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Producer Kevin Shirley has confirmed that he has finished mixing the new Iron Maiden album, "The Final Frontier", at his studio for a late summer release. The CD was recorded at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas with Shirley at the helm.

Shirley previously worked on the last three Maiden albums — 2000's "Brave New World", 2003's "Dance Of Death" and 2006's "A Matter Of Life And Death".

The next Iron Maiden album will be the band's fifteenth studio record, and they face a challenge to follow up "A Matter Of Life And Death", which was received well critically and saw the group play the whole album on tour.

Speaking at last year's premiere of the band's documentary film "Iron Maiden: Flight 666", guitarist Adrian Smith stated, "There's always a bit of pressure to follow up the last album. In a way, it's good, because it motivates you.

"We never get complacent; we always try our best for our own sake as much as anything else. As far as pressure for another album, we just do what we do — we've been doing it long enough now; we know what we're doing. [laughs]"

Iron Maiden guitarist Janick Gers revealed to BBC News in November that the band was on its way "to Paris for three weeks to work on some new stuff." He added, "The most important thing for a band is to create new music, otherwise you're not valid — you become a parody."

Read the entire article at Blabbermouth.net.

British heavy metal legends Iron Maiden have completed the recording process for their new album at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas with producer Kevin Shirley. According to a posting on Kevin's official web site, "There's still work to do, but the band portion is complete and in the can, so to speak."

Shirley previously worked on the last three Maiden albums — 2000's "Brave New World", 2003's "Dance Of Death" and 2006's "A Matter Of Life And Death".

The next Iron Maiden album will be the band's fifteenth studio record, and they face a challenge to follow up "A Matter Of Life And Death", which was received well critically and saw the group play the whole album on tour.

Speaking at last year's premiere of the band's documentary film "Iron Maiden: Flight 666", guitarist Adrian Smith stated, "There's always a bit of pressure to follow up the last album, in a way it's good because it motivates you.

"We never get complacent; we always try our best for our own sake as much as anything else. As far as pressure for another album, we just do what we do — we've been doing it long enough now, we know what we're doing. [laughs]"

Iron Maiden will headline this year's edition of the UK's Sonisphere festival, which will be held Saturday, July 31, 2010 and Sunday, August 1, 2010 at Knebworth.

Read the entire article at Blabbermouth.net.

If you didn’t read our story on the Backstreet Boys being booked to headline India’s only metal festival, come inside and check this out!

You would imagine that India doesn’t get too much in the way of metal but in recent years, they’ve been lucky enough to attract Megadeth, Machine (fucking) Head and Iron Maiden to the Rock in India festival. It’s easy to see why our Indian headbanging brothers were beyond pissed off when they were told this year the Backstreet Boys and Richard Marx would be playing their festival. Seriously.

Well, they haven’t taken it lying down. Thus far, the official site of the Rock in India festival has been continually hacked (see the pic at the bottom of the page) and had a giant cock plastered all over it and now, this killer YouTube video has been doing the rounds. Go Team Metal India!

- Metal Hammer