Iron Maiden's final album?

[Nerik]

The name makes many people think so.

http://www.ironmaiden.com/index.php?categoryid=8&p2_articleid=1184

IRON MAIDEN announce new studio album 'THE FINAL FRONTIER' and North American Tour
Published: March 4, 2010

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 through to Thursday 18th March at 6pm

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.

 
**THE FINAL FRONTIER 2010 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR**
With Very Special Guests Dream Theater
JUNE
Wed 09
Fri 11
Sat 12
Mon 14
Wed 16
Thu 17
Sat 19
Sun 20
Tue 22
Thu 24
Sat 26
Tue 29
Wed 30    
Dallas, TX - Superpages.com Center
Houston, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center
Denver, CO - Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
Albuquerque, NM - The Pavilion
Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Wireless Pavilion
San Bernardino, CA - San Manuel Amphitheatre
Concord, CA - Sleep Train Pavilion
Auburn, WA - White River Amphitheatre
Vancouver, BC - GM Place
Edmonton, AB - Rexall Place
Saskatoon, SK - Credit Union Center
Winnipeg, MB - MTS Center +
+Dream Theater will not be performing in Winnipeg

JULY
Sat 03
Wed 07
Sun 11
Mon 12
Wed 14
Thu 15
Sat 17
Sun 18
Tue 20
   


Toronto, ON - Molson Amphitheatre
Montreal, QC - Bell Centre
Holmdel, NJ - PNC
New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
Pittsburgh, PA - First Niagara Pavilion
Cleveland, OH - Blossom Music Center
Detroit, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre
Chicago, IL - First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
Washington D.C. - Jiffy Lube Live
**THE FINAL FRONTIER 2010 EUROPEAN TOUR**
July 30 -Aug 1

AUGUST
Thur 05
Sat 07
Sun 08
Wed 11    UK - Knebworth Sonisphere Festival



Germany - Wacken Festival
Sweden - Stockholm Stora Skuggan Sonisphere Festival
Finland - Helsinki Pori's Kirjurinluoto Sonisphere Festival
Norway- Bergen Bergenhus Festning - Koengen

[Timothy]

As long as it is better then there last few then bring it on.
I have to say though, I personally loved Dance of Death.

We will see how this one goes, just got my hands on their virtual album, not because I like it, just needed it in the collection. Missing No Prayer For the Dying and their self tittled album, need to get my hands on them asap.

[Nerik]

A Matter Of Life And Death was their best album since the 80s. Dance of Death was hit and miss but not as good as Brave New World I'd say.

Their debut (self-titled) album is a must have Timothy. Excellent stuff. No Prayer is one of their weakest albums. Some decent songs on it but not aided by shit production.

[lfc.07.au]

Matter of life and death is the greatest. Surely this isnt the end of maiden, fully expect another concert here and a few more world tours

[Nerik]

They will keep on touring I'd say. The albums are becoming more spaced apart though. From 1980-1984 they released 1 a year. From 1986 -1992 they released one every 2yrs. Then they had albums in 1995,1998 (3yrs apart), 2000 (2yrs probably due to Bruce and Adrian returning), 2003,2006(back to 3yrs apart) and now after 4yrs in 2010.

[Negative]

They have three ******* guitars, and yet I sometimes sense at best one acoustic guitar in their songs.

Somewhere in time is, IMO, their best album since the guitar sound is so much more... solid, or however I'm supposed to describe it. I've got no musical education whatsoever.

[Nerik]

Somewhere In Time sounds different because of the synthesizer and not because of the guitars I'd say. It is a decent album with a couple of great songs but nowhere near the 5 albums that preceded it.

[Negative]

Whatever.

At least you can feel the guitars down your vein. In all the other albums, the guitar sound was much like the bass on And Justice For All, almost non existant.

FFS, Pantera had ******* one!

[Timothy]

A Matter Of Life And Death was their best album since the 80s. Dance of Death was hit and miss but not as good as Brave New World I'd say.

Their debut (self-titled) album is a must have Timothy. Excellent stuff. No Prayer is one of their weakest albums. Some decent songs on it but not aided by shit production.

I hated it.
Out of the whole album only one song spoke to me The Pilgrim.

[Nerik]

Whatever.

At least you can feel the guitars down your vein. In all the other albums, the guitar sound was much like the bass on And Justice For All, almost non existant.

FFS, Pantera had ******* one!

And Justice For All is not a Maiden album.

[Nerik]

A Matter Of Life And Death was their best album since the 80s. Dance of Death was hit and miss but not as good as Brave New World I'd say.

Their debut (self-titled) album is a must have Timothy. Excellent stuff. No Prayer is one of their weakest albums. Some decent songs on it but not aided by shit production.

I hated it.
Out of the whole album only one song spoke to me The Pilgrim.

The Legacy is out of this world, their equivalent of Zep's Kashmir. Quite a lot of very good songs in there.

[Negative]

And Justice For All is not a Maiden album.

I am aware of that.

[Nerik]

Misread it. Sorry.

[Timothy]

A Matter Of Life And Death was their best album since the 80s. Dance of Death was hit and miss but not as good as Brave New World I'd say.

Their debut (self-titled) album is a must have Timothy. Excellent stuff. No Prayer is one of their weakest albums. Some decent songs on it but not aided by shit production.

I hated it.
Out of the whole album only one song spoke to me The Pilgrim.

The Legacy is out of this world, their equivalent of Zep's Kashmir. Quite a lot of very good songs in there.

Each to their own. Journeyman, D.O.D and No More Lies were absolutley fantastic songs, music wise they are some of my favourties to play. Legacy is good, but D.O.D for me is the best out of their newer shit. Before that yet after the 80's it has to be Fear of the dark for me.

The song alone will always give me goosebumps. And Affraid to shoot strangers has one of the best riffs I have ever heard.

[Nerik]

Yeah but they then have shit like Weekend Warrior and The Apparition that ruined what could have been a great album. Fear Of The Dark is an excellent song though.