Maiden will be “doing stuff we’ve never, ever done before” on this year’s headline tour

Following a busy year which included releasing his Mandrake Project solo album and bidding farewell to Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain on the live front, Bruce Dickinson has teased that things are going to get very exciting in 2025.

The heavy metal legends will be hitting the road for their Run For Your Lives tour, and in a new video update (see below) the frontman reveals that they’re “pushing the boat out” for it. “For those of you who have bought tickets – which is, like, all of you – it’s gonna be really, really cool,” he promises. “I’m really looking forward to it. We’re gonna be doing stuff we’ve never, ever done before, and it’ll be a setlist for the ages.”

Bruce adds that, “I’ll see you there. And 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 that we can’t get to in 2025. So there you go.”

The Mandrake Project made it into Kerrang!’s top 50 albums of 2024 list, and we said that: “A notoriously busy fellow in terms of extracurricular interests, Bruce Dickinson hadn’t released a solo album for nearly two decades when he unleashed The Mandrake Project in March. Typically, though, he went all in, producing an hour bursting at the seams with massive riffs, instantly classic songs and a weighty concept revolving around science and the occult. Accompanied by a still-ongoing 12-issue graphic novel series – another string to add to Bruce’s bow – The Mandrake Project felt like an ambitious passion project rather than a way to kill time between Maiden commitments. And let’s face it, that voice remains one of the most spine-tingling sounds in heavy metal.”

Check out the full video update from Bruce:

And catch Maiden at the following:

May

27 Budapest Aréna, Budapest, Hungary
31 Letnany Airport, Prague, Czechia

June

1 TIPOS Arena, Bratislava, Slovakia
5 Trondheim Rocks, Trondheim, Norway
7 SR-Bank Arena, Stavanger, Norway
9 Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark
12 3Arena, Stockholm, Sweden
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

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

2 PGE Narodowy, Warsaw, Poland

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