Watch: IRON MAIDEN Kicks Off Fall 2024 “The Future Past” North American Tour in San Diego

British heavy metal legends Iron Maiden started their North American leg in autumn 2024 “The future past” tour last night (Friday, October 4th) at the North Island Credit Union Amphitheater in Chula Vista (a suburb of San Diego), California.

The band's setlist was as follows:

01. Trapped somewhere in time
02. Stranger in a strange land
03. The writing on the wall
04. Days of future past
05. The time machine
06. The prisoner
07. Death of the Celts
08. Can I play with madness?
09. Heaven can wait
10. Alexander the Great
11. Fear of the dark
12. Iron Maiden

Encore:

13. Hell on earth
14. The soldier
15. Wasted years

Fan-filmed video of the concert can be seen below.

“The future past” Tour, which includes songs from both Iron Maidenis the latest studio album “Senjutsu” as well as the groundbreaking 1986 album “Somewhere in time”In the summer of 2023, they played alongside other fan favorites in front of over 750,000 fans at more than 30 sold-out shows across Europe. In addition to their highly acclaimed performance at California's, the band also performed in Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver Power trip Festival in October 2023, which had Consequence with the statement: “Iron MaidenSet the bar high Power trip ” And The desert sun say: “Iron Maiden did not disappoint and delivered a powerful performance to open the festival on a high note.” With one of the most spectacular stage productions of the band’s career, they received rave reviews in every city and country Iron Maiden visited.

In a recent interview with Australia's “Always Black” podcast, Steve Harris was asked if there was new music from Iron Maiden on the way. The GIRL The bassist replied: “No, not at the moment. Nothing is in the works at the moment. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be any.” Bruce(Dickinson , Iron MaidenSinger) has just finished his solo tour. So he spent quite a long time doing that. Well, I don't know. Yes. I mean, maybe we'll find time to put a new album somewhere. You never know.”

GIRL's latest album, “Senjutsu”was released in September 2021 via BMG . The band's first LP in six years was recorded in Paris in 2019 with a long-time producer Kevin Shirleyand co-produced by Harris . It contains three tracks, each with a running time of more than 10 minutes.

For “Senjutsu” – loosely translated as “tactics and strategy” – the band once again enlisted the services of Mark Wilkinsonto create the spectacular samurai-style cover artwork, based on an idea from Harris .

In the USA, “Senjutsu” landed at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, ranking higher than even the band's early classics “power slave”And “The Number of the Beast” . Nearly 90 percent of the LP's 64,000 corresponding album units came from pure album sales. The critically acclaimed double album debuted one place higher than 2015 “The Book of Souls”and 2010s “The Final Frontier” both of which peaked at number 4.

“Senjutsu”Was GIRLis the 13th album to reach the top 40 in the US

Accordingly billboard , “Senjutsu” recorded the second-biggest week of 2021 for a hard rock album, both in terms of corresponding album units and traditional album sales.

“Senjutsu” topped the charts in several European countries upon its release, including Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland.

Last month, Iron Maiden announced that “Run for your life” World tour starting May 27, 2025 in Budapest, Hungary, followed by 27 stadium, festival and arena shows across Europe. The tour marks the 50th anniversary of that tour Steve Harris founded the band at the end of 1975 and to celebrate this, GIRL Fans are promised a very special setlist that includes 9 studio albums “Iron Maiden”To “Fear of the Dark” with their most spectacular and elaborate show of all time. The tour includes five shows in the UK and Ireland with arenas in Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow, as well as outdoor shows in Dublin and London. That's why I'm very proud of it Iron Maiden are celebrating their 50th anniversary with one of the most remarkable concerts in their history.

On Saturday, June 28, 2025, GIRL will perform at the London Stadium, home of West Ham Football Club – the team of this band founder Steve Harris supported him all his life and with whom Iron Maidenhave a long and eventful history. This concert in front of over 60,000 fans at the London Stadium, which was built for the 2012 Olympic Games in Stratford and four years later became the new home of West Ham will be the first time Iron Maidenperformed on the club's hallowed turf. A real homecoming show – with Steve Harris, Dave Murray , Adrian Smith And Nicko McBrain All were born in the area – it will also be the largest venue in the UK the band have ever headlined outside of their festival appearances.

The company was founded in 1975 in the East End of London Iron Maiden have become one of the biggest and most influential British rock bands of all time over the course of 17 studio albums, more than 110 million records sold and some of the biggest world tours music has ever seen. But despite their enormous success, they have remained down-to-earth and true to their roots throughout their career.

The final stage of “The future past”The tour began in Australia and New Zealand in September and continued through Japan before visiting Canada, the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Argentina, ending in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in December with two concerts at the massive Allianz Parque Stadium.