During a conversation with The Washington Tattoo podcast, drummer Nicko McBrain shared an update regarding his health and the surgery that he underwent:

“The first three months of a stroke is where you have the most recovery. After that, the next three months, it’s a little less and then the three months after that, and so on and so forth. I’m over, almost a year and a half now, but it will be next week. What’s the date? Yeah, 10 days’ time.

”So I’m still not back to where I wanna be. I’ve probably got… I can’t do, I can’t do… So if this is a tempo, I can’t do a 16-note roll going into 32nd-note rolls anymore.”

The drummer also said what he can play and not to since the surgery, and admitted that he can’t play any longer Iron Maiden’s iconic song, ”The Trooper”:

“What happens is I can play eighth notes, like that kind of groove. I can do doubles, but when I try and play that 16th at that speed, instead of going up and down, it wobbles from left to right, when I start playing fast, when I try to play fast. So I’ve had to adjust my fills now.

”I mean, I don’t play ”The Trooper” fill anymore because I can’t get it… It’s the speed of it. I can do everything slow, but I’ve had to make sure that as long as I can keep the groove of the song.”