What IRON MAIDEN will change for 2026 Run For Your Lives tour
Iron Maiden about to kick off the 2026 leg of their Run For Your Lives Tour, and it looks like we’re up for a couple of awesome surprises.
Now, first of all, I have to come clean. When the 2026, uh, Run For Your Lives Tour was announced, I was actually 100% sure that Iron Maiden will not be changing anything regarding their set list or production.
First of all, well, that was before we knew that Iron Maiden would be going back to Europe with their Run For Lives Tour, and secondly, because, well, I actually thought that the set list as it was in 2025 was perfect already. And I definitely did not think that Iron Maiden would be going for pretty much any changes because, first of all, the production of that tour is massive, possibly like nothing that Iron Maiden have done before, and thus changing pretty much anything in that show would be very and very costly for the band. Secondly, I actually believed, and I still believe, that the 2025 set list for the Run For Your Lives Tour was very well-balanced. But it does look like I might have been wrong.
00:00 – Intro
00:11 – I was wrong
03:09 – New songs in the setlist
07:13 – Songs Iron Maiden might not play
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@MetalPilgrim
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
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@ajpeo3542
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
Oh my god dude you said the same thing over and over about 10 times I had to turn your video off. And I will never watch your videos again.
@NyeGuy-yv2dv
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
Tailgunner!
@WAR2019-R
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
Look…..I would love to hear Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, Caught Somewhere In Time, Sea Of Madness, SSOASS and Moonchild.
@RickyLaFleur-x7u
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
They better play Wrathchild AND Killers
@jacotartaruga9824
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
Here is my wish,
Infinite dreams
22 acacia avenue
Bring your daughter to the slaughter
Afraid to shoot strangers
Any of these
@briandunlap8534
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
Iron Maiden
Killers
The Number Of The Beast
Flight Of Icarus
2 Minutes To Midnight
Stranger In A Strange Land
Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Holy Smoke
Be Quick Or Be Dead
Man On The Edge
The Clansman
Ghost Of The Navigator
Paschendale
The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg
When The Wild Wind Blows
If Eternity Should Fail
Lost In A Lost World
Hell On Earth
Speed Of Light
Powerslave
The Trooper
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Wrathchild
Phantom Of The Opera
Aces High
@matthewpoburyny
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
Bye, Wrath Child and hello Tail Gunner! I hope at least.
@Almightyshow13
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
I'm seeing them in Melbourne, I NEED to hear some No Prayer stuff, deep cuts from the time and INFINITE FUCKING DREAMS, ya know what, SEA OF FUCKING MADNESS AS WELL
@metalaras999
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
Total Eclipse would be awsome
@jordanmaiden0073
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
Infinite Dreams and at least one song from No Prayer would make me SO HAPPY!!!! Just any song but Bring Your Daughter please lol, i don't dislike it but I would just much rather hear anything else from the album. Tailgunner or Holy Smoke would be perfect. Also, I wouldn't be sad if Wasted Years gets dropped, just cause we've had a lot of that song recently.
@TheMechanix-e8c
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
Burning ambition has to be played it hasn’t been pulled out since 1979 and they just made the documentary.
@Traynor106
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
Dont you dare even instill the thought in me that we could lose Rime…. i will not! lol
@kaleedski
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
Am I the only one on the maiden community that thinks that To Tame a Land is ALWAYS overlooked??? I wanna hear it live just once in my life, please!
@salot19
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN GREECE PLEASE WE WILL BURN IT DOWN
THE WHOLE STADIUM WILL GO DOWN
UP THE IRONS FROM GREECE
@arlecchinoera
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
there is no way they plan something from no prayer tbh
@paddy3622
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
Nothing. Same set list. Hope I’m wrong
@emoliv76
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
I bought tickets for this tour because of Powerslave, Rime and Seventh son. I will be very disapointed if the took theses out of the set.
@SRPValkyrie
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
For me, one that saw most of my Maiden shows between 81-84, I really want to hear especially the first two albums. I saw them in 2007, and this year I will see them in Bogota, Colombia. I frankly don't really care. As someone who has been a rivet head since day one, just being in that building is enough. Up the Irons Earthdogs!
@dpjb78
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
I'd love a completely different setlist in 2026 tour :
Strange World,
Charlotte The Harlot,
Remmeber Tomorrow,
Ghengis Khan,
To Tame a Land,
Back In The Village,
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner,
Stranger In a Strange Land,
Alexander The Great,
Moonchild,
Infinite Dreams,
Tail Gunner,
Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter
From Here To Eternity
Childhood's End
I think I can dream ^^
@marianobeuses
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
Alexander the Great again? Are you crazy?
Maybe infinite dream or the evil that men do and Clairvoyant goes.
That’s all, NPFTD just for imagery.
@leagueofshadows
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
I finally saw BURNING AMBITION yesterday. Holy ẞcheisse I got misty eyed!!!!!! Bloody hell, am going again next week 😂
@WilliamPetty-Thomas-hy7ye
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
I just want to see Sea of Madness once before they retire. It hasn’t been played in almost 40 years.
@ntonisa6636
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
About two years ago when BD was in Athens with his "solo" band opening for Judas Priest he put on an ancient style helmet and sang the chorus to Alexander the Great a couple times with the crowd going nuts. I don't know whether he was "foreshadowing" something, I guess we'll find out in 8 days from now. 🥹
@NOTB666-p7v
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
I really want Judas Be My Guide
@ME.40801
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
What would be totally mind blowing is if they did not like a 3 hours plus set list. We all know that they have more than enough material to pick from. But unfortunately due to the difficulties of their extensively touring the world. They'd probably get burned out rather quickly,
Unfortunately.
@XxMyNameIsTAOxX
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
🤘 🤘
@TuturDrumz2731
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
Alexander my god i hope they will play it for this tour.
@SweetNigeyB
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
Just give me a No Prayer song like they advertised.
@mrsimonali
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
I really liked last years setlist. The show was great & it flowed well. I’m grateful I saw the London gig
@williamkilber8853
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
🤘🏻 ÜP THE IRÔNS
@MaidenandMore-W8
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
Please take Phantom, I love it but I will throw hands if I dont get to see the greatest two epics of their cataloge live
@Floydie88
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
If they play something from NPFTD (which they absolutely should) I pray to Eddie that it's the Title Track 🤘🏻
@MaidenandMore-W8
May 15, 2026 at 2:06 am
Adrian Smith said in an interview was penciled in at the start of rehearsals but somehow, someway got scratched and he doesnt even really realize why or how. BEING IT BACK, cuz I love The Clairvoyant but it can be replaced with infinite dreams.