Iron Maiden will be making a return visit to Costa Rica on March 3rd at the 25,000 capacity ESTADIO ALEJANDRO MORERA SOTO.

Tickets go on sale Monday December 14th at 11.58pm

Iron Maiden also confirmed that they will return to Argentina to headline the Quilmes Rock Festival at River Plate Stadium on Saturday March 28. The other headliners announced so far on the four day festival are Radiohead and Los Piojos, a hugely popular Argentine band. A full supporting bill will be added on each day of Quilmes Festival, which is in its fifth year of being Argentina's biggest musical event.

The tickets for the iron maiden gig in Belgrade Serbia are on sale in Bulgaria

Official Fan Club will be traveling to Belgrade especially for the gig
The tour will be named “I Was Somewhere Back In Serbia”
The tour will be organized with the help from he Bulgarian metal bar The Black Lodge.

For more information about the trip contact us on maidenbulgaria@abv.bg

The prices for the tickets for the gig in Serbia are announced. As we informed you the gig wil be in the Belgrade arena on 10 February 2009. Tickets will go on sale on 11 December this year . Only 15 000 tickets will be sold

The prices are :

tribines - 2690 dinars (29.52 EUR)
parter - 3190 dinars (35.00 EUR)
golden seats - 3690 dinars (40.50 EUR)
fan pit - 4490 dinars (49.27 EUR)

Stay tuned for information and prices for the tickets for the tour to Serbia
There will be a tour at any cost and we even started to book people who are willing to join
The price will include the concert and the bus ticket

For more information please contact us on maidenbulgaria@abv.bg

Iron Maiden have added a concert at the Belgrade Arena on Tuesday 10th February on their way to Dubai on Ed Force One.Says manager Rod Smallwood, "We weren't able to get to Serbia in '08 so thought we should call in on our way East.  When we last played a couple of years ago it was an incredible show with fans coming in on buses from all over the Balkans and we very much look forward to returning"

Tickets go on sale to the public on 11th December and we have made arrangements for a special pre-sale for fan club members on the 10th December.  We also hope to run a 'FIRST TO THE BARRIER' draw for the show.

Note: It is unlikely that any other concerts will be added prior to Belgrade, making it the final European show of the 'Somewhere Back in Time Tour'.

Iron Maiden will visit Peru for the first time ever with a concert on March 26 at the 40,000 capacity Estadio National Jose Diaz in the capital city, Lima.

On sale date and ticket information to be announced soon.

We are happy to inform you that our site was nominated for “Best Iron Maiden page for December 2008 by http://www.maiden666.de .

We want to say thank you to the people who nominated us. Because even small nomination in other website means a lot for us. We are doing everything we can to make our site really the best Iron Maiden page.  So thank you once again !

Today The Official iron Maiden Fan club Bulgaria started new MySpace Profile. Stay tuned for new information, news and pictures from our travels, activities and etc.

The address is  http://www.myspace.com/maidenbulgaria Fell free to send your friend requests and we hope to make the fan club popular not only in Bulgaria but also around the world.

Up The Irons!!!

Dates for Brazil are now announced as part of Iron Maiden's extensive journey around Latin America on the final leg of their Somewhere Back in Time World Tour. These are:

Thursday March 12 - MANAUS, Sambrodromo 
Saturday March 14 - RIO DE JANEIRO, Apoteose 
Sunday March 15 - SAO PAULO, Autdromo de Interlagos 
Wed March 18    RECIFE,  Estdio Municipal
Fri March 20    BRASILIA, Brasilia Camping
 
For more information go to: http://www.mondoentretenimento.com.br
This will be the first time that the band have ever played in the beautiful coastal city of Recife, the capital city Brasilia, and Manaus, situated on the Amazon in the very heart of the rainforest.  It will also be their first visit to Rio for 6 years.
Following massive demand for tickets and the rapid sell out of the 40,000 capacity Palmeiras Stadium in Sao Paolo earlier this year the band will also return there again, but this time in a much bigger venue, the famous Formula One Grand Prix circuit Interlagos, where Lewis Hamilton sealed the Formula One World Championship last month. Other than Formula One Racing,  the only other events ever to be arranged there are a concert by Kiss in 1999, Brazil's Skol Beat electronic dance festival and an appearance by His Holiness the Pope, for whom hundreds of thousands turned out. It promises to be a very special event

The three South American dates for the last part of iron maiden’s last part of the SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME TOUR are announced

The dates are as follow

March 5 -  Estadio CARACAS, Venezuela - cap 25,000  -  www.evenpro.com
March 7 -  Simon Bolivar Park, BOGOTA, Colombia - cap 50,000 - www.evenpro.com.co
March 22 - Estadio Nacional, SANTIAGO, Chile - cap 50,000 - www.ticketmaster.cl

Tickets for these shows go onsale Saturday 29th November
We will shortly be announcing a further eight concerts. You should check your local media for full details of the shows and ticketing for each show. www.evenpro.com

Iron Maiden will be taking to the skies once again in 2009

Following the huge international success of their spectacular 'Somewhere Back in Time World Tour 08' Iron Maiden will be taking to the skies once again in 2009 for a fourth and final leg starting in Dubai on February 13th.
Тhe dates are as follows ...

February 2009:-
Fri 13th - UAE - Dubai Media City Amphitheatre
Sun 15th - India - Bangalore Royal Challenge Rock In India
Fri 20th - New Zealand - Auckland.  Mount Smart Stadium
Sat 21st - New Zealand - Christchurch. AMI Stadium
Wed 25th - Mexico - Monterrey Estadio Technologico.
Thurs 26th - Mexico - Guadalajara Arena VFG Jalisco.
Sat 28th - Mexico - Mexico City Fero Sol Stadium Complex

1st - 29th March 2009 - South and Central America.
Details to be advised soon...

As I promised the Iron Maiden / Killers month starts today.

Expect a lot of material , interviews , bootlegs and info around those two albums to be uploaded on our site durring this month

Iron Maiden Bulgaria is online again

It took us a little time to reconstruct our site, but now we are ready to present it to you.
The new stuff that you can find are:

• Information about all Iron Maiden singles and EP-s
• All bootlegs from all tours *
• Information about the Best of compilations and videography
• The pressings of every particular album. *
• Full information about the artwork of the covers and the symbolic behind them *
• Section for the Fan Club Iron Maiden Bulgaria and information how to Join.
• Shop section (which will be online soon)
• Bootleg torrent tracker for fan club members only
• Somewhere Back In Time Tour 2008 picture gallery

* Every month we will concentrate on different album from the history of the band and these sections will be updated during this period

Next week we will start with the Iron Maiden / Killers month, but for a demo we are giving you updated “Bootlegs” and “Pressing” sections for this two albums.

Mestrock.se has uploaded 30 high-quality photos of Saturday's (July 26) soccer game between the official IRON MAIDEN team, Iron Maiden FC, and Gothenburg, Sweden's Paddington's Allstars that took place a few hours before MAIDEN's concert at the Ullevi stadium in Gothenburg. In scorching heat (one of the warmest days of the Swedish summer so far), Iron Maiden FC won by 5 goals to 2. MAIDEN bassist Steven Harris scored two goals and said afterwards that he was happy his team got revenge for the loss in Gothenburg in 2005.

Later the same evening, IRON MAIDEN played to its biggest Swedish audience yet, with official ticket sales figures of 56,132, according to Live Nation. The concert received the highest possible ratings (5 out of 5) in the two major Swedish newspapers Expressen and Aftonbladet.

A personal message from Captain Bruce Dickinson
Dear 666 passenger,
I am gutted to have to tell you that Astraeus Airlines have been forced to remove the Iron Maiden decals (artwork transfers) from the Boeing 757 and that its now highly unlikely that operational proceedures will allow enough time to have the Ed Force One livery reinstated for my Bruce Air trips.
When we originally commissioned the 757 from Astraeus it was due to be reverted back to their normal airline branding at the end of the first leg of our tour.  However Astraeus were getting such great feedback from passengers and airports around our tour, that they asked if they could retain the Iron Maiden decals when they took the plane back for their own normal charter flights.  We thought this was great and it has since been flying European and Middle East routes with spectacular reaction.

Unfortunately for us, 'Ed Force One' was the only plane available from the Astraeus fleet to fly a new and regular route into and out of an African country on a recent new route.  The striking Iron Maiden imagery had a violent reaction from the locals as they regarded the artwork, particularly that of Eddie, as very bad ju ju. Not only would local passengers refuse to board the plane because of the artwork, but other passengers were refusing to board planes of other airlines parked nearby in case they were tainted by the evil spirits!  This resulted in some furore among the attending passengers and even more among the airlines involved!  As the liveried 757 is owned and maintained by Astraeus, they had no alternative but to strip off all the Iron Maiden artwork and return the plane to its usual livery to be able to continue on the new route .
 
As most seats on these trips were taken up before I announced that we would be using Ed Force One (Warsaw/Prague was already sold out), I really hope this isn't too much of a disappointment to you, and I much look forward to welcoming you aboard Bruce Air Flight AEU 666.

The team at ICT will keep you advised of any developments.

Best wishes,
 
Bruce

Iron Maiden invited American/Norwegian melodic metallers KAMELOT as support band for their show, at the massive TT Circuit location on August 16 in Assen, Netherlands.

For  more information visit Kamelot’s Myspace page

As a tribute to Iron Maiden Kerrang! has persuaded some of their favourite bands to record unique covers of their greatest anthems, for an exciting free CD entitled Maiden Heaven. The tracklisting and details for this world exclusive release will be revealed next month and we want YOU to get involved too by designing the album's artwork!

Feel free to interpret the cover's concept in any way you wish by using any medium at your disposal. A K! panel will select the winner and contact them in due course. Your entry can be submitted as a high-resolution JPG (300dpi - 150mm x 150mm) and should be e-mailed to feedback@kerrang.com or alternatively, you can send in your original artwork, but please note it cannot be returned. The deadline for this competition is May 26.

What's in it for you? In addition to having your artwork adorn the cover of this incredible album, the winning entrant will also win a year's subscription to Kerrang!.

Iron Maiden released the artwork of the upcomming BEST OF Compillation "Somewhere Back In Time - The Best Of: 1980-1989 "for free download

UK's What Records will release "Chemical Wedding - Original Soundtrack" on May 19.

"Chemical Wedding" is a feature film written by IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson and long-time Monty Python editor Julian Doyle, who also directed the film. The film is a gothic sci-fi extravaganza set in Trinity College Cambridge, where a scientific experiment goes awry resulting in the resurrection of the infamous Edwardian occultist Aleister Crowley, who was immortalized into pop culture by the likes of THE BEATLES, Jimmy Page and Ozzy Osbourne. The soundtrack includes two tracks from IRON MAIDEN and two tracks from Bruce.

"Chemical Wedding - Original Soundtrack" track listing is as follows:

01. Chemical Wedding - BRUCE DICKINSON
02. Hush Hush Here Comes the Bogie Man - HENRY HALL / VAL ROSING.
03. Fanlight Fanny - GEORGE FORMBY
04. Man of Sorrows - BRUCE DICKINSON
05. Wickerman - IRON MAIDEN
06. Can I Play With Madness - IRON MAIDEN
07. Separation - SKIN
08. Une Faune Apres Midi - DEBUSSY
09. The Alleluya Chorus - HANDLE
10. (Excerpt) Violin Concerto – MOZART

Directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn of Banger Films Inc. — creators of the critically acclaimed, award-winning documentary "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" and its soon-to-be-released follow-up "Global Metal" — are looking for fans' "home videos" for possible use in the upcoming IRON MAIDEN documentary that follows the band's current "Somewhere Back in Time" tour. "So if you captured the excitement of Ed Force One landing, fan mayhem at the airport, camping or lining up outside the venues on your cell phone, camera or video camera, please upload your clips to our special YouTube group 'Somewhere Back in Time Fan Videos.' (Please note we are NOT looking for any fan footage of the concert performances.) Directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn will review all videos. If selected, fans will be contacted with further details. Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2008. Go to this location to upload your video."

Producer Kevin Shirley is currently in the studio mixing IRON MAIDEN tracks for a new feature documentary that follows the band's current "Somewhere Back in Time" tour. The film is being helmed by directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn of Banger Films Inc. — creators of the critically acclaimed, award-winning documentary "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" and its soon-to-be-released follow-up "Global Metal".

For the official tour documentary, Scot and Sam are following the band in the air and on the stage, giving fans behind-the-scenes and front-and-center access to one of the most-talked-about metal tours of 2008.

The president of the Bulgarian fanclub Dimitar Petrov and the members of the managing committee Liubomir Baliev , Gergana Popova , Stanlly Milev and the owner and administrator of the website Nickola Petras will appear as guests on Z-rock's BRUTALLICA show. The show will be on Wednesday (09.04.2008) and the guests will appear 30 minutes after the start of the show in 21:00

After the great gigs in USA and Canada. Iron Maiden are pleased to announce new dates for North America.

SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME -- WORLD TOUR 08'  CANADA SUMMER TOUR DATES:

Tue 03 June - Pacific Coliseum Vancouver, BC    
Thu 05 June - Saddledome Calgary, AB
Fri 06 June - Rexall Place Edmonton, AB
Sun 08 June - Brandt Center Regina, SK
Mon 09 June - MTS Centre Winnipeg, SK

SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME -- WORLD TOUR 08' USA TOUR DATES:
5/21/08 San Antonio, TX Verizon Wireless
5/22/08 Houston, TXВ  Woodlands
5/25/08 Albuquerque, NM Journal Pavilion
5/26/08 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Pavilion
5/28/08 Concord, CA Concord
5/30/08 Los Angeles, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
5/31/08 Los Angeles, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
6/2/08В В  Seattle, WA White River Amphitheatre

Bulgarian Official Iron Maiden Fan club members will travel to Athens, to see Iron Maiden live on 2nd august. The tickets are here and are waiting for their owners. This is first activity organized by the “Official Fan club Iron Maiden Bulgaria”.

For now 15 members will have the luck to see their idols from few meters in the front section of the stage. There are still tickets for the show and if you wish to join, please contact us.

maidenbulgaria@abv.bg

maidenbulgaria@gmail.com

With the overwhelming success of the current 'Somewhere Back In Time World Tour '08', and the recent No 1 selling DVD 'Live After Death', EMI Records are proud to release a very special album on CD and double picture disc vinyl on 12th May to chart the first decade of the band's extraordinary career. The album celebrates the essence of the current tour by featuring most of the essential tracks from the band's first seven studio albums and one live album, recorded between 1980 and 1989, and is aptly also entitled 'SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME'

Here is the tracklis:

1. Churchill Speech (0.49)
2. Aces High (4.36)  
3. 2 Minutes To Midnight (6.00)  
4. The Trooper (4.11)   
5. Wasted Years (5.06)   
6. Children Of The Damned (4.35) 
7. The Number of The Beast (4.53)  
8. Run To The Hills (3.53)   
9. Phantom Of The Opera -- Live (7.21)
10. The Evil That Men Do (4.34)   
11. Wrathchild -- Live (3.07)   
12. Can I Play With Madness (3.31)  
13. Powerslave (6.47)
14. Hallowed Be Thy Name (7.12)
15. Iron Maiden -- Live (4.50)

In an unprecedented move to let younger fans hear, understand and appreciate the quality of these recordings EMI launch the unique SOMEWHERE BEST IN SOUND whereby the curious/adventurous can download the entire album without charge from www.ironmaiden.com  as a high quality audio file (WMA) which is a typically powerful 320 kbps. Fans will then be able to listen to the entire album at their leisure three times before the download expires.  The listener is then given a simple option to upgrade and purchase the album as a full traditional DRM-free download (so they can then copy or do as they like with the album). The Cover is illustrated by the legendary Derek Riggs.

From onstage last night (Feb 19), amid the pandemonium in front of 14,000 screaming fans at a packed Los Angeles Forum, Iron Maiden announced the first leg of their eagerly anticipated North American summer tour.

Tickets for Iron Maiden's current "SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME -- WORLD TOUR 08" dates at the Los Angeles Forum and New Jersey's Izod Centre sold out months in advance, the band are delighted to announce they are coming back for more major USA concerts this summer which will take them to a number of cities they have not played in many years.

Wed 5/21/08 San Antonio, TX - Verizon Wireless
Thu 5/22/08 Houston, TX - Woodlands
Sun 5/25/08 Albuquerque, NM - Journal Pavilion
Mon 5/26/08 Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Pavilion
Wed 5/28/08 Concord, CA - Concord
Fri 5/30/08 Los Angeles, CA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Sat 5/31/08 Los Angeles, CA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Mon 6/2/08   Seattle, WA - White River Amph

According to IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson, the group's concert in Tokyo, Japan tonight (Saturday, February 16) was filmed for an upcoming DVD. No further details are currently available.

IRON MAIDEN kicked off their Somewhere Back In Time - World Tour '08 with a headlining performance Friday night (February 1) in front of nearly 100,000 fans at the Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai, India. The group's setlist was as follows:

01. Intro - Churchill's Speech 02. Aces High 03. 2 Minutes to Midnight 04. Revelations 05. The Trooper 06. Wasted Years 07. The Number of the Beast 08. Run to the Hills 09. Rime of the Ancient Mariner 10. Powerslave 11. Heaven Can Wait 12. Can I Play With Madness? 13. Fear of the Dark 14. Iron Maiden ----------------------------- 15. Moonchild 16. The Clairvoyant 17. Hallowed Be Thy Name

Iron Maiden are currently on a worldwide tour which has just started in Mumbai in India. AmongВ  many stadium and festival performancesВ around the planet we are delighted to announce that the band will perform in Budapest on the Mainstage of Sziget festival on Tuesday August 12th.

Tickets for the show are available from http://sziget.interticket.com/festival?language=englishВ - festival tickets at the moment, day tickets will go on-sale in May.

Former IRON MAIDEN/WOLFSBANE singer Blaze Bayley will be IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson's guest on Friday, February 15 during Bruce's weekly BBC 6 Music radio show, aptly named "The Bruce Dickinson Friday Rock Show". This will mark the very first interview that Bruce and Blaze have ever done together. Listen to the program live via the Internet between 10:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. U.K. time at BBC.co.uk.

Iron Maiden are very pleased to announce they will be performing at the Assen TT Race Track in Assen, Holland on Saturday 16th August as part of their Somewhere Back In Time World Tour 2008. This is the first time any such music event has been staged as the famous motorcycling rack track which regularly hosts the World superbike championships and TT races.

Tickets go on-sale to the general public at 10am on Saturday 26th Jan via www.livenation.nl

On the eve of the highly anticipated Australian leg of the IRON MAIDEN world tour, which will see the band play sold out arena shows in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in February, the support acts have been announced.

Legendary local metal band Vanishing Point is confirmed as support on the Perth and Melbourne IRON MAIDEN shows.

Behind Crimson Eyes is support on the Sydney and Brisbane IRON MAIDEN shows.

Lauren Harris and her band have been announced as the opening act on all Australian IRON MAIDEN dates.

AfterВ a lot of deliberation, we can finally announce the name of Maiden's 757, and the lucky winner of our 'name the plane' competition. Over to Rod...

"From well over 2000 entries, Bruce and I chose ED FORCE ONE. ALthough many were quite original in concept, it has a niceВ ring to it. In the tie breaker pretty well all of you chose to flatter the band! Very nice of you! Anyway, we chose WILSON's entry -В "Timeless, inspirational, continually evolving, but always true to themselves, camaraderie that survives the evil that men do!" - I like the reference to camaraderie as I feel that it's something the Maiden and their fans are very much about."

So big congratulations to WILSON who'll soon be sinking a few beverages with Rod backstage before watching the gig from the mixing desk as well as getting some goodies like a tour jacket a personalised signed pic of the plane. (Signed by the band, not by the plane, obviously.)

We'll also be sorting out runners up prizes for the 15 other people who chose the same name!

Iron Maiden will be playing the Via de la Plata festival in Merida, Spain on July 11th. Tickets for this gig go on-sale on Saturday 12th January via www.ticktackticket.com