During his January 19 spoken-word show at Kulttuuritalo in Helsinki, Finland, Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson offered an update on his new solo album. The frontman said the following when asked about release plans:

Soon. Obviously, there’s gonna be a MAIDEN tour in between me finishing the album and then you hearing it later. I won’t tell you when. It’ll be a surprise. Not really. But there’s been a lot of things around this particular record; it’s been a long time. The record itself is, I think… I’m very proud of it. I think it’s gonna be quite special. I think you’ll really dig it. There’s some other stuff that I’m doing around it that’s hopefully gonna be quite interesting as well. So I’ve got a lot of things I’m gonna be doing and be busy doing this year preparing it all. That’s all I can tell you at the moment. And there will be a tour. And we will be coming, I hope, to Helsinki.”

[via Blabbermouth]