{"id":49375,"date":"2022-10-06T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=49375"},"modified":"2022-11-15T15:44:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T21:44:37","slug":"concert-review-iron-maiden-live-in-chicago-at-united-center-legacy-of-the-beast-tour-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=49375","title":{"rendered":"Concert Review: Iron Maiden Live in Chicago at United Center, Legacy of the Beast Tour 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Christopher David<\/p>\n

\u201cFight to the last, they can never own us,\u201d sings Iron Maiden\u2019s Bruce Dickinson near the end of \u201cSenjutsu,\u201d the title track to Maiden\u2019s sprawling 2021 album, and as a samurai Eddie stalked the stage wielding a sword and teasing guitarist Dave Murray, Dickinson might as well have been singing about the band itself.\u00a0 In a career that has now spanned over forty years, Iron Maiden have virtually nothing left to prove, but they continue hacking away at the live stage and rolling out epic records as if practically daring any detractors to say something.<\/p>\n

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Senjutsu<\/em> came out in the midst of the band\u2019s years-long, 40th anniversary Legacy of the Beast tour, mind you, so while Tuesday\u2019s show at the United Center was similar in many ways to their last appearance in Chicago just a couple of years ago, there were new tunes and new visuals to make the show feel fresh.\u00a0 This was most notable at the start, with the band going all in on the first twenty minutes of Senjutsu <\/em>before the stage shifted to stained glass depictions of Eddie through the years for a crowd-rousing \u201cRevelations,\u201d and even the Blaze Bailey years got some attention with an ominous version of \u201cSign of the Cross\u201d that saw Dickinson through another costume change, an aspect of Maiden\u2019s shows that not every band could pull off; the band\u2019s total investment in the concepts and imagery of even individual songs has led it to a point where every tune in a setlist becomes a showpiece.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFear of the Dark\u201d saw Dickinson stalking a Whitechapel-esque stage in period dress, while \u201cThe Trooper\u201d saw the classic \u2018British soldier\u2019 version of Eddie dueling with the band members.\u00a0 A massive, imposing demon rose to prominence behind the band during \u201cIron Maiden,\u201d and the return of the dive-bomber\u2014a show-stopping bit of set design if ever there was one\u2014brought the show to a close with \u201cAces High.\u201d\u00a0 The band was, predictably, in top form\u2014bassist Steve Harris hasn\u2019t aged a day in at least twenty years, and the triple guitar attack of Murray, Jannick Gers, and Adrian Smith remains the best in all of heavy metal, finding a sweet spot in the middle of \u201870s hard rock, \u201880s power metal, and prog.<\/p>\n

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This far down the line, one wonders what tricks Maiden can still have up its sleeve\u2014but given the announcement that the band is embarking on a NEW tour in 2023 revisiting 1986\u2019s Somewhere in Time<\/em>, it seems that there are still quite a few Eddies lurking in that Pandora\u2019s box of a discography.\u00a0 If their UC show was an indication of what\u2019s to come, we\u2019ll be looking at a 50th anniversary tour before we know it.<\/p>\n

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For more on Iron Maiden and the current tour, click here<\/a><\/p>\n

For photos from the show, click here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Iron Maiden – United Center, Chicago, IL – October 5, 2022 (setlist)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Senjutsu<\/p>\n

Stratego<\/p>\n

The Writing on the Wall<\/p>\n

Revelations<\/p>\n

Blood Brothers<\/p>\n

Sign of the Cross<\/p>\n

Flight of Icarus<\/p>\n

Fear of the Dark<\/p>\n

Hallowed Be Thy Name<\/p>\n

The Number of the Beast<\/p>\n

Iron Maiden<\/p>\n

The Trooper<\/p>\n

The Clansman<\/p>\n

Run to the Hills<\/p>\n

Aces High<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Christopher David \u201cFight to the last, they can never own us,\u201d sings Iron Maiden\u2019s Bruce Dickinson near the end of \u201cSenjutsu,\u201d the title track to Maiden\u2019s sprawling 2021 album, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}