British heavy steel legends IRON MAIDEN have introduced the 2024 Australian leg of “The Future Previous” tour.

The upcoming trek, which can happen subsequent September, will mark the band’s first look Down Below since their “The Guide Of Souls” tour in 2016 and 2017.

Becoming a member of MAIDEN on the six-date run as particular visitors will probably be KILLSWITCH ENGAGE.

“The Future Previous” options beforehand unperformed songs from MAIDEN‘s most up-to-date studio album, “Senjutsu”, together with a give attention to 1986’s “Someplace In Time” LP, plus different basic cuts.

MAIDEN bassist Steve Harris says: “We have actually loved taking part in all of the exhibits on ‘The Future Previous’ tour this yr, and the response from our followers has been unbelievable. With the ability to play a few of these songs for the very first time has made the tour much more memorable and we will’t wait to proceed it subsequent yr. We’re all actually excited to lastly have the ability to return to Australia as we all know our followers have waited so patiently for us over the previous few years. It’s going to be nice to get again there, particularly with this new present. We promise you all, it will be well worth the wait!”

MAIDEN supervisor Rod Smallwood feedback: “All our best-laid plans to deliver the ‘Legacy Of The Beast’ tour to Australia had been derailed by the shut-down of the stay music trade throughout Covid however we assured everybody on the time that we’d come again to Australia and, as our followers know, we all the time preserve to our guarantees. So, as you’ll think about, we’re very a lot wanting ahead to bringing this superb new present to the Southern hemisphere and giving our loyal Australian followers the perfect MAIDEN present we will. You will be assured it’s well worth the wait. See you all in 2024!”

Tour dates:

Sep. 01 – RAC Enviornment, Perth, Australia
Sep. 04 – Adelaide Leisure Centre, Adelaide, Sep. Australia
Sep. 06 – Rod Laver Enviornment, Melbourne, Australia
Sep. 10 – Brisbane Leisure Centre, Brisbane, Australia
Sep. 12 – Qudos Financial institution Enviornment, Sydney, Australia
Sep. 16 – Spark Enviornment, Auckland, New Zealand

Requested in a radio interview quite a few years in the past why IRON MAIDEN had by no means performed “Alexander The Nice” stay, singer Bruce Dickinson answered, “As a result of Adrian [Smith, guitar] cannot bear in mind the guitar solo.” Whereas Dickinson could have been joking, he did go on to say that, when the music was initially written, they put the solo by way of a load of then-very-advanced music laptop wizardry, and it simply could not work out the time signature.

“Senjutsu” got here out in September 2021. It marked MAIDEN‘s second consecutive double album behind 2015’s “The Guide Of Souls” which is the longest MAIDEN album, with a working time of 92 minutes.

IRON MAIDEN‘s first album in six years, “Senjutsu” was recorded in 2019 in Paris with longstanding producer Kevin Shirley and co-produced by bassist Steve Harris. It options three tracks whose working time exceeds 10 minutes every.

For “Senjutsu” — loosely translated as “ways and technique” — the band as soon as once more enlisted the companies of Mark Wilkinson to create the spectacular Samurai-themed cowl art work, based mostly on an concept by Harris.

“Senjutsu” bowed at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, charting larger than even the band’s early classics like “Powerslave” and “The Quantity Of The Beast”. Almost 90 % of the LP’s 64,000 equal album items earned got here from pure album gross sales. The critically acclaimed double album debuted one place larger than 2015’s “The Guide Of Souls” and 2010’s “The Closing Frontier”, which each peaked at No. 4.

“Senjutsu” was MAIDEN‘s thirteenth album to prime within the High 40 within the U.S.