The Sonisphere festival returns in year two to Switzerland on a new Site. The Festival will happening in Basel – St.Jakob.  Again the Swiss Sonisphere Festival has one of the most powerful billings in the world and is delighted to announce as headliners one of the greatest live rock bands ever  - IRON MAIDEN!

Founded by bassist Steve Harris in the mid '70s, Iron Maiden were already firmly established as heavy metal's brightest hopes when they stormed the world with their third album  "The Number Of The Beast" in 1982. Throughout the decade that followed, Maiden recorded and toured relentlessly with seven new studio albums and seven World Tours in the '80s alone. Cementing their reputation as the hardest-touring band on the planet and with the unmistakable figure of band mascot Eddie adorning every album cover and T-shirt , Iron Maiden created a world of their own; one that welcomed fans from every culture, creed and social sphere with a guarantee of heartfelt conviction and spectacular live action.

With milestones like the marathon World Slavery Tour of 1984/5, headlining Rock in Rio in both 1985 and 2001 and Castle Donington's Monsters Of Rock festival in 1988, (still the biggest ever event there with 107,000 attending), Maiden set new standards, while continually reinventing themselves both musically and visually.

Continuing success into the 21st Century has seen maiden achieve sales of over 80 million albums  to date, and 2010 proved yet another landmark year in the career of Iron Maiden, with the release of their 15th  studio album "The Final Frontier" becoming their most successful chart-wise to date. The album reached the No.1 spot in an impressive 28 countries right around the globe from Lebanon, Arabia, Japan and India in the East, to Canada in the West, New Zealand down south, in the UK and most of Europe, including Switzerland, the band's first ever No 1 album there, and across Latin America, as well as reaching No.1 in Billboard's European, Tastemaker and Rock Charts and No 4 in the USA, their highest album position ever in that country. The Final Frontier World Tour opened in June 2010 with 25 shows in North America followed by headlining selected stadium shows and major festivals in Europe.

In Feb 2011 the band will continue The Final Frontier Tour by taking to the skies in their specially customized Boeing 757 airliner Ed Force One which once again will be transporting band, crew and their entire 10ton stage production 50,000 miles right around the globe in 66 days.  piloted by lead singer Bruce Dickinson, a qualified Airline Captain.