, sheathing the weapon in the scabard retrieved from her brother’s hip. Before any such quests or promises would be made she would at least see to his burial rites and send him to the good graces of their gods.

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The first cruise aimed at older women interested in younger men, set sail on it’s maiden voyage this morning from San Diego. For three nights, sexually charged older women will try to get their hands on equally sexually charged younger men.

Apparently this International Cougar Cruise sold out INSTANTLY and the company sponsoring the event had to hire more staff, just to field the phone calls!

In a press release for the cruise, the organizers promise three full days of meet-ups with singles, dancing and non-stop partying. The pitch for the cruise says that a cougar “knows exactly what she wants … (and) what she doesn’t want is children, cohabitation or commitment.”

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Pictish Maiden Stone on Bennachie: its Christian side faces west

Within an oral culture handed down from ancestral times, it didn’t do to harm the stones. They were, after all, one of few remnants of the country (‘pagan’ from Latin paganus, countryman) tradition which predated Christianity, of which the ancestors spoke.

Parishes of Northeast Scotland in the farflung reaches of Aberdeenshire, Banffshire and Moray followed the instruction of the Reformed Church to the letter – while at the same time managing to guard handed-down veneration of ancestral places. This apparent anomaly has resulted in the survival of around 600 Neolithic recumbent stone circles in the northeast triangle, and though separated by 3500 years, roughly 100 Pictish symbol stones.

In academia Pictish stones are divided into Class I, inscribed; Class II, relief-carved cross-slabs; Class III relief with horsemen, kings, hierarchical designs; and Class IV, cross-stones with no other ornamentation. The earliest Class I and Class II stones are invariably found in association with pre-Christian sacred sites.

Throughout the early years of Christianity in this far-northern corner of the former Pictish kingdom, sacred sites were in no immediate danger. Pope Gregory I in AD596 sent (through Augustine) the instruction:

“By no means destroy the temples
of the idols belonging to the British, but only the idols which are found in them; inasmuch as they are well-constructed, it is necessary that they should be converted from the dowership of demons to the true God.”

A century after Augustine, however, more extreme measures were called for: in Theodore’s Penitential, AD690,

“idolatry, worship of demons, cult of the dead, worship of nature, Pagan calendar customs and festivals, witchcraft and sorcery, augury and divination and astrology”

were banned. Yet the old ways persisted.

Megalithic structures such as the Aberdeenshire recumbent circles survived. In the words of one 18th-century Northeast clergyman:

“superstition spares them though stones are so scarce”

Pictish symbols on Carved 'Class I' stones date from AD5thC

Ultimately their portability became their downfall. While superstition had spared them until the onslaught of a Victorian gentlemanly pursuit – antiquarianism – from that point on they were coveted, uprooted, “taken in” and “protected” all over the place. The Church, of course, had first priority because by “taking them in” (installing in graveyards, building into the fabric of hallowed structures, or reusing as family tombs) they were simultaneously being de-paganized and infinitely gently being nudged under the Christian umbrella.

Class I stones
Beautiful examples of these Pictish pre-Christian sacred markers – carved with animal and geometric symbols in a style standardized throughout the Kingdom (image, top) – stand within kirk precincts today at Banffshire churches of Mortlach, Marnoch and Ruthven, in Moray at Advie, Birnie, Inverallan, Inveravon, and Knockando, and in Aberdeenshire at Clatt, Rhynie, Tyrie, Fetterangus, Dyce, Deer, Fyvie, Kinellar, Kintore, Bourtie and Inverurie. They are usually rough-hewn, from boulders or glacial outcrops.

Class II stones,

Migvie Pictish cross stone with curling terminals in kirkyard at Migvie, Tarland, Aberdeenshire

Local lairds also had their fair share of the spoils. In the rush to comply with post-Reformation instruction to build new churches, often on pagan sites, stones were broken up for building, reused in threshing floors or as millstones, or taken to form a decorative feature at the laird’s house.

National Trust for Scotland’s Leith Hall and Brodie Castle are custodians of three, open to the public. Others, at Newton House, Arndilly, Keith Hall, Castle Forbes, Park House, Logie House, Mounie Castle, Craigmyle House, Tillypronie Lodge, Knockespock House, Blackhills House, Whitestones House and Whitehills are in private ownership and are not accessible to visit, except by appointment.

Nether Corskie, Dunecht Pictish symbols carved on stone circle stone

Ardlair, Kennethmont; Nether Corskie, Dunecht; the Insch Picardy Stone at Whitemyres Farm; Brandsbutt in a housing estate in Inverurie (re-constituted after 19thC blasting) and the Rhynie Craw Stane.

Moray Class I stones thought to be in situ stand at Congash (2) and Upper Manbeen.

The rest, totalling an unknown figure (32 recorded), abound in museums round the Northeast, are in Edinburgh or are considered “lost”.

Upwards of 30 carved sacred water-bull stones were, in oral tradition, said to form a ’spirit’-guarded wall or protective precinct round the Pictish port-stronghold of Burghead (Latin. Tarvedunum, dun, fort of the bulls) which juts out from the mainland into the Moray Firth between Forres and Elgin.

All but six of these sacred bulls were destroyed or thrown into the harbour in early 19th-century reconstruction of the town.

Ironically Burghead is one of the most ardent communities in keeping Pictish tradition, celebrating the sun’s return after winter solstice by “Burning the Clavie” – a man-size torch carried sun-wise round the town on the shoulders of the clavie king and his crew on January 11th each year.

Sueno’s Stone, Forres (Class III with cross but no Pictish symbols – instead panels depicting a saga of the Scots’ victory over the Picts) was re-erected, possibly the wrong way around after being found buried deep in sandy Moray soil. It now stands in a glass-covered protective shield.

Clusters of Pictish symbol stones found embedded in mediaeval mounds at Kintore, Tyrie and Drumblade, buried face-down at river confluences (Donaldstonehaugh, River Isla) or close to Pictish villages (Aikey Brae and Rhynie Barflat) have disappeared.

A Class I stone carved with horseshoe on an earlier stone circle stone was rescued from oblivion in the 19th-century erection of a memorial to the Duke of Lennox and returned to Huntly Market Square, to share honour with the Marquis.

Dessicated & desecrated: Rhynie Man in vestibule of government offices Aberdeen

As late as 1978 and 1983 symbol stones from Barflat (Rhynie “Man”) and Insch (Wantonwells) were removed from their original location as archaeological prizes: Wantonwells went to Aberdeen’s Marischal Museum where it is climate-controlled, but Rhynie Man stands in the vestibule of Woodhill House, local government office headquarters and a prize possession as blatant as any claimed by19th century “gentleman-archaeologists”.

Into this climate of haphazard care, the Maiden Stone interjects herself. One of only four Class II stones in Aberdeenshire, she might have been carried off as a prize, but, perhaps because of her legendary character, she has survived. Earliest remnant of a pre-Christian myth is a wonderfully-confused tale that she was the maid of Drumdurno, turned to stone by the spirit of the mountain (Jock of Bennachie, Sc.Gael. diadhachd pron.Jahck = a god) when she prayed to be rescued from pursuit by the ‘devil’ who had bargained with her that he could build a causeway up Bennachie (prehistoric Maiden causeway) before she could finish baking her firlot of bannocks (scones).

Another story, more likely to be based on fact, is that she was the daughter of the laird of Balquhain who was killed by accident after eloping with the son of a rival laird.

Third, that she was one of several maiden conquests of a Leslie laird who dragged his prey to the “fort” (Iron Age enclosure on Mither Tap) of Bennachie where he had his way with them! Fate saw to it that he died at the battle of Harlaw, 1411.

All four surfaces, broad East and West faces and narrow sides, are decorated. The pagan side, facing east, depicts four panels each featuring symbols used in earlier Class I stones, but with typically late carving in relief. Gouged out of coarse-grained pink Bennachie granite, this was no mean feat, but the technique allows animal and geometric forms to stand out clearly in low raking sunlight, even after 1100 years. The west face is dominated by an interlaced wheel cross, underpinned by a circular spiral-filled design with key pattern and knotwork, while overhead are mounted two ketos or fish, gently cradling a clerical figure. This “Christian” face is badly weathered.

The Maiden stone is virtually unique: it has a combination of sacred Pictish symbols covering one whole side, while also dominating part of the invading Christian side. If its dating is correct to post-AD843, after the Scots finally obliterated the kingdom of the Picts in this Northeast corner, the inner sanctum of a vanquished race, it was perhaps politic to share religions.

Sueno’s Stone at Forres, closer to Burghead, the last Pictish stronghold to hold out against the enemy, is more warlike in proclaiming its Christian message of ‘Right is Might’, and it, too, shows a central figure supported by two curving (fish?)shapes on the Christian side, below the cross.

On all other known Class II cross-slabs in Northeast Scotland, In fact, where sacred symbols of the two faiths share space (Monymusk, Fordoun, Migvie, Mortlach, Dyce) the cross occurs on the same face as Pictish animal and geometric symbols.

Invading Scots perhaps had the presence of mind never to carve in the Northeast free-standing crosses such as those other blatant examples of their dominion: the High Crosses of Iona and western Scotland.

The closest to a western motif found in the East is the Loch Kinord cross-slab at Cromar, but even its curly-terminal cross is trapped within the oval of the stone, in the northern Pictish tradition. Farther south within Angus/Forfar and Perthshire/Fife a clear dominance by warlike Scots results in a multitude of “Class III” stones, sometimes so-called because they feature crosses and horsemen, but few Pictish symbols. It is an historic fact that central Scotland succumbed to Scots rule long before the Men of Moray who held out culturally until Macbeth (died 1057).

So it may be that the Scots who influenced the carving of the late Pictish Maiden Stone had to bow to the strength of a prevailing worship of nature spirits in order to get their message across.

Salmon and Pictish 'cauldron' on Class I stone at Kintore

‘A well . . . at which are the hazels of inspiration and wisdom, the hazels of the science of poetry and, in the
same hour their fruit and their blossom and their foliage break forth, and these fall on the well in the same shower, which raises on the water a royal surge of purple. Then the sacred salmon chew the fruit and the juice of the nuts shows on their red bellies. And seven streams of wisdom spring forth.’

Stokes translation 1887, Old Celtic Legend.

All Pictish Class I stones in Northeast Scotland whose original location is known were placed within a mile of water.

Would it not then be wise to enlist the support of this great spirit of the water when proclaiming a new faith to a Pictish audience?

The fish on top of the cross on the Maiden stone may not only be supporting the little cleric, new at his job, but whispering their knowledge in his ear. On the eastern (‘pagan’) side, it is probably significant that the four panels depict the highest order of Pictish symbolism, even if adapted in late relief form: at the top a panel shows animals of the forest, but one has the ability to shape-shift to part-human.

Shapeshifting Centaur? on Maiden stone's east face

Fire Altar and Lightning rod on Maiden Stone's east face

Relief-carved sacred Dolphin on Maiden Stone's east face

Maiden Stone Order of the Feminine: matrilineal symbols mirror and comb

Etymology plays a part in the jigsaw of piecing together the Maiden’s meaning. Gael. Maoid-hean means prayer, entreaty, supplication. If it was used as a place of prayer, as records show many Pictish stones were, it was a habit capitalised on by early clerics in their conversions. Stones around Aberdeenshire named for saints include Marnan’s chair, a megalith in St Marnoch’s churchyard, and Brandan Stanes recumbent circle, both Banffshire; three symbol stones ogham-inscribed to indicate “Eddernan” or St. Ethernan preached at each; and Clochmaloo or the stone of Moluag, patron saint of inland Aberdeenshire, a glacial erratic perched on a slope of Tap o’ Noth topped by a huge five-acre vitrified fort. Also Mâg (plain, pron. mai)-dun means a fort commanding an open plain.

The astronomers may have the last word: Scots-Gaelic Madiunn means morning; the morning sun rises to shine on on the pagan eastern face of the stone until precisely midday, when it casts no shadow on either face.

Meadhon means mid or centre, either denoting the centre of a powerful area, which the fertile Garioch plain most certainly was, its nickname ‘Girnal” (grainstore) of Aberdeenshire handed down for generations; or it could mean mid in a time sense. As noon approaches on any clear day, but spring and autumn give better angular light, the sun which has shone directly at the symbols all morning begins to pick out the gentle curves and cast the tiniest of shadows along the bodies of pagan beast and mystic wand. Shadows lengthen until at noon they completely fill the space of the recessed background from which the symbols spring in relief – almost as if filling a pool.

At noon, the sun casts no shadow either on pagan or Christian side – just a brief gnomon-like shade in the short grass. Then as the minutes tick by after noon, shadows appear to fill the spaces on the Christian side and form pools in the four sockets of the wheel cross gradually shortening over the bodies of the giant fish, until around 12:10 p.m. when shadows are once again imperceptible. As a noon sundial, the Maiden is unbeatable.

Local support for leaving the Maiden Stone untouched was strong, though if the decision had gone the other way, few would have stood up and caused a revolution. It is because the decision has been made in favour of her native setting, hovering over the Water of Crowmallie, that future generations may be able to share the Maiden’s knowledge which was originally shouted in a loud voice from the slopes of Bennachie. Only we, her children, have forgotten the meaning of the words. It is up to us now to remember the ways of the natural world, and to take into ourselves the messages left by a culture which may have much to teach us.

©1996-2009 Marian Youngblood

For many, Thanksgiving means the Three F’s: food, family, and football. To this, I add Fotography. And Fillies. And many Furlongs of graded stakes action.

Cigar Mile Day is generally the last hurrah of the season for New York racing fans. This time of year, the weather gets chilly, racing at Aqueduct moves to the inner dirt course, and the holidays approach.

I brought my friend Lisa to the track and she did a great job as my assistant. She also learned quite a bit about the light at the track and how to get the proper exposure for bright sun and the shade of the grandstand.

Before you know it, Derby Fever will be upon us. This Saturday gave racing fans a little more information about their favorite two-year-olds.

Launch N Relaunch broke his maiden with ease.

Buddy’s Saint (center) won the Remsen handily.

Although they did not take a trip to the winner’s circle, there were many other nice colts at the Big A that day, including Imaging:

Highveldt Storm:

Lentenor, full brother of Barbaro. Barbaro’s Kentucky Derby was one of my favorite races of the decade, but I never got to see the great colt in person so it was a treat to see his younger brother carrying on the legacy.

But the day was not all about the colts. Stardom Bound had an eventful return from her layoff. Peach Brew stumbled out of the gate at the start of the Gazelle- if you view the video (below), you can see that it happened in the blink of an eye, but the photo shows how much it can affect a horse’s game.

The marquee race of the day was the Hill ‘n’ Dale Cigar Mile Handicap. Kodiak Kowboy won the race and a real shot at this year’s Eclipse Award for Champion Sprinter.

Furlongs and Furlongs of Fun for this Fotographer. Hope you had a good weekend as well.

I’m recovering from another case of food poisoning (I vow never to do potlucks ever again!) so I’m going to keep this relatively short.  Wag of the finger at StarCity legion this morning for blaming other legions for its own shortcomings.  Other legions aren’t responsible for your inadequacies.  Tip of the hat to Hardcore who, after grinding it out for over an hour with Wanted, managed to claim Fort Krotan on the Upper Abyss!  That deity was a tough bastard but we got ‘em!

Tip of the hat to Maiden for joining us on her first legion siege!  Asmos on the offensive at Sulfur weren’t too happy with her Fear Shriek… but she loved it!  An’ amazingly her compy didn’t explode into flames!!

Man, Krotan’s deity was tough…  That AoE is friggin’ nasty!  Here’s a pic of our kisk room, properly titled so.  We had to switch registry, at least, three times tonight.  Madness!

The Secret Names Of Women

are as magnets or aphrodisiacs to me.
The flush and rush
of intimacy
new found first kiss
makes my skin
electric.
I need the gentle nipple erection ecstasy
new born beneath my thumb
to decipher the vast NOW
of desire and joy.

And then comes that moment
when She relaxes and enjoys Herself.
Wholly and Holy
Goddess and Woman
Maiden and Mistress
all women and herself only.
In that moment
I know her secret name.
And sometimes
so does she.

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Tre ældre sikkerhedsvagter på et Museum, er meget kede af det, da de finder ud af at alle udstillingerne på museumet skal sendes til Danmark. De har alle tre knyttet sig til hver deres værk, og for at kunne holde sig tæt på dette overvejer de at flytte til DK. Det ender dog med at de bliver enige om at stjæle de tre værker og udskifte dem med en kopi. Resten af filmen får en til at tænke på Olsen banden, med tre forbrydere, der ikke rigtigt er Kvalificerede til at være det, men alligevel kommer op med en nogenlunde god plan, derudover kommer den altid irreterende kone, som konstant brokker sig og sætter hele missionen overstyr.
Generelt vil jeg sige at det da er en meget sød lille film, ikke så dyb og til tider lidt plat, men kan du lide Olsen Banden så vil du sikkert synes om denne film, den får 2/5 stjerner

Iron Maiden, released on April 14, 1980, is the debut album by heavy metal band Iron Maiden. It was released by EMI in the UK, reaching number 4 in the UK album charts. The album was released a few months later in the U.S. originally on Harvest/Capitol Records and subsequently Sanctuary Records/Columbia Records and included the song “Sanctuary”, which had been released in the UK only as a single, added to the track listing. In 1998, just like all other pre-X Factor albums, the album was re-released, and “Sanctuary” was added in all territories.

Of all the songs in this album, “Phantom of the Opera,” “Running Free,” “Sanctuary” and “Iron Maiden” remain on the set lists of nearly all of the band’s concert tours, with the latter used to introduce a giant representation of the band’s mascot Eddie from the back of the stage.

Four songs from the album: “Prowler”, “Remember Tomorrow”, “Running Free” and “Iron Maiden” were covered for the 2008 tribute album Maiden Heaven: A Tribute to Iron Maiden released by Kerrang! magazine.

Every song on this album except ‘Strange World’ has since been recorded by the Dickinson-fronted line-up of the band, either on live albums, on studio B-Sides, or both.

Tracks

1. “Prowler”
2. “Sanctuary”
3. “Remember Tomorrow”
4. “Running Free”
5. “Phantom of the Opera”
6. “Transylvania”
7. “Strange World”
8. “Charlotte the Harlot”
9. “Iron Maiden”

Genre: Heavy metal

More @ Wikipedia

Este es un legendario disco de esta banda editado en 1982, en donde cambian de vocalista.

1- Invaders
2- Children of the Damned
3- The Prisoner
4- 22 Acacia Avenue
5- The Number of the Beast
6- Run to the Hills
7- Gangland
8- Total Eclipse
9- Hallowed Be Thy Name

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Belly dancer Art By "Black UniGryphon" Kandice Kathleen Zimbleman-Wang (Prints Available)

So many layers on this piece.