Iron Maiden Announces 2026 Tour Dates

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British heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN have announced the first dates of a very busy schedule for 2026, starting with a summer return to Europe to predominantly play festivals and also stadiums in countries and regions not visited in 2025. The subsequent month will see the start of visits to many other parts of the world, all of which will be announced later.

The initial European dates are as below and more headline festival shows will be announced by the festivals themselves in parallel with ironmaiden.com. It's a busy year so following this there will be no Maiden shows in 2027.

Says IRON MAIDEN's founding bassist Steve Harris: "We are all loving this 'Run For Your Lives' tour. The fans have been amazing, the set list is perfect for the 50th anniversary, the show is arguably our best ever and ticket demand was incredible with pretty much everywhere sold out and over a million fans attending. So we all thought we should play some more shows in Europe before heading out to other parts of the world later in the year.

"Of course Simon Dawson will be joining us once again on the drummer's stool, and both he and the whole band would like to thank our fans for the terrific reception you have given him on the first leg.

"We've always enjoyed playing festivals, especially as we get to play to people who aren't just there for us, and we love that challenge! So we decided to revisit as many great metal festivals as we could get to in this period. Plus we will also get to play stadiums in Greece, Romania, Slovakia and Bulgaria where we didn't get to this year and have always loved playing to the passionate fans out there."