PAUL DI'ANNO Says He May Start Work On New Studio Album Soon

March 21, 2009

Spiritech of PyroMusic.net recently conducted an interview with former IRON MAIDEN singer Paul Di'Anno. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

PyroMusic.net: I understand you have a new album in the works. What is the latest on that?

Paul Di'Anno: We started to record it last year in Germany, but have since had some business problems associated with the production company involved with this project, so I may start another new album quite soon now. At the moment I am just concentrating on touring, as this is taking up 100% of my time right now.

PyroMusic.net: You were at the forefront of the creation of heavy metal as we know it today. What was it like in England playing metal when punk was the big thing and what was it like to see the music grow?

Paul Di'Anno: It was, in fact, great for me as I was a fan of both metal and punk and very much into the punk attitude... somehow or other that seemed to shine through in the early MAIDEN days. We survived well throughout the punk period.

PyroMusic.net: You also released a biography entitled "The Beast" several years ago. Many such books claim to be brutally honest, but yours was certainly more so than just about any other rock biography in recent years. Did you have any reservations about being as open and honest as you were in that book?

Paul Di'Anno: Well, I thought if I am gonna write an autobiography, then I had better go for it with nothing held back. I didn't want it to be just another one of those poncy, pampering my ego autobiography rock books, where I would spend the whole time trying to fucking congratulate myself like so many others, so I just told it like it was. Also I was fucking sick and tired of every other fucker writing whatever they felt like writing about me, so this was a way of shutting them all up and telling them all to fuck off. After it was released, I got some mixed reactions, but generally it has worked for me as putting my life out there as it was.

Read the entire interview from PyroMusic.net.

Paul Di'Anno in-store signing at Carbono Amadora music store in Amadora, Portugal on February 13, 2009:

Paul Di'Anno performing live in Corroios, Portugal on February 14, 2009:

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