Polygon: You have made rock videos for decades, but “The Writing On The Wall” is cinema. To celebrate this achievement, Polygon asked Dickinson to let it up on his sources of inspiration “The Writing on the Wall,” from the far-out to the all-too-close-to-home. The project took eight months to complete. Pixar alum Mark Andrews (co-director of Brave) worked as creative director. The licensed airline pilot (who flies the band when on tour), fencer, and brewmaster crafted the scenario himself, then collaborated with the animation studio BLINKINK and director Nicos Livesey. “The Writing on the Wall is all the brainchild of Dickinson, who is known for keeping busy outside of the studio. The story of avenging raiders liberating downtrodden masses from vampiric global tyrants is a graphic mix of 2D and 3D animation, with touchstones from Mad Max, The Lord of the Rings, and general sci-fi madness. 3, Eddie has been transformed into a post-apocalyptic magic-user laying waste to the one-percent in the animated music video for the new song “The Writing on the Wall.” The short is based on the Biblical story of Belshazzar’s Feast from the Old Testament’s Book of Daniel (where, in fact, the expression “writing on the wall” comes from) but is far more Ralph Bakshi, Genndy Tartakovsky, and Metal Hurlant than a typical Sunday school session. Now, to promote the imminent release of Iron Maiden’s 17th album Senjutsu (its first since 2015) on Sept. The Rolling Stones’ tongue is a cool logo and all, but can it do this?
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Indeed, Maiden’s mascot, Eddie - found in two video games, a series of comic books, and every one of their albums - is the alpha and omega of rock-related talismans. If the band were judged solely on musical quality, Maiden would still be a champion, but the group’s lyrics have always been steeped in fantasy, myth, science fiction, and a lore of their own creation. The proof is in the galloping bass work of Steve Harris, the furious drumming of Nicko McBrain, the triple guitar assault from Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, and Janick Gers, and, finally, the soaring, operatic, tonsil-shredding vocals of Bruce Dickinson. It was up to me to interpret it.I’m open to arguments, but there is really only one possibility for the Greatest Heavy Metal Band of All Time: Iron Maiden. There were kabuki masks and tattoos, Japanese water dragon.
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Artist Mark Wilkinson told us that Steve Harris emailed him pages of imagery for reference: “There were samurai warriors and creatures from Japanese oni mythology - ogres with one or more horns growing out of their heads, plus an extra set of fangs. Maintaining the stark black backdrop from The Book Of Souls - with an expression and posture echoing Killers, where TBOS echoed the debut sleeve - our hero manifests in terrifying Samurai form, ready to captivate a new generation of wide-eyed youth. With an extra pair of fangs poking through bloody gums, battered metallic battledress, copious bloodstaining and an arsenal of weaponry at hand, Senjutsu is Eddie at his most flat-out bloodthirsty, shit-scary. No wonder the box set also included a seventeen-inch poster of the image. However, in the Senjutsu Super Deluxe edition, the Blu-Ray cover of the epic Writing On The Wall animated video adds a giant Samurai Eddie flashing his great big sword, as well as the rest of the Biker Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
There are few more metal images than the Grim Reaper on a motorbike surrounded by flying eagles. Bursting through a copy of the Mirror carrying the tragic news of the R101 disaster (the subject of the song), Eddie reaches to grab the stricken airship out of the clouds, as the vast shadow of long-time Maiden sleeve art cameo the Grim Reaper surveys his grim handiwork. His mane of neon green fibre-optic hair is pretty fetching, too.Įddie’s first head-and-shoulders cover portrait since 1980, Mark Wilkinson’s Mayan Ed for The Book Of Souls is a focused triumph, our tribal-scarred hero peering out of a jet-black background, leaving behind the cluttered tableaux of recent years to reassert the snarling menace and attitude that first made us fall in love with the mad old bastard.įor a limited Record Store Day picture disc gatefold, Maiden turned to Hervé Monjeaud, the French artist who redesigned Derek Riggs’ Maiden England video sleeve for its 2013 DVD reissue, for the Empire Of The Clouds release.
Being sucked into a computer universe seemingly works wonders on our hero’s teeth, displaying a straighter and whiter set of gnashers here than we've ever seen in Eddie's 'ead before. For Speed Of Light, the first single from Maiden's sixteenth studio album, Eddie was reimagined as a digi-hopping game invader, popping up in all manner of classic era video game archetypes as he battled his way through til the bitter end.
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