Iron Maiden Announce Australian Stadium Tour With Megadeth

Aussie metalheads, are you ready for this? Iron Maiden are bringing their monumental ‘Run For Your Lives’ 50th Anniversary World Tour Down Under this November 2026, and they’re not coming quietly. This will be Maiden’s biggest Australian tour ever, headlining outdoor stadiums in Melbourne and Sydney for the first time in their 50-year history, alongside arena shows in Adelaide and Brisbane.

And as if that wasn’t enough? Megadeth are coming with them.

Iron Maiden – ‘Run To The Hills’

Yes, that Megadeth. The thrash titans are currently on their global farewell tour, which makes this run particularly spicy. Is this Aussie fans’ final chance to see Dave Mustaine and co. live? Hard to say. But it very well could be. Either way, it’s shaping up to be one of the most stacked metal double bills we’ve seen in years.

Maiden’s ‘Run For Your Lives’ tour celebrates the band’s first nine albums – the records that built heavy metal as we know it. Expect a setlist stacked with absolute juggernauts: Hallowed Be Thy Name, Run To The Hills, The Trooper, The Number Of The Beast, 2 Minutes To Midnight, Powerslave, Killers, Phantom Of The Opera – plus full-blown epics like Rime Of The Ancient Mariner and Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son.

And here’s the kicker: these Aussie dates will mark the very end of the global tour, meaning it’ll be the final time Maiden ever perform a number of these early-era classics.

Steve Harris says the band are “very excited” to be returning to Australia – especially with Megadeth in tow. The two camps have history, and this feels like a proper old-school metal summit moment. Two giants. One colossal production.

Production-wise, this won’t be a modest nostalgia lap. Maiden are promising their most spectacular show ever, complete with state-of-the-art visuals designed specifically to bring those early albums to life at full stadium scale.

They’re also once again asking fans to keep phone use to a minimum – something that apparently transformed the atmosphere on their recent European dates. So if you’re planning to witness metal history, maybe consider living in the moment rather than through a shaky vertical clip of The Trooper.

And yep -Eddie’s Pop-Up Dive Bar is returning too, complete with Trooper Beer and exclusive tour merch. Metal tourism at its finest.

After this run, Maiden will take a well-earned break from touring in 2027. Which makes November 2026 feel even more significant.

Fifty years in. Stadiums at full capacity. Possibly Megadeth’s last Aussie lap. And some of the greatest metal songs ever written played one final time.

Start stretching your neck now and peep the details down below.