Iron Maiden announce 2026 tour with Megadeth & Anthrax

Iron Maiden began celebrating their 50th anniversary with their “Run For Your Lives Tour” in Europe in May, and they’ve announced a new North American leg of the run. They’ll be joined by Megadeath on all headlining shows, with Anthrax also joining them on select stadium shows. See all dates below.

“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,” Steve Harris says. “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!”

Manager Rod Smallwood adds:

It was really special on our European dates this year to see that the vast majority of our fans appreciated and respected our request to severely limit their use of phones at our concerts, ideally just keeping it in their pockets the whole time, especially in those standing areas in front of the stage. Our fans’ understanding and cooperation made a colossal difference to the atmosphere of every show and increased the enjoyment enormously for the band and fans alike.

So for all our North American shows we are once again requesting that fans keep their phones in their pockets and enjoy the show ‘in the moment’, rather than raise their phone in the air trying to film sections and thus inconveniencing those around them and annoying the band. So if a so-called fan near you thinks they are special and filming what they selfishly want please just ask them, very politely of course, to put their phone somewhere the sun doesn’t shine!

The NYC-area show is at NJ’s Sports Illustrated Stadium on September 5. Tickets go on sale Friday, October 31 at 10 AM local, with a fan club presale starting Tuesday, October 28.

IRON MAIDEN: 2026 TOUR DATES
AUG 29 Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena *
SEP 03 Montréal, QC – Parc Jean-Drapeau *^
SEP 05 Harrison, NJ – Sports Illustrated Stadium *^
SEP 09 Boston, MA – TD Garden *
SEP 11 Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live *
SEP 12 Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion *
SEP 15 Hershey, PA – Hersheypark Stadium *
SEP 17 Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life Festival
SEP 19 Shakopee, MN – Mystic Lake Amphitheater *
SEP 22 Chicago, IL – Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre *
SEP 25 Los Angeles, CA – BMO Stadium *^
SEP 29 San Antonio, TX – Alamodome *^

* Megadeth
^ Anthrax