Update: Iron Maiden has announced the Run For Your Lives World Tour. Here are the dates and details.
MAY 2025
27 Budapest, HUNGARY – Budapest Aréna *
31 Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC – Letnany Airport *
JUNE 2025
01 Bratislava, SLOVAKIA – TIPOS Arena *
05 Trondheim, NORWAY – Trondheim Rocks (Festival)
07 Stavanger, NORWAY – SR-Bank Arena *
09 Copenhagen, DENMARK – Royal Arena *
12 Stockholm, SWEDEN – 3Arena *
13 Stockholm, SWEDEN – 3Arena *
16 Helsinki, FINLAND – Olympic Stadium *
21 Birmingham, ENGLAND – Utilita Arena ^
22 Manchester, ENGLAND – Co-op Live ^
25 Dublin, IRELAND – Malahide Castle *^
28 London, ENGLAND – London Stadium *^
30 Glasgow, SCOTLAND – OVO Hydro ^
JULY 2025
03 Belfort, FRANCE – Eurockéennes Festival
05 Madrid, SPAIN – Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano **
06 Lisbon, PORTUGAL – MEO Arena **
09 Zurich, SWITZERLAND – Hallenstadion **
11 Gelsenkirchen, GERMANY – Veltins-Arena **
13 Padova, ITALY – Stadio Euganeo **
15 Bremen, GERMANY – Bürgerweide **
17 Vienna, AUSTRIA – Ernst Happel Stadium **
19 Paris, FRANCE – Paris La Défense Arena **
23 Arnhem, NETHERLANDS – GelreDome **
25 Frankfurt, GERMANY – Deutsche Bank Park **
26 Stuttgart, GERMANY – Cannstatter Wasen **
29 Berlin, GERMANY – Waldbühne **
AUGUST 2025
02 Warsaw – POLAND – PGE Narodowy **
*Halestorm | ^The Raven Age | **Avatar
Special Guests for the first half of the tour, including the London & Dublin outdoor shows but not the UK arenas, will be American rockers Halestorm. The second half of the tour sees Sweden’s Avatar as guests. And, finally, British metal band, The Raven Age, will open all UK & Ireland shows. The festivals will of course be festival billing.
Fan Club Presales begin Monday 23rd September – details here.
Tickets go on general sale next week – check the tour dates page for times and dates.
Trooper VIP packages will be available at all shows.
Says Bruce Dickinson, “Next year is a very special one for IRON MAIDEN and we’re going to be giving our fans a once-in-a-lifetime live experience. This is a tour that’s gonna put a smile on your face and a cheer in your throat. If you’ve seen us before, then get ready to take that experience to a whole new level. If you’ve never seen us before, then what the hell have you been waiting for? Now’s your chance to find out what you’ve been missing! IRON MAIDEN’s definitely gonna get ya!”
Manager Rod Smallwood adds, “50 years of Maiden and I have seen 46 of them! With well over 100 million albums sold and almost 2500 shows in 64 countries and counting, to countless millions of fans, we are all still loving every second and consider every tour a new challenge to bring something different and exciting to our fans. And for this very special one we’re pulling out all the stops!
We will cover classics and fan favourites from the first nine albums, from IRON MAIDEN to FEAR OF THE DARK, many of which we haven’t played in years and many we will likely never play again in the future. We have already been hard at work for months putting together an even more spectacular and elaborate new show which will bring the songs to life more than we have ever been able to do before. This is going to be a huge couple of years for IRON MAIDEN, and Eddie of course, and we are very excited about what we have up our sleeves for you fans throughout the whole of our 50th year. I promise you are all going to be very happy indeed!”
Iron Maiden are in the middle of their North American/Japanese/Australian leg of The Future Past World Tour 2024 as we speak, but that’s not stopping the band from teasing something HUGE. The band posted these two teasers back to back with a message about “tomorrow”. Check them out below.
2025 is a big year for the band, because it’ll be their 50th anniversary. Some fans are speculating about what the announcement could be. The first clip doesn’t have music attached, but the imagery does evoke that classic album art for their first, self-titled album. The second clip has a snippet of their track “Phantom of the Opera” from Iron Maiden. This could be anything, Iron Maiden have done teases like this in the past, whether it was for a new album in the case of Balshazzar’s Feast for Senjutsu or for things coming to their mobile game Legacy of the Beast.
I, for one, hope that it’s not anything to do with the mobile game. The game is fun and its cool to see Eddie on phone screens, but that would be about as anti-climactic as it gets. A new 50th-anniversary tour would be smashing, and there’s even a rumor that the upcoming tour would focus on the period from the albums Iron Maiden to Fear of the Dark. That would be a really strange choice, considering the band is already on a “classic” tour right now, and they like to focus on their entire history, not just the “classic” period of the band. That kind of tour, however, would be a nice choice to focus on some albums that they’ve not given any attention to in quite a while.
We’ll have to see when they drop some news tomorrow about whatever they’re teasing.
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