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Iron Maiden Unveil Spectacular New Track ‘The Writing On The Wall’

Written by Johnson Stephen on July 16, 2021

iron maiden new track and video Iron Maiden have revealed their brand-new track ‘The Writing On The Wall’ and accompanying music video.

The song was written by Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith & lead singer Bruce Dickinson. It was produced by Kevin Shirley and co-produced by Iron Maiden bassist and founder-member Steve Harris.

Bruce Dickinson initially had a concept for the video for the track, which came to fruition in collaboration with two Award-winning former Pixar executives and long-standing Iron Maiden fans Mark Andrews & Andrew Gordon, who have over 50 years of animation industry experience between them.

With partners lining up to get involved with the project, they chose BlinkInk, a London based animation studio.

In BlinkInk director Nicos Livesey, another long-time Iron Maiden fan & kindred spirit, they found a man who shared the collective vision for the track – resulting in the final film, which features the very first glimpse of Eddie in spectacular 3D form.

Bruce comments ”I had a pretty clear idea of the concept to accompany the song and when I met Mark and Andrew on Zoom, it quickly became clear we were all very much on the same wavelength and this was reinforced with the addition of Nicos and his young BlinkInk team. Our weekly team Zoom meetings were then usually both highly creative and a lot of fun! I’m very proud of the way the video turned out, it’s more like a mini-film really. I knew it was going to work out as soon as Mark brought my treatment to life with his incredible storyboards – I thought we could make something very special together. I think we did and hope our fans will agree.”

You can hear the song and watch the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhBnW7bZHEE