Noisecreep's Benjy Eisen reports:

Just three songs into their recent set in Concord, Calif., IRON MAIDEN's BRUCE DICKINSON announced that the band wanted to play a new song for the fans from their forthcoming Final Frontier album. And while the song is brand new and the album won't drop until August, Dickinson conceded that most fans in the audience probably already heard it, because they gave it away as a free download. Cheers and applause seemed to confirm his assumption.

But, he said, there's a drawback to having introduced the song to fans as a free MP3. "The problem is that when you listen to it on tiny little headphones, propelled by a battery, on a device made by Steve Jobs and Google, it sounds like s---," Dickinson said. "But the song itself doesn't sound like s---, because when you listen to it in the studio or when you buy the CD, it sounds f---ing awesome. Se we're going to play it for you and it's going to sound great."

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Multi-cam footage of Iron Maiden performing their new song 'El Dorado' on Wednesday, June 9th at the Superpages.com Center in Dallas, TX (from Arthur Santos) can be seen below:

Pitpov.com recently uploaded more quality footage from the opening night of the band's' Final Frontier Tour at Superpages.com Center. Check it out below below:

The setlist on the night was as follows:

'The Wicker Man'

'The Ghost Of The Navigator'

'Brighter Than a Thousand Suns'

'El Dorado'

'Paschendale'

'The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg'

'These Colours Don't Run'

'Blood Brothers'

'Wildest Dreams'

'No More Lies'

'Brave New World'

'Fear Of The Dark'

'Iron Maiden'

Encore:

'Number Of the Beast'

'Hallowed Be Thy Name'

'Running Free'

Remaining dates on the tour are as follows:

June

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 release date for Iron Maiden's new studio album, The Final Frontier, is now confirmed for Monday, August 16th. A widget can be found below. The new album features artwork illustrated by Melvyn Grant and, to mark the occasion, the band have made special arrangements for one new album track 'El Dorado' to be made available Worldwide as a FREE digital download MP3 with immediate effect. Click here for your free download. US fans, visit this location.

Iron Maiden's new single, 'El Dorado', is now available for streaming via YouTube. Check it out below.

Singer Bruce Dickinson explains, "'El Dorado' is a preview of the forthcoming studio album. As we will be including it in the set of our Final Frontier World Tour (which opens in Dallas on June 9th) we thought it would be great to thank all our fans and get them into The Final Frontier mood by giving them this song up front of the tour and album release."