featuring a stellar active rock lineup including multi-platinum headliners DISTURBED and AVENGED SEVENFOLD, along with STONE SOUR and HALESTORM featured on the main stage. The potent rock lineup for the touring music and lifestyle jaunt also features performances from Jägermeister Second Stage headliners HELLYEAH, as well as AIRBOURNE, HAIL THE VILLAIN, NEW MEDICINE and the Jägermeister Battle of The Bands Winner in each city. The 36-date tour launches August 17 in Minneapolis, MN and will visit arenas and amphitheatres across North America before wrapping October 4 in Madison, WI.

Video footage and photos from the opening show of the "The Gruesome Twosome Tour" featuring ALICE COOPER and ROB ZOMBIE on April 26 at Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada's MTS Centre can be viewed in the YouTube clips below.

The announcement comes with news of a North American tour with very special guests DREAM THEATER to open in Dallas, Texas, on June 9 and finish in Washington D.C. on July 20, making it MAIDEN's most extensive North American tour in many years.

British heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN are expected to make an announcement about possible 2010 North American live dates on Thursday, March at 3:00 p.m. EST. No further information is currently available.