Bruce Dickinson has teased “stuff we’ve by no means, ever performed earlier than” for Iron Maiden’s 2025 tour.
The singer affords a press release on the band’s impending Run For Your Lives European dates throughout a video revealed to Maiden’ social media channels on Tuesday (December 31).
The tour, set to start out in Might, will see the band play materials from their first 9 albums solely to have fun their fiftieth anniversary.
Within the video, Dickinson teases a stacked setlist and different surprises. “For these of you who’ve purchased tickets – which is, like, all of you – it’s gonna be actually, actually cool,” he guarantees (by way of Kerrang!). “I’m actually wanting ahead to it. We’re gonna be doing stuff we’ve by no means, ever performed earlier than, and it’ll be a setlist for the ages.”
The frontman additionally reiterates Maiden’s earlier announcement that the Run For Your Lives trek will lengthen to different continents and final into 2026: “I’ll see you there. And it’s not gonna cease in 2025. It’s gonna roll into 2026, as a result of there’s elements of the world that we have to get to that we are able to’t get to in 2025. So there you go.”
The upcoming tour might be Maiden’s first in 43 years with out longtime drummer Nicko McBrain. McBrain, who suffered a transient ischaemic assault (T.I.A.) which quickly paralysed his proper aspect in January 2023, retired from dwell performances late final 12 months, after the final present of the band’s 18-month-long The Future Previous world tour. He’ll get replaced by British Lion sticksman Simon Dawson.
The Run For Your Lives tour may even function considered one of Maiden’s largest-ever London reveals, going down on the 80,000-capacity London Stadium on June 28. See the complete checklist of dates and help acts beneath.
Iron Maiden Run For Your Lives 2025 tour dates:
Might 27: Budapest Aréna, Hungary *
Might 31: Prague Letnany Airport, Czech Republic *
Jun 01: Bratislava TIPOS Enviornment, Slovakia *
Jun 05: Trondheim Rocks, Norway ≠
Jun 07: Stavanger SR-Financial institution Enviornment, Norway *
Jun 09: Copenhagen Royal Enviornment, Denmark *
Jun 12: Stockholm 3Arena, Sweden *
Jun 13: Stockholm 3Arena, Sweden *
Jun 16: Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Finland *
Jun 21: Birmingham Utilita Enviornment, UK ^
Jun 22: Manchester Co-op Dwell, UK ^
Jun 25: Dublin Malahide Fort, Eire *^
Jun 28: London Stadium, UK *^
Jun 30: Glasgow OVO Hydro, UK ^
Jul 03: Belfort Eurockéennes, France ≠
Jul 05: Madrid Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano, Spain **
Jul 06: Lisbon MEO Enviornment, Portugal **
Jul 09: Zurich Hallenstadion, Switzerland **
Jul 11: Gelsenkirchen Veltins-Enviornment, Germany **
Jul 13: Padova Stadio Euganeo, Italy **
Jul 15: Bremen Bürgerweide, Germany **
Jul 17: Vienna Ernst Happel Stadium, Austria **
Jul 19: Paris Paris La Défense Enviornment, France **
Jul 23: Arnhem GelreDome, Netherlands **
Jul 25: Frankfurt Deutsche Financial institution Park, Germany **
Jul 26: Stuttgart Cannstatter Wasen, Germany **
Jul 29: Berlin Waldbühne, Germany **
Aug 02: Warsaw PGE Narodowy, Poland **
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