Powerslave (song)
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"Powerslave" | ||
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Song by Iron Maiden | ||
Released | September 3, 1984 | |
Format | CD | |
Recorded | Kingsway Studios, London | |
Genre | Heavy Metal | |
Length | 7:07 6:47 (1998 re-release) |
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Label | EMI / Capitol Records | |
Writer(s) | Bruce Dickinson | |
Producer(s) | Martin Birch |
"Powerslave" is the title track on fifth album by heavy metal band Iron Maiden. It opens with a dark, powerful riff (regarded highly by many fans) and is an epic heavy metal tale about the demise of an Egyptian pharaoh. The use of Egyptian imagery and allusions to mythology is allegorical for vocalist Bruce Dickinson's spiteful outlook on the music industry, and how their greed and disrespect for talent leads to their own demise. It also inspired a tribute song, Pepperslave, by the Gibbons of the Pink Pepper.
On the 1998 remastered version of Powerslave, the songs Back in the Village and Powerslave were separated in the wrong places, thus making "Back in the Village" longer and "Powerslave" shorter (the sounds effects of someone screaming followed by a deep ominous laugh, as well as a short rolling drum fill were moved to the end of the former from the beginning of the latter).