HISTORY OF IRON MAIDEN: GOLDEN JUBILEE (2025 - 2026)

 2025–2026: Run for Your Lives 

 

On September 19, 2024, Iron Maiden announced 28 concerts for the European leg of their "Run for Your Lives World Tour" from 2025 to 2026. The European tour is scheduled to begin on May 27, 2025 in Budapest, and will end with a concert at National Stadium in Warsaw on August 2. The tour was associated with the celebration of the band's 50th Anniversary, as Steve Harris founded the band in December 1975. The band's golden jubilee resulted in a cross-section of the repertoire based on the band's first nine studio albums, including the most famous hits and less obvious compositions. In the many months preceding the concerts, a spectacular visual setting was also built, thanks to which the Iron Maiden concert experience took the audience to a new level. The band has mainly organized concerts in sports stadiums and open air, although there have been a few performances in sports arenas. 

 

HISTORY OF IRON MAIDEN: FUTURE OF THE PAST (2023 - 2024)

2023–2024: Future of the Past

At the beginning of October 2022, the band's management revealed plans for another tour. "The Future Past Tour 2023/24" was planned as the next stage of promotion for the Senjutsu album and a return to material from the iconic Somewhere in Time album from 1986. According to Steve Harris: After the release of our latest album, Senjutsu, we slightly updated the current tour “Legacy of the Beast”, opening the concerts with the first three songs in the setting of the Japanese Palace.
Since it doesn't make much sense to repeat this for the Senjutsu album tour, we thought of other options and decided to go back to the Somewhere in Time days since that tour didn't feature in the various historical retrospective tours we've done. These were based on our concert videos from the 80's and unfortunately we didn't film this tour (blame the manager!).

HISTORY OF IRON MAIDEN: LEGACY OF THE BEAST II (2018 - 2022)

 2021–2022: Senjutsu Legacy 

On July 15, 2021, Iron Maiden released a music video for their first new song in six years, titled "The Writing on the Wall". The animated music video was directed by Nicos Livesey. Within 24 hours of its premiere on YouTube, the promotional clip received a record number for the band of two million views. The videoclip was nominated for the UK Music Video Awards 2021 in the "Best Animated Music Video" category.
On July 19, the group's seventeenth studio album, entitled Senjutsu was announced. The worldwide market premiere was scheduled for September 3, 2021. The producer of the group's second double studio album was Kevin Shirley, and the recordings were made in spring 2019 at Guillaume Tell Studios in Paris. The album was made available in seven publishing formats. On August 19, the second promotional single, titled "Stratego" was made available on streaming platforms.

HISTORY OF IRON MAIDEN: LEGACY OF THE BEAST I (2018 - 2020)

2018–2022: Legacy of a Legend 

On November 13, 2017, the dates of European concerts, as a part of the "Legacy of the Beast World Tour 2018/19", were announced. The European leg of the tour was scheduled to begin on May 26 in Tallinn, Estonia, and end at London's O2 Arena on August 10. Among the 34 revealed dates there was also a place for another visit in Poland, the first of two consecutive shows was booked for July 27, 2018 at Tauron Arena. The idea for the tour was inspired by the mobile game and comic book of the same name. The set design contained many different but interconnected "worlds", and the repertoire included material from the 1980s, with a few surprises from later albums. The route was the first in the history of music, completely based on the plot and characters known from the RPG game. Tickets for the band's first concert at the Tauron Arena in Krakow sold out in hours, so in a relatively short time it was decided to announce another performance, which took place on July 28, 2018.

HISTORY OF IRON MAIDEN: THE BOOK OF SOULS - 40 YEARS (2015 - 2017)

 2015–2017: The Book of Souls – 40 years

2015/2016 was the fortieth anniversary of the British formation. In February 2015, the group's website posted information that Bruce Dickinson had been diagnosed with a small, early-stage cancer nodule located on the back of his tongue. The singer underwent intensive radiotherapy and chemotherapy. In March, Nicko McBrain confirmed that the sixteenth studio album was ready for its release, but all promotional and concert plans of the band were conditional on the singer's health, which was gradually improving.
In the following weeks, the artists were honored with the "Bandit Award" and the "O2 Silver Clef Award". In April, 19 Iron Maiden albums remastered in 24 bits/96 kHz technology were made available via a special website on the iTunes platform, and the group's catalog was also adapted to the requirements of Hi-Res FLAC resolution by Tony Newton and Ade Emsley at Abbey Road Studios via Onkyo Music.

HISTORY OF IRON MAIDEN: MAIDEN ENGLAND (2012 - 2014)

 2012–2014: Maiden England

At the beginning of 2012, intensive preparations began for another historic concert tour, which ultimately lasted for the next three years. On February 18, 2012, the group announced further concerts. This time, over 30 performances planned for June - August were to cover only North America, including many amphitheatres and festivals.
The "Maiden England World Tour 2012/13" promoted the group's next (the third one) retrospective DVD, History Of Iron Maiden Part III: Maiden England. Dozens of concerts have been booked for 2013 in other parts of the world, including: in South America, where Iron Maiden headlined the Rock In Rio festival in Brazil for the third time in their career.

Over 90,000 tickets for this concert were sold in less than two hours, eventually the band played to well over 100,000 people gathered at the festival site.

HISTORY OF IRON MAIDEN: The Final Frontier? (2010 - 2011)

 2010–2012: The Final Frontier?

On January 12, 2010, the band, together with producer Kevin Shirley, hired the Compass Point studio in the Bahamas to record material for their 15th studio album, entitled The Final Frontier. The publication was finally released on August 16, 2010. On June 8, 2010, at 1 a.m., a single titled "El Dorado" was made available on the group's internet home page. At the turn of 2010 and 2011, Iron Maiden celebrated their 35th anniversary with a spectacular concert tour.
The band announced their participation in the Sonisphere 2010 traveling festival as a headliner of concerts in Great Britain (Knebworth House) taking place on July 30/31 and August 1, in Sweden on August 7 and in Finland a day later. The British stars were to be accompanied by, among others: Heaven & Hell, Slayer, Anthrax, Mastodon, Iggy Pop & The Stoogies, Alice Cooper and Mötley Crüe.

HISTORY OF IRON MAIDEN: EF1 - THE NEXT LEVEL (2008 - 2009)

 2008–2009: Ed Force One, the next level

At the beginning of the year, the group embarked on the second historical tour in their career, during which they promoted the latest DVD Live After Death, and the band itself moved between subsequent tour stops in a private Boeing called Ed Force One.The band gave 23 concerts in Asia, Oceania, North and South America, which attracted over 670,000 people. The musicians and technical crew were accompanied by a film crew working for Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen, who undertook the task of directing a documentary film dedicated to the ongoing tour. In March 2008, the group announced the release of another compilation album. It appeared on the music market on May 12, 2008 under the name Somewhere Back in Time. The release of the compilation was related to the success of the "Somewhere Back in Time World Tour", and the album itself could be listened to in its entirety on the band's official website. 

HISTORY OF IRON MAIDEN: BACK TO THE TOP III (1999 - 2007)

 1999–2007: Back to the top

The very first historical DVD was piloted by the reissue of the single "The Number of the Beast", which reached number 3 on the UK bestseller charts. The film reached the top of charts in twenty countries, once again bringing the musicians a number of gold and platinum records.
In 2005, the group embarked on the first of several subsequent "historical" tours, during which both the repertoire and the setting of the concerts referred to the era presented on the DVD with archives.
During the "Eddie Rips Up the World Tour", the musicians performed songs exclusively from their first four studio albums, and the 48-date tour included stadium, festival and sports arena performances. Almost 60,000 tickets to the Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg were sold within 90 minutes, the concert was broadcast via satellite links to 60 million viewers.

HISTORY OF IRON MAIDEN: BACK TO THE TOP II (1999 - 2007)

1999–2007: Back to the top

The musicians resumed their concert activities in May 2003, embarking on the "Give Me Ed... 'Til I'm Dead Tour", during which they proposed a set - a list of their greatest hits for all their career so far.
The tour through Europe and North America promoted the next DVD entitled Visions of the Beast - containing all previously produced music videos in digitally remastered formats and their alternative versions as the hidden easter eggs.
Both the music video compilation and the tour were a great commercial success. The DVD set was certified several times platinum in the UK, USA, Canada, Finland and other places around the world.
All 56 concerts attracted a total of approximately 1.3 million people in Europe and North America where Iron Maiden headlining shows with Motorhead and Dio. Since 2003 popularity of the new incarnation of the band started growing.

HISTORY OF IRON MAIDEN: BACK TO THE TOP I (1999 - 2007)

 1999–2007: Back to the top

In November 1999, the sextet, under the supervision of Shirley, began recording a new album at Guillaume Tell Studios in Paris. One of the inspirations for the album's lead single, "The Wicker Man", was the 1973 British film of the same title, and the title of the new album Brave New World, was directly taken from the novel "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley.
The album was distinguished by its classic sound, progressive melodic structures and dynamics reminiscent of the band's classic albums from their prime time of the '80s.
The aforementioned single reached the Top 10 of the British charts, and the album was peaked at number 7 in Great Britain and 39 in the United States, also reaching the top of bestsellers in many countries, bringing Iron Maiden many gold and platinum certifications, also in Poland.