European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Entertainment hearing three sides to extremes Story by Kira l Bullik the associated press extreme s latest album carries the darkest most soul searching music the quartet has made but Singer Cary Cherone does t want people thinking his group is a Downer. Quot this the record is a part of me and some things Are real close to me but i would hate people to think that i m just a depressing person because i m not Quot the Singer said. Quot even with the serious overtone of this record the band is still very silly a it s All fun a and the band is coming off its biggest bit yet More than words. The band s new album extreme i sides to every Story a amp a plays off the title and is divided into three sections titled yours mine and the truth. Each part is distinct. Yours is aggressive and angry railing against the Quot one world governmental zoo Quot of politics Polit calamity love in the age of aids cupid s dead and assassinations of people like Mohandas k. Gandhi peacemaker die. It is loaded with Nuno Bettencourt s raging guitars and a Funky Bedrock Laid Down by bassist Pat Badger and drummer Paul Geary. Mine is an introspective look at relationships whether Between men and women seven sunday tragic comic with family our father or with god cod in t dead done to leave me alone. It s a mostly acoustic Side lushly filled out with violins and cellos and it s poignant and Mournful. Three movements make up the truth a with segues performed by a 70-piece orchestra. This part provides no Resolution of the issues raised by the first two instead it s an even deeper search inside the psyche. The standout track is the shimmering Rise n Shine which establishes this Section s theme a Hope. Even though the last two movements am i Ever Gonna change and who cares Are anything but hopeful the character realizes that As Cherone said Quot the first step of changing is realizing what s  but extreme s silliness comes out in spots. Bettencourt drops a Riff from Jimi Hendrix s voodoo Chile into rest in peace and Cherone borrows from the Broadway musical the music Man in Polit calamity. Cherone said he loves the Way words sound and likes to play with them. In tragic comic which he says is about Quot the real men the men that can say that they become total bumbling idiots in front of a girl Quot he writes Flowers i sent were found dead on their arrival the words i said inserted foot in my  building an album around loosely connected songs in t a first for the band. On 1990 s extreme ii porn Graffitti an ageless character named Francis tries to sort out such issues As love greed and Power. That album produced the Boston band s biggest Success the non traditional love song More than words which hit no. 1 extreme says it s a fun band despite the depressing note of its latest album. On billboard s charts in 1991. It s a song Cherone has mixed feelings about. Quot it became a monster Quot he said Quot it took a life of its own and we could t kill it. I think it la pass the test of  in fact the frustration the band Felt at what they saw As the initial Lack of Success of porn Graffitti the album eventually sold about 4 million copies inspired the new record. Quot we were at the Point that porn Graffitti reached the same level that our first record did a we sold 250,000 records minus Success on mtg Quot Cherone said. Quot radio really was t playing us. We hit a Stone Wall. We were frustrated but we knew we had a great record in porn Graffitti. Quot we said of let s just go make another record so we started writing. ,. Then All of a sudden More than word shit and we found ourselves on tour for another year and a half. Quot we were definitely in third record Mode. It touring just gave us a Chance to cultivate it and rehearse it and that s what we ended up doing on the european tour a our sound checks turned into two hour rehearsals. The minute we finished our tour a two Days later a we jumped in the  Cherone warned that people expecting an album full of More than words probably will be disappointed Quot i know a lot of people Are going to have their knives sharpened for this record Quot he  Maiden faces human fears on new album by Kira l. Bullik the associated press fear is the be to the new Iron Madden album As one of its songs says. Quot i m interested in the was different humans react to dil Lerent situations under extreme pressure bassist founding member Steve Harris said m a Telephone interview about the British heavy Metal band s 10th album fear of the dark. Quot people do that very Dixie rentals. Not Al avs the was of d expect them to react so i find it  fear is the Kev comments on How aids has made Many people slum sexuality. Arid the title track describes the Zeebie Jee Bies people feel at one time or another a like going into a dark room feeling the Wall to find the Light Anil having sour eyes play tricks on Sou when the Light goes on. The alternately Lovely and ripping afraid to shoot strangers obliquely refers to the persian Gulf War a song that Harris said was More an attempt to try to feel Quot what someone would have been feeling knowing they re going to go into Battle questioning w Hether. It was right or wrong a the turmoil that goes through their  Harris said it was coincidence that Many of the songs had fear As their Central theme. Quot we did t talk about what we were going to write about which is the weird  he said. Quot when we came to pull All the songs together it Wasny to until we actually pieced All the songs together and played them m order that we realized that in the Ivris tear was mentioned quite a lot Iron Maiden was a Leader m the resurgence that stripes Magazine run Ember 26. Iron Maiden says it s coincidental that Many of the songs on its new album have fear As its Central theme. Occurred in heavy Metal in the Early 1980s. Called the new wave of British heavy Metal the movement included def Leppard and injected new life and attitude into the genre. The hand Sopo Nemous Dehut album came out in h80, hut it was in 1982 the group released what is considered its classic. The number or the  tale track about the Antichrist earned them a satanic Label that they have exorcised somewhat by getting away from such themes. Older songs like Alexander the creat run to the Hills about the massacre of american Indian flight of icarus the mythological tale of Daedalus son who flew too near the Sun and the 14-minute epic the rime of the ancient Mariner based on the Samuel Coleridge poem established Maiden As the thinking Man s Metal band. Many of those mythological or historical topics came from Singer Bruce Dickinson who has written two books the missionary position and the adventures of lord Allty boat race. Quot it became easy to fall Back on those themes and ideas protected As we Are on tour from so much of real life. There s a big reality out there. That s absolutely applicable to Iron Maiden Quot Dickinson said. So fear of the dark takes an altogether More realistic topical look at the world than Maiden s past albums. Musically the band relies on the two pronged guitar attack of founding guitarist Dave Murray and Janick ors who replaced longtime guitarist Adrian Smith before the band s 1990 Gold album no prayer for the dying. Harris said that writing with Gers for the first time inspired him to try new things. Quot the two songs that came out of it the apparition and weekend Warrior Are quite different Quot he said. It basically triggered me off into a direction i probably would t have gone if i d been writing on me own. He said the apparition w hich asks Quot in a roomful of strangers do you stand with your Back to the Wall do of sometimes Teol like you re on the outside in it it describes Hii. Personality pretty accurate