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By Chad Bowar, About.com Guide to Heavy Metal since 2005

New Iron Maiden CD Announced

Wednesday June 21, 2006
Iron Maiden will release their new studio album, A Matter Of Life And Death on September 5th on Sanctuary Records.

The band started writing songs at the end of 2005 after a short break from their festival appearances in Europe and the USA. The songs were completed and rehearsed when the band got together after Christmas to work with producer Kevin 'Caveman' Shirley at Sarm West Studios in London to start work on recording the backing tracks.

Frontman Bruce Dickinson says, "This album has to be our best one since we began working with Kevin. There is such a wide scope of musicianship, and in parts this album is truly epic. I thought with the likes of Paschendale, from the last studio album, that we could only hope to surpass that. Having now heard the album back, as well as sitting with a few select people and hearing their reactions, I truly believe we have managed it. Every one of us has put everything into this record and it has really paid off. 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."

Comments

July 10, 2006 at 5:56 am
(1) dark light says:

its about time they produced some more insanly music

i missed you guys sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much

September 10, 2006 at 12:02 am
(2) eric says:

i bought this cd today (9-9-06) and so far im loving it- you can tell the producer’s the same- he’s excellent. the drums, like BRAVE NEW WORLD, are so crisp and , well, perfection. these blokes know how to make damn good music, rough and hard, but very gentle, beautiful and melodic as well. i hope they come to colorado springs again!! come on you irons!

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