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Iron Maiden is a British Heavy Metal band

Iron Maiden Logo (From http://www.thegreat80s.com)

Iron Maiden are one of the most successful metal bands in the world and were a major part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Founded in 1975 by bassist Steve Harris.

The band went through a lot of lineup changes before the release of their first album in 1980 called Iron Maiden, recorded by Harris, singer Paul Di'Anno, guitarists Dennis Stratton and Dave Murray, and drummer Clive Burr. In the follow-up, Killers, (1981) Stratton, due to Creative Differences, was replaced by Adrian Smith, from the band Urchin. This was also the last album with Di'Anno, who was sacked for being a drunkard.

About the Album of Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier

The Final Frontier is the fifteenth studio album by British heavy metal band, Iron Maiden, released on August 13, 2010 in Germany, Austria and Finland, August 17 in North America, and August 16 worldwide. At 76 minutes and 39 seconds, it is the band's longest studio album to date. It is their first album since the release of A Matter of Life and Death in 2006, the longest gap to date between two consecutive Iron Maiden studio albums. The North American leg of their tour in support of the album started in Dallas, Texas on June 9, with a European tour beginning in Dublin on July 30, an Australian tour beginning in Melbourne on February 23, 2011, and further dates to be announced. Melvyn Grant, a long-time contributor to the band's artwork, created the cover art for the album.

Album Review: Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier

Metal fans are a fickle lot, aren't we? We demand material worthy of our fandom, and one day's hero can be the next day's goat. Fortunes change both for better or worse in an instant with one album release, one radio hit, or even something as elementary as a haircut.

We become possessive of our favorite bands, bellowing singers and grandiose shredders. We own the genre. It is a secret bond that all metal fans share; knowing that we are a community the mainstream might well never understand. The very scope of that sentiment grows as the rabbit hole wends deeper into the searing heart of metal's blast furnace.