IRON MAIDEN are pleased to announce that their forthcoming new studio album will be called The Final Frontier, and is expected be released late summer of this year.

The announcement comes with news of a North American Tour with special guests DREAM THEATER to open in Dallas, Texas, on June 9th and finish in Washington D.C. on July 20th, 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 with the band planning to continue to many other countries in 2011 (full currently confirmed dates below).

The full Live Nation North America press release for the North American Tour is posted here.

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.

Tickets for the Canadian shows will go on sale to the public on Saturday, March 13th at 10 AM (PST) (10 AM, EST for Toronto and 12 noon EST Montreal).

Exclusive first access to the tickets will be available to IM fan club members on Wednesday, March 10th at 10 AM (PST) through to Thursday, March 11th at 6 PM (PST) (EST for Toronto).

Regretfully due to technical reasons an exclusive Pre-Sale in Montreal is not possible.

Tickets for the US Shows will go on sale to the public on Saturday, March 20th at 10 AM (EST).

Exclusive first access to the tickets will be available to IM fan club members on Wednesday, March 17th at 10 AM (EST) through to Thursday, March 18th at 6 PM (EST).

As Iron Maiden are actively dedicated to ensuring their fans always have access to the best possible tickets at the fairest possible price, without being subject to scalping for good seats, so many North American shows will operate, at least in part, a paperless ticket policy: More information on Ticketmaster Paperless Ticketing can be found here.

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 video 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, exclusive photographs and anything else that helps the fans get a real insight into the dynamics of a big tour.

June

9 - Dallas, TX - Superpages.com Center
11 - Houston, TX - The Woodlands
12 - San Antonio, TX - AT&T; Center
14 - Denver, CO - Fiddler's Green Amphitheater
16 - Albuquerque, NM - Journal Pavilion
17 - Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Pavilion
19 - San Bernardino, CA - San Manuel Amphitheater
20 - Concord, CA - Sleep Train Pavilion
22 - Auburn, WA - White River Amphitheater
24 - Vancouver, BC - GM Place
26 - Edmonton, AB - Rexall Place
29 - Saskatoon, SK - Credit Union Centre

July

3 - Toronto, ON - Molson Amphitheater
6 - Ottawa, ON - Blues Fest
7 - Montreal, QC - Bell Centre
9 - Quebec City, QC - International Summer Festival
11 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
12 - New York City - Madison Square Garden
14 - Pittsburgh, PA - Post Gazette Pavilion
15 - Cleveland, OH - Blossom Music Center
17 - Detroit, MI - DTE Music Theatre
18 - Chicago, IL - First Midwest Bank Amphitheater
20 - Washington DC - Nissan Pavilion

The Final Frontier 2010 European Tour

July

30 - August 1 - Knebworth, UK - Sonisphere Festival

August

5 - Wacken, Germany - Wacken Open Air
7 - Stockholm, Sweden - Stora Skuggan / Sonisphere Festival
8 - Helsinki, Finland - Pori's Kirjurinluoto / Sonisphere Festival
11 - Bergen, Norway - Bergenhus Festning - Koengen