Iron Maiden – Tour & New Album Details + FREE DOWNLOAD of “El Dorado”
MAIDEN ANNOUNCE RELEASE DATE, ARTWORK AND TRACKLISTING FOR NEW ALBUM “THE FINAL FRONTIER”
TOUR STARTS THIS WEEK
The release date for IRON MAIDEN’S highly anticipated new studio album THE FINAL FRONTIER is now confirmed for Tuesday, August 17 in North America. 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 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 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 – 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 totaling over 80 million album sales during this period.
The Final Frontier World Tour begins in Dallas on June 9 with 25 shows in major cities across the Canada and the U.S., 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 August 21.
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!”
For all the latest information on the tour and for ticket availability please go to www.ironmaiden.com
IRON MAIDEN ANNOUNCE NEW STUDIO ALBUM ‘THE FINAL FRONTIER’ AND NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
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 June 9 and finish in Washington D.C. on July 20, making it MAIDEN’s most extensive North American tour in many years.
Following these shows in Canada and the U.S., 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 Canadian and U.S. dates is posted here: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=194146&p=irol-news&nyo=0.
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. For full details go to www.ironmaiden.com.
Tickets for the Canadian shows will go on sale to the public on Saturday, March 13 (12pm EST for Toronto and Montreal dates AND 10am LOCAL TIMES for the Western dates).
Tickets for the U.S. Shows will go on sale to the public on Saturday, March 20 at 10am 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 herehttp://www.ticketmaster.com/paperless.
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 footage 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, photographs and anything else that helps the fans get a real insight into the dynamics of a big tour.
MASSIVE ATTACK ANNOUNCE FIRST NORTH AMERICAN TOUR IN FOUR YEARS IN SUPPORT OF NEW ALBUM ‘HELIGOLAND’
‘Heligoland’ Debuts At # 4 on the Digital Album Chart and #12 on the Top Current Album Chart in Canada
Legendary Massive Attack will tour North America for the first time since 2006 in support of their newly released fifth studio album Heligoland. The North American trek will start in Toronto on May 7 at Sound Academy and wrap May 30 at the Sasquatch Festival in George, WA. They will play two shows in Toronto, NYC, Los Angeles and San Francisco with general on sale beginning March 5 (full schedule below).
Massive Attack’s latest album Heligoland was released on February 9 on EMI’s Virgin Records and debuted at # 4 on the Digital Album Chart and #12 on the Top Current Album Chart in Canada according to Nielsen SoundScan. An all star cast join founding members Robert Del Naja (3D) and Grand Marshall (Daddy G) on their first studio album in seven years which includes Damon Albarn, Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval, Martina Topley-Bird, Elbow’s Guy Garvey and TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe. Albarn also plays bass on “Flat Of The Blade” and Keyboards on “Splitting The Atom” while Portishead’s Adrian Utley plays guitar on ‘Saturday Come Slow.’ The band also collaborated with DFA’s Tim Goldsworthy on selected tracks. The cover artwork features an original image by Robert Del Naja.
Over the last three years Robert Del Naja has written and produced soundtracks for a number of films and documentaries, including ‘Trouble In The Water,’ ’44 Inch Chest,’ ‘In Prison My Whole Life’ and ‘Gomorra,’ the latter for which he won the David Di Donatello Award for Best Song. Last year Massive Attack won the Outstanding Contribution to British Music Award at the Ivor Novello Awards. In September, Massive Attack headlined this year’s Bestival ahead of their first full UK tour in three years.
- 5/7 Toronto, ON Sound Academy
5/9 Toronto, ON Sound Academy
GOD MADE ME FUNKY BRINGS NUFUNKTONIA TO WESTERN CANADA!
Canada’s own God Made ME Funky (GMMF) are bringing their infectious mix of R&B, hip-hop, funk and rock on tour to Western Canada. The Juno nominated, Toronto based 10-piece band are set to give several funkalicious performances throughout Alberta and British Columbia. The band is also part of the Ontario House line-up of performances during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics!
GMMF guarantees to showcase their unique and impressive “NuFunk” sound that will have audiences buzzing and bouncing long after the show ends. The band is currently promoting the release of their fourth album, Welcome to Nufunktonia, which was released across Canada last year. With the recent addition of Canadian Idol winner Melissa O’Neil as their female vocalist, and the upcoming Olympic performances adding to their already impressive roster, GMMF continues to prove their diversity and distinctive mark within Canadian music.
On top of the upcoming tour, PHATT al will share his national pride this month with the rest of Canada in an upcoming Ontario Tourism television advertisement. The energetic MC will perform the popular “There’s No Place Like This” theme song, which will launch during the Olympic games. In doing so, he will join fellow Canadian musicians Keisha Chanté, Molly Johnson and Alex J. Robinson who have all been featured in the national ad campaign.
Hot off the presses is the band’s funky new video for “So In Effect”, featuring Toronto dance crew Moon Runners.
West Coast Tour Dates:
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