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Bruce Dickinson’s restless, barrier-pushing personality comes across in “The Mandrake Project”, an album that sees him take stylistic risks and explore different avenues of his songwriting. Singing as good as ever, and elevated by the tasty riff of Roy Z, metal’s favorite polymath brings us an album with an extensive musical vocabulary that will definitely please thousands of fans
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