Bayley on parts of “Fortune Favors the Bold.” The 10-minute closing title track is better than you might expect but it definitely doesn’t need to be that long. The band has a real ear for their muse’s body of work and when they nail the formula you get killers like “Abel & Cain.” When they miss the mark somewhat, you get Virtual XI-level stuff like “Angels of the Light.” Speaking of the Blaze era, Artur manages to sound a bit like Mr. There are few surprises to be found amid the copying and tracing, but “The Sign” does borrow a few pages from the Tony Martin era of Black Sabbath, with stretches of the song sounding vaguely like “The Headless Cross.” It’s an interesting accent to the Maiden on Maiden violence, though the song itself is overly long. “The Other Side of the Mirror” is one of the better tracks, with a bold, boastful punch and A Matter of Life and Death-esque larger-than-life feel that puts hooks in you. “Ghost from the Future” feels like a cut from Brave New World and it’s solid if not necessarily essential Maiden form, though the guitars are aces high. The vocals of Artur Almeida continue to be uncannily Bruce-like and the guitar work from Bob Katsionis ( Warrior Path, ex- Firewind, ex- Serious Black) and new axe John McRis dig deep into the Murray/Smith/Gers book of souls for inspiration and tricks. It’s a rousing dose of Pig Iron Maiden and completely enjoyable for what it is without crossing any new frontier. Opener “Out of Nowhere” has a very Dance of Death sound and I can even imagine it opening that album fairly well. While Storm the Walls borrowed from the classic Maiden sound broadly, the material on Olympus continually reminds me of Maiden’s post-Blaze output. While they lack even a thin veneer of originality, these cats know their craft and when the sunlight shines on their steel just right, you get some pretty amazing Irony Maiden. This is a deja-vu-inducing platter of (power)slavish Maiden worship with every possible effort made to approximate what Bruce, Steve, and company would have done in the studio, from vocal patterns and inflections to guitar harmonies and tempos. Just over a year later we get the follow-up, Olympus, and little has changed with Stray Gods’s predilections.
The album was like an obsessive love letter to those elder warriors of NWoBHM and it worked well despite being Maiden fanfic. Beginning with their 2022 debut Storm the Walls, they showed that they loved one band above all others and that band was… Iron Maiden. Greek metal warriors Stray Gods are located about 500 miles to the former side of that line. On June 5th, 2018, YouTuber Aerofiles uploaded "Deja Vu meme compilation" a supercut of videos using "Deja Vu." The post (shown below) received more than 6 million views in three years.The line between a homage act and a band heavily influenced by a more established outfit is a fine one.
The video (shown below, right) received more than 273,000 views in a year and a half. Two months later, on June 11th, 2016, the song was used in the video "I've just been in this meme before," which was uploaded by YouTuber MashAllPotatoes. On April 18th, 2016, YouTuber Naaquh uploaded "Eurobeat/Initial D WEBM Compilation #1." Within the compilation, several of the videos use "Deja Vu." As of January 2018, the video (shown below, left) has received more than 644,000 views. SUPER EUROBEAT presents INITIAL D SUPER EURO-BEST Later that year, on November 22nd, 2000, the song was included on the Initial D compilation "Super Eurobeat Presents Initial D Super Euro Best." Several months later, on January 20th, 2000, the song was included on the 13th episode of Initial D Second Stage. On November 10th, 1999, the song "Deja Vu" by Dave Rogers on the compilation album Super Eurobeat Presents Euromach 2 (song heard below).
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