Virtual XI

Virtual XI
Studio album by
Released23 March 1998 (1998-03-23)
Recorded1997 – February 1998
StudioBarnyard (Essex, England)
GenreHeavy metal
Length53:22
LabelEMI
Producer
Iron Maiden chronology
Best of the Beast
(1996)
Virtual XI
(1998)
A Real Live Dead One
(1998)
Singles from Virtual XI
  1. "The Angel and the Gambler"
    Released: 9 March 1998
  2. "Futureal"
    Released: 28 July 1998

Virtual XI (pronounced "Virtual Eleven") is the eleventh studio album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 23 March 1998. It is the band's second and final album with Blaze Bayley on vocals, as well as the final album as a five piece, as Bruce Dickinson and Adrian smith would later return to the band, while janick gers who replaced smith remained in the band. It also marks the first album to utilise a slightly modified logo, with the letters R, M, and N the same size as the other letters as opposed to them being extended. The band used the updated version of their logo for their next few albums; it was used until The Final Frontier, released in 2010.