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Post by tazz1973 on Jun 6, 2010 21:03:52 GMT 10
There is a countdown on the IM webpage and on FB there is the following post:
The Mystery Countdown will end at 12:00am, 8th June. The day we've all been waiting for might be near! Keep your fingers crossed, maybe a new single!
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Post by TROOPER71 on Jun 7, 2010 14:02:33 GMT 10
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Post by skrabsta on Jun 7, 2010 22:40:13 GMT 10
on a side note - theres new 2010 tour soccer jerseys available at the store . $80is including delivery - in claret or dark blue.
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Post by TROOPER71 on Jun 8, 2010 9:28:34 GMT 10
MAIDEN ANNOUNCE RELEASE DATE, ARTWORK AND TRACKLISTING FOR NEW ALBUM “THE FINAL FRONTIER”
TOUR STARTS THIS WEEK
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!”
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Post by TROOPER71 on Jun 8, 2010 10:13:47 GMT 10
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Post by irondave on Jun 8, 2010 12:31:33 GMT 10
Hey Trooper, I couldn't find that info on the maiden page at all. I get the countdown page, then click through to the main page and it looks exactly as it did a couple of days ago - no new info at all. Must be just me!
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Post by TROOPER71 on Jun 9, 2010 9:50:11 GMT 10
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Post by irondave on Jun 9, 2010 9:58:54 GMT 10
Awesome!
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Post by tazz1973 on Jun 9, 2010 18:29:48 GMT 10
I posted somewhere the Saturday but was wrong cause our releases are the Friday not the Saturday so....  |
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Post by stormster on Jun 12, 2010 3:58:20 GMT 10
Bring on an album tour!
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Post by Mr Damage on Jun 12, 2010 15:53:01 GMT 10
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Post by Sands Of Time on Jun 26, 2010 21:37:41 GMT 10
Oooh, just cannot wait to hear this.
I love the feeling of knowing there is new Maiden material just round the corner, makes me feel like a kid on Christmas eve
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Post by TROOPER71 on Jul 2, 2010 22:52:44 GMT 10
« Reply #38 Today at 10:47pm »
from billboard.com
Speed and warmth are the hallmarks of "The Final Frontier," Iron Maiden's 15th studio album. The British metal sextet recorded at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas -- returning to the spot where the group had previously recorded between 1983-86.
"We breezed through the album, really," guitarist Dave Murray tells Billboard.com. "We actually finished it in six weeks. We were getting down a track a day -- all playing together as a band, Bruce (Dickinson) singing, all in the same room, so there's a very live-in-the-studio feel to it. Once we finished a track we'd jump straight into doing some extra guitar bits. It was very quick for us."
Murray says the 10-track set, produced by Kevin Shirley, mixes "straight-ahead, uptempo rock songs with good grooves with some other tracks that are kind of longer and more complex." One, the politically-tinged "El Dorado," is currently available for fans to download. Another highlight is the album-closing "When the Wild Wind Blows," an 11-minute track that's one of the longest songs Iron Maiden has ever recorded. "The rhythm's a little bit different from what we've done before, and there's lots of melodies," Murray reports. "It's a big song. We learned it in sections just because it was such a complex arrangement, but it sounds quite natural (on the record)."
"The Final Frontier" is Iron Maiden's first set of new material since 2006's "A Matter of Life and Death," the group's longest gap ever between studio albums. But Murray says that thanks to other projects -- including 2009's platinum-selling, award-winning documentary "Flight 666" -- the group didn't feel the time pass. "There was still a lot of stuff coming out from the band, so it doesn't feel like four years," he says. "I guess time flies when you're having fun."
The Iron Maiden gang is getting its kicks again on the road, atypically touring before a new album's release. The group -- which wraps its North American trek on July 20 and kicks off in Europe 10 days later -- is playing "El Dorado" amongst established favorites such as "The Number of the Beast," "Hallowed Be Thy Name" and "Iron Maiden," but Murray says it's looking forward to bringing more of the new material to the stage in the future.
"It's summer so we just wanted to go out and enjoy ourselves and play a lot of old material are fans are going to know," he explains. "We'll definitely be out again -- We're not sure when, but we'll definitely be playing more songs from the new album. But at the moment it's nice because you're always planning ahead and what you're going to be doing in five years, and sometimes it's nice to just live in the moment."
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Post by stormster on Jul 6, 2010 11:50:43 GMT 10
Oh F**k yes - 11min track!!!! I love the long tracks!
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Post by Sands Of Time on Jul 15, 2010 16:13:46 GMT 10
Scott Mervis of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently conducted an interview with IRON MAIDEN guitarist Janick Gers. A few excerpts from the chat follow below.
On playing more than one new song on the band's current tour:
"Back in the early '80s you could probably do that, but now with YouTube and downloading, the songs would be all out before the album was out."
On the band's current 16-song setlist, which focuses heavily on the last three albums — "Brave New World", "Dance of Death" and "A Matter of Life and Death":
"We did the 'Somewhere Back in Time' tour last time, and that kind of dealt with the '80s, and the time before that we did 'Life and Death', just the one album we played on that tour. I think it's really important if you're going to remain a valid band that you play your new stuff because otherwise you become a kind of a parody of what you started out doing. You can't go out and play the greatest hits every time. It's important to play the newer songs because we really believe in them."
On the diversity of the band's current fan base:
"We have so many kids coming to the gigs. When we do 80,000 people in Stockholm, I would say half of them are between 15 and 18. In Canada, it's been the same. That's the difference between us and a lot of other bands. There's a lot of youth getting into this band, and I'm talking kids with patches and all the gear on. Everywhere we go in the world, there's a tremendous amount of young people, and that's uplifting."
On IRON MAIDEN's songwriting approach:
"My whole attitude towards music is it has to have a melody. Heavy music, I love it hard and I like that real powerful rock 'n' roll, but it has to have a melody, and if you lack melody, then you lose everything that it's about, and you play to a minority section of people. We play music that is very heavy but also has high and low points, and there are lots of melodies. We've got a great singer, an incredible singer, and we use him to his utmost. He sings his heart out every time we go out there."
On IRON MAIDEN's forthcoming album, "The Final Frontier", which is filled with lengthy jams, including the 11-minute closer "When the Wild Wind Blows":
"We're in progressive stage with the band now. We're taking it to extremes. The new album, I'm really proud of it, 'cause the one song we released isn't indicative of the rest of the album — there's so many different feels and ways of playing on the album. We go through some different attitudes and take you to different places. There's a lot of long thematic tunes on this album. And some very varied music."
On whether he foresaw still being a part of IRON MAIDEN 20 years later when he joined the band in 1990:
"It's been fun, and as long as we enjoy it and it feels valid and the fans are still coming and we have great concerts, I'd like to carry on. And the minute I don't enjoy it and we don't deliver, I wouldn't want to carry on as a parody act doing a cabaret show.
"We're kind of intransigent. We never change. We know what we want. And it's in the music. We're never going to do a pop song, for instance. We're never going to do a song to try and get on the charts. We're just going to do what we think is right, and we did that through the '90s when grunge was popular and people wouldn't listen to rock anymore, and there were stations out there saying, 'We're not going to play any more rock 'n' roll.' We just kept on touring and stuck to our guns, and that's one of the reasons I think we're still around."
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