IRON MAIDEN El Dorado

The release date for IRON MAIDEN’S new studio album THE FINAL FRONTIER is now confirmed for Monday 16th August.

The release date for IRON MAIDEN’S new studio album THE FINAL FRONTIER is now confirmed for  Monday 16th August. The new album pictured here features artwork illustrated by Melvyn Grant and, to mark the occasion, the band have made special arrangements for one new album track 'EL DORADO' to be made available Worldwide as a FREE digital download MP3 with immediate effect. Click here for your free download (US fans, please go here).

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 9th June - full 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 long-time Maiden producer Kevin “Caveman” Shirley in early 2010 at Compass Point Studios, Nassau to record the album and then moved to LA 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.

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”
 
Thirty 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 totalling over 80 million album sales during this period.

The full tracklisting 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 9th 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 Aug 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!”

The full list of dates for the First Leg can be found in the Tour Section of this website and are also repeated below:

JUNE Wed 9 Fri 11  Sat 12    Mon 14  Wed 16 Thu 17 Sat 19 Sun 20 Tue 22 Thu 24  Sat 26  Sun 27  Tue 29  Wed 30 JULY Sat 3 Tues 6 Wed 7 Fri 9  Sun 11 Mon 12  Wed 14 Thu 15 Sat 17 Sun 18 Tue 20 Fri 30 AUG Sun 1    Thu 5  Sat 7     Sun 8 Wed 11 Sat 14  Sun 15 Tue 17 Thu 19 Sat 21

US Dallas, TX Superpages.Com Center US Houston, TX Cynthia Mitchell Pavilion Woodlands US San Antonio TX AT&T Center US Denver CO Comfort Dental Amphitheatre US Albuquerque The Pavilion US Phoenix AZ Cricket Wireless Pavilion US San Bernardino CA, San Manuel Amphitheatre US Concord CA, Sleep Train Pavilion US Auburn WA, White River Amphitheater CAN Vancouver BC, GM Place CAN Edmonton AB Rexall Place CAN Calgary, AB Saddledome CAN Saskatoon SK Credit Union Centre CAN Winnipeg MB, MTS Center CAN Toronto, ON Molson Amphitheatre CAN Ottawa, ON, Cisco Blues Festival CAN Montreal QC Bell Centre CAN Quebec, QC Summer Festival US Holmdel NJ, PNC US New York NY, Madison Square Garden US Pittsburgh PA  First Niagara Pavilion US Cleveland OH, Blossom Music Center US Detroit MI, DTE Music Theatre US Chicago IL, First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre US Washington DC, Jiffy Lube Live IRELAND, Dublin, The O2 UK Knebworth, Sonisphere Festival GERMANY Wacken Festival SWEDEN Stockholm Stora Skuggan Sonisphere Festival FINLAND Pori Kirjurinluoto Sonisphere Festival NORWAY Bergenhus Festning Koengen HUNGARY Sziget Festival TRANSYLVANIA Cluj, Polux Mall ITALY Villa Manin Codroipe, Nr Udine BELGIUM Pukkelpop Festival SPAIN Valencia Auditorio Marina Sur

UP THE IRONS!!! COME TO MALAYSIA PLEASE!!!