Iron Maiden, tour kicks off: the setlist performed in Athens. 17 June the only Italian date in Milan

Iron Maiden officially kicked off the “Run For Your Lives World Tour 2026” on Saturday 23 May in Athens, launching the new leg of the tour celebrating their fifty years of career. After the hints dropped by Bruce Dickinson in the preceding weeks, the band did indeed dig deep into their back catalogue, putting together a setlist heavily skewed towards the Eighties and even including songs absent from live shows for decades.
Here's the setlist from the Iron Maiden concert in Athens:

• Murders in the Rue Morgue
• Wrathchild
• Killers
• Phantom of the Opera
• The Number of the Beast
• Infinite Dreams (first performance since 1988)
• Powerslave
• 2 Minutes to Midnight
• Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Run to the Hills
• Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
• The Trooper
• Hallowed Be Thy Name
• Iron Maiden

Encore:

• Aces High
• Fear of the Dark
• Wasted Years

Among the most anticipated moments of the night was above all the return of “Infinite Dreams”, dusted off for the first time in almost forty years, while fan favourites like “Killers” and “Phantom of the Opera” also kept their place in the set. Missing, however, was “Alexander The Great”, which many had hoped to see again after its recent live appearances.

Iron Maiden will also be coming to Italy on 17 June 2026 for the show at Stadio San Siro, a date expected to feature a setlist very similar to the one presented at the Greek opening night.

For the first time in its history, Milan's Stadio San Siro will host an event entirely dedicated to heavy metal. Iron Maiden have in fact announced the new dates of their "Run For Your Lives World Tour", which will also stop in Italy.
After the huge success of the show held last July in Padua, the band will return on 17 June 2026 to the Scala del Calcio to celebrate their 50-year career together with Italian fans. The setlist will feature the group's most iconic songs, drawn from the albums released between their self-titled 1980 debut and 1992's "Fear Of The Dark".
Steve Harris says: “We are all excited about this tour. The fans have been amazing, the setlist is perfect for the 50th anniversary, the show is probably our best ever and ticket demand has been incredible, with almost all tickets sold out and over a million fans in attendance. So we thought we'd play some more shows in Europe before heading off to other parts of the world later in the year. Naturally Simon Dawson will be joining us once again behind the drums, and both he and the whole band want to thank our fans for the fantastic welcome you gave us on the first leg”.

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