IRON MAIDEN Announces North American Tour Dates - July 24, 2006
IRON MAIDEN has announced that they will be beginning their 2006 World Tour with eight dates across the USA and three dates in Canada starting October 4 in Hartford, CT.

Tickets for the shows will start going on to the general public from the weekend of August 12, with details of local box office and on-sale times at www.ironmaiden.com. IRON MAIDEN has also arranged for a special fan club pre-order for all shows beginning August 1 and running through to the public on-sale date. Details of this will be sent directly to them beforehand.

This follows the recent announcement that their highly anticipated new studio album "A Matter of Life and Death" will be released on September 5 on Sanctuary Records.

Says vocalist Bruce Dickinson: "This is the first time we've started a tour in the States for many, many years. It's going to be great to get out there so the fans can get to hear the new material and see the new show first for a change. We're all incredibly pleased with the album, and the tremendous response of those people who have had the chance to hear it so far. Their reaction has been phenomenal and we expect to play a lot of it on tour.

"We will be bringing the full show to America, which we are currently putting the final touches to, and we fully intend to make it as spectacular and memorable as we can. And of course, our mate Eddie has already booked a place on the plane with us."

On the topic of "A Matter of Life and Death", Bruce comments, "This album has to be our best since working with Kevin Shirley (producer). There is such a wide scope of musicianship on this album. Every one of us has put everything into this record and it's really paid off."

The upcoming North American dates represent the beginning of the "A Matter of Life and Death World Tour", which will continue into Japan and then travel through to Europe, finishing with two shows at London's Earls Court Arena just before Christmas. All the shows on the European leg have been on sale since March and reaction to the dates has been incredible, with the majority of shows already sold out months in advance.

Accompanying IRON MAIDEN on the USA tour (excluding the Hartford and Los Angeles ) are new U.K. metal sensation, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, who have been receiving rave reviews while on tour with GUNS N' ROSES throughout Europe.

IRON MAIDEN North American tour dates:

Oct. 04 - New England Dodge Music Center - Hartford, CT
Oct. 06 - Agganis Arena - Boston, MA
Oct. 07 - Tweeter Center At the Waterfront - Camden, NJ
Oct. 09 - Colisee Pepsi Arena - Quebec City, QC
Oct. 10 - Bell Centre - Montreal, QC
Oct. 12 - Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum - Uniondale, NY
Oct. 13 - Continental Airlines Arena - East Rutherford, NJ
Oct. 16 - Air Canada Centre - Toronto, ON
Oct. 17 - Palace of Auburn Hills - Auburn Hills, MI
Oct. 18 - Allstate Arena - Rosemont, IL
Oct. 21 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre - Irvine, CA

dont care about gay opener, will get there when Maiden plays. I am sooooo at the BU date. Holy shit I am so fucking excited. Been waiting to see Maiden for so long.

I am going, I've only seen them at Ozzfest so I'm pumped to see them play a real show.

i hope they have a setlist that's different from the same one they've been doing since 2001.

that and i hope the new shit doesn't suck as bad as the last one.

i haven't seen maiden since the brave new world tour, so i'll probably go.

where's the agganis arena? is that BU? i saw maiden with motorhead and dio a few years ago, that was rad.

Is that place big? How fast do you suppose it will sell out?

oh man, I am all over this. The opener is retarded, but I have been trying to see maiden for years and every time I do something gets fucked up. I will even pay extra cash for good seats if need be. I WILL NOT MISS THIS SHOW... i hope

I was glad I got to see them with Motorhead.

Motorhead is overdue to come the New England and rock my face.

pam said:

it is big but im sure it will sell out in no time regardless.

pam said:

That is a hot image.

Didn't they play here like a year or so ago with CoC?

DrinkHardThrashHard said:

If they did, I didn't know about it. Overdue none the less.

i missed the motorhead/coc show because of snow. i had free tickets. damn snow.

motorhead is coming back in the fall after their new album comes out next month.

motorhead should play in new england every day. i would never get tired of that.

agreed

their new album is killer.

i haven't heard it yet, but i expect it to be good because lemmy doesn't fuck around when it comes to quality music.

Be ready to rock out on the floor in neatly arranged seats.
They do it at BU like at the Boston Garden now.

GGGGGGAAAAAAYYYYYYY!

Bullet for my Valentine aren't on the CT show, I may just go to that one.

I've got their new album, it is perfect.

this place is smaller than the tsongas

Dankill said:

What do you want to circle dance to Iron maiden? I'm 12th row center. I DAMNED psyched for this arrangement !!

No, I just like to move more freely so I could even be right in front of the damn stage. Not to mention they could fit more people in with general admition.

FUCK MAIDEN!!! I'll be at the Six Feet Under show in Somerville on Oct. 6th instead.Death Metal>Power Metal

Iron Maiden isn't power metal you dumbass. Also: Six Feet Under is fucking terrible. I hope you die in a gasfire.

vomitthesoul said:

Why you disrespectful little snot picker. Youre not worthy. Have a good time at your death "concert".

got me a ticket for the agganis arena date. i love it, maiden is playing across the street from where i work, awesome.

blue said:

how much did it cost?

vomitthesoul said:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
I'm sorry dude but your taste in music is absolutely pitiful. If your musical tastes were an object it would not even be worthy of being used to wipe the grossest, shittiest ass on Earth, and then spit on.

You would rather hang out in some gay bar and listen to some cock play down-tuned power chords no further than the third fret, while chris barnes coughs out rediculous songs about smoking weed and "snakessssss" and whipping his wigger-dreadlocks around, than watch one of the best metal bands in the world play masterpiece after masterpiece for 2-3 hours.
So much for being "old school" - you shit on one of the best old school bands in all of the old school, and worship the worst death metal band there ever was.
Shame.

*applause*

Stop taking all my air. You and Six Feet Under have been capitalizing on all this free air bullshit for too long.
Die.
The show you're talking about would be worth seeing the openers who blow SFU out the door nightly.

Maiden's 80s stuff is cool.But idc for the rest.I saw them back in 2000 when Halford opened for them.Halford stole the show that night.If Maiden aint Power Metal then what the fuck are they?

pam said:


In the cemetary
Youve been left unburied
The vultures pick at your eyes


Cheers to KING of Death Metal Chris Barnes!!

aside from old CC stuff chris barnes sucks balls. Maiden>six feet under and thats the end of the story.

Maiden hasnt put out a decent album since Fear of the Dark.I think Bruce Dickinson's solo album Chemical Wedding is better than the majority of the Maiden albums.Alot heavier and interesting to listen to in my opinion

anonymous said:

They're fucking Heavy Metal. They are New Wave of British HEAVY Metal. There's nothing power metal about them. Because they have clean vocals, that makes them power metal? That's like calling Alice Cooper black metal just because he paints his face.

pam said:



I'll actually marry you. That's hilarious.

Bullet For My Valentine is the shit yo! They make me feel all warm and emo. Nothing gets me psyched up for maiden than a bunch of little kids whining to pseudo-numetalcore about how they lost their girlfriends.

They will get heckled off the stage.

I think we should petition for the venue to be moved for Oct 6th... I'd rather have Maiden headline my wedding then have any of you suffer through Bullet for my Valentine