British heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN kicked off the 2026 leg of their “Run For Your Lives” world tour Saturday night (May 23) at the Olympic Athletic Center of Athens (OAKA) in Athens, Greece and they released an official recap.
Although most of the setlist has remained the same as the one for the 2025 leg of “Run For Your Lives”, one notable change was made for the Athens concert: the addition of “Infinite Dreams”, a song from MAIDEN’s seventh studio album, “Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son”, marking the first time the track had been performed in concert since 1988 when it was played during MAIDEN’s tour in support of the LP.
Before launching into the sixth song of MAIDEN’s set, singer Bruce Dickinson addressed the crowd. He said:
“We couldn’t think of a better place in Europe to start this tour… We know a few of you have seen some of this show before. We thought we’d just do a little bit of something different, just for this next song, because it’s a song that we have not played for many, many years. No, it’s not ‘Alexander The Great’. But it will be when you go to bed tonight — your ‘Infinite Dreams’.”
The setlist for the Athens concert was as follows:
01. Murders In The Rue Morgue
02. Wrathchild
03. Killers
04. Phantom Of The Opera
05. The Number Of The Beast
06. Infinite Dreams (first time since 1988)
07. Powerslave
08. 2 Minutes To Midnight
09. Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
10. Run To The Hills
11. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
12. The Trooper
13. Hallowed Be Thy Name
14. Iron Maiden
15. Aces High
16. Fear Of The Dark
17. Wasted Years
Support for MAIDEN’s show in Athens came from American thrash metal pioneers ANTHRAX.