{"id":41403,"date":"2024-01-29T09:36:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T22:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=41403"},"modified":"2024-01-29T09:36:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T22:36:20","slug":"bruce-dickinson-drops-new-single-rain-on-the-graves-new-solo-album-the-mandrake-project-out-march-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2024\/01\/bruce-dickinson-drops-new-single-rain-on-the-graves-new-solo-album-the-mandrake-project-out-march-1\/","title":{"rendered":"BRUCE DICKINSON Drops New Single, \u2018Rain On The Graves\u2019 New Solo Album, The Mandrake Project, Out March 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Bruce Dickinson<\/strong>\u00a0has released his brand new single, ‘Rain On The Graves<\/strong><\/em>‘, accompanied by a thrilling video introducing Bruce’s live band, comprising guitarist Roy Z, drummer Dave Moreno, bass-player Tanya O’Callaghan and keyboard maestro Mistheria.<\/p>\n

‘Rain On The Graves’ is the second single to be taken from Bruce Dickinson’s forthcoming solo album\u00a0The Mandrake Project<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>which will be released on March 1st, via BMG.<\/p>\n

Riding on a towering guitar riff, with dramatic keyboards and a commanding vocal performance, it was inspired by a rainy visit to Romantic poet William Wordsworth’s grave in the Lake District. The song grew into a rumination on the nature of mortality and the deal with the Devil that artists have come to feel themselves making ever since Robert Johnson proved it worthwhile back in the 1930s.<\/p>\n

“I had the chorus lyric since I visited Grasmere for a wedding back in 2012,”\u00a0<\/em>explains Bruce,\u00a0“and it wasn’t difficult years later to create the rest of the song with so much rich imagery in my head!”<\/em> \u00a0It is a classic Dickinson\/Roy Z collaboration; a catchy but heavy piece \u2013 full of melody but stripping out the spoken vocals of the verses in almost poetic fashion \u2013 maybe a further ode to the great wordsmith who inspired the title, somehow juxtaposed with music fit to raise the ghost of Robert Johnson at his metaphorical crossroads.<\/p>\n

With a video shot entirely in a wintery Cornwall \u2013 again with Director Ryan Mackfall \u2013 we get to see Bruce the actor, a preacher no less, making his own deal with the Devil and dragging his ‘House Band from Hell’ into the bargain.<\/p>\n

Watch the video here!<\/p>\n