British heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN have set "The Final Frontier" as the title of their new studio album, due 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 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.
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, March 13 at 10 a.m. PST (10 a.m. EST for Toronto and 12 noon EST Montreal). Exclusive first access to the tickets will be available to IRON MAIDEN fan club members on Wednesday, March 10 at 10 a.m. PST through to Thursday, March 11 at 6 p.m. PST (EST for Toronto). Regretfully due to technical reasons an exclusive pre-sale in Montreal is not possible.
Tickets for the U.S. shows will go on sale to the public on Saturday, March 20 at 10 a.m. EST. Exclusive first access to the tickets will be available to IRON MAIDEN fan club members on Wednesday, March 17 at 10 a.m. EST through to Thursday, March 18 at 6 p.m. 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.
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" dates:
June
09 - Dallas, TX - Superpages.com Center
11 - Houston, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
12 - San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center
14 - Denver, CO - Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
16 - Albuquerque, NM - The Pavilion
17 - Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Wireless Pavilion
19 - San Bernardino, CA - San Manuel Amphitheatre
20 - Concord, CA - Sleep Train Pavilion
22 - Auburn, WA - White River Amphitheatre
24 - Vancouver, BC - GM Place
26 - Edmonton, AB - Rexall Place
29 - Saskatoon, SK - Credit Union Center
30 - Winnipeg, MB - MTS Center +
July
03 - Toronto, ON - Molson Amphitheatre
07 - Montreal, QC - Bell Centre
11 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC
12 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
14 - Pittsburgh, PA - First Niagra Pavilion
15 - Cleveland, OH - Blossom Music Center
17 - Detroit, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre
18 - Chicago, IL - First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
20 - Washington D.C. - Jiffy Lube Live
+ DREAM THEATER will not perform in Winnipeg
IRON MAIDEN recorded "The Final Frontier" at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas with producer Kevin Shirley. According to a posting on Kevin's official web site, "There's still work to do, but the band portion is complete and in the can, so to speak." Shirley previously worked on the last three MAIDEN albums - 2000's "Brave New World", 2003's "Dance of Death" and 2006's "A Matter of Life and Death".
Source: www.Blabbermouth.Net
