Iron Maiden *update*

[Rhonda Ross]

IRON MAIDEN guitarist Dave Murray will be interviewed by KNAC.COM's DJ Junkman this Monday, May 26 at 7:30 p.m. PST.

You can listen to the program live via the Internet at www.knac.com.
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[shiva]

Just got back from my concert, and a bit shaked and baked. As good as the albums are, and I listen to them all the time, nothing like seeing Eddie and the boys live, been 20 years!

Complete sell out, they found another 300 seats, very restricted view, they blew out the door in 2 minutes. Played at the old area. They had to turn the volume down a bit, pieces of the roof were falling off.

Lauren Harris opened. Pretty bad band, but none of us really cared, she's a real babe, so we sat there and just stared at her for half a hour. She was smart enough to wear spandex so tight the front row people could count the hairs. What a babe. Don't think anyone even noticed a band was with her.

It got started late, and the rules here are no music after 11, so no second band. Maiden just ruled. My friend just saw Rush, and Halen, said this was way better. Got 2 Eddies, one was a nice surprise as it was said before that version was not coming.

Complete sell out, but alas, the world is changing, as emu kids were going to this. We had 4 next to us, they were so baked they didn't even move the entire concert. 100 bucks a pop, and they waste it like that... geez. Could of used them as a ashtray, and gotten no reaction.

Most of them were on the floor, trench warfare really. Bruce got quite pissed at them, some fights, which again is amazing considering. A lot of true fans couldn't get tickets at all, so I wish these rich daddy posers would stop going to this kind of stuff and let the true fans come. I on the other hand had a pretty good looking woman behind me, who knew all the words (best kind) and bent down a lot, so I got a breast hitting my ear quite a bit. Didn't mind that, shame I couldn't keep turning around fast enough though.

Did get my yearly quota of seeing young women flashing their breasts though.

My friend and I agree they could have hit 35k in fans easy if they played at BC Place. Awesome concert though, best i've seen, and since they hadn't played in Vancouver since the Seventh Son tour, The fans were just steaming hot, and either baked, drunk (yeah, they sold beer, but at 8 bucks a small glass, don't think so for this kid) or both. Didn't need to bring anything, sort of half baked just from the smoke. Maiden just fed off of it, no need to prompt or anything.

We almost got a second encore out of it, but it was so wild, the boys put in a extra effort, and Adrian Smith looked like he was gonna drop, the others looked real tired. They still played a couple songs not on the regular set list, but they had the lights off after the encore for at least 5 minutes, but turned them on.

We agreed on a few things. Iron Maiden still rules the roost no matter what. The new 3rd guitarist is a total poof (he looked so out of place) and Vancouver does grow some of the best looking women on the planet.

Well, I will be sleeping for a few extra hours tonight though. Great T-shirts this tour, kid will be happy, got him a real disgusting one.

[alitivity]

My Kid is taking me to see Maiden tonight at Blossom Music center in OH as a Fathers Day present !!!!!!!!!
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[shiva]

Well, there's a good reason to have children after all.

Very cool. Have a great time, the boys still can blow the roof off the joint, as was very apparent at my show when bits of the ceiling was coming down. Great Fathers day present, I m-a-y get a card myself, but he's 10 friday, so may have a excuse.

[alitivity]

The show was Amazing, and ranks 2nd only to the Sacred Heart tour. I'm still just blown away.
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British heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN kicked off the European leg of their 2008 "Somewhere Back In Time" world tour with a headlining appearance earlier tonight (Friday, June 27) at the Gods of Metal festival in Bologna, Italy.

The group's setlist was as follows:

01. Aces High
02. 2 Minutes To Midnight
03. Revelations
04. The Trooper
05. Wasted Years
06. The Number Of The Beast
07. Can I Play With Madness?
08. Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
09. Powerslave
10. Heaven Can Wait
11. Run To The Hills
12. Fear Of The Dark
13. Iron Maiden
14. Moonchild
15. The Clairvoyant
16. Hallowed Be Thy Name

According to Martin Carlsson of the Swedish newspaper Expressen who attended the concert, "because of the Italian authorities, MAIDEN weren't allowed to shoot off fireworks during 'The Number Of The Beast'."
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i went to the pheonix show man it was awesome!

[Rhonda Ross]

Rock legends IRON MAIDEN have confirmed that the final show ever of their massive Somewhere Back in Time World Tour 2008 - 2009 will be in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on April 2 at the BankAtlantic Center. This, the band's first concert in Florida in 13 years, will definitely be the last gig of one of the most ambitious rock tours ever undertaken, and promises to be a big party night for both the band and audience.

Says drummer and local Florida resident Nicko McBrain, "We'll be arriving right in the middle of spring break, so this really promises to be a huge party for everyone. And I'm sure there will be more than a few sore heads in Fort Lauderdale the following day! The whole tour has been an amazing experience and this final leg back on Ed Force One promises to be crazier than ever!"

"It was quite something to bring to reality the mad idea of creating a flying tour bus out of a Boeing 757," McBrain continued, "but it's enabled us to go further to reach many fans in countries we have never played before, and also revisit fans we haven't seen for some time. And it's a long time since we played in Florida! The 757 truly has been our 'magic carpet,' as Bruce [Dickinson, vocals] describes it. Luckily for me, the magic carpet is stopping not far from my front door, which is very handy and a nice way to finish this tour. Not far to stagger home!"

Rammed with a full complement of band, crew and twelve tons of stage set and equipment, the band's customized Boeing 757, christened Ed Force One by the fans and flown again by Astraeus Airlines captain and MAIDEN vocalist Bruce Dickinson, will be once again circumnavigating close to 50,000 miles around the planet for concerts in 22 cities in 14 countries round the globe, making it a staggering 39 countries in total visited on this 2008-2009 tour, playing to almost two million fans.

The Somewhere Back in Time Tour revisits the band's history by focusing almost entirely on the 80's--in both choice of songs played, and the stage set, which is based around the legendary Egyptian Production of the 1984-85 Powerslave tour and featured on the recent DVD "Live after Death". This is arguably the most elaborate and spectacular show the band has ever presented, and will include some key elements of their Somewhere In Time tour of 1986-1987, such as the Cyborg Eddie character.

Says band founder Steve Harris, "We will be loading onto the plane as much equipment as we can ram in, along with plenty of pyro! The set list will be a bit different than the shows we have done so far on this tour, as we will include a few more songs from the first four albums. This show is likely to be the last time we play many of these songs live, so we really will be giving it everything we have got! The tour was set to finish in Recife, Brazil, but we thought we should call in to Florida on the way home to play there for the first time in ages and to drop Nicko off at home! Using Ed Force One really does give us this degree of flexibility."

Having taking off in early February 2008, MAIDEN made their first appearances in New Zealand in 16 years via Belgrade, Dubai and Bangalore, followed by the long haul up to Mexico through a very extensive run through Latin America, finishing the tour now in Florida.

Comments Bruce Dickinson, "The unique way of touring last year with everyone and all our gear on the plane helped to make 2008 easily one of the most successful, exciting and fun years in the band¹s career. Taking Ed Force One around the planet and playing to our fans in so many different countries was an incredible experience for all of us. I personally found that flying and performing was one of the most challenging and satisfying things I¹ve ever done, despite the rigours and the many logistical difficulties we encountered."

"In fact it was so much fun," Dickinson continues, "we decided to do it again as a final leg of this tour, and we really wanted to get back to some of the places we haven't been to for a long time. We'll also be visiting many new places along the way. All in all, this will be a fantastic way to round off a tremendous 12 months for the band. After this, we take a bit of time off, get our energy back and then start work on a new studio album."

Fans around the world will be able to see what it was like flying on Ed Force One in the recently announced movie "Flight 666", which will play in selected cinemas around the world on Tuesday, April 21.

Fan club members will able to access an exclusive first pre-sale on Thursday, February 12 from 10:00 a.m. to midnight. They will also be able to be eligible to enter the "First To The Stage Barrier" privileged first-access draw.
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Ed Force One

[Rhonda Ross]

British heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN will guest on the nationally syndicated radio show "Rockline" with host Bob Coburn on Wednesday, April 15 at 8:30 p.m. PT / 11:30 p.m. ET. Fans are encouraged to speak with IRON MAIDEN by calling 1-800-344-ROCK (7625).

For more information, visit http://RocklineRadio.com

IRON MAIDEN has confirmed that the final show ever of the Somewhere Back in Time World Tour 2008 - 2009 will be in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on April 2 at the BankAtlantic Center. This, the band's first concert in Florida in 13 years, will definitely be the last gig of one of the most ambitious rock tours ever undertaken, and promises to be a big party night for both the band and audience.

Rammed with a full complement of band, crew and twelve tons of stage set and equipment, the band's customized Boeing 757, christened Ed Force One by the fans and flown again by Astraeus Airlines captain and MAIDEN vocalist Bruce Dickinson, will be once again circumnavigating close to 50,000 miles around the planet for concerts in 22 cities in 14 countries round the globe, making it a staggering 39 countries in total visited on this 2008-2009 tour, playing to almost two million fans.

The Somewhere Back in Time Tour revisits the band's history by focusing almost entirely on the '80s — in both choice of songs played, and the stage set, which is based around the legendary Egyptian Production of the 1984-85 Powerslave tour and featured on the recent DVD "Live after Death". This is arguably the most elaborate and spectacular show the band has ever presented, and will include some key elements of their Somewhere In Time tour of 1986-1987, such as the Cyborg Eddie character.

Fans around the world will be able to see what it was like flying on Ed Force One in the recently announced movie "Flight 666", which will play in selected cinemas around the world on Tuesday, April 21.
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[Holymagica]

IRON MAIDEN will start work on its next album this year. The group hopes to have a new album out and be back on tour in 2010.
Guitarist Adrian Smith told BANG showbiz: "At the end of the year we'll be writing again, rehearsing and recording at the beginning of next year. Then we'll be back out on the road again next year. Kevin Shirley [producer] will be working on it with us and we'll probably be doing it somewhere where we've done a lot for recording in the past."
The next IRON MAIDEN album will be the band's fifteenth studio record, and they face a challenge to follow up their last effort, 2006s "A Matter of Life and Death" which was received well critically and saw the band tour playing the whole album.
Speaking at the premiere of the band's documentary film "Iron Maiden: Flight666", Adrian added: "There's always a bit of pressure to follow up the last album, in a way it's good because it motivates you.
"We never get complacent; we always try our best for our own sake as much as anything else. As far as pressure for another album, we just do what we do - we've been doing it long enough now, we know what we're doing [laughs]"


Iron Maiden: Britain's biggest heavy metal export
Long a byword for uncool, Iron Maiden are now our biggest musical earners abroad after the Police and Coldplay. With a Brit in the bag and a new film opening, 2009 could be their best year yet.

Your average middle-aged Brit, with a bit of time to spare during a trip to Brazil, might think, “Ooh, I'll have a nice cocktail and a stroll along the beach.” Bruce Dickinson, the 50-year-old lead singer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden, thinks, “Ooh, I've already piloted that jet from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo this afternoon, and I'm not due on stage to sing my lungs out to 80,000 people just yet, so I'll nip across the road to the go-karting course where Ayrton Senna learnt his trade, do a quick race against a pro, then hurl myself around a stage for two hours, stay up late boozing, go to bed, get up, baffle the international press with talk of combustion engines and Monty Python for two hours, jump in a helicopter to the Grand Prix circuit where Lewis Hamilton won the world championship last year, drive a Formula One car around it at 150mph, fit in another go-karting race after that and then head to a sports centre to get kitted up and compete against a dozen Latin-American fencing champions.”

So this is exactly what he does - all in the space of 24 hours. I know this because I did it with him, and despite being half his age and not doing any of the actual singing, steering or spiky stick action myself, I still felt ready to die somewhere after that first stomach-churning bend at Interlagos. (Dickinson was just grinning and saying something about being “ready for a beer”.) So if I was in the anti-ageing industry I would be investing everything in trying to bottle Bruce Juice.

In fact all of Iron Maiden seem to live in Shangri-La. The group was born in the 1970s but is now finding bigger audiences than ever before for the driving guitars, thunderous drums and fantastical lyrics about Coleridge and Cathars and the number of the Beast. Their solo show in São Paulo is their largest yet - it attracts about half the crowd of an entire Glastonbury Festival.

“Five years ago,” says Steve Harris, guitarist and creative heart of the band, “we said we'd start easing back a bit. Just because we thought that by this age we'd be needing to. But we don't need to, or want to - and the demand is there, so we can't really. Our success is bigger than it was in the Eighties! So what can you do? You keep on going.”

Iron Maiden are a uniquely British band - around the world their show opens with Churchill's “We will fight them on the beaches” speech and ends with Monty Python's Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.

They are such a wildly successful British export it's a wonder that Peter Mandelson hasn't invited them aboard any yachts. But then, that's the irony about Britain's biggest band - people in Britain don't think of them as big. Media attention seems skewed towards old bands making comebacks when Iron Maiden have never actually stopped, though the line-up has varied a bit and Dickinson went solo for some years. Cool kids in Shoreditch wearing Iron Maiden T-shirts may well be doing so ironically but, in times of crisis, metal sells well.

When AC/DC's new album went to No 1 at the end of last year it was surely a sign of hard times. The band's other peaks were the economically grim years of 1980 and 1990. Just this week, PRS for Music, which collects royalties for songwriters, revealed that British stars' foreign earnings had hit record levels, with the Police earning the most, followed by Iron Maiden, then Coldplay and the Spice Girls and Elton John. Def Leppard, another hard rock band, were also in the Top Ten.

Iron Maiden have just won a Brit Award for Best Live Act, from an awards body that has tended to ignore them, and last year sold out the 55,000-capacity Twickenham Stadium, their first UK stadium show. Not that the band care particularly. Their rock-solid manager, Rod Smallwood (who has the cash to keep year-round staff at his holiday home in Barbados), declares: “The band don't give a s***. We've got our own little world and the Brit Awards don't really come into it. But that award was voted for by the public and Coldplay fans aren't very proactive, are they?” Apparently an army of Maiden fans around the world orchestrated a mass vote.

And what about those ironic T-shirt wearers? “It's weird,” says Steve Harris, “when David Beckham wore a bloody Maiden shirt - he's probably not even a fan, he just wore it as a fashion thing or something. Or maybe he is a fan ... I don't know.

“But we've never been cool. Emphatically, we never want to be cool or fashionable. We despise fashion. What is fashion? It's a transient thing, here today, gone tomorrow. We have seen bands come and go, all of whom have been touted heavily. We have got a style - it just doesn't happen to be very fashionable. Who cares?”

So what is the enduring appeal of heavy metal? It's noisy and relentless but, Iron Maiden insist, its message is positive. They sound almost Californian as they insist how inspiring their message is. The band formed in 1975, in Leytonstone, East London, and their hits over the decades include Run to the Hills, Can I Play With Madness, Aces High, Bring Your Daughter ... to the Slaughter, The Evil That Men Do and The Number of the Beast.

Research exists claiming to show that heavy metal and classical music fans have the highest IQs among all listeners. One fan, Felipe Martynetz, a 24-year-old from Curitiba in Brazil, has a letter to give to the band, in which he has written that “the philosophical background in Maiden's song lyrics made me discover philosophy as something that had always been near to me, but whose presence I'd never suspected. Then I read Huxley's Brave New World, Golding's Lord of the Flies, and Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”

What dawns on you, while watching Iron Maiden's live show, with its bombast and pyramids and 20ft robots, is how curiously lacking in aggression it is. Passion, yes, but it's not a fight. (A roadie tells me that he's been working for Maiden for 30 years and has never seen a punch-up.) Dickinson agrees. “Oh no, it's not fighting. It's not a big f***-you at all. That's a pointless waste of energy. There is the potential on the one hand for rage and chaos, or passion and exultation on the other - and that's my choice: to try to levitate all these people who have come along. And I don't do it - they do it themselves - but you have to sort of provide the framework.”

He says that he began performing in small clubs, and learnt from one of his childhood heroes, Ian Gillan, the Deep Purple singer, how to bring your audience in. “I said to him one night, ‘What's your secret?' And he said, ‘Always look 'em in the eyes.' I thought, OK, I'll try it - but how far can I actually see? And I discovered it was entirely possible to look right the way to the back of a show and see somebody. I thought, well, if you grab that person, then everybody around them suddenly goes ‘Wow'and you energise that whole area suddenly. I started working that - in the end you can do it in stadiums.”

A new film, Flight 666, shows these Maiden devotees in all their international hues - but all wearing variations on that same black T-shirt. The film, which has also just won an award - Best Music Documentary at the South By Southwest music festival in Texas, was made by two Canadian film-makers, Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn, lifelong metal fans who were allowed access to the band as they toured the world on their private jet. Yes, Iron Maiden have their own plane, and Dickinson, who works as a commercial pilot in his time off, is the captain. He grabbed headlines last year for piloting one of two aircraft that rescued stranded holidaymakers after their package tour company went bust.

Ed Force One, a customised Boeing 757 (decorated with their zombie mascot, Eddie, clinging to the tail fin), transports all the band, their families, crew and equipment directly to where they want to play. It means fans in “Second World” countries never visited by Western rock bands now can be. Marvel at the Costa Rican in the film who never dreamt that he would see stars up close “because I live in the ass of the world!” The band tell me that Oasis have made inquiries about using it. But when you say the words “private jet”? “Oh yeah, it's a red rag to a bull,” agrees Dickinson, “but there is so much woolly thinking about everything to do with the environment. It's like energy-saving lightbulbs - all very well and good, but there are lots of health risks associated with them and in addition they're a bit of a nightmare to get rid of and they cost a huge amount to manufacture in the first place with all sorts of weird chemicals in them - so, yeah, it's sort of the answer, but it's not 100 per cent the answer.” And so Dickinson's theories about the environment continue.

He debunks “myths” about electric cars and biofuels; he argues that shipping is far more polluting than flying, that algae technology is the way forward (“and it scrubs CO2 out of the atmosphere”) but that we will also have to get used to nuclear power, like the French. He has invested in a cargo airship that will lift 1,000 tonnes across the Atlantic and likes the idea of the band eventually doing an eco-friendly tour in one.

Dickinson could talk like this for hours. In fact, he does - until the chat drifts on to how his mother was 16 and his dad 17 when he was born in the upstairs bedroom of his coalminer grandfather's council house in Nottingham. And how he was 35 when his mum told him that she had tried to abort him, with some kind of month-after pill. “And I was, like,” he chuckles with bafflement, “‘Am I supposed to have some kind of crisis about this? Because this is harder for you than it is for me'.” He shrugs.

He went to Oundle when his parents started doing well in building and property. He felt an outsider there and says that he didn't make friends easily, which is a surprise because he comes across as such an affable chap now. The band come from modest backgrounds. Dickinson calls heavy metal “the working man's opera”.

Dickinson may be manic in his passions but his demeanour is unflappable, with the steady voice of the BBC radio presenter that he also is. When captaining the aircraft his reassuring tones comes from the cockpit announcing “light drizzle” and apologising for “a few small lumps and bumps back there”. But later he tells me about flying in to São Paulo, sighing. “Oh God, it's a palaver. Sometimes they get a bit enthusiastic in Brazil and you have to say, ‘Hang on, this is quite a serious business we're engaged in up here!' But the call sign is always 666, so they know it's us. The guy yesterday goes, ‘Is that Ed Force One?' ‘Yes it is.' ‘Is he on board?' I said - guessing he meant me - ‘He is flying the aeroplane'. ‘Say something for me Broooce! Scream for me!'”

Are the band a threat to morals? Nicko McBrain, the drummer with the long peroxide locks, the chatty Essex charmer of the band, now lives in Florida, where he goes to church regularly. “We used to play Southern states like South Carolina and there would be protesters outside the gig with banners, saying our lyrics were satanic. But you've got to read the words. In fact my reverend back in Florida, I gave him The Best of the Beast book - it's got all the lyrics, pictures, tour dates and everything. And he read it and he came out and said, ‘There's some serious stuff going on in this.' People question my faith and I say, ‘Well, the greatest trick the Devil ever played was making people think he didn't exist'.”

Perhaps the greatest trick Iron Maiden ever pulled was convincing the English that they no longer exist - their lack of fame at home works out quite well. “Frankly, I like it that way,” Dickinson says. “I've lived in Chiswick for 20 years and I pay the council tax and the congestion charge and when I'm away I get texts from my sad old 50-year-old mate who runs the Feltham Recycling Centre saying they're missing me down the pub, ha ha. I go home, get my bike out, mooch around the shops and enjoy living in - how shall I put it? - a cool country. Because then we go out on tour and we can set fire to everything.”

[Holymagica]

RollingStone.com recently conducted an interview with IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson.

What's next for MAIDEN? "At the moment we're in daydreaming mode," says Dickinson. "We're trying to get ideas and things, but towards the end of the year we're going to get together to plan our new record. We haven't made any tour plans for next tour. That's at least a year and a bit away." The group will probably have a more balanced set list on the next tour. "My gut feeling is that we'll play selected songs from the new album and a mixture of stuff from several albums we haven't picked from yet — like 'Brave New World' and some of the other more recent albums."


Not one bad track on Brave New World....
I want to hear more of this cd live!

[Holymagica]

Kevin Shirley recently finished mixing the new IRON MAIDEN album, "The Final Frontier", at his studio for a late summer release. The CD was recorded at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas with Shirley at the helm.

Shirley previously worked on the last three MAIDEN albums — 2000's "Brave New World", 2003's "Dance of Death" and 2006's "A Matter of Life and Death".

Witing in the "Caveman's Diary" section of his Caveman Productions web site, Shirley states about the final stages of the recording process for the new IRON MAIDEN CD, "Bruce Dickinson [vocals] flew in for a few days and sang all his parts before flying off to the four corners of the globe and Steve Harris [bass] stayed behind to finish the record with me. He's pretty hands-on like that. Adrian Smith [guitar] dropped in from time to time to hear stuff, and like in any band, not everyone has the same end result in mind, but we get there.

"That's the kind of watered-down stuff I can tell you.

"I will tell you that IRON MAIDEN are the best band in the world to work for — it's a family and they are the most grounded guys I have ever met in this business. Nary a Ferrari in sight."

[Holymagica]

A countdown has been launched on IRON MAIDEN's official web site to a mystery announcement that will be made on Monday, June 7 at 7:00 p.m. EST / 4:00 p.m. PST.
http://www.ironmaiden.com/
IRON MAIDEN will kick off a North American tour with very special guests DREAM THEATER in Dallas, Texas, on June 9 and finish in Washington D.C. on July 20, making it MAIDEN's most extensive North American tour in many years.
Following these shows in USA and Canada, "The Final Frontier World Tour" will travel back to Europe for a few selected major festival and stadium shows with the band planning to continue to many other countries in 2011.



Maybe the dates of the UK Tour

[Holymagica]

The European release date for IRON MAIDEN's much-anticipated new studio album, "The Final Frontier", is now confirmed for Monday, August 16. The CD features artwork (see below) illustrated by Melvyn Grant and, to mark the occasion, the band has made special arrangements for one new album track, "El Dorado", to be made available worldwide as a FREE digital download MP3 with immediate effect via www.ironmaiden.com. The song can also be streamed in the YouTube clip below.

Iron Maiden - El Dorado
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lwrg2u_gCM

Bruce Dickinson explains, "'El Dorado' is a preview of the forthcoming studio album. As we will be including it in the set of our 'Final Frontier World Tour' (which opens in Dallas on June 9) we thought it would be great to thank all our fans and get them into 'The Final Frontier' mood by giving them this song up front of the tour and album release."

The band reunited with long-time MAIDEN producer Kevin "Caveman" Shirley in early 2010 at Compass Point Studios, Nassau to record the album and then moved to The Cave Studios in Malibu, California to finish the recording and do the mixing. Compass Point Studio is very familiar to the band, it was where they recorded the "Piece Of Mind" (1983), "Powerslave" (1984) and "Somewhere In Time" (1986) albums.

Bruce comments: "The studio had the same vibe and it was EXACTLY as it had been in 1983, NOTHING had changed! Even down to the broken shutter in the corner... same carpet... everything... It was really quite spooky. But we felt very relaxed in such a familiar and well-trodden environment and I think this shows in the playing and the atmosphere of the album."

30 years on from their eponymous debut album in April 1980, "The Final Frontier" will be MAIDEN's 15th studio album, making a remarkable average of a new album every two years for 30 years and totaling over 80 million album sales during this period.

"The Final Frontier" track listing (total running time 76:35):

01. Satellite 15....The Final Frontier (8:40)
02. El Dorado (6:49)
03. Mother Of Mercy (5:20)
04. Coming Home (5:52)
05. The Alchemist (4:29)
06. Isle Of Avalon (9:06)
07. Starblind (7:4
08. The Talisman (9:03)
09. The Man Who Would Be King (8:2
10. When The Wild Wind Blows (10:59)

"The Final Frontier World Tour" begins in Dallas on June 9 with 25 shows in major cities across the USA and Canada, playing to an expected 350,000 fans or more. Following this the tour will ship over to Europe starting in Dublin on July 30 and playing a few selected major festivals and stadiums , finishing in Valencia, Spain, on August 21 and including a concert in Transylvania.

Says bass player and founder member Steve Harris: "We're hugely excited about this tour. I think the fans will really like the brand new stage production and lights and we will also be debuting one of the new album tracks , 'El Dorado'. Our Texan fans will be the very first people anywhere to hear it live, so it will be interesting to see their reaction and how it goes down with the crowd on the night! Eddie has changed a bit for this tour but is possibly the most outrageous one to date... I can't say too much about him as don't want to spoil the surprise but I guarantee he will scare the hell out of you!"





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