The Chemical Wedding

The Chemical Wedding
Studio album by Bruce Dickinson
Released	14 July 1998
Recorded	1998
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	57:32
Label	Sanctuary
Producer	Roy Z
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Bruce Dickinson chronology
Accident of Birth (1997) The Chemical Wedding (1998) Scream for Me Brazil (1999)

The Chemical Wedding is a heavy metal album released in 1998 (see 1998 in music) by Bruce Dickinson in collaboration with guitarist and producer Roy Z. The album draws some inspiration from the works of William Blake - of whom some paintings are featured in its artwork, as well as spoken word excerpts from Blake's Prophetic Works - although the name of the album and its title track derives from the Rosicrucian manifest the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz. As with the previous album, it featured Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith, former (and once again current) bandmate of Dickinson.

Track listing

1. "King In Crimson" (Dickinson/Roy Z)
2. "Chemical Wedding" (Dickinson/Roy Z)
3. "The Tower" (Dickinson/Roy Z)
4. "Killing Floor" (Dickinson/Smith)
5. "Book of Thel" (Dickinson/Roy Z/Casillas)
6. "Gates of Urizen" (Dickinson/Roy Z)
7. "Jerusalem" (Dickinson/Roy Z)
8. "Trumpets of Jericho" (Dickinson/Roy Z)
9. "Machine Men" (Dickinson/Smith)
10. "The Alchemist" (Dickinson/Roy Z)

Bonus Tracks (from the 2005 Expanded Edition)

• "Return of the King" (Dickinson/Smith)
• "Real World" (Dickinson/Roy Z)
• "Confeos" (Dickinson/Roy Z)

Return of the King was originally featured on the album's Japanese release. Real World and Confeos were the "b-side tracks" for the Japanese "Killing Floor" single. Real World was also featured on the album's first release in Brazil as Bonus track.

Personnel

• Bruce Dickinson - vocals
• Adrian Smith - guitar
• Roy Z - guitar
• Eddie Casillas - bass
• David Ingraham - drums

Special guest

• Greg Schultz - keyboards on Killing Floor
• Arthur Brown (AKA: The Dyslexic Voice of Dog) - voice on Book of Thel, Jerusalem, Confeos
• Frazeeke MC, The Guru, Willy 666 e Craig Liechtenstein - additional voices

Film

London-based Focus Films has started production on supernatural horror film Chemical Wedding.[1] Julian Doyle, who edited Terry Gilliam's Brazil and Time Bandits, will direct. The story is based on an original screenplay by Bruce Dickinson, frontman of Iron Maiden. Dickinson will provide the soundtrack to the film. Warner Music has already taken on all UK and Ireland rights and plans a theatrical release in 2008. Edward Noeltner's Cinema Management Group is handling world sales. Simon Callow will star as a modern Cambridge professor who becomes a re-incarnation of Aleister Crowley, the infamous occult scholar. Focus Films' David Pupkewitz and Malcolm Kohll are producing with Ben Tilmlett and Justin Peyton of Bill and Ben Productions and Duellist Film Production in association with MotionFX and E-Motion. Executive producers are Andy Taylor, Paul Astrom-Andrews and Peter Dale.