Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier Mission Edition

Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier.... The new album from these legendary British heavy metallers. I went out with Aiman, my son today to do some errands and went to The Warehouse, a shop in NZ ala Wal Mart etc. Initially saw the IM back catalog on sale at $13. I was thinking of buying BNW but just kept wandering in the music section until I saw the weekly chart, The Final Frontier was at number 2!! The warehouse was selling 2 versions, original and special, but the special ed was not on the shelves!! Dammit

So I went to the counter and to my surprise saw a lot of the special edition cds and other IM merchandise like jugs, pens, key rings and t-shirts.

I managed to get me one of the cd's as above. $34.99. The warehouse are also running an IM competitiion and the main prize is a IM leather bomber jacket! I have to enter.

Just got back home and tired, will do a review later.

Heaven & Hell to Support Iron Maiden In Bergen

News dari blabbermouth lagi pasal Iron Maiden & Heaven & Hell ataupun Black Sabbath, depa akan support Maiden kat Bergen, Germany. Ironic sungguh, band H&H akan support IM... Kalau tambah Motorhead lagi mantap line-up ni! Lagi satu nampak mcm semakin lanjut usia lg byk medical problem depa ni. RJD ada stomach cancer, Iommi had stem cell treatment on hand injury (??? wtf) dan Appice  had surgery to his shoulder. Dah tua ye depa ni

HEAVEN & HELL — the band featuring BLACK SABBATH members Tony Iommi (guitar), Ronnie James Dio (vocals), Geezer Butler (bass) and Vinny Appice (drums) — will support British metal legends IRON MAIDEN on August 11 at Bergenhus Festning-Koengen in Bergen, Norway.

HEAVEN & HELL singer Ronnie James Dio was recently diagnosed with the early stages of stomach cancer while the band's guitarist, Tony Iommi, underwent stem-cell treatment on an injured hand.

HEAVEN & HELL drummer Vinny Appice underwent surgery on his right shoulder on November 30, 2009 for an injury sustained during the band's last tour. The surgeon expects Vinny to be back behind the kit this spring.

HEAVEN & HELL's debut album, "The Devil You Know", entered The Billboard 200 chart at position No. 8 with first-week sales of 30,000 units. The band's June 16, 2009 concert at Museumsmeile in Bonn, Germany was professionally filmed by WDR's (German public TV) series "Rockpalast" and was premiered on July 13. Watch the "Follow The Tears" performance below.

In a recent online posting, Ronnie James Dio's wife/manager Wendy Dio revealed that there are plans to release a 30th-anniversary BLACK SABBATH "Heaven And Hell" DVD sometime this year. The package is expected to include brand new interviews that Ronnie, Geezer and Appice gave to Eddie Trunk — co-host of the VH1 Classic television program "That Metal Show" — on January 22, 2010 in Los Angeles, as well other extras.

IRON MAIDEN Completes Recording New Album

news from the blabbermouth!! i was there during the AMOLAD gigs!

British heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN have completed the recording process for their new album 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".

The next IRON MAIDEN album will be the band's fifteenth studio record, and they face a challenge to follow up "A Matter of Life and Death", which was received well critically and saw the group play the whole album on tour.

Speaking at last year's premiere of the band's documentary film "Iron Maiden: Flight 666", guitarist Adrian Smith stated, "There's always a bit of pressure to follow up the last album, in a way it's good because it motivates you.

"We never get complacent; we always try our best for our own sake as much as anything else. As far as pressure for another album, we just do what we do — we've been doing it long enough now, we know what we're doing. [laughs]"

IRON MAIDEN guitarist Janick Gers revealed to BBC News in November that the band was on its way "to Paris for three weeks to work on some new stuff." He added, "The most important thing for a band is to create new music, otherwise you're not valid — you become a parody."

IRON MAIDEN will headline this year's edition of the U.K.'s Sonisphere festival, which will be held Saturday, July 31, 2010 and Sunday, August 1, 2010 at Knebworth.

MAIDEN became the first outfit in history to travel round the world in a customized jet during their "Somewhere Back in Time" tour, as detailed in award-winning movie "Flight 666".

The Boeing 757 carried musicians, crew, gear and guests with singer Bruce Dickinson, a qualified airline pilot, at the controls.