The TROOPERS: March 2011

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

IRON MAIDEN

Iron Maiden adalah band Heavy Metal Inggris dari Leyton di East London, yang dibentuk pada tahun 1975. Band ini disutradarai oleh pendiri, pemain bass dan penulis lagu Steve Harris. Mereka telah merilis sebuah kolektif total tiga puluh album: empat belas album studio, tujuh live album, empat EP dan empat kompilasi.

Pelopor dari New Wave of British Heavy Metal, mereka mencapai kesuksesan pada awal 1980-an. Setelah beberapa perubahan susunan, kemudian merilis serangkaian album platinum dan emas. Ini termasuk platinum-selling US Landmark The Number of the Beast pada tahun 1982, Piece of Mind pada tahun 1983, Powerslave pada tahun 1984, album live yang terkenal Live After Death tahun 1985, Somewhere In Time pada tahun 1986, dan Seventh Son of a Seventh Son di 1988. A Matter of Life and Death dirilis pada 2006 dan mencapai puncaknya pada nomor sembilan di Billboard 200 dan nomor 4 di UK.

Pada Oktober 2009, band ini telah bermain lebih dari 2000 live show selama karir mereka.

Anggota:

Steve Harris – Bass, Keyboards (1975–Sekarang)
Dave Murray – Gitar (1976–Sekarang)
Adrian Smith – Gitar (1980–1990, 1999–Sekarang)
Bruce Dickinson – Vokal (1981–1993, 1999–Sekarang)
Nicko McBrain – Drum, Percussion (1982–Sekarang)
Janick Gers – Gitar (1990–Sekarang)

Mantan Anggota :

Doug Sampson – Drum, Percussion (1977–1979)
Dennis Stratton – Gitar (1979–1980)
Paul Di'Anno – Vokal (1978–1981)
Clive Burr – Drum, Percussion (1980–1982)
Blaze Bayley – Vokal (1994–1998)
Dennis Wilcock - Vokal (1976–1977)
Paul Day - Vokal (1975–1976)

Diskografi :

Iron Maiden (1980)
Killers (1981)
The Number of the Beast (1982)
Piece of Mind (1983)
Powerslave (1984)
Somewhere in Time (1986)
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988)
No Prayer for the Dying (1990)
Fear of the Dark (1992)
The X Factor (1995)
Virtual XI (1998)
Brave New World (2000)
Dance of Death (2003)
A Matter of Life and Death (2006)
TBA (2010)
FINAL FRONTIER 2011

Monday, March 14, 2011

FEAR OF THE DARK

''in loving memory of ''dian'' its my best brother ''

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Iron Maiden - Live In Sydney (24-02-11)[bootleg]

[Cd1]

01.Satellite 15 ... The final frontier
02.El dorado
03.Two minutes to midnight
04.The talisman
05.Bruce greets the crowd
06.Coming home
07.Dance of death
08.The trooper
09.The wicker man
10.Bruce chats some more and has a message for Shane Warne
11.Blood brothers

[Cd2]

01.When the wild wind blows
02.The evil that men do
03.Fear of the dark
04.Iron maiden
05.Number of the beast
06.Hallowed be thy name
07.Running free

Thursday, March 10, 2011

The Trooper- Iron Maiden

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

BRUCE DICKINSON

BRUCE DICKINSON as known by Nicko McBrain

I think my first encounter with Bruce was when he was rehearsing with Samson in Kilburn, which must have been 1979. I remember I was playing pool and Bruce came out of the studio and he was very animated and very loud and I thought, ‘Who is this geezer?!’ His personality was way in front of the man himself. But as I got to know Bruce, I realised that he is a very intense guy. In the early days when I joined Maiden, he was very extrovert, yet he was introverted at the same time. When he gets a great idea, he won’t let it go and he gets so animated, but other times he would be so intent on what he was thinking about, he would be in another world. His mind amazes me. He’s a genius. He’s also an absolute lunatic - but most geniuses are! And inside there’s a heart of gold.

In the early days, there was a bit of ego. He was the frontman of the band, and you can’t be the stubborn brawny frontman of a band like Maiden and be timid and weak. Outwardly, very few things would phase him, but I know inwardly he’s a very sensitive man. We would have incredible times together, but he would also be a bit of a loner and go off and do his own bits and pieces.

He got into his fencing, which I completely admired about him, because he’s superfit now, but he doesn’t work out half as much as he used to. He was such a good fencer, he was actually asked to join the Olympic fencing team in the mid-to-late Eighties, but he couldn’t because he had to go on the road with the band.
Writing books was the next thing. He was unbearable when he was writing those Iffy Boatrace books, because you’d be doing something on the bus and he’d have just finished writing a new chapter and he’d want to read the whole fricking story to you! But he was so excited, you can’t blow someone out the sky for that.
I was very angry with him when he left the band, because of the way it happened and because I didn’t want him to leave. But when we all got back in the room to take that beautiful picture of the reunion, it was as though we’d all been on holiday for a couple of months, instead of four-plus years and in Adrian’s case, ten almost. The most amazing thing about making music together is that you really bond with your music and also personally, in your inner soul. There’s an amazing vibe that’s always maintained and even though we had four great years with Blaze, when Bruce and Adrian came back into the band, there was this incredible affiliation again.

A change I saw in Bruce from that time, apart from his enthusiasm for the band back like he had when I first joined it, is the genuineness of the emotion that I feel from him. He’s changed in that he seems more rounded and more content, although he’s doing so much more than before he left the band. He’s doing his radio show, he’s doing his flying and he’s got a part-time gig in a band as a singer! He is an absolute joy to be around. We’ve had so many great times on the ‘Give Me Ed’ tour, as we will do on the ‘Dance Of Death’ tour.

I think his finest moment on ‘Dance Of Death’ has got to be on ‘Journeyman’, because it shows a lighter side to Bruce’s voice. There are a lot more subtle emotions than you get with some other tunes and there’s so much more control. The emotion he puts into that track is phenomenal.

The Band

Monday, March 7, 2011

STEVE HARRIS as known by Janick Gers

STEVE HARRIS as known by Janick Gers

I was introduced to Steve and Bruce when Gillan were playing Hammersmith Odeon back in the Eighties. I quite liked the lad at the time, and I met him subsequently at a few Maiden gigs after that. He always seemed quite intense and serious and aware of what was going on.

As a person, Steve is one of the few people you meet that you can trust totally. He wouldn’t sell you down the river, he wouldn’t badmouth you behind your back; he’s a very straight fella. You can confide in him and it won’t get passed around, and he doesn’t bullshit. He has the ability to stand back and look at both sides of a situation, but if he’s convinced that he’s right, he will argue with every fibre of his body and he’ll never change his mind, which I think is a great strength. He has very strong mental tolerance.

In situations where other bands might have caved in, the one thing that has kept Iron Maiden doing what it does best is Steve, because he has this belief that what he’s doing is right. When you’re in a young band and your record company come to you, saying, 'You need to soften up your sound, we need a single', Steve’s the kind of guy you need to turn round to them and say, 'Fuck off!'

Steve has a very fertile imagination and a very simple way of writing lyrics. It’s not highbrow stuff – it’s deeper than that. He writes it as he sees it and you really get the feeling the words are from inside him. Every time I play the song ‘Blood Brothers’, it makes me shiver, because he hit the nail on the head. He lost his dad when he was on tour and when things like that happen to you, sometimes you go to deep places - everyone experiences that - but to be able to write it down is another thing. When you read his lyrics, there’s an honesty in there that comes out and he opens himself up more than he does when you’re talking to the guy.

He’s a great football player and he had the choice to play football professionally or play music when he was a kid, but I think he made the right decision. I don’t think he could cope with the discipline of the footballer’s life at the time when you’re a teenager and you’re starting to meet people and get into music. He’s his own man. But having said that, he doesn’t drink much and he takes care of his body – that’s very important to him. Being a sportsman, his attitude is that if your body is healthy, your mind is too, and I think that helps with the band, because you don’t get locked into that stupid rock'n’roll 'let’s go party every night' lifestyle.

He is an idiosyncratic bass player. He picked up the bass and taught himself in such a way that nobody can really copy it. People say it’s like a lead guitar, but it’s not. It gives the band a basis and it moves around quite a lot, but it’s the tone that he has. He has a way of hearing things and a tone that isn’t normally associated with a bass, it’s more like a rhythm guitar. Him and Nicko provide the pulse of Iron Maiden, the body of the band. You copy it at your peril, because the sound of Maiden is built around the way Steve plays bass and the only band that it would work in is Maiden.

Steve has been very involved in the new album. He has this tunnel vision where he can really hone in on things and he has this tremendous focus when he’s recording albums - or doing anything with Iron Maiden really. He wants to get it right and he’s prepared to put the time in. Not many people have that kind of determination and focus.

He is a very, very strong personality. Without his drive and ambition, it wouldn’t be Iron Maiden, no doubt about it. He’s its heart and its power.

The Band

Dave Murray - Iron Maiden

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You'd never know it from the way he throws himself around on stage, or from the way he makes his Gibson SG scream and bend to his will, but Dave Murray is actually the quietest, most unassuming rock star you could ever hope to meet. Indeed, the mile-wide smile apart, off stage, he is almost unrecognisable from the blonde-haired rock god we get to see on stage with Iron Maiden.

"Oh, well, you can't walk down the street throwing shapes like you do on stage," he says with one those dazzling and frequent smiles. "I mean, you'd just look silly!"

But it goes deeper than that. Along with the warmth and generosity and the general down-to-earth-ness, not to mention the musical talent, Dave Murray possesses a quality so rare in rock star circles as to be almost non-existent: humbleness.

"It's my upbringing," he shrugs, not wanting to make a big thing of it. "When you start out with nothing, you don't expect much from life. For all this to happen to me - well, it's like a dream, really," he says, pausing to gaze, as if for the first time, at the gold records that adorn every wall in the office where we sit.

David Michael Murray was born, of mixed Scots and Irish descent, in Edmunton, London, on December 23, 1956. Like Steve Harris, who had been born the same year just a few miles up the road, as a boy Dave was a fanatical football player and fan, as well as a keen cricketer. But his family was poor - his father was disabled and his mother worked part- time as a cleaner - and the family never settled anywhere long enough for Dave to establish himself in any of the schools' teams he could have played for. By his reckoning, he had been to a dozen different schools by the time he left for good at the age of 15.

"It was tough but it was only looking back on it years later that I realised just how tough," he says now. "But then, maybe I wouldn't appreciate what I've got now so much, if it hadn't been for then."

These days, when he's not touring and recording with Maiden, Dave lives on the exotic Hawaiian island of Maui with his Californian-born wife, Tamar, and their beautiful eight-year-old daughter, Tasha. But, he says, "Not a day goes by that I don't think, 'When is this going to end?' It's like it's all too good to be true."

The first thing he did when he made some money was buy his folks a house. His father has since passed away but his mother still lives there to this day. The only surviving member of the band - along with Steve Harris - who first signed to EMI Records back in 1979, Dave's hard upbringing also helped him ride the highs and lows of his career in Maiden without ever losing his head. As he says, "I grew a protective shell around me and just got on with things. And I think that held me in good stead later with Maiden, especially in the early days."

Dave first got interested in rock music when he was 15. He'd heard 'Voodoo Chile (Part 2)' by Jimi Hendrix on the radio and "everything changed - just like that." He had been a skinhead up until then. "But I just ditched the Doc Martens and I got myself an old Afghan coat and became a hippy - man!" he chortles.

He also got himself a guitar and started practising every night in his bedroom. "I didn't read music, I just used to sit and play along to records." His first band - a school trio called Stone Free - was actually with future fellow Maiden guitarist, Adrian Smith, who lived a few streets away. "Dave was a little bit further down the road than I was, in terms of playing," remembers Adrian. "I was a bit jealous, actually."

From there, Dave had played with a number of different bands before meeting Steve Harris and joining Iron Maiden for the first time in 1976. As long-time Maiden scholars will know, he was actually sacked just a few months later - after a spat with then vocalist Dennis Wilcock - and that, for a while, Dave rejoined Adrian in Urchin, who recorded one single, 'Black Leather Jacket', before Dave upped sticks again and returned to a now thankfully Wilcock-free Maiden.

"I never wanted Davey to leave in the first place," says Steve today. "I always thought he was the best guitarist I'd ever worked with. He was one of those guys who really could play the guitar with his teeth, you know?"

Musically, Dave's contributions to Maiden over the years have mainly been of the 'scintillating guitar solo' variety - witness any of his sublime work from early Blackmore-esque outbursts like the solo on 'Phantom of The Opera' (from 1980's 'Iron Maiden') to more recent peaks of performance like the eye-watering solo on 'Lightning Strikes Twice' (from last year's 'Virtual XI').

That said, despite a strike rate that works out to about one song per album - a trait he puts down to his own "laidback" nature more than anything - Davey is a talented songwriter, too. From the witty and wonderfully ludicrous 'Charlotte The Harlot' (from 'Iron Maiden'), to more thought-provoking stuff like the stiflingly atmospheric 'The Prophecy' (from 1988's 'Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son'), more than any other member of Maiden, apart from Steve himself, Dave Murray is the living embodiment of the heart and soul of Iron Maiden.

"I'm just lucky," he says typically modestly. "Lucky that I found such a great band to play in, and lucky to have such great fans that are into what we're doing."

But then, that's Dave Murray - modest, humble, down-to-earth and about as great a rock guitarist as you're going to get.
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Adrian Smith

While not an original member of Iron Maiden, guitarist Adrian Smith proved to be one of the missing pieces to the puzzle (singer Bruce Dickinson being the other) early on — resulting in the band obtaining elite status among the metal masses soon after. Born on February 27, 1957, in Hackney (located in East London), Smith was captivated by such renowned hard rock guitarists as Jimi Hendrix and Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore early on, while his sister's boyfriend's record collection only intensified his appreciation of hard rock. It wasn't long before a school chum and guitarist, Dave Murray, convinced Smith that he should take up the guitar himself. Murray and Smith began to play together in bands, and with Smith's decision to pursue music full-time, he opted to drop out before graduation. Smith's first serious band, Evil Ways, eventually evolved into Urchin, a group that Murray would sometimes be a part of as well. But Murray's main focus was his other group, heavy metallists Iron Maiden, who were making quite a name for themselves locally during the late '70s. Smith was even asked to join Maiden at one point during this time, but opted to pass due to his commitments to Urchin.

Meanwhile, Maiden quickly became one of England's top metal outfits, as the band's 1980 debut, Iron Maiden, nearly topped the charts back home. With Urchin disintegrating, Smith had a change of mind, and finally agreed to join Maiden in time for the recording of the group's sophomore effort, 1981's Killers (supposedly beating out Phil Collen for the spot, who would soon turn up in Def Leppard). Automatically, Smith and Murray formed one of heavy metal's top '80s-era guitar duos, as they took Thin Lizzy's twin-guitar setup to a whole other level — especially on such subsequent releases as 1982's classic Number of the Beast (which saw the arrival of singer Dickinson), 1983's Piece of Mind, 1984's Powerslave, 1986's Somewhere in Time, and 1988's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. Smith also turned out to a valuable songwriter as well, as he completely wrote or co-penned such Maiden classics as "22 Acacia Avenue," "Flight of Icarus," "2 Minutes to Midnight," "Wasted Years," and "Can I Play With Madness," among others (Smith even sang lead on the Somewhere in Time-era B-side, "Reach Out").

However, by 1989 it was becoming increasingly obvious that Smith was growing disenchanted with Maiden, as he issued an obscure solo album, credited to A.S.A.P., titled Silver and Gold. Despite the album not exactly lighting up the charts, Smith exited Maiden in 1990, replaced by Janick Gers. Little was heard from Smith throughout the '90s, until he reappeared alongside Dickinson (who had followed Smith's lead and left Maiden) on the releases Accident at Birth (1997), Chemical Wedding (1998), and Scream for Me Brazil (1999). With Smith and Dickinson working together once more (and with Maiden's popularity sagging), the duo reunited with their old Maiden pals in 1999, resulting in further sold-out tours and new studio albums, including 2000's Brave New World and 2003's Dance of Death. The 21st century edition of Maiden is also one of the few in metal to include three guitarists — Smith, Murray, and Gers.
This bio courtesy www.allmusic.com

JANICK GERS as known by Dave Murray

JANICK GERS as known by Dave Murray

I saw Janick onstage before I actually met him, and that was when he was with Gillan at Wembley Arena. I saw this flamboyant showman dancing around the stage playing great guitar, and I thought it was absolutely wonderful. Then he came down to a few of our shows and I met him backstage in the bar and we hit it off pretty much immediately - he was a really nice bloke.

In 1990, when Adrian left the band, Janick had just worked on Bruce’s solo album (‘Tattooed Millionaire’) and obviously, he was going to be the first choice as a replacement. But I remember at the beginning that Janick was actually defending Adrian - he was upset that he’d left the band and I think he was trying to talk him into coming back, which shows you what a good guy he is.

He came down to rehearsal and the stacks had been set up facing each other, wall-to-wall, so it was like a stand-off in a Western like ‘The Good, The Bad And The Ugly’, except I think we both wanted to be Clint Eastwood! We did ‘The Trooper’, we just went straight into it, there was no 'Let’s work it out together quietly.' It was just like one, two, three, four… bang! And straight away, sparks were flying round the room! It was apparent right away that this was going to work. He was very exciting to play with and it gave the band a well-deserved kick up the rear.

He is a genuine, salt-of-the-earth bloke, a very smart man with a great sense of humour. He’s a very sociable kind of chap. He likes going out strutting, especially on tour. He’ll go out for 20 mile walks and try to hit every bar on the way back!

He’s a good soul. He’s got a very good way of calming things down if they suddenly start to go overboard. He can pull everything together and make sure that people see things the right way. He’s very good at expressing himself that way, a very diplomatic man.

When he’s playing, he’ll push himself to the edge and really goes for it. There are two sides to it. His playing can be very controlled or it can be very spontaneous, but then he plays a lot of the melodic stuff. He’s got great feel, great dexterity, very fluid. So he’s fully rounded as a guitar player who goes from one extreme to another. He encompasses all aspects, from the quiet acoustic clean stuff into overdrive. It’s 360 degrees he plays everything. And he’s a great showman.

He wrote the track ‘Dance Of Death’ and it’s got everything on there, from the quiet moody melodic guitar to clean guitar to really heavy riffs, but done in the most complex and beautiful and sweet and heavy way, done with really good taste. If that song was the alphabet, from A to Z, it’s got every letter in it.

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Nicko McBrain...

Nicko McBrain...

More famous than any drummer has a right to be, with a style as punchy and distinctive as his battered, lived-in face, Nicko McBrain enjoys the rare distinction of being both the jester in the Iron Maiden pack and the ace.

"I can't think of any other drummer that would have fitted in so perfectly," says Steve Harris. "Nick plays the drums the way most guitarists play their guitars - he's riffing right along with you, note for note, I've never known anything like it! He doesn't just hold the beat, he drives the whole thing along, and as the bass player having to keep up with him every night, that's great for me. It means none of us is ever allowed to give less than 100 per cent."

Ask the great man himself, of course, and you get a more modest assessment. "Every drummer worth his salt has his own unique way of doing things," he says. "I just do what I do and, luckily for me, what I do sounds great in Iron Maiden."

It certainly does. Joining the band in 1983, in time to record the 'Piece Of Mind' album - still regarded by many, not least Steve Harris, as one of the greatest Maiden albums ever - it's impossible to imagine now what Maiden masterpieces like 'Where Eagles Dare', '2 Minutes To Midnight', 'Can I Play With Madness', 'Be Quick Or Be Dead' or ' Man On The Edge' would or could have sounded like without Nicko's full-spectrum drums thundering along behind them.

Playing live on stage though, is where Nicko has really made his larger-than-life presence felt. Clive Burr, his predecessor, was a fine drummer, too, and an argument could be - and often is - had over which of the two is, technically, the best. For most of us, Nicko wins hands down. But there's never been any doubt over who was the more entertaining stage personality. The Mad McBrain, as he has become known to the Maiden fans, is almost as freaky an on-stage presence as Eddie, leaping shirtless from his drum stool to lead the cheers as the band bound into another diamond from their bejewelled back-catalogue.

As for his off stage personality, "Mr Excess All-Areas," he once described himself as to me, and it's fair to say he wasn't exaggerating. I remember flying with him once from London, on our way to a record company party in Germany for what was then the new 'Seventh Son of A Seventh Son' album. We sat in First Class and Nick had already charmed the stewardesses into letting us have a jug of Bucks Fizz before the plane had even taken off. He then proceeded to hand out signed black- and-white photographs of himself on stage with Maiden. I'm not sure how many of the other Fist Class passengers - tired-looking businessmen, mostly - had heard of Iron Maiden before the plane took off, but they certainly had by the time we'd landed.

"I'm a born entertainer, me," Nicko laughed, and we all laughed with him because we knew it was true (and besides, we were onto our third jug of Fizz by then).

And yet, behind the laugh-a-minute facade, there is, after all, a real human being lurking. Michael Henry McBrain was born in Hackney, East London, on June 5, 1952. Don't laugh but he was, he cheerfully confesses, nicknamed 'Nicky' as a child, because that was the name of his favourite teddy bear - Nicholas The Bear. "I used to take him everywhere with me, and so my family just started calling me 'Nicky' for fun. Unless I was in trouble, then it was 'Michael!'"

His first experience of music came via his father's love of trad- jazz. Little Nicky's hero was Joe Morello, the great drummer with the legendary Dave Brubeck jazz band.

"I used to pretend I was Joe Morella hitting the tubs. I'd go into the kitchen and pick up a pair of knives and start hitting the gas cooker." Fed up with him bashing up the kitchen utensils, his parents finally bought him a proper drum-kit when he was 12.

"Most kids wanted a bicycle or something like that, but all I wanted was drums. When my mum and dad finally got me one it was like all my birthdays and Christmases rolled into one!"

He says he seemed to be able to play "almost straight away - I don't know how, I just could." By the time he left school at 15, he was already a veteran of several part-time pub groups. Musically, however, his tastes had broadened to include more contemporary Sixties sounds and suddenly his dad's jazz collection was infiltrated by records from The Shadows, The Animals, The Beatles and the Stones. On the recommendation of another drummer he knew, he began to take on session work, playing on countless different recordings.

"I'd do anything - pop albums, folk albums, religious albums, or more rock type stuff, I didn't mind. It was all good practise."

His first 'proper' band was The 18th Fairfield Walk, who did covers of Otis Redding and Beatles tunes. Then he joined the Wells Street Blues Band, who were, in the lingo of the day, "a more purist blues thing". But again, they never got beyond the clubs and Nicko found himself meandering from gig to gig, playing with now barely remembered names like singer and keyboardist Billy Day (who first started calling him Nicko, as a joke), The Blossom Toes (also featuring guitarist, Jim Cregan, later of Cockney Rebel and Rod Stewart fame) and others.

It wasn't until 1975, when he joined Streetwalkers, the band formed by

"They were lovely fellas, Roger and Charlie, and the Streetwalkers was a great little band. Why they never made it, I don't know."

Unfortunately, the Streetwalkers was destined to be one of the great also-rans of the Seventies: good albums, no hits. From then until he joined Maiden, Nicko had been occupied mainly in session work, most memorably with the Pat Travers Band (on their 1976 'Makin' Magic' album), then with French soci-politico punk-metallists, Trust - who actually supported Maiden on tour in the UK in 1981.

Steve, however, remembered him from before that, when Nicko was playing in a three-piece called McKitty, who Maiden shared the bill with at an open-air festival in Belgium, two years earlier.

"I remember McKitty's guitar got fucked-up halfway through the set and Nick ended up doing this sort of solo jam thing while they tried to fix it. And he was just fucking amazing! I mean, I find drum solos pretty boring, but this was better than watching the rest of the set! Then when Clive left, Nick was one of the first people I thought of."

Of course, nobody - not even Nicko - is perfect, and he admits he has his "funny moods", as he calls them. "One minute I'm up and I'm Mr Party All Night! Then the next minute I'm down and I'm Mr Grumpy. But that's just the way it is. Maybe I need to do that sometimes to get myself psyched up for a gig. 'Cos believe me, the way I play - the way this whole band plays - you better be psyched up for it! Or you'll get left behind!"

And that's a promise...

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Grammy Awards 2011 Iron Maiden Raih Piala Best Metal Performance

The Final Frontier (ist.)

Jakarta - Perhelatan Grammy Awards 2011 tengah berlangsung di Staples Center, Los Angeles, Minggu (13/2/2011) waktu setempat. Iron Maiden resmi meraih piala Best Metal Performance.Band metal asal Inggris itu berjaya berkat single 'El Dorado' dari album teranyar mereka, 'The Final Frontier'. Ini adalah piala pertama yang didapatkan Iron Maiden sepanjang 36 tahun karier mereka.Sebelumnya dua album Iron Maiden pernah masuk nominasi Grammy namun belum berhasil berjaya. Dua album tersebut adalah 'Fear of the Dark' di Grammy 1994 dan 'The Wicker Man' pada Grammy 2001.Kini Bruce Dickinson cs berhasil mengalahkan para band metal kenamaan lainnya yaitu Korn, Lamb of God, Megadeth dan Slayer.
Sesuai rencana, pada 17 Februari mendatang Iron Maiden akan bertolak ke Jakarta untuk menggelar konsernya di Ancol.Kemudian pada 20 Februari, promotor Original Production akan menggiring mereka konser di Garuda Wisnu Kencana, Bali.