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In summer, Iron Maiden are finally back in Germany. What fans can expect is already foreseeable.
Setlist full of rarities
The British metal heroes celebrated the start of their “Run for your Lives” tour in Budapest in Hungarian yesterday. As promised, the tour of the tour is on Iron Maidens early albums, the first nine releases from “Iron Maiden” (1980) to “Fear of the Dark” (1992). The band played some classics that had not made their way to the stage in recent years.
Immediately at the beginning, Bruce Dickinson and Co. performed three songs from “Killers” (1981), including the title song, for the first time since 1999. Furthermore, Iron Maiden played “Phantom of the Opera” and “Seventh Son of a Seventh Son” for the first time since 2014. more listed. They also played naturally celebrated long -running favorites – the encore consisted of “Aces High”, “Fear of the Dark” and “Wasted Years”.
Here is the entire setlist:
1. Muders in the rue Morgue
2. Wrathchild
3. Killers
4. Phantom of the Opera
5. The Number of the Beast
6. The Clairvoyant
7. Powerslave
8. 2 Minutes to midnight
9. Rime of the Ancient Mariner
10. Run to the Hills
11. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
12. The Trooper
13. Hallowed be thy name
14. Iron Maiden
15. Aces high
16. Fear of the Dark
17. Wasted Years
New era with Simon Dawson
For Iron Maiden and her fans, the kickoff of the tour was a special concert for another reason in addition to the discography homage. It was the band’s first show with the new drummer Simon Dawson, who replaced Nicko McBrain at the end of last year. After more than 40 years of health, he had declared his retreat from the stage. In 2023, McBrain suffered a stroke from which he has not yet completely recovered. However, he remains part of the band. Simon Dawson is not a stranger to the Iron Maiden cosmos: Before recruiting the heavy metal king class, he drummed up for British Lion, the side project by Iron Maiden bassist and founder Steve Harris.
Iron Maiden come to Germany
In German -speaking countries, fans can experience the new tour from July. It starts on July 9th in Zurich, followed by Gelsenkirchen, Bremen, Vienna, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and two shows in Berlin. The opening act of these shows are the diverse Swedes Avatar, who opened the “Legacy of the Beast” tour in South America for Iron Maiden in 2022.