Iron Maiden Sets ‘Run For Your Lives’ Tour of Australia, With Megadeth

Iron Maiden will bring their brand of heavy metal thunder down under later this year.

The British heavy metal legends today (Feb. 27) announce the Australia dates of their Run For Your Lives World Tour, where they’ll play stadiums for the first time in both Melbourne and Sydney, and arenas in Adelaide and Brisbane.

Megadeth are special guests on the four-date run, which will get underway Nov. 11 at Adelaide Entertainment Centre, before hitting Melbourne’s AAMI Park (Nov. 13), Sydney’s Allianz Stadium (Nov. 15), and wrapping up Nov. 18 at Brisbane Entertainment Centre.

The Australia visit will mark Iron Maiden’s eighth, dating back to November 1982. Australians can’t get enough of them; Iron Maiden was here fewer than two years ago, in September 2024.

“This will be Iron Maiden’s biggest tour of Australia ever,” explains TEG Dainty president Paul Dainty, producer of the forthcoming run. “Headlining stadiums in Melbourne and Sydney for the first time in their 50-year history is a massive moment. And with Megadeth joining the tour, this is going to be an absolute powerhouse night of metal — two giants of the genre, one colossal production, and a show Australian fans won’t know what hit them.”

Iron Maiden has had a solid week. On Wednesday, the band’s name was called out for nomination into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame. And earlier, on Tuesday, Universal Pictures International (UPI) unveiled Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition, a feature film that’s said to trace the rockers’ “remarkable five‑decade journey” with “unprecedented access” to the rockers’ official archives.

Formed in East London in 1975, Iron Maiden are titans of the heavy genre, with 17 studio albums, over 100 million records sold, and more than 2,500 performances across 64 countries. In September 2021, Iron Maiden earned its highest charting album ever on the Billboard 200 as Senjutsu debuted at No. 3. 

General public tickets for the Australia shows go on sale Friday, March 6.