Iron Maiden - New Album Details And Song Online
The release date for Iron Maiden's new studio album The Final Frontier is now confirmed for Monday 16th August. The new album 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, 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 (all dates here) 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 Final Frontier [cover art] tracklist:
01. Satellite 15... The Final Frontier
02. El Dorado
03. Mother Of Mercy
04. Coming Home
05. The Alchemist
06. Isle Of Avalon
07. Starblind
08. The Talisman
09. The Man Who Would Be King
10. When The Wild Wind Blows
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 (all dates here) 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 Final Frontier [cover art] tracklist:
01. Satellite 15... The Final Frontier
02. El Dorado
03. Mother Of Mercy
04. Coming Home
05. The Alchemist
06. Isle Of Avalon
07. Starblind
08. The Talisman
09. The Man Who Would Be King
10. When The Wild Wind Blows
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| GT Coffee!! Staff Posts: 5101  |
A really nice cover. If I weren't at work I would be listening to the song this instant. Now I have to wait 
----  Dreams are made so we don't get bored when we sleep
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| Angelic Storm Melodious Posts: 6675  |
Okay, first off....the cover is okay, but I think it would be more effective if the guy Eddie is killing was still alive, and hadnt become a skeleton yet. lol I also think Derek Riggs would have made it look more warm and organic. But still, I think its a pretty kewl cover! Well, Maiden for the first time EVER have changed their sound! "El Dorado" sounds like something Roy Z would write for one of Bruce's solo albums. Which isnt a bad thing at all really, its different though! Some fans may take some time to warm to it. I really love it though!  The solo break is Smith/Murray/Gers. I really love Janick's solo on this one! I'll be very happy if the rest of the new album is like this. Unoriginal titles though..."The Alchemist" is the title of a song from "The Chemical Wedding", and "The Man Who Would Be King" is a song from Dio's "Master Of The Moon"!  
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Account deleted Written by GT on 08.06.2010 at 11:50 If I weren't attending a lecture at this moment, I would be listening to the song this instant! Now I have to wait as well For the cover, it seems that bands are relying more and more on 3D graphics, which I personally don't find appealing. The artwork of Heaven and Hell last album and Iron Maiden's Dance of Death had the same style. For me, I prefer old-fashioned stuff; like that of the 80's.
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| BudDa Elite Posts: 887  |
Love the galloping bass throughout the song
---- Freeze! Step away from the hubris.
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| Fallen'Angel Posts: 163  |
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| Dark Blood The Avenger Posts: 1435  |
Wicked! The cover looks really nice! Poor Eddie...  The song is nice too. The galloping bass bring a nice touch.. and reminds me of 'Barracuda'(?)
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| Lord_Regnier Posts: 1469  |
Quite boring song. And Bruce sounds so sleep-inducing compared to the 80s. Looks like it takes much more than using the same old studio to re-create the old vibe.
---- "Why would we fear death, when life is so much more frightening?"
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| Warman Erotic Stains Posts: 7695  |
I am not at all impressed and I'm a huge Maiden fanboy.  Ah well, I'm still excited.
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| Vykintas Posts: 92  |
Written by Dark Blood on 08.06.2010 at 13:34 Indeed it does Sounds nice after the first listen
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| Valentin B Iconoclast Posts: 10094  |
Hmm, quite heavier than your typical maiden song, i guess it's not anything mindblowing, but like with Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg it might grow on me in time Written by Angelic Storm on 08.06.2010 at 12:15 don't forget the last verse of "Revelations": "for the man who would be king, the watcher in the ring"
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| Ellrohir Heaven Knight Posts: 8669  |
Damn, why i am in school, where i cannot listen to the music? 
---- My rest seems now calm and deep Finally I got my dead man sleep 
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| juanopereira Posts: 268  |
Everything is differente here... but I liked it and the essence is still there. It's incredible than after 30 years of making music this guys are still innovating.
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| BrutalTyrant Posts: 1  |
I like the track... I had to listen to it a couple of times to get it... For some reason this track feels to me like if Dream Theather and Iron Maiden had a love-child, there is some progrssive-ish thing going on IMO
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| moe5512 Posts: 502  |
The song wasnt really good :/ it was boring listening to it and it sounded that it was difficult for bruce to sing which is weird...
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| Lord_Regnier Posts: 1469 |
Written by [user id=100467] on 08.06.2010 at 20:53 Pretty much my own thougts. Maiden's material since Bruce's comeback doesn't necessarily suck (though it sucks at times) but it's so utterly boring I find it painful to listen to.
---- "Why would we fear death, when life is so much more frightening?"
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| Doc G. Full Grown Hoser Staff Posts: 9718  |
Written by Lord_Regnier on 09.06.2010 at 00:25 Ditto. Bruce sounds as bored as I am with this song.
---- "I got a lot of really good ideas, problem is, most of them suck." - George Carlin
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| distorted rage Posts: 48  |
Put me down for the limited edition picture disc! 
---- 'We entered Winter once again...The sun sets forever over Blackwater park'
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| Angelic Storm Melodious Posts: 6675 |
Written by Tornado Of Souls on 09.06.2010 at 01:37 There does seem to be really divided opinions about "El Dorado". I dont think Bruce sounds bored. Its just with the style of song that it is. The riffing is more simplistic, and Bruce's vocals are just fitting in with that. But of course, this isnt the first time Bruce's vocals have been criticised. As far back as 1990, some weren't happy with his more raspy, aggressive vocals on "No Prayer For The Dying". I myself really like ths new song, it is different for Maiden, but I love his solo stuff, which is what it sounds like, so its okay by me....
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Not a bad song but not that good either; and I'm not demanding much... 
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| Daggon Underpaid M.D. Posts: 1689  |
Oh holy shit! Eddie has been eating lot's of vegetables or what? He got grew a lot in the last years! Still the cover kicks ass! Oh yeah, the song... oh well, it's quite simple, I wouldn't say boring, just plainly average, I'll have to wait to listen the whole album, that way maybe I'd like it with the whole flow of songs.
---- "Les vers savent qu'ils n'ont pas d'ailes, c'est pour cela qu'ils se cachent sous terre"
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