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The campaign to use Iron Maiden to block Simon Cowell’s X Factor winner Ben Haenow from topping the UK chart is set to fail with Haenow’s ‘Something I Need’ now set for a certain number one.

The UK is facing one of its biggest chart showdowns of all-time with music legend Engelbert Humperdinck in battle again metal icons Iron Maiden for the number one spot on the English chart next week.

Iron Maiden’s 1982 metal classic ‘Number Of The Beast’ could be the number one song in the UK over this Christmas period.

Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden is planning a dogfight for the Knebworth skies.

The Prodigy will join Iron Maiden and Metallica as the third headline artist to be announced for an historic Sonisphere festival in 2014.

Mike Weatherley, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Hove and Portslade, has welcomed the arrival of Iron Maiden’s Trooper Ale as the ‘Guest Ale’ in the Strangers’ Bar at the House of Commons.

EMI’s Parlophone Records has been officially folded into Warner Music making way for new release announcements for albums from Moby and David Guetta this week.

Britain’s Kerrang! magazine held their 20th annual awards on Thursday night at London’s Troxy Club, saluting both veteran artists and newer acts.

Iron Maiden opened their European portion of their Maiden England tour on Monday night at the Bilbao Exhibition Centre in Barakaldo, Spain.

Following the recently announced news of the ‘Heavy Metal Truants’ charity bike ride to Download Festival at Castle Donington, it has now been announced that Maiden’s lead singer Bruce Dickinson will be flying in specially from Germany so he can join the HM Truants in cycling the final 25 mile leg of the bike ride

Rebecca McBrain, the wife of Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain, was arrested back in early March on battery charges over an incident that happened in their home in Boca Raton, FL.

There are still a couple of days left, but the midweek chart for British Album sales, as published by the Official Charts Company, has Depeche Mode’s new album, Delta Machine, just 4,000 copies behind Justin Timberlake’s 20/20 Experience which is in its second week of release.

Clive Burr, the Iron Maiden drummer from 1979 to 1982 has died at the age of 56.

The band Montrose was formed in 1973 when guitarist Ronnie Montrose decided to leave the Edgar Winter Group.

Papa Roach, Rise To Remain, Gogol Bordello, Lit, Escape The Fate and Blitz Kids are amongst the 49 new acts added to the Download 2013 line up, in what is set to be THE biggest weekend in the rock calendar.

Iron Maiden will headline Download Festival on Saturday 15 June 2013, bringing their triumphant ‘Maiden England’ tour to Donington Park on the 25th Anniversary of their first headline performance at the legendary home of rock in 1988 when an astounding 107,000 fans turned out to see their spectacular ‘Seventh Son’ show, still the highest ever

Last Friday, Rolling Stone asked their on-line readers to select what they thought were the greatest heavy metal albums of all-time.

Classic rockers Thin Lizzy have not released an album in 29 years, dating back to before the death of frontman Phil Lynott with 1983’s Thunder and Lightning.

Music fans at the Sunflower Jam 2012 charity concert in London this week were treated to an ensemble featuring Alice Cooper and members of Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden and Queen.

Promoters Paul Dainty and Vivian Lees have created a new joint venture called Two Worlds Touring.

On 1st October 2012, earMUSIC , the Hamburg based rock label part of Edel Group, releases the first studio recording of Jon Lord’s groundbreaking meeting of rock and classical music – “Concerto For Group And Orchestra”