Metal rockers Iron Maiden have planned a big tour next spring and summer in Europe and North America.  Megadeath will going along on the tour with Anthrax appearing on select dates.

The tour is in celebration of the band’s 50th anniversary of making music.  The band has planned a brand new “state-of-the-art production” for the occasion with “once-in-a-lifetime setlist of songs from the band’s groundbreaking first nine albums”.

Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris spoke on the upcoming tour saying, “we are greatly looking forward to bringing this RUN FOR YOUR LIVES TOUR 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. MEGADETH are playing all the shows and it’s an honour to have them join us on their last ever tour. We also have Anthrax with us on the bigger shows, we had a great time with them when they came out with us on Ed Force One around the world in 2016. We’re delighted to have both bands with us for this tour and know our fans will enjoy seeing them.”

Bruce Dickinson adds, “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! 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 favourite ‘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!”

Iron Maiden manager Rod Smallwood noted, “for a tour celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Iron Maiden, the scale and incredible visual aspects of this tour deserve larger venues than the arenas we have generally played in the past. We particularly chose this time of year to go bigger outdoors but to give us darkness when we go on stage so you will see the best of the production. Fans certainly won’t be disappointed in the show or the 50th anniversary set list that is for sure!”

The band requests that fans leave their phones in their pockets and enjoy the show and not inconvenience those around them with raising the phones in the air trying to record videos.

Tickets to the general public go on sale October 31. VIP packages will also be available.

Iron Maiden tour dates:
May 23 at OAKA in Athens, Greece
May 26 at the Vasil Levski Stadium in Sofia, Bulgaria
May 28 at the Arena Nationala in Bucharest, Romania
May 30 at the Národný Futbalový Štadión in Bratislava, Slovakia
June 2 at the Heinz von Heiden Arena in Hannover, Germany
June 3 at Sweden Rock in Solvesborg, Sweden
June 6 at Rock im Park in Nurnberg, Germany
June 7 at Rock am Ring in Nurburgring, Germany
June 10 at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, Netherlands
June 13 at Nova Rock in Nickelsdorf, Austria
June 14 at Rock for People in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
June 17 at the San Siro Stadium in Milan, Italy
June 22 at the La Defense Arena in Paris, France
June 24-27 at Copenhell in Copenhagen, Denmark
June 24-27 at Tons of Rock in Oslo, Norway
June 28 at the Groupama Stadium in Lyon-Decines, France
June 29 at Live is Live in Antwerp, Belgium
July 1-4 at the Resurrection Fest in Viveiro, Spain
July 4 at the Rock Imperium Festival in Cartagena, Spain
July 7 at Estadio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal
July 11 at Knebworth Park in Knebworth, UK
Aug 29 at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, ON
Sept 3 at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, QC
Sept 5 at Sports Illustrated Stadium in Harrison, NJ
Sept 9 at the TD Garden in Boston, MA
Sept 11 at the Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, VA
Sept 12 at the PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte, NC
Sept 15 at Hersheypark Stadium in Hersey, PA
Sept 17 at Louder Than Life in Louisville, KY
Sept 19 at the Mystic Lake Amphitheater in Shakopee, MN
Sept 22 at the Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre in Chicago, IL
Sept 25 at the BMO Stadium in Los Angeles, CA
Sept 29 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, TX
Oct 2 at the Estadio GNP Seguros in Mexico City, Mexico