The release date for IRON MAIDEN’S new studio album, The Final Frontier, is now confirmed for Monday August 16th.

The new album picturedВ belowВ 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.В 

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 9th) 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."

30 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. 

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The full tracklisting for the album (total running time 76:35) is:

01. 'Satellite 15... The Final Frontier' 8:40
02. 'El Dorado' 6:49
03. 'Mother Of Mercy' 5:20
04. 'Coming Home' 5:52
05. 'The Alchemist' 4:29
06. 'Isle Of Avalon' 9:06
07. 'Starblind' 7:48
08. 'The Talisman' 9:03
09. 'The Man Who Would Be King' 8:28
10. 'When The Wild Wind Blows' 10:59

The Final Frontier World Tour begins in Dallas on June 9th with 25 shows in major cities across the USA and Canada, 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 Aug 21 and including a concert in Transylvania - August 15.