“This is a band with no limits. If there’s a metal fan on the moon, we’ll be there”: How Iron Maiden’s epic Somewhere Back In Time tour took them where other metal bands dare not go

Iron Maiden performing onstage in 2008.

Following 2006’s epic A Matter Of Life And Death and a tour which found them playing that album in full, Iron Maiden turned their eyes to the past with the Somewhere Back In Time Tour. In 2008, Metal Hammer climbed aboard Ed Force One to get to the heart of Maiden’s enduring success.