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“The Writing on the Wall” is the first official Iron Maiden song released after 2015’s The Book of Souls and it is the first single off their seventeenth album, Senjutsu.

The song and its video have been anticipated by the band through a marketing campaign spanning July 2021 that involved the daily release of the cover artwork of one of their previous album, engraved with small and hidden signs pointing to the new single, such as the acronym “WOTW” or “TWOTW” (which obviously stands for “The Writing on the Wall”).

The video clip has been directed by Nicos Livesey and produced by his BlinkInk, a young, London-based animation studio. The creative direction of the video started from a Bruce Dickinson concept and was lead by veteran Pixar Animation Studio artist and director Mark Andrews, alongside ex-Pixar animator Andrew Gordon.

Dickinson’s lyrics for the song and the concept of the video were inspired by the biblical stories of Belshazzar’s feast, narrated in Chapter V of the Book of Daniel, mixed with Book of Genesis’ Adam and Eve and Book of Revelation’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Director Nicos Livesay said:

I wanted to harness the old Derek Riggs album artworks as much as possible and infuse it with some old school cartoon vibes […] all wrapped up in a lot of messages about greed and the destruction of the planet, with the top one-percenters sitting in their shiny castles, leaving everyone else outside to rot on a dying planet. It’s meant to be pretty on the nose about the current planetary situation.

The clip also marked the debut of Senjutsu’s Samurai version of Eddie the Head. The digital rendering of the character has been made by “wizard of CG Balázs Simon”, as once again stated by Livesey.

[Verse 1]
Across a painted desert lies a train of vagabonds
All that’s left of what we were it’s what we have become
Once our empires glorious, but now the empire’s gone
The dead gave us the time to live and now our time is done

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Now we are victorious, we’ve become our slaves
A land of hope and glory building graveyards for the brave

[Chorus]
Have you seen the writing on the wall?
Have you seen that writing?
Can you see the riders on the storm?
Can you see them riding?
Can you see them riding?

[Verse 2]
Holding onto fury is that all we ever know
Ignorance our judge and jury, all we’ve got to show
From Hollywood to Babylon, holy war to kingdom come
On a trail of dust and ashes when the burning sky is done

[Pre-Chorus 2]
A tide of change is coming and that is what you fear
The earthquake is a-coming, but you don’t want to hear
You’re just too blind to see

[Chorus]
Have you seen the writing on the wall?
Have you seen that writing?
Can you see the riders on the storm?
Can you see them riding?
Can you see them riding?
Riding next to you

[Guitar Solo]

[Outro]
Have you seen the writing on the wall?
Have you seen that writing?
Can you see the riders on the storm?
Can you see them riding?
Have you seen the writing on the wall?
Have you seen that writing?
Can you see the riders on the storm?
Can you see them riding?
Can you see them riding?
Riding next to you

“The Writing on the Wall” is the first official Iron Maiden song released after 2015’s The Book of Souls and it is the first single off their seventeenth album, Senjutsu.

The song and its video have been anticipated by the band through a marketing campaign spanning July 2021 that involved the daily release of the cover artwork of one of their previous album, engraved with small and hidden signs pointing to the new single, such as the acronym “WOTW” or “TWOTW” (which obviously stands for “The Writing on the Wall”).

The video clip has been directed by Nicos Livesey and produced by his BlinkInk, a young, London-based animation studio. The creative direction of the video started from a Bruce Dickinson concept and was lead by veteran Pixar Animation Studio artist and director Mark Andrews, alongside ex-Pixar animator Andrew Gordon.

Dickinson’s lyrics for the song and the concept of the video were inspired by the biblical stories of Belshazzar’s feast, narrated in Chapter V of the Book of Daniel, mixed with Book of Genesis’ Adam and Eve and Book of Revelation’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Director Nicos Livesay said:

I wanted to harness the old Derek Riggs album artworks as much as possible and infuse it with some old school cartoon vibes […] all wrapped up in a lot of messages about greed and the destruction of the planet, with the top one-percenters sitting in their shiny castles, leaving everyone else outside to rot on a dying planet. It’s meant to be pretty on the nose about the current planetary situation.

The clip also marked the debut of Senjutsu’s Samurai version of Eddie the Head. The digital rendering of the character has been made by “wizard of CG Balázs Simon”, as once again stated by Livesey.

[Verse 1]
Across a painted desert lies a train of vagabonds
All that’s left of what we were it’s what we have become
Once our empires glorious, but now the empire’s gone
The dead gave us the time to live and now our time is done

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Now we are victorious, we’ve become our slaves
A land of hope and glory building graveyards for the brave

[Chorus]
Have you seen the writing on the wall?
Have you seen that writing?
Can you see the riders on the storm?
Can you see them riding?
Can you see them riding?

[Verse 2]
Holding onto fury is that all we ever know
Ignorance our judge and jury, all we’ve got to show
From Hollywood to Babylon, holy war to kingdom come
On a trail of dust and ashes when the burning sky is done

[Pre-Chorus 2]
A tide of change is coming and that is what you fear
The earthquake is a-coming, but you don’t want to hear
You’re just too blind to see

[Chorus]
Have you seen the writing on the wall?
Have you seen that writing?
Can you see the riders on the storm?
Can you see them riding?
Can you see them riding?
Riding next to you

[Guitar Solo]

[Outro]
Have you seen the writing on the wall?
Have you seen that writing?
Can you see the riders on the storm?
Can you see them riding?
Have you seen the writing on the wall?
Have you seen that writing?
Can you see the riders on the storm?
Can you see them riding?
Can you see them riding?
Riding next to you