British heavy steel legends IRON MAIDEN performed the eighth live performance of their “The Future Previous Tour” on Sunday (June 11) on the Quarterback Immobilien Area in Leipzig, Germany. Fan-filmed video of the live performance will be discovered under.

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

As was the case in any respect the earlier gigs on this tour, IRON MAIDEN‘s 15-song set on the Nokia Area included “Days Of Future Previous”, “The Time Machine”, “Dying Of The Celts” and “Hell On Earth” from “Senjutsu”, together with “Alexander The Nice” from “Someplace In Time”.

The setlist was as follows:

01. Caught Someplace In Time
02. Stranger In A Unusual Land
03. The Writing On The Wall
04. Days Of Future Previous
05. The Time Machine
06. The Prisoner
07. Dying Of The Celts
08. Can I Play With Insanity
09. Heaven Can Wait
10. Alexander The Nice
11. Worry Of The Darkish
12. Iron Maiden

Encore:

13. Hell On Earth
14. The Trooper
15. Wasted Years

Requested in a radio interview plenty of years in the past why IRON MAIDEN had by no means performed “Alexander The Nice” dwell, singer Bruce Dickinson answered, “As a result of Adrian [Smith, guitar] cannot bear in mind the guitar solo.” Whereas Dickinson might have been joking, he did go on to say that, when the tune was initially written, they put the solo by means 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 E book 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 “techniques and technique” — the band as soon as once more enlisted the companies of Mark Wilkinson to create the spectacular Samurai-themed cowl art work, primarily based 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 E book Of Souls” and 2010’s “The Remaining Frontier”, which each peaked at No. 4.

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