Iron Maiden add a final North American leg for spring 2027

A year off, cancelled

Iron Maiden were meant to take 2027 off. Instead, on 16 October 2026, they announced one more North American leg of the Run For Your Lives tour, their 50th anniversary world tour, running from the Tacoma Dome in Washington on 14 April 2027 to the Boardwalk Rock festival in Ocean City, Maryland, on 16 May. Bullet For My Valentine and The Raven Age are the support acts.

These will be the final dates of a tour that began in 2025, Joe DiVita reported for Loudwire. In a statement, the band said they had been enjoying the current North American leg so much that they had a chat and decided to take the show to the parts of the continent they had missed, particularly the North West and the South East, because it seemed fair to the many fans there who had supported them for so many years.

The band also said they had always enjoyed the big European festivals and wanted to play a couple more in the US, which they will do at the end of the run in Columbus and Maryland. At a festival, they said, you are not only playing to your own fans, so it is always a challenge.

Joe DiVita reported this first for Loudwire. Checked against Iron Maiden 2027 tour announcement (as published by Loudwire).

The dates

The tour opens at the Tacoma Dome on 14 April and Rogers Arena in Vancouver on 16 April, then heads down the West Coast to the Moda Center in Portland on 18 April, Toyota Amphitheatre in Wheatland, California, on 20 April, North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre in Chula Vista on 22 April and Glen Helen Amphitheater in San Bernardino on 24 April.

From there it goes to Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre in Phoenix on 26 April and Dos Equis Pavilion in Dallas on 28 April, before a run through the South East: Benchmark International Arena in Tampa on 1 May, iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach on 2 May, Lakewood Amphitheatre in Atlanta on 5 May and Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek in Raleigh on 7 May.

The last headline shows are at The Meadows Music Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut, on 9 May and UBS Arena at Belmont Park, New York, on 11 May. The tour then ends with two festival sets: Sonic Temple in Columbus, Ohio, on 14 May and Boardwalk Rock in Ocean City on 16 May.

Presales ran ahead of the general sale, which was set for 10am local time on 23 October. The band also offered Trooper VIP packages through its own website.

Bigger in America than ever

The band's manager, Rod Smallwood, said the first North American leg had drawn huge sell-out crowds across several generations and some of the biggest shows Iron Maiden had ever played on the continent. He said they had played to many more people per show than ever before and had headlined their first stadium shows in the US.

Smallwood said the band had been selling out arenas across North America since 1983, apart from a short period in the 1990s, and that their following was still growing despite an almost total lack of mainstream radio support. Iron Maiden have never had a song in the Billboard Hot 100, he noted, and he credited word of mouth from fans.

The tour has also brought Eddie's Dive Bars, the band's own bars for fans, to each city, and Smallwood said he goes to every one of them.

Fifty years of Iron Maiden

Steve Harris, the bassist, formed Iron Maiden in London in 1975. The band's first singer was Paul Mario Day, whom Harris recruited in late 1975, and their first gig was in Poplar on 1 May 1976, followed by a pub residency in nearby Stratford, as Laura Snapes reported for The Guardian when Day died in July 2025, aged 69. Day lasted 10 months.

Paul Di'Anno joined in 1978, after meeting Harris at the Red Lion pub in Leytonstone, and sang on the Soundhouse Tapes EP in 1979 and the first two albums, Iron Maiden and Killers, Joel McIver wrote in his Guardian obituary of Di'Anno, who died in October 2024 at the age of 66. The band's debut album went into the UK chart at No 4 in 1980, as the band rose to the front of the new wave of British heavy metal.

The Di'Anno line-up's biggest public moment came after he had gone: in 1985 Phantom of the Opera, from the first album, soundtracked a Lucozade advert starring the athlete Daley Thompson, McIver noted. Bruce Dickinson, then singing with Samson, replaced Di'Anno in 1981. The Number of the Beast, the first album with Dickinson, followed in 1982 and gave the band their first UK No 1 album and their first top 40 album in the US. For the next album, Piece of Mind, in 1983, Smallwood took the gamble of booking arenas across the US, including Madison Square Garden, and it paid off, Harry Sword wrote in a long interview with the band for The Guardian this spring.

Dickinson told Sword that he got the job after a not very secret chat with Smallwood under a floodlight in the hospitality area at the Reading festival, and that at 21 he was grossly overconfident. His songs brought what he calls theatre of the mind, with references running from Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Alan Sillitoe's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

Through the early 1980s the band settled into a routine of an album a year and a long tour, with a few weeks off at Christmas if they were lucky. The guitarist Adrian Smith told Sword that a band like Maiden had to work that way, because they were never going to have a big hit single and wait for royalties. It is the same point Smallwood makes about radio today.

Albums such as Powerslave and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son followed, and the band came through the mid-1990s slump that hit many metal acts. In April 2026 Iron Maiden were named among the inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, alongside Phil Collins, Oasis, Sade and Wu-Tang Clan, after two earlier nominations.

A greatest hits tour

The Run For Your Lives tour has been the closest Iron Maiden come to a greatest hits show. When Michael Hann reviewed it in Birmingham for The Guardian in June 2025, the most recent song in the set was Fear of the Dark, from 1992. He wrote that Dickinson still spent much of the show on top of the backline acting out characters, that Harris still machine-gunned the crowd with his bass, and that the band had built their whole career on their own terms. The drummer is now Simon Dawson.

In July 2026 the tour included their biggest UK headline shows yet, at EddFest, the band's own two-day event at Knebworth in Hertfordshire. A documentary, Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition, reached cinemas in May. Peter Bradshaw, reviewing it for The Guardian, called it cheerful and watchable but an on-brand fan film, with superfans including Javier Bardem, Lars Ulrich and Gene Simmons.

Their songs have also found new audiences on screen. The Trooper was used in the final episode of Stranger Things, and its streams across all platforms rose by 252% within a week, Hann reported in January. The Number of the Beast soundtracks a scene of Ralph Fiennes dancing among piles of bones in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. The band's managers told Hann that they turn down most requests, because the first question is always whether the band will be made fun of.

How the prices look

We have tracked 11 of the US dates since 20 October. When we checked early on 30 October, the cheapest listed tickets before fees were between $68.74 and $76.22 at almost every stop: $68.74 in San Bernardino, $69.12 in Chula Vista, $70.08 in Wheatland, $72.72 in West Palm Beach, $72.89 in Atlanta, $73.92 in both Raleigh and at UBS Arena, $75 in Dallas, $76 in Portland and $76.22 in Phoenix, plus StubHub booking fees at checkout.

Tampa is the exception. Its cheapest ticket was $104.20 before fees, against a low of $75.62 when we started tracking on 20 October, a rise of more than a third. It is the only indoor arena date in Florida on the tour.

Elsewhere, prices have barely moved. Across the other ten dates, the gap between the lowest and highest cheapest-ticket price since 20 October has been no more than about $13, and most dates were slightly cheaper than a week earlier. There is also plenty of choice: Portland alone had more than 9,000 tickets listed when we checked.

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What happens next

The Tacoma, Vancouver and Hartford shows and the two festival sets are not among the dates tracked in this article. If we add them, they will appear below.

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