With close to 56,000 copies sold last week, Iron Maiden's highly anticipated A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH dominates this week's Billboard charts:

9 Top 200 Albums

1 Top Independent Albums

2 Hard Music

3 Internet

Released last Tuesday on Sanctuary Records, A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH is Iron Maiden's fourteenth studio album in their three decade-plus career and the band's first Top 10 US Chart debut.

Iron Maiden kicks off their nearly sold-out "A Matter of Life and Death World Tour"

next month in the States. These North American arena dates will be the only dates to support A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH and mark the first time in years Iron Maiden begins a tour in the USA. Accompanying Iron Maiden on the tour (excluding Hartford and Los Angeles) is new UK metal sensation, Bullet for My Valentine.

Tour dates are:

10/4 - New England Dodge Music Center - Hartford, CT

10/6- Agganis Arena - Boston, MA

10/7- Tweeter Center At the Waterfront - Camden, NJ

10/12 - Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum - Uniondale, NY

10/13 - Continental Airlines Arena - East Rutherford, NJ

10/17 - Palace of Auburn Hills - Auburn Hills, MI

10/18 - Allstate Arena - Rosemont, IL

10/21 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre - Irvine, CA