On 5 September 2007, the band announced their Somewhere Back in Time World Tour , tying in with the DVD release of their Live After Death album. The setlist for the tour consisted of songs from the 1980s. They played their first concerts in Costa Rica and Colombia and their…
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At the end of 2005, Iron Maiden began work on A Matter of Life and Death , their fourteenth studio album, which was released in autumn 2006. War and religion are recurring themes in the lyrics and the cover artwork. The release was a critical and commercial success, marking the…
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During the Dance of Death Tour 2003–04 , which began in September 2003, Iron Maiden played 53 shows across Europe, North America, Latin America and Japan. The band’s performance at Westfalenhalle , in Dortmund, Germany, was recorded and released in August 2005 as a live album and DVD entitled Death…
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Following their summer 2003 Give Me Ed… ‘Til I’m Dead Tour , with 57 shows in Europe and North America and headlining large festivals such as Roskilde, Heineken Jammin’ Festival, Rock am Ring and Rock im Park (combined attendance of 130,000) and the first Download Festival held at Donington Park…
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The reunion world tour that followed had over 100 dates (including 31 shows of the 1999 tour), and culminated on 19 January 2001 in a show at the Rock in Rio festival in Brazil, where Iron Maiden played to an audience of over 250,000. While the performance was being produced…
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Not satisfied with the results from Harris’ Barnyard Studios, located on his property in Essex, which had been used for the last four Iron Maiden studio albums, the band recorded the new release, Brave New World , at Guillaume Tell Studios in Paris, France in November 1999 with producer Kevin…
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The band entered into talks with Dickinson, who agreed to rejoin during a meeting in Brighton in January 1999, along with guitarist Adrian Smith, who was telephoned a few hours later. With Gers remaining, Iron Maiden now had a three-guitar line-up (nicknamed “The Three Amigos”), and embarked on a hugely…
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In 1998, Iron Maiden released Virtual XI , whose chart scores were the band’s lowest to date. The album peaked at number 16 in the UK, the band’s lowest for a new studio record. At the same time, Steve Harris assisted in remastering the band’s entire discography, up to and…
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In 1994, the title track from the Fear of the Dark album received a Grammy Awards nomination for “Best Metal Performance”, a first for Iron Maiden. The band listened to the thousands of tapes sent in by vocalists before convincing Blaze Bayley , formerly of the band Wolfsbane , who…
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In 1993, Dickinson left the band to pursue his solo career, but agreed to remain for a farewell tour and two live albums (later re-released in one package ). The first, A Real Live One , was released in March 1993 and featured songs from 1986 to 1992, and the…
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