The band’s 2015 album, The Book of Souls , was released on 4

The band’s 2015 album, The Book of Souls , was released on 4 September. The band’s first original studio album not to be issued by EMI outside North America, following Parlophone ‘s acquisition by Warner Music Group in 2013, it was a icritical and commercial success, becoming the band’s fifth UK number 1 album and hit number 4 on Billboard 200 in the US. The new release reached the number one position in the album charts of 43 countries. The new record was recorded at Guillaume Tell Studios in late summer 2014; its closing song, ” Empire of the Clouds “, penned by Dickinson, surpassed “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (from 1984’s Powerslave ) as Iron Maiden’s longest song, at 18 minutes in length.