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IRON MAIDEN are pleased to announce that their forthcoming new studio album is expected to be released late summer of this year. It will be called ‘THE FINAL FRONTIER’.
The announcement comes with news of a North American Tour with Very Special Guests Dream Theater to open in Dallas, Texas, on 9th June and finish in Washington D.C. on 20th July, 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 (full currently confirmed dates below) 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. For full details go to www.ironmaiden.com

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 footage 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, 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**
With Very Special Guests Dream Theater
U.S.A/CANADA
JUNE
Wed 09 Dallas, TX Superpages.com Center
Fri 11 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Sat 12 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center
Mon 14 Denver, CO Comfort Dental Amphitheater
Wed 16 Albuquerque, NM The Pavilion
Thu 17 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Wireless Pavilion
Sat 19 San Bernardino, CA San Manuel Amphitheater
Sun 20 Concord, CA Sleep Train Pavilion
Tue 22 Auburn, WA White River Amphitheater
Thu 24 Vancouver, BC  GM Place
Sat 26 Edmonton, AB Rexall Place                 
Tue 29 Saskatoon, SK Credit Union Centre                  
Wed 30 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre +
JULY
Sat 03 Toronto, ON Molson Amphitheatre
Wed 07 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
Sun 11 Holmdel, NJ PNC
Mon 12 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
Wed 14 Pittsburgh, PA First Niagara Pavilion
Thu 15 Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center
Sat 17 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
Sun 18 Chicago, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
Tue 20 Washington D.C. Jiffy Lube Live
+Dream Theater will not be performing in Winnipeg
**THE FINAL FRONTIER  2010 EUROPEAN TOUR**
JULY/AUGUST
July 30-Aug 01 UK Knebworth Sonisphere Festival
Thu 05 Germany Wacken Festival
Sat 07 Sweden Stockholm Stora Skuggan Sonisphere Festival
Sun 08 Finland Helsinki Pori’s Kirjurinluoto Sonisphere Festival
Wed 11 Norway Bergen Bergenhus Festning – Koengen