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“El Dorado” is the second track from band Iron Maiden’s upcoming album The Final Frontier. The song is the band’s thirty-sixth , and the first from the album. It was made available as a free download on the band’s official site at 00:01 on 8 June 2010 UTC (19:01 on 7 June EST), one day before the album’s supporting tour began.

According to the El Dorado Songfacts, the track features the boys’ own lyrics about the legendary “Lost City of Gold” supposedly located in the Andes - El Dorado being Spanish for “the golden one.”

Bruce Dickinson explained the meaning of the song to Kerrang!; has a cynical lyric about the economic crap that’s been happening. It seemed a bit like a perfect storm; people were borrowing money like crazy. I thought, ‘This is really going to screw people up’ and sure enough, we’re all in deep doo-doo! And that’s what El Dorado is about, it’s about selling somebody the myth that ‘The streets are paved with gold’ and them asking, ‘Where do I sign up?’.
Regarding the early online release of the song, vocalist Bruce Dickinson explains:
El Dorado is a preview of the forthcoming studio album. As we will be including it in the set of our Final Frontier World Tour, we thought it would be great to thank all our fans and get them into The Final Frontier mood by giving them this song up front of the tour and album release.
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  • MartaaaPop

    The live version sounds much better than the studio one. [3] But the studio version is still great.

    last month

  • Fe666

    The live version sounds much better than the studio one. [2]

    last month

  • sebadagostino

    The live version sounds much better than the studio one.

    last month

  • DavCnuk

    great song! My favourite from Final Frontier

    March 2012

  • Rockinfreddy

    Großer Song einer geilen CD! Up The Irons!

    March 2012

  • octopuss22

    Amazing!

    March 2012

  • alfonzoloya

    One guitar riff sounds like "Barracuda".

    February 2012

  • crispolly

    Up The Irons 666 [2]

    January 2012

  • BlackLTD401

    Up The Irons 666

    January 2012

  • rockandrolljoe

    Greed, Lust and Angry Pride.

    December 2011

  • warhead547

    Yeahh

    December 2011

  • lucashvogel

    best of the album...

    November 2011

  • captgutcrusher

    this is one of my personal snake oils

    October 2011

  • MissGirl

    najlepszym kawałkiem nie jest ale i tak powala na łopatki / UP THE IRONS \

    August 2011

  • VanniHeartsWal

    love!

    July 2011

  • Shadowshun

    Best song of this album

    June 2011

  • JuniorJ00

    This is best song

    June 2011

  • utsavsharma

    The only one from TFF that hasn't grown on me. Love the thick guitars but overall it's still meh.

    May 2011

  • navts

    average song with a shitty chorus

    May 2011

  • maria_uiq

    \m/

    May 2011
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