Iron Maiden have released the details for the fourth and final leg of their enormously successful ‘Somewhere In Time’ world tour and have also began speaking about their next studio album.

Once again flown on Ed Force One by Bruce Dickinson, the band will hit the following cities:

February 2009:-
Fri 13th – UAE, Dubai Media City Amphitheatre
Sun 15th – India, Bangalore Royal Challenge Rock In India
Fri 20th – New Zealand, Auckland.  Mount Smart Stadium
Sat 21st – New Zealand, Christchurch. AMI Stadium
Wed 25th – Mexico, Monterrey Estadio Technologico.
Thurs 26th – Mexico, Guadalajara Arena VFG Jalisco.
Sat 28th – Mexico, Mexico City Fero Sol Stadium Complex

1st – 29th March South and Central America.
Details to be advised soon.

Bruce Dickinson has said of the final leg of the ‘Somewhere In Time’ tour: “This unique way of touring earlier this year with everyone and all our gear onboard the plane helped to make 2008 easily one of the most successful, exciting and fun years in the band’s career. Taking Ed Force One around the planet and playing to our fans in so many different countries was an incredible experience for all of us.  For me personally, flying and performing was one of the most challenging and satisfying things I’ve ever attempted despite the rigours and all the logistical difficulties we encountered.

In fact it was so much fun we decided to do it again as a final leg of this tour. All in all this will be a fantastic way to round off a tremendous year for the band before we take a bit of time off and then start work on a new studio album.”

Steve Harris has also spoken out about the final leg of the tour by saying: “”We will once again be loading onto the plane as much of the production and stage set as we can ram in, along with arranging plenty of pyro for all the shows!!  We will also be changing round the set list and replacing some of the songs, mainly with songs from the first four albums as the Early Days tour a few years back didn’t visit any of these places so we thought the fans would like to hear some of that even earlier material. This tour is likely to be the last time we play many of these songs live so we really will be giving it everything we have got!”

There’s still time to enter our Iron Maiden maths militia competition and we will be drawing a winner for this on Thursday 12th November.