It took a while before Iron Maiden’s Death on the Road finally appeared, having been pulled at the last minute due to some kind of catastrophic pressing errors on the discs.
Iron Maiden fans who wanted this thing waited and waited, patiently enduring month after silent month of absolutely no word at all. At times, it seemed as if Death on the Road wasn’t going to materialize at all.
Well, when it finally did, there were three DVDs, the first two being the same 16 songs found on the CD release from fall of 2005 (one disc being stereo, the other being surround).
The other disc was filled with all kinds of extras: a 75-minute documentary featuring interviews with Iron Maiden, crew, and management about the previous studio album and tour; a 45 minute documentary about the tour itself; another documentary, 30 minutes long, about the fans; and the two music videos shot for Dance of Death as well as a bunch of promo photos and other things like that.
For basically the price of one normal DVD, this was a steal – and it worked without problems this time around.
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