Iron Maiden have announced details of their sixteenth album, 'The Book Of Souls'.
The 11-track, 92-minute follow-up to 2010's 'The Final Frontier' is set for a worldwide release on September 4 and will mark the first ever studio double-album from the British metal legends.
The news arrives after frontman Bruce Dickinson was given the all-clear last month after being diagnosed with cancer earlier this year.
Speaking about the recording process, Dickinson says:
“We’re really excited about The Book Of Souls and had a fantastic time creating it. We started working on the album in late summer 2014 and recorded it at Guillame Tell Studios in Paris, where we’d done the Brave New World album back in 2000 so the studio holds special memories for all of us.
"We were delighted to discover the same magical vibe is still alive and very much kicking there! So we immediately felt at home and the ideas just started flowing. By the time we’d finished we all agreed that each track was such an integral part of the whole body of work that if it needed to be a double album, then double its going to be!"
Due to Bruce’s illness the band had to delay touring plans but are expected to be out on the road again early next year.
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