Vocal Coach REACTS - IRON MAIDEN 'Aces High' 

Bruce's diction is absolutely amazing. His ability to enunciate through this very fast song so that every word can be understood is wonderful.

The average life expectancy of a spitfire pilot during the Battle of Britain was an astonishing four weeks. yeah... 6 months and you are a god among man

They open their recent tour with this song. With a full size inflatable Spitfire hanging and turning above them.

Flight of Icarus... one of Bruce's best screams of all time.

Nice, can't wait for Infinite Dreams!

Do Rime of the Ancient Mariner, mate! :)

Metal with a history lesson. Love it

Bruce has an operatic range. Considering he had throat cancer, he can still hold a note ,👍 Looking forward to seeing them this year. It's great to see how Maiden have gone from a niche NWOBHM band to being a British institution and being on postal stamps. Up the Irons! You're right. In school when teaching about WW2 and the Battle of Britain you could throw on Aces High. Or teaching about the Crimean War, you could throw on The Trooper. The kids would love it ,😄

Loving the month of Maiden, with the month of June coming up, how about a month of Judas Priest. Rob Halford is another great singer to sink your teeth into. Cheers from Australia!

My all time favorite by Iron Maiden. The high adrenalin urgency of this song on every level is so perfect - IMO if anything is missing its a third verse. The song is over so fast!

The pace and tempo of this song always put me into the mind of one of these pilots. One of my favorite maiden songs of all time.

Seen Maiden 4 times,worth every penny,they are fantastic live!

The intro speech by Winston Churchill might be the GOAT.

Bruce Dickinson - Tears of the dragon I think, this is his best work ever.

more iron maiden please

I think the average life expectancy for an RAF pilot in the Battle Of Britain was something like four weeks, very brave men. This is one of my favourite Iron Maiden songs, and they all look so young in this video :-)

Great reaction Ken! Now it's time for the Talisman, live from El Vivo, please?! One of the best Bruce performances

One of my favourite riffs ever

Banger,classic!

Would love to get tour take on their song Revelations. So criminally neglected by reactors.

I love this song. Bruce sings in a way that make you think that you're in the cockpit.

Full of energy

That first Aces High at 3:31 still gives me good bumps after 30 years.

Ken you should dive into the somewhere in time album ,you dont have to make a video about it just listen to the whole album on your free time... its a masterpiece

The Clansman i would definitely recommend that

Their harmonizing guitars always amaze me. Rhyme Of The Ancient Mariner Live in NJ, The Clansman and Fear Of The Dark Live in Rio.

Thems Maiden boys ..always got me scowls from grandpa..Fly to liiiive,..Aaacesss Hiiighh!! Glorious!

outro always giving me the chills

Ive loved Iron Maiden since I first heard them, when I was 13. You, unbelievably, make me appreciate them even more😀

This is Bruce Dickinson at the ABSOLUTE HEIGHT of his powers as a vocalist.

Hope you get to "flight of Icarus" before the month of maiden ends 👍

Possibly my favourite Maiden song.

you really have to react to rime of the ancient mariner studio

Iron Maiden - Music that breeds heroes

Hey ken...thankyou for the honest reaction...i'm very happy and impatiently waiting for the next maiden reactions

loved, just loved, one of my fave song

Love your videos 👍🏻

Aces High is my favourite Maiden tune and you are so respectful, I love it. Great react!

Powerslave, powerslave, powerslave, powerslave..... 🤘😎🤘

Bruce is still singing this song with flawless skill! Amazing!

Love these reactions, Don´t Stop doing metal, have been a subscriber since you didnt even have 20,000 subs

Perfect reaction. Yes I agree, Maiden should be a fun teaching tool for history. Well done!

I remember back in the early 80's when I was first getting into music. I had heard the band KISS back in the 70's and liked them though I only had 1 album (Rock and Roll Over) by them. I was mostly a fan of top 40 pop music. Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, The Eurythmics, Thomas Dolby, The Cars, The Police, etc. Stuff you would hear daily on the local radio station. I had been introduced to Def Leppard by 1982 or 1983.. whichever year the video for 'Rock of Ages' was released from their Pyromania album. By the end of 1985 into 1986 I was introduced to heavier music by Black Sabbath (with Dio on vocals), Motley Crue (Shout at the Devil album), Dio (The Last In Line album) and my tastes went from pop radio to rock/metal. Somewhere along the way I was also introduced to AC/DC with the Back In Black album, the Fly On The Wall album, and the Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap album. The reason for this wall of text is to explain that my musical exposure to metal was still in it's infancy.. so to speak.. when I encountered Iron Maiden.. and this song was the very first song from Maiden that I had ever heard. Bruce's vocals and the high-pace gallop of the music on the majority of the Powerslave album was pretty new to me. It combined the best elements of Sabbath, Dio, Crue, Def Leppard, and AC/DC. I was an instant fan and literally wore out as many Maiden cassette tapes as I wore out Dio tapes. This was all, of course, before I found Metallica with Master of Puppets, Megadeth with Peace Sells, Slayer with Reign in Blood, and Anthrax with Among the Living in 1986-1987. Somewhere in there after Iron Maiden I found Judas Priest with the Turbo Lover album and in 1988-1989 I found Mercyful Fate with the Melissa album and King Diamond with the Conspiracy album. It is always fun to travel back in time and relive the journey. I hope you enjoy yours.

Bruce is a history teacher !

Love your videos... g'day from Australia

Great reaction! Please do more than a month of Iron Maiden! They have so many good songs!

Best concert opener! In the last tour they had a WW2 replica plane on stage for this song, which they opened the concerts with! Amazing stuff!

Bruce's KGON shirt. Oregon radio baby. Back in the day when music was actually music.

"Yet another reason Bruce Almighty Dickinson is a vocal GOD" More specifically He is THE vocal GOD!!!!!!!!!!! UP THE IRONS!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘

Legends

One word wow

That last effort of octave by Bruce was beautiful....great end to a great song!

She might go down as the best metal singer ever. I say this as a former metal singer. I don't know if I'll ever be able to sing like that again. It's good to see someone carrying the torch.

If you're ever in Miami, I recommend visiting Rock N' Roll Ribs. It's the drummer's restaurant where he performs live with local and famous musicians as often as he can. There are tons of videos of the performances on RU-vid.

Rolling, turning, diving, doing it again! Damn I love Iron Maiden even more now. I actually watch Doug Helvering on his channel as he does the daily Doug since he's a classic music composer and then I start understanding the keys and other things of the music component.

Good reaction... please do some more maiden. Anything is great. Up the Irons

Bruce “Air Raid Siren” Dickinson!

One month is not enough.

I loved my Aces high concert tee! This song was early morning prep kitchen music back in my handsome days. Hah! I'm going through your library of reactions to Maiden and if you haven't checked out "Revelations" yet, I highly recommend it.

nice reacts! wasted years and fear of the dark, two lncredible songs of maiden for your next reacts. regards from 🇨🇭

I recommend ‘losfer words’ . Great vocals

As Richard Burton says in The Longest Day, "The problem with being one of the few is that we keep getting fewer". The problem was new pilots. At the height of the Battle of Britain, pilots with as little as eight weeks' training were thrown into the heat of battle. Spitfires and Hurricanes were fitted with 303 machine guns. The German planes had large calibre cannons. The 303 went through ammunition quickly so a Spitfire would have about 30 seconds worth of ammunition on board. Inexperienced pilots would fire all their ammunition in one go whereas experienced pilots would fire in one or two second bursts. Without any ammunition, the new pilots became sitting ducks

Come on, let go! I can see you holding back... if you want to head bang, then fully head bang 🤘

No more lies, Dance of death, Wasted Years - this need to happen, please (live , modern versions )

Caught Somewhere In Time by them 🤘🤘🤘🤟🏻🤟🏻🤘🤘🤟🏻🤘🤘

The best metal band Up the Irons 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

One of the best books on the subject is Marcel Julian's "Battle of Britain". What the RAF and the people of England faced and eventually overcame against Germany is nothing short of miraculous, and a huge strategic blunder by Hitler.

as a teen i was really stoked to see bruce wearing the tshirt of our local rock station. next tour he came back tio town wearing a competitors shirt and ranted about kgon going pop :D

Can confirm that the average life expectancy of a Battle of Britain pilot was 4 weeks. Some only had about 10hrs of flying time under their belts

Do Children of the Damned and 22 Acacia Avenue. Bruce is THE metal singer.

Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Flight 666 performance is excellent- need more live Bruce!

This is probably the most beloved fighter pilot Iron Maiden song. I prefer "Where Eagles Dare" and I was ecstatic when they played it live on their 2018 tour.

LESGOOOOOOOO

Glad you did the video and not a live version. I love Bruce but he has a really hard time pulling this one off live. Anyone with good links to live versions leave them here please.

' Nevah surendah!!

You should react to Where Eagles Dare. One of my favorites Iron Maiden songs.

Passchendaele !(for another wicked history song)Or any you desire!

Quick search suggests that life expectancy was about four weeks, which was an improvement over the First World War. One advantage the British pilots had is that if they were shot down and weren't hurt too badly, they could get right back up into the fight. It wasn't uncommon for a pilot to be shot down in the morning and be back up in another plane by mid-afternoon. As terrible as it was, I think I'd pick being a fighter pilot over flying in a bomber.

You should really really really listen to Helloween, latest tours after 2017 "Helloween" or "Keeper Of The Seven Keys" or "How Many Tears" They "invented" power metal and before imploding for various reasons in 1989, they were about to become as big as Iron Maiden

If we look at all of the allied aircrew who flew in the Battle of Britain, there were 2,927 (2,353 of which were Britons), and 510 were killed (407 Britons). The BoB is regarded as lasting between July 10th and October 31st of 1940, for just over 16 weeks. While the “average life expectancy” may be 4 weeks, as I’ve seen in some sources, it’s handy to remember that the people who were shot down just a few days in REALLY skew the averages. Which is to take nothing from the extraordinary bravery and skill of the pilots who fought it. It’s a damn good thing those Spitfires had such powerful engines and advanced wing structures, to help get those men’s enormous brass balls into the sky.

Iron Maiden are a "live band" but the majority you've reacted to have been studio versions, and tracks that have been reacted to over and over! 'Infinite Dreams' live at the Birmingham N.E.C 1988 is an amazing live performance, faultless vocals from Bruce, faultless guitar and drums, it deserves a reaction yet nobody (as far as i know) has reacted to it!

Holy smoke next plz!

Maiden classic! Anotherbhigh energy song for sure, the Winston Churchill intro always gets the blood pumping for us Brits 😁

Nice choice, one of my top Maiden songs (having been in the RAF I am bias) Some of the new pilots didn't make it more than one or two sorties and had only hours of flight time in a hurricane or spitfire.

Read Jack Higgins book Flight of eagles. About two brothers. One flys in the RAF, the other for the luftwaffe. Great book and this song kicks it!

this song is so impressive vocally, i can't imagine ever singing this

Up the Irons Kenny boy

When Bruce Bruce as he went by in his previous band Samson entered Iron Maiden I was already a fan having seen them with Paul Di'anno open for Judas Priest in 1981 at the Palladium in NYC on their Killers tour. I then saw the two bands co-headlining tour in 1982 at Madison Sq Garden and although I always loved Rob Halford Dickenson and Maiden blew Priest away. They've been my favorite band since although I haven't really been into their last few albums, they always bring it live every time. I saw them at MSG on their last appearance in the area and Bruce even with the cancer scare never sounded better. I love music, particularly metal and great vocalist. Now my knowledge of being a trained vocalist is limited I know one when I hear one.

Another work of art from the Irons...\../\../\../

Hello, im new! Cheers from México!

Rime of the Acient Mariner!!!

@Ken, I would love to see you look at some newer stuff. Check out The Red and the Black or Tears of a Clown (about Robin Williams) from Book of Souls (their most recent album). There are good live versions from Wacken Open Air in 2016 or 17.

Check out "Infinite Dreams" live in 1988

i love that intro so much, even as an american the patriotism gives me chills every time.

This is actually the studio version of this song. The live footage was made for this video and is probably not in front of an audience. Having said that, this song sounds almost identical live.

In just a few years, the difference in time since this song was made and the actual Battle of Britain will be the same as from us and the song.

When I was 14 Inwas asked to be the singer for some mates at school. I apparently was chosen because the guitarist had heard me singing Aces High and nail the final scream. I joined the band and 2 weeks later my voice broke and I ended up a bass baritone. Still can't hit that final note anymore.

Ahh you should've done live!

Please react to newer Live videos with Iron Maiden!

Maidens absolute numba one opening song!