To celebrate the glorious career of Iron Maiden, artists have recorded some of their favorite Iron Maiden tracks for an upcoming CD release.

The CD will be given away free with the July 16 issue of Kerrang! magazine. The CD will include performances from Avenged Sevenfold, Coheed and Cambria, Trivium, Machine Head, and Metallica.

Kerrang! sat down with Lars "Donkey" Ulrich and asked him about Iron Maiden. This is what he had to say:

"Iron Maiden are 10 per cent cooler than every other band," says Ulrich. "From their relationship with their fans, to their album covers to their stages, to their live presentation, to their photos - whatever they did was always cooler than what everyone else did! I have always had an incredible amount of respect and admiration for them and obviously getting a chance to be part of this CD feels like that has come a full circle. We played Remember Tomorrow as it was basically the blueprint for songs like Fade To Black and Welcome Home (Sanitarium), and some of the more epic ballady type of songs that Metallica had done later. We had so much fun jamming with this! We put a bit of an intro on it, to give it a bit of a Metallica stamp, and we are super pleased with how it has turned out."

Does this mean that there will be excessive amounts of snare drum? You will have to buy the issue of Kerrang! to find out.  The track listing is below:

01, Black Tide - Prowler
02, Metallica - Remember Tomorrow
03, Avenged Sevenfold - Flash Of The Blade
04, Glamour Of The Kill - 2 Minutes To Midnight
05, Coheed And Cambria - The Trooper
06, Devildriver - Wasted Years
07, Sign - Run To The Hills
08, Dream Theater - To Tame A Land
09, Madina Lake - Caught Somewhere In Time
10, Gallows - Wrathchild
11, Fightstar - Fear Of The Dark
12, Machine Head - Hallowed Be Thy Name
13, Trivium - Iron Maiden
14, Year Long Disaster - Running Free
15, Ghostlines - Brave New World

You can also find out more information from Kerrang!