Iron Maiden announces The Final Frontier and more

Thomas · **Posted:** Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:52 pm

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IRON MAIDEN are pleased to announce that their forthcoming new studio album will be called 'THE FINAL FRONTIER', and is expected be released late summer of this year.

The announcement comes with news of a North American Tour with Very Special Guests Dream Theater to open in Dallas, Texas, on 9th June and finish in Washington D.C. on 20th July, 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 (full currently confirmed dates below).

The full Live Nation North America press release for the North American Tour is posted here.

An exclusive pre-sale allowing members of the IRON MAIDEN fan club first access to tickets to the North American Maiden Shows will be made available two days prior to them being available to the public.

Tickets for the Canadian shows will go on sale to the public on Saturday 13th March at 10am PST (10am EST for Toronto and 12 noon EST Montreal).
Exclusive first access to the tickets will be available to IM fan club members on Wednesday 10th March at 10am PST through to Thursday 11th March at 6pm PST (EST for Toronto).
Regretfully due to technical reasons an exclusive Pre-Sale in Montreal is not possible.

Tickets for the US Shows will go on sale to the public on Saturday 20th March at 10am EST.
Exclusive first access to the tickets will be available to IM fan club members on Wednesday 17th March at 10am EST through to Thursday 18th March at 6pm EST

As IRON MAIDEN are actively dedicated to ensuring their fans always have access to the best possible tickets at the fairest possible price, without being subject to scalping for good seats, so many North American shows will operate, at least in part, a paperless ticket policy: More information on Ticketmaster Paperless Ticketing can be found here

To give IRON MAIDEN fan club members a privileged insight to their touring world, IMTV will return to www.ironmaiden.com to cover THE FINAL FRONTIER WORLD TOUR. This exclusive footage includes regular video from the live shows, touring, band interviews, insights into our crew and what they do and much much more. The website will also feature exclusive tour diaries, exclusive photographs and anything else that helps the fans get a real insight into the dynamics of a big tour.

Ness · **Posted:** Sat Mar 06, 2010 2:56 pm

showmaster · **Posted:** Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:17 pm

Nice...

Is the album cover announced?

Thy Serpent · **Posted:** Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:48 pm

That's nice. Dunno which months constitue late summer though.

showmaster · **Posted:** Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:03 pm

Most probably August or September

Goat · **Posted:** Sat Mar 06, 2010 9:32 pm

What NESS said. Should we take the 'final' as meaning it's their last album? :sad:

Thomas · **Posted:** Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:16 pm

Yeah, I don't really like the title, so I'm guessing they won't be releasing every other year at least.

RedHawk · **Joined:** Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:19 am **Posts:** 367

I doubt these guys are quiting anytime soon...

Thy Serpent · **Posted:** Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:59 pm

Goat wrote:

What NESS said. Should we take the 'final' as meaning it's their last album? :sad:

Steve Harris did say once that he planned for the band to release 15 studio albums and then quit. But, that was long ago. I think they will release at least 2-3 albums more.

GeneralDiomedes · **Posted:** Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:10 pm

Goat wrote:

What NESS said. Should we take the 'final' as meaning it's their last album? :sad:

Well Star Trek V: The Final Frontier wasn't the last ST movie if that's any consolation.

Goat · **Posted:** Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:18 pm

Phew, what a relief.

Seinfeld26 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:06 pm

"Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet. Like candy!"

Trooper Of Steel · **Posted:** Sat Mar 13, 2010 11:50 pm

Awesome....can't wait for this!!

Thy Serpent · **Posted:** Tue Jun 08, 2010 3:31 pm

Album release date announced as August 16th. Looks like it will be another looooooong album and the wait seems even loooooooonger. What the heck, it's Maiden ! Can't wait for this. :dio:

http://www.ironmaiden.com/thebigbang_2.html

Cool album cover by the way. Another :dio:

to that.

GeneralDiomedes · **Posted:** Tue Jun 08, 2010 4:08 pm

Don't get it .. they are releasing the album after the tour??

I wonder if they will be playing new songs from the album on the tour?

Anyways I'm going to the Calgary show .. here's hoping.

EDIT - they are playing one song off the new album. Oh well.

Trooper Of Steel · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:27 pm

Now thats an awesome album cover!

Mike · **Posted:** Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:27 pm

I was seriously considering going to see this show. I mean Dream Theater and Maiden together is a 'dream' come true but with the ticket expense, time off from work, travel expenses, and just cash to spend while at the show it all quickly became a $500-$700 affair. I couldn't bring myself to spend that much on a Maiden show.

Thy Serpent · **Posted:** Sat Jun 19, 2010 3:51 pm

Ah money, the necessary evil.

Mike · **Posted:** Wed Jun 23, 2010 5:31 pm

Thy Serpent wrote:

Ah money, the necessary evil.

yes sir...it sucks huh? I am looking forward to the new maiden album quite a bit and the cover is probaly one of the best they've created in a long time.

Goat · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:35 pm

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbe ... mID=142908

New vid and song are meh at very best. :sad:

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