IRON MAIDEN To Release New Studio Album Next Year?

Apr 10, 2009
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Straight from Blabbermouth.net:

IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson has apparently told the Swedish web site Talarforum (Speakers' Forum) during a brand new interview that there are plans for the band to enter the studio to record a new album for a tentative 2014 release.

MAIDEN's 15th studio CD, 2010's "The Final Frontier", featured 10 tracks that had an average running time of seven minutes and 40 seconds, with the shortest song, "The Alchemist", clocking in at four minutes and 29 seconds, and the longest, "When The Wild Wind Blows", lasting ten minutes and 59 seconds.

"The Final Frontier" sold 63,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to enter The Billboard 200 chart at position No. 4.

IRON MAIDEN's previous album, 2006's "A Matter Of Life And Death", opened with 56,000 units to land at No. 9. This was a notable increase from the 40,000 first-week tally registered by its predecessor, 2003's "Dance of Death" (which debuted at No. 18 on The Billboard 200 chart), and that of "Brave New World", which moved 38,000 copies in June 2000 to land at No. 39 on The Billboard 200 chart.

"The Final Frontier" was IRON MAIDEN's fourth U.K. No. 1 album. The band previously topped the chart in 1982 with "The Number of the Beast", in 1988 with "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" and in 1992 with "Fear of the Dark".

"The Final Frontier" was released in North America on August 17, 2010 via Universal Music Enterprises (UMe). The effort was made available in a unique limited-edition collectors' "Mission Edition" CD case and features access to extra bonus content, including the director's cut of a video for the edited version of the opening song on the album, entitled "Satellite 15... The Final Frontier"; band "Mission Debrief" interview footage; wallpapers; photos; and the exclusive game "Mission II : Rescue & Revenge". MAIDEN also for the first time made the album available as an iTunes LP with bonus content as well as the traditional digital format. There was also a limited-edition double picture disc.



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The Final Frontier was a total sleeper and they better do something better this time. Has anyone actually listened to it even 5 times? I think this new one is a pivotal album in their career. They can either go downhill, stay the same or improve. If anything is less than stellar, it could signify the end of them creatively. Plus, it seemed Bruce's voice is beginning to show its age as of last tour. Still fantastic, but he seemed to struggle a bit in holding the notes for as long as he used to. May be the first signs of degradation setting in. Maybe not. I'd hate for them to end up like Rush, just making albums one after another that never really take off.

I say Go Big or Go Home! Come on Steve. Write some good songs! AMOLD- Brighter Than a Thousand Suns is a great example of a top quality excellently composed and performed song and they should continue with.