After a packed 2024—including the release of his acclaimed solo album The Mandrake Project and saying goodbye to longtime Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain on the live stage—Bruce Dickinson is teasing big plans for 2025.
Run For Your Lives Tour: What to Expect
Iron Maiden’s highly anticipated Run For Your Lives tour kicks off in May 2025, with Dickinson promising fans an unforgettable experience:
“We’re gonna be doing stuff we’ve never, ever done before, and it’ll be a setlist for the ages.”
The tour will span Europe, with plans to extend into 2026 to reach other parts of the world.
Bruce’s Exciting Solo Project
Dickinson’s The Mandrake Project made waves in 2024, earning a spot in Kerrang!’s top 50 albums of the year. The album, centered on themes of science and the occult, was described as:
“An ambitious passion project… bursting at the seams with massive riffs, instantly classic songs, and a weighty concept.”
Accompanied by a 12-issue graphic novel series, the album reinforced Dickinson’s status as a multifaceted artist.
Run For Your Lives Tour Dates
May 2025
- 27 Budapest Aréna, Budapest, Hungary
- 31 Letnany Airport, Prague, Czechia
June 2025
- 1 TIPOS Arena, Bratislava, Slovakia
- 5 Trondheim Rocks, Trondheim, Norway
- 7 SR-Bank Arena, Stavanger, Norway
- 9 Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 12-13 3Arena, Stockholm, Sweden
- 16 Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland
- 21 Utilita Arena, Birmingham, England
- 22 Co-op Live, Manchester, England
- 25 Malahide Castle, Dublin, Ireland
- 28 London Stadium, London, England
- 30 OVO Hydro, Glasgow, Scotland
July 2025
- 3 Eurockéennes Festival, Belfort, France
- 5 Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano, Madrid, Spain
- 6 MEO Arena, Lisbon, Portugal
- 9 Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland
- 11 Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
- 13 Stadio Euganeo, Padova, Italy
- 15 Bürgerweide, Bremen, Germany
- 17 Ernst Happel Stadium, Vienna, Austria
- 19 Paris La Défense Arena, Paris, France
- 23 GelreDome, Arnhem, Netherlands
- 25 Deutsche Bank Park, Frankfurt, Germany
- 26 Cannstatter Wasen, Stuttgart, Germany
- 29 Waldbühne, Berlin, Germany
August 2025
- 2 PGE Narodowy, Warsaw, Poland
Bruce’s Vision for the Tour and Beyond
“It’s not gonna stop in 2025. It’s gonna roll into 2026, because there’s parts of the world that we need to get to.”
With the promise of unprecedented performances and a continuation into the following year, 2025 is shaping up to be monumental for Iron Maiden fans worldwide.
Source: Kerrang!
