Fifty years of Iron Maiden – one way to celebrate? With the Fender Limited Edition 50th Anniversary Dave Murray Stratocaster. Murray, one of the driving forces behind one of heavy metal's greatest acts, steps up to the plate today with his very own, highly customized Fender Stratocaster. Today's Dave Murray Stratocaster joins in Fender's Limited Edition Iron Maiden 50th Anniversary series release and stakes its claim to heavy metal nirvana with plenty of personal elements straight from Murray's own Fender guitars.

Backing up Iron Maiden's theatrical performances and massive sonic onslaught requires some real firepower. Murray, probably one of heavy metal's most prolific, Fender-favoring players, enters the fray with his own signature Strat. This limited signature model kicks it all off with a classic double-cutaway Stratocaster body made of alder. Fender's standby body wood serves as an excellent sonic base this whole model lifts off from. Reaching out, this body welcomes a maple neck in a "C" Shape profile wrapped in a sleek gloss finish. The speed of Fender's slim "C" shape and the smoothness of a gloss finish enable lightning-fast moves across the neck's full length.

As we look to this guitar's fingerboard, we begin to get let in on a couple of its customized elements. First, this Strat brings on a classic Fender rosewood board bearing twenty-one Medium Jumbo frets with White Dot inlays. These Medium Jumbo frets balance spaciousness and articulation to accommodate the kind of speed in playing you've come to know from a band like Iron Maiden. This board features another metal-friendly feature: a compound radius fingerboard. Flatter than your usual Fender fingerboard, this limited model measures from a modern 9.5" near the nut to a strikingly flat 14" moving toward the body.

There's unambiguously some heat under the hood with this Dave Murray special. Onboard, this Fender loads in three unique, high-powered pickups. In the neck and bridge positions, this Dave Murray Stratocaster features two Seymour Duncan humbuckers – a JB TB-4 in the bridge and a SH-1N in the neck. Meant for fueling the band's sonic flame, these Seymour Duncan humbuckers have proved indispensable for Murray alongside a Seymour Duncan Antiquity Texas Hot single-coil in the middle position. Together, these three Seymour Duncans offer up an incredible amount of power and finesse to break the Fender mold and get across Iron Maiden's massive tonal attacks.

This Dave Murray signature tops off with a couple of important hardware specifications. Centrally, this Stratocaster features a full Floyd Rose setup with a Floyd Rose FRT-O1000 Double Locking 2-Point tremolo bridge and R2 Locking nut. Ensuring absolute stability and precision even with the deepest and wildest of vibrato bends, these Floyd Rose pieces have your back.

You don't get to fifty years as one of a genre's defining acts without good gear at your side. Grab this Dave Murray signature a really see what we mean.

• Part of Fender Limited Edition Iron Maiden 50th Anniversary collection
• Double-cutaway alder solidbody with gloss polyester finish
• "C"-Shape maple neck with gloss finish
• Rosewood fingerboard with twenty-one Medium Jumbo frets
• 9.5" - 14" compound radius fingerboard with White Dot inlays
• Seymour Duncan JB TB-4, Antiquity Texas Hot, and '59 SH-1N pickups
• Fender Vintage-Style tuning machines
• Floyd Rose FRT-O1000 Double Locking 2-Point tremolo bridge and R2 locking nut
• 50th Anniversary collection neck plate and Dave Murray headstock signature
• Fender Deluxe gig bag included