Iron Maiden returning to San Antonio with Alamodome show next fall

Frontman Bruce Dickinson delivers a dynamic performance at Iron Maiden’s 2024 stop in San Antonio. Credit: Jaime Chavez

Run to the hills, San Antonio!

Legendary heavy metal band Iron Maiden will return to the Alamo City on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, to play the Alamodome. The show is a newly added stop on the British act’s Run For Your Lives tour, which is packed with career-defining hits from its early years.

“This whole tour has been such great fun,” Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson in a statement. “I really enjoy belting out all these great old songs, and the whole band are loving playing them too!”

Thrash metal heavyweights Megadeth and Anthrax are opening the San Antonio concert and the tour’s other newly announced North American dates.

“We are greatly looking forward to bringing this Run For Your Lives to North America and hope the fans enjoy seeing the show and hearing the set list as much as we do playing it,” Maiden bassist Steve Harris added. “It’s an added bonus to have a few of our good friends on the tour with us.”

An exclusive Iron Maiden Fan Club presale begins Tuesday, Oct. 28. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, Oct. 31, at ironmaiden.com.

The tour serves as a 50th anniversary celebration for Maiden, which formed in 1975. To toast a half century of metallic domination, the setlist is chock full of tracks from the band’s first nine albums. In contrast, the 2024 San Antonio stop on its Days of Future Past tour highlighted songs from the 2021 album Senjutsu in addition to 1986’s Somewhere in Time.

“We’ve got all the big ones from that early period, including ‘Hallowed,’ ‘Run To The Hills,’ ‘Trooper,’ ‘Number Of The Beast,’ ‘Killers,’ ‘Powerslave,’ ‘2 Minutes’ … and some of them we haven’t played in the US for over 20 years!” Dickinson said. “Plus, there’s some real epics including my particular favorite ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and ‘Seventh Son’ … . We are doing them all and more. I mean, who wouldn’t for a 50th birthday party?”

“We particularly look forward to playing the huge shows in Montréal and the Alamodome in San Antonio, two of the biggest shows we have ever played in North America,” Iron Maiden manager Rod Smallwood added.

Megadeth is billing the tour as its last ever before retirement, which founder and frontman Dave Mustaine announced in an August statement.

“There’s so many musicians that have come to the end of their career, whether accidental or intentional,” Mustaine said. “Most of them don’t get to go out on their own terms on top, and that’s where I’m at in my life right now.”

Prices unknown, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, Alamodome, 100 Montana St., (210) 207-3663, alamodome.com.

Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris shoots to kill at a 2019 San Antonio performance. Credit: Jaime Monzon