But there is one band that is perhaps closer to his heart than all the others: Iron Maiden. He’s already penned a few works about these titans of NWOBHM (that’s New Wave of British Heavy Metal for you ...

“We did one horrible Iron Maiden cover with him [former Opeth drummer ... He points to two tracks on the band’s 2001 breakthrough album Blackwater Park: the title track and Bleak.

Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson released his first solo album in nearly two decades ... We have an edition with an exclusive, limited edition cover, with art by Bill Sienkiewicz.

But Harris would not be deterred and his band duly became the lynchpins of the era-defining New Wave of British Heavy Metal, with the release of their 1980 debut album and ’81’s ‘Killers ...