The Final Frontier
by Iron Maiden
- Type: Album
- Released: 16 August 2010
- Label: EMI
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 1:16:32
- Community rating: 3.37/5 from 8 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Iron Maiden's fifteenth studio album is their longest and most progressive to date. 'The Final Frontier' features epic, multi-part compositions exploring themes of space travel and mortality. It proves the metal legends can still deliver ambitious, galloping heavy metal late in their career.
Genres
Descriptors: fantasy, melodic, science fiction, progressive, long-form
Tracklist
- Satellite 15...The Final Frontier (08:40)
- El Dorado (06:48)
- Mother of Mercy (05:20)
- Coming Home (05:52)
- The Alchemist (04:28)
- Isle of Avalon (09:06)
- Starblind (07:48)
- The Talisman (09:03)
- The Man Who Would Be King (08:27)
- When the Wild Wind Blows (11:00)
Credits
- Steve Harris - bass, keyboards
- Dave Murray - guitar
- Adrian Smith - guitar
- Bruce Dickinson - vocals
- Nicko McBrain - drums
- Janick Gers - guitar
- Bruce Dickinson - Member
- Dave Murray - Member
- Adrian Smith - Member
- Steve Harris - Member
- Nicko McBrain - Member
- Clive Burr - Member
- Janick Gers - Member
- Peacock - art direction, design
- Andrew Yap - art direction, design [peacock]
- Anthony Dry - art direction, design [peacock]
- Rob Wallis - art direction, design [peacock]
- Stuart Crouch - art direction, design [peacock]
- Hangman - artwork [background images pages 10/11]
- Darkside Animations - artwork [background images pages 4/5 and 8/9]
- Rick Roskin - booking [booking agent at caa]
- John Jackson - booking [booking agent at k2]
- Creative Artists Agency - booking [for north america]
- K2 - booking [for the world excluding north america]
- Jared Kvitka - engineer
- Melvyn Grant - illustration [cover illustration, working drawings and sketches]
- Phantom Music Management - management
- Andy Taylor - management [for phantom music management]
- Rod Smallwood - management [for phantom music management]
- Bob Ludwig - mastered by
- Kevin Shirley - mixed by
- John McMurtrie - photography by
- James McCullagh - technician [assistant studio technician, the cave]
- Philip Scholes - technician [ssl duality technician]
- Terry Manning - technician [studio technician, compass point studios]
- Brent Spear - technician [studio technician, the cave]