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Iron Maiden unveil new album

Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden

The rock legends return

Iron Maiden are to release a new studio album in September.

The LP, co-produced with bandmember Steve Harris by regular collaborator Kevin Shirley, is called ‘A Matter Of Life And Death’, and is the follow-up to 2003’s ‘Dance Of Death’.


The tracklisting is:

‘Different Worlds’
‘These Colours Don't Run’
‘Brighter Than a Thousand Suns’
‘The Pilgrim’
‘The Longest Day’
‘Out Of The Shadows’
‘The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg’
‘For The Greater Good of God’
‘Lord Of Light’
‘The Legacy’


Frontman Bruce Dickinson said of the record: “Every one of us has put everything into this record and it's really paid off. However we've had such fun making it that it's almost difficult to believe what we've managed to achieve in the time it took."

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