The Chemical Wedding Tracklist
Bruce Dickinson’s fifth solo album was inspired by the works of the English poet/painter William Blake. The album cover art was taken from his painting The Ghost of a Flea and the album constantly references his poems.
The album is unrepentantly, totally heavy. From start to finish. (…) This one’s totally about alchemy. This one is about alchemy and specifically the poetry of William Blake which is very much based on the philosophy of alchemy. (…) each song has a sort of frame in which it operates but the first song is about fear, the second song is about tragedy, the third song is about union, the fourth song, I forgot where am I at, I need the album in front of me. But basically it’s things like that. You could pick a theme or a topic for each song so that’s what the song is about and then you put it in a frame. How do we express that word in which story.
