Iron Maiden will continue to celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2026 with a North American leg of their Run for Your Lives tour.
The heavy metal legends spent this past summer on the European run of their half-century trek, which features an all-favorites setlist culled from Iron Maiden’s first nine studio albums. A second European leg will run from May 2026 through July, after which the group will hop across the Atlantic for a 12-gig tour of North American stadiums and arenas.
“This whole tour has been such great fun. I really enjoy belting out all these great old songs, and the whole band are loving playing them too!” Bruce Dickinson said in a statement. “We’ve got all the big ones from that early period including ‘Hallowed,’ ‘Run to the Hills,’ ‘Trooper,’ ‘Number of the Beast,’ ‘Killers,’ ‘Powerslave,’ ‘2 Minutes…’ and some of them we haven’t played in the US for over 20 years!! Plus there’s some real epics including my particular favorite ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and Seventh Son… We are doing them all and more. I mean, who wouldn’t for a 50th birthday party!”
Bassist Steve Harris added, “We are greatly looking forward to bringing this Run for Your Lives to North America and hope the fans enjoy seeing the show and hearing the set list as much as we do playing it. It’s an added bonus to have a few of our good friends on the tour with us.”
Those “good friends” include Megadeth, who will spend the entirety of what’s been billed as their farewell tour serving as Iron Maiden’s special guest, as well as Anthrax, “on the bigger shows,” Harris said. “We’re delighted to have both bands with us for this tour and know our fans will enjoy seeing them.”
The North American leg begins August 29 in Toronto and currently runs until September 29 at San Antonio’s Alamodome. Check the band’s website for on-sale information.
For Iron Maiden’s European tour this summer, the band request that fans “severely limit their use of phones at our concerts, ideally just keeping it in their pockets the whole time, especially in those standing areas in front of the stage.”
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“Our fans’ understanding and cooperation made a colossal difference to the atmosphere of every show and increased the enjoyment enormously for the band and fans alike,” Iron Maiden manager Rod Smallwood said in a statement.
“So for all our North American shows we are once again requesting that fans keep their phones in their pockets and enjoy the show ‘in the moment’, rather than raise their phone in the air trying to film sections and thus inconveniencing those around them and annoying the band. So if a so-called fan near you thinks they are special and filming what they selfishly want please just ask them, very politely of course, to put their phone somewhere the sun doesn’t shine!”
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Iron Maiden 2026 Tour Dates
August 29 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena *
September 3 Montréal, QC – Parc Jean-Drapeau *^
September 5 Harrison, NJ – Sports Illustrated Stadium *^
September 9 Boston, MA – TD Garden *
September 11 Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live *
September 12 – Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion *
September 15 – Hershey, PA – Hersheypark Stadium *
September 17 – Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life Festival
September 19 – Shakopee, MN – Mystic Lake Amphitheater *
September 22 – Chicago, IL – Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre *
September 25 – Los Angeles, CA – BMO Stadium *^
September 29 – San Antonio, TX – Alamodome *^
* Megadeth
^ Anthrax
