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“They were full of angst and venom”: Iron Maiden reveal the toughest support acts they’ve ever had to follow

Opening for the veteran show-stealers is a difficult job, but Guns N’ Roses and Southern rockers Blackfoot each brought their A-game

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"They were like, ‘Are you going to choose heavy metal? Or are you going to join the police?’" Black market bootlegs, tours with Iron Maiden and rock'n'roll monks: The Hu's Enkush Batjargal on how he became a folk metal icon

From growing up in Communist Mongolia to revolutionising folk metal, The Hu's Enkush Batjargal shares his wisdom (and why swordfighting with a horsehead fiddle is a bad idea)

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“Steve Harris will tour and tour and tour and tour until he probably dies onstage”: Bruce Dickinson would rather Iron Maiden “do another album” than head back on the road right away

The metal legends are booked to play 91 gigs in 2026 alone

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“I’d put the headphones on and listen to heavy metal, and then I'd want to break down the door to get out on the pitch and go kill someone”: Former England legend Terry Butcher is a huge Iron Maiden fan and the original heavy metal footballer

Ex-England captain Terry Butcher on singing onstage with Iron Maiden, Steve Harris’ football skills and England’s chances in the World Cup

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"My sister gave me Powerslave and it genuinely changed my life. My mom legitimately thought Iron Maiden were channelling Satan!" The Bronx and Mariachi El Bronx vocalist Matt Caughthran picks the soundtrack to his life

Matt Caughthran reminisces about having a "ton of hair", being raised on television and the summoning of heavy metal thunder

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"Steve Harris was a road sweeper when I met him." What it was like following metal icons Iron Maiden from their very first gig

One of Steve Harris's old workmates recalls following the band in their earliest years

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10 amazing covers by massive metal bands that you’ve (probably) never heard

Iron Maiden going full prog! Ghost doing the Beatles! Black Sabbath smashing Smoke On The Water! Only completists have heard these extraordinary covers

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Bulgarian president touts Iron Maiden as “remarkably down-to-earth people” after meeting metal veterans at Sofia stadium show

We’re not sure whether Iliyana Yotova is a metalhead, but she seems to like Iron Maiden all the same

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"Everything health-wise caught up with me at the same time. Whatever could go wrong did go wrong." Phil Collins is feeling a lot better, but won't be performing at his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction

"They asked me if I would perform. I said, No."

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“We partied every night! We would have a hotel room and just give the details out to friends and girls, ‘We’ll see you there!’” The story of the song that made Judas Priest icons in America

With one big single, and a little help from an Iron Maiden tour, the Brummie underdogs found their footing across the pond

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"Everyone's happy and ready to rock!" Iron Maiden release a special glimpse into the epic next leg of their Run For Your Lives world tour

Iron Maiden have released a short new video documenting their recent show in Athens

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"It's a song that we have not played for many, many years. No, it's not Alexander The Great..." Watch Iron Maiden dust off Seventh Son classic for the first time in 38 years at Greece show on fan-shot video

The band kicked off their 2026 Run For Your Lives dates at the Olympic Athletic Center of Athens this weekend

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“We found an enormous old-school brewery and made up the orchestra so they looked zombified”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson premieres music video for re-working of 1994’s Tears Of The Dragon

The singer released More Balls To Picasso, a remixed version of his second solo album, last year

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"Their fans live, breathe and die for them, and that is my dream." Why Lady Gaga loves Iron Maiden

Pop megastar Lady Gaga is a certified Iron Maiden fan - and the metal icons think pretty highly of her too!

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"There’s this idea that metal is the Devil’s music and all that kind of nonsense." Meet the metal singer-turned vicar who wants Iron Maiden to play her church

Emily Kolltveit will be known to many UK metalheads as the former frontwoman of Pythia, but her life took a surprising turn

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Documentary charts later days of former Iron Maiden singer Paul Di'Anno's life

Di'Anno: Iron Maiden's Lost Singer features members of Metallica, Kiss, Slayer, Megadeth and more

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"I will never play with them again. I’d rather die than play with them." Don't hold your breath for a New Order reunion performance at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony

Peter Hook makes his feelings on a New Order reunion crystal clear

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“I’ve sat down with other guitarists – you just end up playing blues licks all day and not writing anything. But we went to work straight away”: Richie Kotzen and Adrian Smith on absurd volume, improv and how long a solo should be

We meet Smith and Kotzen pre-show totalk gear, their new album Black Light/White Noise, and find a pair whose chemistry makes this a hard-rock project with legs

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"I am blessed to be able to finally share my path to where I am today, in my own words." Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain announces his autobiography Hello Boys and Girls!

Nicko McBrain is ready to share "a thrilling, hilarious and deeply personal" memoir

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“We were in this pub and Paul Di’Anno pulled this young nurse. She invited us all to sleep on her floor”: How Iron Maiden made the scrappy four-track EP which launched their career

As the heavy metal juggernauts continue their 50th birthday celebrations, we look back on how The Soundhouse Tapes started it all

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Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition review – on-brand fan pleaser is a metal hymn of praise

Watchable, uncritical doc tells the story of the massive rise, slight fall, then further massive rise of the veteran rockers

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"I had that thing of, 'I don’t wanna play that song because every time I sing it, I start crying.'" From falling in love with Nirvana to channelling Iron Maiden and embracing activism, some life lessons from Within Temptation's Sharon den Adel

Fronting one of Europe's biggest metal bands has given Sharon a special kind of insight through her career. Here's what she's learned

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“All through our set, pimply-faced young boys wearing Iron Maiden shirts would be giving us the middle finger”: How Stone Temple Pilots fought their way to the top – inspired by Jane’s Addiction and championed by Dave Mustaine

Opening for Megadeth was a challenge

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"We're not a bunch of poodles." Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson explains why the band didn't get too hands on in the making of their new documentary, Burning Ambition

You might assume that Iron Maiden wanted strict creative control over the definitive telling of their story. You'd be wrong

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"Underwhelming considering the talent involved." Supergroup Wild Horses pull up short on lacklustre debut studio album

Rainbow's Jimmy Bain + Thin Lizzy's Brian Robertson = Mild Horses

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