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News Date : 03/03/00 
From The Official Maiden site :
Its a BRAVE NEW WORLD!
HERE IT IS - the news you've all been waiting for. 
The album is called BRAVE NEW WORLD and it will be released 
in late May / early June .

The tracklisting is as follows:- 

1. THE WICKER MAN (Adrian Smith / Steve Harris / Bruce Dickinson) 
2. GHOST OF THE NAVIGATOR (Janick Gers / Bruce Dickinson / Steve Harris) 
3. BRAVE NEW WORLD (Dave Murray / Steve Harris / Bruce Dickinson)
4. BLOOD BROTHERS (Steve Harris)
5. THE MERCENARY (Janick Gers / Steve Harris)
6. DREAM OF MIRRORS (Janick Gers / Steve Harris)
7. THE FALLEN ANGEL (Adrian Smith / Steve Harris)
8. THE NOMAD (Dave Murray / Steve Harris)
9. OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET (Janick Gers / Bruce Dickinson / Steve Harris)
10. THE THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE (Dave Murray / Steve Harris)

KERRANG KOMMENT
Kerrang! Editor Phil Alexander has just returned from interviewing 
the band in-depth in LA for a forthcoming front cover issue. 
Whilst Phil spent time with the guys they played him some tracks 
from the forthcoming album. 

Here's Phil's take on those tracks:-

'The Wicker Man' 
The album's opening track and set to be the first single, 
'The Wicker Man' is a high-octane hard rock cruncher which 
lays down the gauntlet in fine style. Think of a cross between 
'Aces High' and '2 Minutes To Midnight' and you're close.

'Ghost Of The Navigator' 
A classic Maiden epic, '...Navigator' refuses to get bogged 
down in its numerable time changes and is driven by a scything 
signature riff. Bruce delivers a vocal performance of titanic 
proportions which serves as a reminder about how good it is 
to have him back in the harness.

'Brave New World' 
Based on the Aldous Huxley book of the same name, 
'Brave New World' moves from brooding to bruising in a seamless 
Maiden-esque manner. Anchored by a catchy chorus, it's a 
underpinned by some patented guitar interplay from Messrs 
Murray, Gers and Smith.

'Blood Brothers' 
One of Maiden's most ambitious tracks, Blood Brothers serves 
up a gloriously uplifting chorus set against a backdrop of 
strings. Stirring stuff, it sits somewhere between Maiden's 
'The Clansman' and Metallica's 'Nothing Else Matters'. 

Maiden's new album is an undoubted return to form. Put simply, 
it's the sound of a band doing what they do best. In fact it's 
almost as if they've taken the last 20 years and distilled 
their finest moments on to one bold, yet reassuringly heavy 
album. Not only do Maiden sound hungry again, they sound like 
they're having a good time. 

THE WICKER MAN IS COMING...
Visit http://www.ironmaiden.com to see some exclusive photos 
from the LA video shoot for the single 'THE WICKER MAN'.

TOUR DATES
The full European Tour Dates are as follows:

Please note all venues are indoors apart from those marked #

JUNE 2000
Fri 2nd - France - Strasbourg Artefact # 
Sat 3rd - Holland -  Nijmegan Goffert Park, Dynamo Open Air # 
Mon 5th - Czech Republic - Prague Paegas Arena
Tue 6th - Slovakia - Banska Bystrica Amphitheatre # 
Wed 7th - Hungary - Budapest Petofi Csarnok #
Fri 9th - Slovenia Izola, Izola Stadium #
Sat 10th - Italy - Monza Metal 2000 #
Sun 11th - Ukraine -  Kiev, RocKiev Festival # 
Tue 13th - France - St Etienne, Palais des Spectacles
Wed 14th - France - Paris, PalaisOmnisport de Bercy
Fri 16th - UK - London, Earls Court 
Tue 20th - Poland - Katowice Spodek
Wed 21st - Poland - Warsaw Torwar 
Fri 23rd - Germany Leipzig Full Force # 
Sat 24th - Belgium Graspop Metal 2000 # 
Mon 26th - Norway - Oslo, Spectrum 
Tue 27th - Sweden, Stockholm Naval Museum # 
Thur 29th - Denmark - Roskilde Festival # 
Fri 30th - Finland, Turku Ruisrock Festival # 

JULY 2000
Sun 2nd - Estonia -  Tallinn Song Festival Grounds # 
Wed 5th - Germany - Munich Zenith 
Fri 7th - Switzerland - Rock Circus Festival # 
Sat 8th - Germany - Mannheim Maimarktgelande Metal 2000 # 
Sun 9th - Germany - Essen Georg Melches Stadion Metal 2000 # 
Wed 12th - Bulgaria - Sofia Akademik Stadium 
Fri 14th - Greece - Athens Rockwave Festival # 
Sun 16th - Portugal - Festival Vilar de Mouros 2000 # 
Tue 18th - Spain - San Sebastian Velodrome 
Wed 19th - Spain - Madrid Bullring # 
Fri 21st - Spain - Mijas Open Air # 
Sat 22nd - Spain - Murcia Open Air # 
Sun 23rd - Spain - Barcelona St. Jordi

SUPPORT BANDS
Here we go with the first list of support bands for the 
Metal 2000 European Tour. More dates will be announced soon, 
so stay tuned!

JUNE 2000
Fri 2nd - Strasbourg - Spiritual Beggars, Him, Entombed, Rhapsody, Samael, Mayhem, Stratovarius, Iron Maiden 
Sat 3rd - Dynamo 
Main Stage: Entombed, Sevendust, Methods Of Mayhem, Suicidal Tendencies, Slipknot, Korn, Iron Maiden
Second Stage: Zeke, Spiritual Beggars, Engine, Kittie, Sentenced, Kovenant, Mayhem 
Mon 5th - Prague - Dirty Deeds 
Tue 6th - Banska Bystrica - Dirty Deeds 
Wed 7th - Budapest - Dirty Deeds 
Fri 9th - Izola  - Dirty Deeds 
Sat 10th - Monza Metal 2000 - Khali, Dirty Deeds, Domine, Edguy, Dark Tranquility, Demons & Wizards, Iron Maiden 
Tue 13th - St Etienne - The Almighty 
Wed 14th - Paris - Slayer, The Almighty 
Tue 20th - Katowice - Dirty Deeds 
Wed 21st - Warsaw - Dirty Deeds
Fri 23rd - Leipzig Full Force - Dirty Deeds, The Almighty, Entombed
Other acts to be added... 
Mon 26th - Oslo - Entombed 
Tue 27th - Stockholm - Entombed 

News Date : 03/03/00 
The Bruce Dickinson interview can be found here .

News Date : 21/01/00 (Taken From HardRadio.Com)
IRON MAIDEN recently announced the Metal 2000 World Tour, promising to "play to more people 
world-wide than almost any other  tour this year," their recent press release stated. With a full-blown 
production planned, the onslaught starts at the beginning of June in Europe where they'll be headlining most of the major festivals and covering nearly every European country, including most of
Eastern Europe. In early September they head for football stadiums in South and Central America 
and then onto the arenas of North America. Japan, Australasia, S.E. Asia and parts of Africa are 
being planned and negotiations are underway to hopefully take the band to China and India for the 
very first time. The following are the first announced dates:

June - 2nd in France at Strasbourg Artefact*, 3rd Holland at Dynamo*, 5th in Czech Republic at 
Prague Sports Hall, 6th in Slovakia Banska Bystrica Amphitheatre, 7th in Hungary at Budapest
Petofi Csarnok*, 9th in Slovenia Izola at Izola Stadium, 10th in Italy at Monza Metal 2000*, 13th in 
St. Elienne France at Palais Des Spectacles, 14th in Paris, France at Palais Omnisport De Bercy, 20th in Warsaw, Poland at Tor Stegni Ice Rink, 21st at Katowice, Poland at Spodek, 23rd in Leipzig, 
Germany at Full Force*, 24th in Belgium at Graspop Metal 2000*. In July - 8th in Mannheim, 
Germany at Maimarktgelande Metal 2000* and 9th Essen, Germany at Georg Melches Stadion 
Metal 2000*. (* denotes open air festival headlined by Maiden)

Tickets go on sale soon and details of many more shows, including a major U.K. show in mid-June, 
will be announced soon as well as the support artists. Keep a daily eye on the 'Tour Dates 2000' 
page at www.ironmaiden.com for info about venues, tickets, tour  cities etc.

The band, including returned frontman Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith, along with 
bassist Steve Harris, guitarist Dave Murray, drummer Nicko McBrain and guitarist Janick Gers are 
currently laying down the final tracks for the new studio album with producer Kevin Shirley which will 
be released on Columbia/Portrait Records in USA and EMI Records for the rest of the world early
this summer.

"Working with Kevin has been fantastic and the whole band is ecstatic with the recording process," 
Harris commented recently.
"Recording is going very smoothly - but it's too soon to say what the album sounds like. We are 
getting the three guitars down great and a lot of the parts we're recording live to capture the attack 
the band has on stage. We've been trying a few new things but the best thing is that I think we've 
got superb songs and Bruce's vocals are belting."

News Date : 10/09/99
5 New Maiden songs are recorded for the new album that will be out on may 2000.
According to Metal Hammer interview with the band , the songs are all Maiden 
style but sounds great because of the 3 guitars and Bruce .
On this same interview Bruce claims that they are now bigger and better the Metallica.
Some comments were made on Blaze , Harris still thinks Blaze give his best to
the band and he can't say anything bad on him .
The band say that are now more united than ever before  and can laugh on the past .
Well , they also finished their sold out shows on the Ed Hunter game tour and
they say it was great and very good for them to feel the tension again .

News Date : 24/04/99
Well we all know about the plans of Maiden world tour , 
hey it's going to be a 18 months tour  , Fucking Unbelievable !!!
But I just wanted to add that Bruce is now in Brazil and touring some dates for his Chemical album .
He told the fans before that he won't leave his solo career for Maiden and now he is living it .
Now I don't know for sure but he said that he is recording his current tour for a live album .
Also bruce is planning to release "Tattooed milioner" and "Balls to Picasso" with some bonus tracks 
that were the B-Sides for "BtP" album , 
like the song "No Way Out" that is way way Cool! Up The Irons!
In other news , MegadetH will open for Maiden in their tour in europe and because they finished
working on their new album you can hear them sing some new stuff .
Also Merlin Manson spoke about Maiden and he can possibly give them 
some help (Like they need it).
Yes people are talking about this , and I hope that in the next millennium Maiden will RULE again!

News Date : 13/02/99
Who said last week everything is bullshit ?
Me?!
No way punk!
So we got some really big changes . 
Bruce is back in the band , Adrian will make the guitars sound heavier with a 3 guitar band!
And they are gonna rock!
There will be an official announcement on the 25 of FEB. and this press meeting will be 
archived on the internet for the fans to listen to , more on that when it come to it .
This week on VH-1 on the Friday Rock Show , Tommy talked with Adrian on the phone about the
big news . Adrian sounds very very happy with what happened and promised a world tour that
will kick off at europe .
He said they will start working on a new Studio album and he says it will sound WAY 
different from all the others .
I hope they won't go back to their old maiden style ! It's time for a change and I think now it' 
the best time to explore themselves .
Bruce says that he won't leave his own career as a solo artist and will work on his own stuff too , apart from maiden  .
Bruce is also very angry at CMC (His label) for not promoting his tour and for selling half of what
he thought he would .
He says it's one of the reasons he canceled his tour and one of the main reasons he is now back
with THE band .
Ok , that's all ...
You can read some of what I found on the ROCKNET site here .

News Date : 05/02/99
Well lately there are a lot of rumors of Maiden ...
Blaze can't perform , Janick drinks to much and That BRUCE might come back to maiden .
As for the Official Maiden site , they said that none of this is true .
Well I am sorry to say to all those who spreded this rumors - THEY ARE ALL LIES!
Maiden had few problems on their last tour but still Blaze is ok with them .
In fact they are working on a new album this days .
Bruce will go on tour with his new Studio album and Everything will stay the same .

News Date : 26/12/98
Taken from HardRadio news section :
As reported recently, IRON MAIDEN's South American tour was troubled. 
To make things worse (sounds better to us),
sources say that Maiden is not too happy about their lead singer Blaze Bayley and that this is probably going to be his last tour with the band. In fact, on one of the shows, the band played Virtual XI in it's entirety (ohh, the pain!),
avoiding a lot of classic songs. There's also talk of Maiden unsuccessfully trying to persuade 
Bruce Dickinson to come back to the band, although Bruce has told BW&BK in the past that he would play with the band again - another studio album is another story, given Dickinson and Harris' varying 'philosophies'. 
What is interesting is that 1999 is the 20th Anniversary of Iron Maiden and reliable sources say that Bruce will be back and Maiden will tour the globe - expect a year full of surprises and merchandise! For instant contentment now, pick up BRUCE DICKINSON's Chemical Wedding opus -
certainly damn near close to top METAL album of '98!  News Date : 04/12/98
Here is a little update about the Box Set .
Well you can find a picture of the Box Set here , I must say it look's ..... mmmm...
Well .... BAD!!!
Some say that the box was released without Steves permission and because
their wasn't enough time to fix it or put more color in it .
Any way , about the tour ...
Maiden are thinking adding more shows in the U.S and the U.K .
Israel won't get the chance to see the Virtual TOUR .
We will have to live on the memories of the X-Factor tour .
News Date : 16/10/98
Some angry Maiden fan sent me this on my Icq ... So dont mind the anger in his writing ,
but He DOES have a point there!
Here Goes :
Maiden are releasing a Box Set of all there new 12 C.D's , with Multimedia in them .
The box will be shaped as Eddie's head and will hold the c.d's inside .
The head will open and the c.d's will be be pulled out .
Additional c.d will be a c.d with a huge Bio on Maiden , disc-ography , bla bla bla ...
This sucks , cause they are - RE-RE-RE releasing them self's too many times only
for money and nothing else .
Fans know they should buy it because they are true fans , not knowing that its all
an act of pure selfishness from Maiden and EMI .
This Box will be very limited and not be remade ... so for all the suckers , go pay a lot for this shit .
But for newcomers , its the best way to get to know Maiden ...
Enjoy . News Date : 26/06/98
The Maiden tour kicks off in the U.S in less than a week. Here 
are the latest tour date from CMC: 

June 26 -- Chicago, IL --- Aragon Ballroom 
June 27 -- Columbus, OH --- Brewery District Pavilion 
June 28 -- Hamilton, ONT --- Copps Coliseum 
June 30 -- Kalamazoo, MI --- Wings Stadium 
July 1 -- Clarkston, MI --- Pine Knobb 
July 2 -- Cleveland, OH --- Nautica Stage 
July 4 -- Montreal, QUE --- Stade Du Maurier 
July 5 -- Quebec City, QUE --- L'Agora 
July 7 -- New York City, NY --- Roseland 
July 10 -- San Antonio, TX --- Blue Bonnet Palace 
July 11 -- McAllen, TX --- McAllen Speedway 
July 12 -- Dallas, TX --- Starplex Amphitheater 
July 14 -- Phoenix, AZ --- Club Rio 
July 15 -- Las Vegas, NV --- The Joint 
July 16 -- Los Angeles, CA --- Universal Amphitheatre 
July 18 -- San Diego, CA --- Open Air Theater 
July 19 -- San Francisco, CA --- Maritime Hall 
July 22 -- Denver, CO --- Paramount Theatre 
July 24 -- Minneapolis, MN --- Medira Ent. 
July 25 -- Milwaukee, WI --- Riverside Theatre 
July 26 -- Cincinnati, OH --- Bogart's 
July 28 -- Washington, DC --- The Ballroom 
July 29 -- Baltimore, MD --- Michaels 
July 31 -- Philadelphia, PA --- Electric Factory 
Aug 1 -- Hartford, CT --- Webster Theater 
Aug 2 -- Asbury Park, NJ -- Tradewinds 

And for other news :
Bruce Dickinson was found jamming 
with Dream Theater last month in Los Angeles. Bruce told London's 
Rock Radio Network: "The band's tour manager, Bill Barclay, used 
to be Adrian Smith's guitar technician in the early days of 
Maiden. So after a few beers together, the keyboard player gave 
me a yell and asked if I wanted to go and do 'Perfect Strangers' 
with them, something we had already done together on a live radio 
session. I've also been working with him on the Alice Cooper 
tribute. So we did Perfect Strangers at the end. And then, of 
course, the band wandered off into 'The Trooper', followed by a 
verse of 'Where Eagles Dare', and one of 'Killers'. So I obliged 
and an enormous amount of fun was had by all." As far as the new 
album 'A Chemical Wedding' is concerned, Bruce disclosed that he 
has now recorded 8 or 9 out of 12 lead vocals. The recording is 
almost complete. The album will be release in September on 
Brice's new record label. 

News Date : 28/03/98
I bought the new Maiden album . 
Weeeeaaaa , what a Cover !!! , I must say that I  was so happy to see the cover ... 
It's new , It's Cool!!! and it took me back to my childhood all over again :) 
About the album , well I  will write all about it in the Reviews 
section very soon as I learn the album word by word , Tab by Tab . 
Right now my fav song seems to be "Dont Look to The Eyes Of A Stranger" , 
its the old Maiden style song !!! 
Maiden you made another great album , As ALWAYS!!!  News Date : 13/03/98 
Well as I wrote on my last update (see news below) , Maiden has released 3 different 
Cd singles - Picture disks ! This are limited so run and get them . 

News Date : 19/02/98
Check the new album Cover  New Maiden Album Cover . 
This  was done by Melvin Grant ( also made the cover for Fear of The Dark) , 
and the design is by Synthetic Dimensions (From Ed Hunter) . 

VIRTUAL ELEVEN -- Release date March 23rd. 

1. FUTUREAL 
2. THE ANGEL AND THE GAMBLER 
3. LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE 
4. THE CLANSMAN 
5. WHEN TWO WORLDS COLLIDE 
6. THE EDUCATED FOOL 
7. DON’T LOOK TO THE EYES OF A STRANGER 
8. COMO ESTAIS AMIGOS 

The new album was produced and mixed by Steve Harris and Nigel Green , so I guess 
this album  will sound great ... 'coz Harris knows Maiden like the palm of his hand ! 

The U.S single and video will be "Futureal." 
Also releasing "Angel and the Gambler" as a single probeblly on March 9th. 
It will be released in three different formats: 

1. CD - Contains Angel and the Gambler, Blood on the Worlds Hands Live, Afraid to 
           Shoot Strangers. It is an enhanced CD ROM with video clips. 
2. CD - Digipack (with postcards of the band members) - Contains Angel and the 
           Gambler, The Aftermath Live, Man on the Edge. (I think Enhanced CD-ROM). 
3. CD - Angel and the Gambler, Blood on the Worlds Hands Live, 
           The Aftermath Live. (This will be a picture disk with a poster!) . 

From - PUGARTY : 

In the press release, management also anounced that Maiden will be embarking on a Football Tour of Europe (Soccer, for the US readers) with the "Virtual XI" team. 

VIRTUAL XI team will comprise of the band, Paul Gascoigne (Glasow Rangers & England), Faustino Asprilla (Newcastle Utd & Columbia), Ian Wright (Arsenal & England), Stuart Pearce (Newcastle Utd & ex England Captain), Patrick Viera (Arsenal & France) and Marc Overmars (Arsenal & Holland). 

Maidens’ Virtual XI will play sides made up of bands and local ex-International football players in the following cities: Paris (Mar 11th), Berlin (Mar 13th), Madrid (Mar 18th), Stockholm (Mar 22nd) and finally Milan (Mar 25th). 

News Date : 29/01/98
Hey there fellow maiden fan.  You have an awsome page.  I just learned 
some new news about maiden.  According to rumor Iron Maiden may be 
touring with Judas Priest and WASP.  This would be a prety hot show, eh. 
Other news is that Bruce will be comeing out with a new album in the fall 
of 98'.  No one knows if Adrian is going to stay on.  I recomend that you 
visit the official maiden page soon.  They are having a contest for who 
gets to interview Dave Murry. 

Keep Rockin, 
Brandon 
Seventh_son@hotmail.com 

News Date : 16/01/98
Well the new Maiden album has a title , as a matter of fact tow titles , one of them will 
be chosen . 
The title of the album is "Virtual Eleven",  according to Metal Hammer magazine , 
and some rumors that says the name is  "Virtual Insanity". 
Both names are basically the same , we'll see at the end what is really the name . 

The tracklist for now is : 

1. FUTUREAL ( HARRIS / BAYLEY ) 3.00 
2. THE ANGEL AND THE GAMBLER ( HARRIS ) 9.51 
3. LIGHTINIG STRIKES TWICE ( MURRAY / HARRIS ) 4.49 
4. THE CLANSMAN ( HARRIS ) 9.06 
5. WHEN TWO WORLDS COLLIDE ( MURRAY / BAYLEY / HARRIS ) 6.13 
6. THE EDUCATED FOOL ( HARRIS ) 6.46 
7. DON´T LOOK AT THE EYES OF A STRANGER ( HARRIS ) 8.11 
8. COMO ESTAIS AMIGOS ( GERS / BAYLEY ) 5.26 

Iron Maiden have almost finished their new album. 
It will be released on the 9th of March 1998. One week prior to this date, the 2nd of March the first single from the Album will be released. 

Related news, Steve Harris joined with Rod Smallwood and Andy Talor, have become the 
co-owners of a new record company named "Beast Records". 

Note that in May, all the band's previous albums will be once again re-released yet this time in a remastered format which will contain unreleased tracks and a poster.
News Date : 03/10/97
Well you people probably know this one but still maybe some of you dont , so here goes : 

It seems Bruce Dickinson needs a gimmick for his new album and new 
tour , so hold on to you're pance ... he will join forces with Adrian Smith 
for the tour . 
As all you know , Bruce and Adrian got together wonderfully back there in 
their maiden years, I don't know if Adrian's band will be a worming band or 
will adrian join forces and play for Bruce . 
In the future I hope to know more , meanwhile if someone knows 
something - inform me and the site . 

Keep checking for more news , there are gonn'a be tons of news this next 
couple of months , until all the album 
details will be revealed ... Only the future will tell us what will be - will be :~ . 

Well I will start this page with some hot news (I hope they are new , 
at least to me they are new!). If you fan's know something new that has to 
do with Iron Maiden send it to me and I'll post it with  you're detail's . 

News Date : 03/06/97
I went to check some new C.D's yesterday and when I arrive to the shop I was 
stunned to see "The B Factor" album ,Hope it's new to you all . 
In this Bootleg you will find 9 songs which are : 
1.)    Doctor Doctor 
2.)    Judgement Day 
3.)    Judgement Of Peace 
4.)    Judgement Of Heaven (Edit) 
5.)    (Dont Remember) 
6,7.) WrathChild - Recorded live in london 1995 and 1996 . 
8.)    (Dont Remember) 
9.)    (Dont Remember) Stupid me , I didn't buy it :( . 

More Stuff : 
Well some people said that they have heard that Iron Maiden maybe splitting - 
NOT TRUE!!!