Metal
Bruce Dickinson has announced “PsychoGod”, the European tour that brings him back to solo shows in 2027. The 31 dates are split into two legs, one in the summer and one in the autumn, and tickets go on sale this Friday, 30 October. They’ll be the Iron Maiden singer’s first solo shows since he wrapped up “The Mandrake Project” tour in Brazil in September 2025, after 71 shows across three continents.
The summer leg opens at Belfast’s Ulster Hall on 14 June and takes in nine headline shows through to Luxembourg on 7 July, via Dublin, Milan and Istanbul, plus three festivals. One of them is Rock Imperium in Cartagena, between 2 and 4 July, with the exact day still to be announced: it’s the only stop in Spain. The autumn leg runs from Warsaw on 10 November to the Olympia in Paris on 10 December, nineteen dates with Swedish prog-metallers Evergrey in support. None of them is in Catalonia; the nearest is Le Bikini in Toulouse on 8 December.
“What we do is real and that’s so important right now,” Dickinson says. “A real drummer, a real bass player, real guitarists, real keyboards — A.I. can only copy, it can only pretend. It can never be in love, and it can never play. This band? They can really play!”
The shows promise new material alongside fan favourites and deep cuts from across his solo career. Most of the new album, his eighth, was recorded in January and February at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 with producer Brendan Duffey and the band he’s taking on the road: Chris Declercq and Philip Näslund on guitars, Tanya O’Callaghan on bass, Mistheria on keyboards and Dave Moreno on drums. Neither its title nor its release date has been announced yet.
Text by Roger Estivill