IRON MAIDEN's new compilation From Fear To Eternity: The Best Of 1990-2010 is out now via EMI in mainland Europe and is scheduled for release today (June 6th) in the UK and the 7th in North America. Check out an advertisement for the collection below on YouTube:

The double-CD set, digital download album and as a limited edition triple vinyl picture disc, spans twenty years and follows the huge success of 2010's studio album, The Final Frontier, which hit the number one spot in 28 countries around the world. It also became the band's highest-charting album in the USA where Iron Maiden have just been awarded their first Grammy for Best Metal Performance, for the song 'El Dorado', taken from The Final Frontier album, and which is included in this selection. The band are also releasing a special two-track promo only CD single, featuring ‘The Wicker Man’, which originally appeared on the album Brave New World, and was a UK Top 10 hit, and ‘The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg’ which was the lead track from 2006’s A Matter Of Life And Death album.

Iron Maiden are offering two free downloads from the set. Click here to score 'The Wicker Man' and 'The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg'.

Iron Maiden's current phenomenal global success has seen the band not only scale new-found heights aided by their unique method of touring, using a customized Boeing 757 - named Ed Force One by their fans - to transport band, crew and all their equipment round the world to many new places, but has meant their ever-expanding fanbase now encompasses a brand new generation of metal lovers. From Fear To Eternity is a chance for these new fans of the band to explore Iron Maiden's rich history, with the highlights of their last eight studio albums distilled into this handy collection, which follows 2009's compilation of their earlier work, the 1980-1990 Somewhere Back In Time album.

Perennial favourites to be found on this album include songs also featured in Maiden's current The Final Frontier World Tour set list; tracks such as 'Fear Of The Dark', 'The Wicker Man', 'Blood Brothers' and 'Dance Of Death' sit alongside recent classics 'El Dorado' and the hauntingly evocative 'When The Wild Wind Blows'. It also include singles like 'Holy Smoke' and 'Be Quick Or Be Dead' together with more progressive thought-provoking album tracks like 'Afraid To Shoot Strangers' and 'For The Greater Good Of God'. This new collection charts the musical development of Britain's most successful metal band as they have evolved their sound, producing longer, more complex songs, gaining huge critical acclaim in the process. Featuring many of the epics for which the band has become renowned, it is accordingly released as a double-CD, but will retail for the price of a single album.

The full tracklisting for the CD album is as follows:

Disc 1:

'The Wicker Man'

'Holy Smoke'

'El Dorado'

'Paschendale'

'Different World'

'Man On The Edge' (Live)

'The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg'

'Blood Brothers'

'Rainmaker'

'Sign Of The Cross' (Live)

'Brave New World'

'Fear Of The Dark' (Live)

Disc 2:

'Be Quick Or Be Dead'

'Tailgunner'

'No More Lies'

'Coming Home'

'The Clansman' (Live)

'For The Greater Good of God'

'These Colours Don't Run)'

'Bring Your Daughter... To The Slaughter'

'Afraid To Shoot Strangers'

'Dance Of Death'

'When The Wild Wind Blows'

Iron Maiden Manager Rod Smallwood recently remarked about the new collection:

"As you will have read from our press release, this latest Best Of CD selection is aimed primarily at Maiden's ever-growing army of new fans. As we travel round the World touring we find ourselves continually and pleasantly surprised at the number of new young fans who are coming to the shows . So, as with Somewhere Back In Time, this compilation is an introduction to these guys and others, of Maiden's recording history. SBIT was a single album with 15 tracks covering the first 10 years, 1980-1990, and seven studio albums. This compilation covers a similar number of albums (8 in fact), but as many of the tracks from this era are of a much longer duration, we felt we needed more space. So we have made it a double album set, however we'll be keeping the price the same as a single album would be. In this later period many songs were getting generally longer and more complex so this gave us room to include epics like 'When the Wild Wind Blows', 'Paschendale', 'For The Greater Good Of God' and 'Sign of the Cross' to name but a few. As before, we are conscious of giving value for money so we have crammed a total of 23 songs onto the compilation, with a total playing time of just over 2 ½ hours, which is all we can get onto two discs!"