{"id":18819,"date":"2025-01-18T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2025\/01\/18\/piece-of-mind-painkiller-and-divine-intervention\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T04:25:00","slug":"piece-of-mind-painkiller-and-divine-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2025\/01\/18\/piece-of-mind-painkiller-and-divine-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"Piece of Mind, Painkiller, and Divine Intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On December 7, 2025 Iron Maiden shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ironmaiden.com\/an-announcement-from-iron-maiden\/\">the news of Nicko McBrains\u2019s retirement from touring<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While perusing Iron Maiden\u2019s catalogue, I started listening to these records one after another for a reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Piece of Mind<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0<strong>Iron Maiden<\/strong>\u00a0(1983)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Painkiller<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0<strong>Judas Priest<\/strong>\u00a0(1990)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Divine Intervention<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0<strong>Slayer<\/strong>\u00a0(1994)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These three records have two things in common and they are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The records opened with drums<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Each record is the debut of a new drummer in the band<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 7, 2025 Iron Maiden shared the news of Nicko McBrains\u2019s retirement from touring. While perusing Iron Maiden\u2019s catalogue, I started listening to these records one after another for a reason. These three records have two things in common and they are:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[3694,1650,3320,3693,2028,942,2714],"class_list":["post-18819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-3694","tag-iron-maiden","tag-january","tag-judas-priest","tag-metal","tag-music","tag-slayer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/maidenpriestslayer-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-4Tx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}