Iron Maiden - Run For Your Lives (2026)
Heavy metal titans Iron Maiden are yet again charting a course to Toronto. This time, they're celebrating 45 years since their first visit to Canada & the US. Joining them will be metal vets Megadeth, who have recently rung the bell for their imminent retirement. While the setlist is shaping up to be killer, diehards have had plenty of opportunities to see Maiden. Are we past the point of victory lap and creeping into annual subscription territory? Let's break it down.
Update (10/29): A second date was added – Sunday, August 30th. See the Presale Dates section below for updated information on ticket sale dates. With two shows, and dynamic pricing reported, I'm even more confident in recommending Wait here.
Original Post: October 25, 2025
Post-Show Verdict Added: August 31st, 2026
The facts
- Who: Iron Maiden | Support: Megadeth
- When: Saturday, August 29th, 2026 + Sunday, August 30th | 7:15PM
- Where: Scotiabank Arena | 12,991 Capacity
- Why: Marking 45 years since Maiden's first visit to Canada/US
- Last Toronto show: 10/26/24 (Scotiabank Arena)
- Bruce Dickinson: 09/16/25 (History)
- Megadeth: 05/18/22 (Budweiser Stage)
- Nearest stop: Montreal (09/03)
Presale Dates
- Iron Maiden Fan Club: Oct 28 @ 10:00AM (Join for $50.86)
- For Night 2: Oct 30 @ 8:00AM
- Megadeth Fan Club: Oct 28 @ 10:00AM (Join for $29)
- For Night 2: Oct 30 @ 8:00AM
- Ticketmaster: Oct 29 @ 10:00AM
- For Night 2: Oct 30 @ 10:00AM
- Live Nation: Oct 29 @ 10:00AM
- For Night 2: Oct 30 @ 10:00AM
- General Public: Oct 31 @ 10:00AM (Both nights)
Ticket Links
Saturday, August 29: Ticketmaster | Stubhub | TickPick
Sunday: August 30: Ticketmaster | Stubhub and TickPick TBD
Community Chatter
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Seating Map
💡How I rate shows
- Various factor are considered including community sentiment, time since last show, pricing, proximity to nearby dates, and more
- Each factor is given a positive or negative score. Positive scores swing in the direction of Buy, negative scores swing towards Wait.
- Factors sum up to one score which becomes the FaceValue Verdict: Buy or Wait
The factors
Let's crunch the Numbers of this Beast. Here's everything pushing this presale up or down the FaceValue scale.
Legacy Act Oversaturation -8
While every year we see a run of legacy bands poised to run off with the pensions of boomers (please... stay...), I expect to see an even stronger lineup in 2026. More acts means more choices for consumers. With tours being announced with more runway than ever, Rush making their grand return, and Rogers Stadium quickly becoming the dadrock Mecca, it's never been a better time to be Rich and Retired in Roronto.
Terry Lankstead
The Perfect Setlist +2
For this run, the band promises a setlist that covers the groups golden era from their iconic debut to the legendary Fear of the Dark. Eager fans already know to expect a stacked setlist if they took a peek at what Europe got.
Finally, a Maiden setlist built for the people that discovered their music through Guitar Hero & Rock Band. I know that'll be what secures my ticket 😄.
I made a setlist (kind of long) with all Iron Maiden songs that are available to purchase in rock band 4 game, looks pretty awesome, hope they add more, does anyone play Rock Band also?
by u/Julioval20 in ironmaiden
Ohhh, the nostalgia..
2 Minutes Since Midnight -7
Iron Maiden's claims the tour is to celebrate 45 years since the group first visited Canada and the US, which is... fine? The band played Scotia just two years prior with singer Bruce Dickinson doing a solo show only a month ago. While the previous Scotia show sold well, it wasn't completely packed out.
This run feels more like the band playing calendar math. Is 45 supposed to be a number that energizes us? If only the band's first voyage was 22 years earlier... Now that'd be a tour with cross-generational pull!
My Last Words? +2
Supporting act Megadeth makes this a monster bill for classic heavy metal fans. The group recently announced the beginning of their end, with a final album and farewell tour before retiring the axes. Rock and roll is no stranger to the neverending farewell, so time will tell whether this truly marks their Countdown to Extinction.
Fan are expecting a proper headline run through 2027. Given this show is 10 months out, we should expect to know by then whether this will be Toronto's last dance with Megadeth. If it is, that will surely drive up demand.
My recommendation is Wait. Legacy tours aren't known to show mercy with pricing, and there's no reason to assume an exception here. There is ample time for prices to cool between now and August.
I expect resellers to Run to the Hills for this one come showtime.
Track Iron Maiden prices
Both Scotiabank Arena nights have their own page, their own prices and their own alert: Aug 29 and Aug 30. Turn on a below face alert for whichever night you're actually going to.
Post-Show Verdict
Added: August 31st, 2026
Was the Wait call right? How cheap did Iron Maiden tickets in Toronto really get? I go over all of that here, so you can see how much readers that took my advice saved.
The call I made on October 25th, 2025, before artist presale had even started was Correct. This is how the sale period played out. First, a look at face value prices when tickets first went on sale in October 2025.
Aug 29 + 30, 2026
Face value prices (fees included):
GA: $259.25
100s: $221.00 – $637.43
100s Side: $324.50
300s: $221.00
300s Side: $158.25 – $221.00
VIP: $588.22 – $855.32
As expected, Iron Maiden went pretty high with their face value prices.
Tickets looked like they were flying off the shelf for these shows. By May, this is what the ticket map looked like for the August 29th show.
But, as it turns out, it was a fake sellout, with around 1,000 tickets available day-of for both shows.
On August 28th, the day before the first show, GA Floor tickets became available for face value ($259.25). Once these went back up, they never stopped being available again, meaning the entire time it was "sold out" between October 2025 and August 2026 was a lie.
Better yet, I saw resale for these tickets drop as low as $182.20 (-$77.05).
I saw front row tickets in the lower bowl (arguably the best seats in the house), for only $303.68. These were originally $637.43 when they first went on sale, marking a savings of $333.75!
Night 2 had a similar story, with GA Floor tickets going down to $236.93. These were the exact tickets that I ended up scoring myself 😎
Check out a pic I got during the show! 🤘
I clocked 746 unsold tickets for the August 29th show, with prices falling below face for all sections except for 100s Side view.
And for the August 30th show, there were over 1,000 tickets still left by showtime! Prices here fell below face for all but the Side view sections.
Seats in the 300s went as low as $87 for the second show, a savings of 61%.
All in all, here's what waiting would have saved you for the Iron Maiden shows in Toronto.
GA: $26.32 - $77.05
100s: $18.00 - $333.75
300s: $115.00 - 134.00
300s Side: $12.00
I captured these prices myself, every few hours, from the announcement through to showtime. Iron Maiden's page on the FaceValue Concert Tracker has the whole run: what each section bottomed out at, and when.
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