Check out some reviews from the recent shows in the USA…
“Dickinson’s pipes were on point, as he hollered out near supersonic wails. Steve Harris stood stoic in the front of the stage commandeering his metal troops and firing his bass out at the crowd. Maiden’s now famous guitar triple threat did what they do best–thrash and shred. Dave Murray and Adrian Smith dueled brilliantly as Janick Gers posed and strutted his stuff.”
Storm Warnings: Iron Maiden returns to Jersey
“Relying exclusively on 20-year-old tunes would typically be the sign of a band throwing in the towel, but Iron Maiden’s Somewhere Back in Time tour is more like a band chewing up its own history and spitting it out for two solid hours.”
Iron Maiden go ‘back in time’ in NYC
“a kneeling, eight-foot-tall animatronic devil, Egyptian jackals with red glowing eyes, the aforementioned Eddie in a golden sarcophagus, a ten-foot-tall walking puppet with laser gun, and a massive, perhaps 40-foot-tall mummy that waved its arms and shot sparks out of its eyes. Even awesomer was the band’s ecstatic, operatic, galloping metal, which proved such a force that it sucked up all the power in the Garden”