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IRON MAIDEN‘s official web site has been updated with the following message:

“Something of primal interest to all MAIDEN fans … Monday, January 2nd at 9 p.m. GMT [4 p.m. EST].”

IRON MAIDEN vocalist Bruce Dickinson told Daily Star last summer that the band will make “at least one more album” to follow 2010’s acclaimed “The Final Frontier”.

Dickinson revealed that the bandmembers often struggle during the songwriting process, explaining: “We try to keep things on an even keel. Being English, we still have some reserve when we’re communicating ideas to each other.

“[In the old days] we’d have a stand-up knock-down fight about anything. But we know each other better now and people do mellow.”

He added, “[When it’s time to write an album] we go off on our own, scribble ideas into our notebooks and come back to throw everything into the melting pot.

“We know the boundaries of what we can do musically.

“We’re not the kind of band who could say, ‘Hey, let’s do an album with Kanye West,’ because that wouldn’t interest MAIDEN fans at all.

“Things have been going a bit more prog-rock on our recent albums and the fans seem to love that.”

Source: Blabbermouth.net