Iron Maiden Announce New Album Artwork and Release Date
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The release date for Iron Maiden's highly anticipated new studio album, The Final Frontier, is now confirmed for Tuesday August 17, in the U.S. The new album artwork has just been unveiled on their website www.ironmaiden.com and was illustrated by Melvyn Grant. 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 MP3 digital download file with immediate effect via their website, www.ironmaiden.com.
Singer 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; see full schedule dates below), 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 longtime Maiden producer Kevin “Caveman” Shirley in early 2010 at Compass Point Studios, Nassau, to record the album and then moved to L.A. 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 (’83), Powerslave (’84) and Somewhere In Time (’86) albums.
Dickinson 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.”
Thirty years on from their eponymous debut album in April 1980, The Final Frontier will be Maiden’s 15th studio album, making an average of a new album every two years for 30 years and totaling over 80 million album sales during this period.
The full track listing for the album (total running time 76:35) is:
The Final Frontier
1. Satellite 15...The Final Frontier 8:40
2. El Dorado 6:49
3. Mother Of Mercy 5:20
4. Coming Home 5:52
5. The Alchemist 4:29
6. Isle Of Avalon 9:06
7. Starblind 7:48
8. The Talisman 9:03
9. The Man Who Would Be King 8:28
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 shift over to Europe starting in Dublin, on July 30, to play a few selected major festivals and stadiums, finishing in Valencia, Spain, on August 21, and including a concert in Transylvania.
Says bass player and founding 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 I don’t want to spoil the surprise, but I guarantee he will scare the hell out of you!"
The full list of dates for the first leg are:
JUNE
Wed 9 U.S.: Dallas, TX, Superpages.Com Center
Fri 11 U.S.: Houston, TX, Cynthia Mitchell Pavilion Woodlands
Sat 12 U.S.: San Antonio, TX, AT&T Center
Mon 14 U.S.: Denver, CO, Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
Wed 16 U.S.: Albuquerque, NM, The Pavilion
Thu 17 U.S.: Phoenix, AZ, Cricket Wireless Pavilion
Sat 19 U.S.: San Bernardino, CA, San Manuel Amphitheatre
Sun 20 U.S.: Concord, CA, Sleep Train Pavilion
Tue 22 U.S.: Auburn, WA, White River Amphitheater
Thu 24 CAN: Vancouver, BC, GM Place
Sat 26 CAN: Edmonton, AB, Rexall Place
Sun 27 CAN: Calgary, AB, Saddledome
Tue 29 CAN: Saskatoon, SK, Credit Union Centre
Wed 30 CAN: Winnipeg, MB, MTS Center
JULY
Sat 3 CAN: Toronto, ON, Molson Amphitheatre
Tues 6 CAN: Ottawa, ON, Cisco Blues Festival
Wed 7 CAN: Montreal, QC, Bell Centre
Fri 9 CAN: Quebec, QC, Summer Festival
Sun 11 U.S.: Holmdel, NJ, PNC
Mon 12 U.S.: New York, NY, Madison Square Garden
Wed 14 U.S.: Pittsburgh, PA, First Niagara Pavilion
Thu 15 U.S.: Cleveland, OH, Blossom Music Center
Sat 17 U.S.: Detroit, MI, DTE Music Theatre
Sun 18 U.S.: Chicago IL, First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
Tue 20 U.S.: Washington DC, Jiffy Lube Live
Fri 30 IRELAND: Dublin, The O2
AUG
Sun 1 UK: Knebworth, Sonisphere Festival
Thu 5 GERMANY: Wacken Festival
Sat 7 SWEDEN: Stockholm Stora Skuggan Sonisphere Festival
Sun 8 FINLAND: Pori Kirjurinluoto Sonisphere Festival
Wed 11 NORWAY: Bergenhus Festning Koengen
Sat 14 HUNGARY: Sziget Festival
Sun 15 TRANSYLVANIA: Cluj, Polux Mall
Tue 17 ITALY : Villa Manin Codroipe, Nr Udine
Thu 19 BELGIUM: Pukkelpop Festival
Sat 21 SPAIN: Valencia Auditorio Marina Sur
For all the latest information on the tour and for ticket availability please go to www.ironmaiden.com.
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