Iron Maiden delivered their first live performance of 2026 with a rousing efficiency in Athens, Greece on Saturday evening.
The present formally started the newest leg of the band’s Run for Your Lives World Tour, a trek which began final 12 months and celebrates the long-lasting group’s fiftieth anniversary.
Nearly all of the set checklist remained an identical to final 12 months’s leg, together with opening music “Murders within the Rue Morgue” and beloved classics like “Killers” and “The Variety of the Beast.” Nevertheless, 5 songs into the present, frontman Bruce Dickinson paused to deal with the gang.
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“We couldn’t consider a greater place in Europe to begin this tour,” the singer proclaimed, including that the viewers was “completely f—ing superior tonight.”
“We all know a couple of of you could have seen a few of this present earlier than,” he continued. “We thought we’d simply perform a little little bit of one thing completely different, only for this subsequent music. As a result of it’s a music that we’ve not performed for a lot of, a few years. No, it’s not ‘Alexander the Nice,’” Dickinson acknowledged, referring to Maiden’s music named after the well-known Greek king. “However it will likely be whenever you go to mattress tonight, your ‘Infinite Goals.’”
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Maiden then proceeded to launch into “Infinite Goals,” the beloved album minimize from their seventh studio album, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. It marked the primary time the tune had been carried out in live performance since 1988, when the band was out touring in help of the LP. A stay rendition of the music was launched as a single in ‘89 from the band’s stay video Maiden England. Extra just lately, the metallic legends launched a career-spanning photograph guide titled Iron Maiden: Infinite Goals — in hindsight, it was a transparent trace that the music would return to their set checklist.
Fan shot footage of Iron Maiden’s current efficiency of “Infinite Goals” may be discovered under, together with a full set checklist from the Athens live performance. The band’s European leg will proceed via the top of July, with a North American leg beginning in August.
Watch Iron Maiden Carry out ‘Infinite Goals’ for the First Time Since 1988
Iron Maiden, Might 23, 2026 Athens, Greece Set Record
1. “Murders within the Rue Morgue”
2. “Wrathchild”
3. “Killers”
4. “Phantom of the Opera”
5. “The Variety of the Beast”
6. “Infinite Goals” (first time since 1988)
7. “Powerslave”
8. “2 Minutes to Midnight”
9. “Rime of the Historical Mariner”
10. “Run to the Hills”
11. “Seventh Son of a Seventh Son”
12. “The Trooper”
13. “Hallowed Be Thy Identify”
14. “Iron Maiden”
15. “Aces Excessive”
16. “Concern of the Darkish”
17. “Wasted Years”
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Gallery Credit score: Eduardo Rivadavia
