From Ultimate Classic Rock.
Iron Maiden’s debut performance in Colombia has inspired a new film, The Night of the Beast.
The concert is regarded as a watershed cultural moment among the country’s fervent metal fanbase. On Feb. 28, 2008, thousands of fans packed Bogota’s Simon Bolivar Park to see the legendary band, with a portion of the performance later featured in the group’s Iron Maiden: Flight 666 documentary.
Variety describes the new movie as “an urban road trip” following two teenagers as they journey to attend the landmark event.
The Night of the Beast marks the feature film directorial debut of Mauricio Leiva-Cock, creator of the Netflix series Green Frontier. The Bogota-born filmmaker saw the project as a chance to shine a light on a seldom seen section of Colombian society. “It’s not the Colombian film that is usually seen through festivals. It doesn’t have the usual norms. It’s not a film about poverty, violence or death,” the director noted. “It’s a film about two teenagers going to a metal concert. Sometimes people don’t see these stories fitting into our narrative, when to me they are as much ours as anyone else’s.”
Several of the band’s songs will be featured in The Night of the Beast, including “Aces High” and “The Trooper.”
For the film, Leiva-Cock was determined to break traditional metalhead stereotypes. “We worked with many metalheads and it’s [a] huge group filled with everything, but especially immensely clever and self-educated people,” the director explained, adding that he was also annoyed by those who suggested the film needed to be more political. “To me it is far more political to talk about how culture, and specifically music, can become this tool against violence, or in this film specifically, the value of friendship — postures that are not intrinsically political, but which have to do with how we behave towards one another.”
The Night of the Beast is currently in in post-production, with release details yet to be announced.
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- Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast Over Hammersmith - UK - 3-LP vinyl set - £59.99, $75.59, €72.59 (New Item) (arrived 21-Feb-2025 17:00)on February 22, 2025 at 12:41 am
IRON MAIDEN The Number Of The Beast Over Hammersmith (40th Anniversary 2022 UK/EU limited edition triple album 3-LP pressed on 180-gram heavyweight black vinyl, featuring 8 remastered studio tracks and a new alternative tracklist with Total Eclipse, plus for the first time on vinyl Beast Over Hammersmith on two bonus LP records. Triple gatefold picture sleeve with dual cover artwork. This copy has a crease to the top left corner but remains sealed from new with its hype sticker! Highly Recommended)
- Iron Maiden - Metal For Muthas - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $18.90, €18.15 (Back In Stock) (arrived 18-Feb-2025 17:00)on February 22, 2025 at 12:41 am
VARIOUS Metal For Muthas (Classic 1980 UK 10-track NWOBHM LP compilation, featuring early versions of Sanctuary and Wrathchild by Iron Maiden which are only available on this album, also including Tomorrow Or Yesterday bySamson along with material by seven other artists from that era, picture sleeve with liner notes by Neal Kay. The sleeve has a little shelfwear, whilst the vinyl remains in Excellent condition withfewsigns of play EMC3318)
- Iron Maiden - From Here To Eternity + plinth - UK - shaped picture disc - £50.00, $63.00, €60.50 (New Item) (arrived 16-Feb-2025 09:32)on February 22, 2025 at 12:41 am
IRON MAIDEN From Here To Eternity (1992 UK limited edition shaped 7" Picture Disc single, also including I Can't See My Feeling, clear PVC sleeve complete with back picture insert with Monsters Of Rock 92 flash advert & self-assembly card display plinth EMPD240)
- Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast - UK - vinyl LP - £35.00, $44.10, €42.35 (New Item) (arrived 16-Feb-2025 09:33)on February 22, 2025 at 12:41 am
IRON MAIDEN The Number Of The Beast (1987 UK Fame issue 8-track LP, the third album by the legendary NWOBHM band originally released in 1982, including Children Of The Damned, The Number Of The Beast, Run To The Hills & Hallowed Be Thy Name, picture sleeve which still features the incorrectly printed colours of the original issue [the sky has a blue tint & should have been grey]. The sleeve shows just a little light shelfwear and the vinyl looks barely played FA3178)
- Iron Maiden - Be Quick Or Be Dead + Back Insert - UK - 12" picture disc - £25.00, $31.50, €30.25 (New Item) (arrived 16-Feb-2025 09:43)on February 22, 2025 at 12:41 am
IRON MAIDEN Be Quick Or Be Dead (1992 UK limited edition 3-track 12" Picture Disc single, also including Nodding Donkey Blues and Space Station No 5. The disc features a great image of Eddie holding what looks like Robert Maxwell by thehead, with group photo on the reverse, complete with the original newspaper style card picture back insert in clear PVC sleeve 12EMPD229)
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