High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Final Frontier is the fifteenth studio album by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 13 August 2010 in Germany, Austria and Finland, 17 August in North America, 18 August in Japan, and 16 August worldwide. At 76 minutes and 35 seconds, it is the band`s longest to date and their first since A Matter of Life and Death in 2006 (the longest gap to date between two consecutive Iron Maiden studio releases).Melvyn Grant, a long-time contributor to the band`s artwork, created the cover art.