Backing tracks are an more and more frequent methodology bands use to supply their audiences a fuller sound once they’re performing dwell. However by no means Iron Maiden. 5 many years into their profession, the heavy steel juggernauts are nonetheless on the high of their recreation – and, the second they’re not, they’ll name it a day, in line with frontman Bruce Dickinson.

Within the newest concern of Traditional Rock, Maiden insist that they’d quite “bow out with dignity” than placed on a present that’s less than par. “The concept that you may flip it into the Disneyland Maiden, by utilizing backing tracks, a number of tips … No!” Dickinson says. “Maiden must be 100 per cent actual – and fucking fierce!”

The now 66-year-old Dickinson says Maiden will proceed to carry out their tracks one hundred pc dwell. “Solely lately this man, an enormous fan, stated to me: ‘it’s so nice to see Maiden nonetheless doing it,’” he remembers. “I stated: ‘Yeah, and we’re doing it for actual!’ There’s no detuning. This man stated: ‘Plenty of bands use backing tracks now…’ I stated: ‘No! No, no!”

“[If we use backing tracks,] that’s the day I give up,” he continues. “Or the day we cease. If it’s not actual, it’s not Maiden.”

The remainder of the band are in settlement. Bassist Steve Harris chimes in, including that they’ll know when it’s time to cease. “I feel you’d know in your self in case you can’t minimize it any extra,” he explains. “And I wish to suppose that we’re nonetheless on the market giving it giant.”

The band are set to rejoice their fiftieth anniversary with the Run For Your Lives tour. Followers can anticipate a Maiden “historical past lesson”, with a setlist spanning the band’s first 9 albums.

When first asserting the tour, Dickinson stated: “We’re going to be giving our followers a once-in-a-lifetime dwell expertise. This can be a tour that’s gonna put a smile in your face and a cheer in your throat. In case you’ve seen us earlier than, then get able to take that have to an entire new degree. In case you’ve by no means seen us earlier than, then what the hell have you ever been ready for? Now’s your likelihood to search out out what you’ve been lacking! Iron Maiden’s positively gonna get ya!”

Following on from the mighty Run For Your Lives tour, Dickinson hints that their is also some new Maiden albums within the works. “I’m nonetheless writing on a regular basis,” he tells Traditional Rock. “I’ve bought so many concepts, it’s ridiculous, insane. I couldn’t end off all of the concepts I’ve had in three lifetimes. God forbid we must always make one other file!”

The Run For Your Lives tour kicks off twenty seventh Could in Budapest, and can hit the UK in June. Tickets can be found now.