Iron Maiden Announces The End of The French Revolution

Iron Maiden just released a new single, “The Writing on the Wall.” This longstanding band, known like metal itself for spanning Left and Right with its anarcho-realism, now introduces a new theme: all that we thought was good, was bad, and “good” evil won, so it’s time to… burn it all down.

Check out the lyrics:

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

Now we are victorious, we’ve become our slaves
A land of hope and glory building graveyards for the brave

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?

Holding on to 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
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

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?

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?

And watch the video:

The song itself sounds like later Iron Maiden with the simple directness of early Iron Maiden, and about a quarter of it a mix between power metal and later Graveland, bringing in a folkish sense of melody inside classic early-1980s Maiden vocal lines.

You might direct your attention to this:

Now we are victorious, we’ve become our slaves
A land of hope and glory building graveyards for the brave

Our victory for The People did not lead us to the Utopia we were promised. In fact, all equality does is sacrifice the brave for the giant fat herd of useless eaters, portrayed in the video as typical modern slobs hanging out at a rave.

Something big is going on, folks, as Alex Jones would say (I think; I never watch him, since he’s from Austin). When the NWO, the Enlightenment,™ the French Revolution, and democracy itself have lost the faith of Iron Maiden, nothing remains but finding our Gulf of Tonkin moment to kick off the boogaloo.

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10 thoughts on “Iron Maiden Announces The End of The French Revolution”

  1. maelstrrom says:

    The solo is nice, but it’s just long-form rock at this point. Maybe this album will be more focused than their last effort

    1. That’s been… kind of where they’ve been for some time. Maiden was always an unstead hybrid between punk, progressive rock, and English guitar rock. I think sort of like trying to be Pantera blighted later Slayer, and trying to be Led Zeppelin ruined a few Black Sabbath albums, trying to be AC/DC but without the chunkiness has made Iron Maiden go through some rough years. Quality remains high however, and the Graveland-esque sounds of this one are a bit interesting. One wonders if they have confined themselves to their original influences after all.

  2. Doug says:

    It is mind bending that we did not see all this coming at least a century ago. All these leaps in science, technology, the arts, etc., then when the big fork in the road arrived we choked even when the correct path could not have been more obvious, or at least to the wise elders of the time. Each generation then metaphorically ran to the hills and was able to hypnotize 95+% (?!) of the next into believing that in fact, no, that is not egg smeared all over our collective face. Until gen x of course!

    1. Each generation then metaphorically ran to the hills and was able to hypnotize 95+% (?!) of the next into believing that in fact, no, that is not egg smeared all over our collective face.

      One look at the Bell Curve and this is less mystifying, but it’s a good solid point.

      All these leaps in science, technology, the arts, etc., then when the big fork in the road arrived we choked even when the correct path could not have been more obvious, or at least to the wise elders of the time.

      The whole point of mass revolutions is to ensure that those wise elders will not be heard.

      Until gen x of course!

      The ones that didn’t an hero like 41% of transsexuals, that is!

      1. Doug says:

        Didn’t catch that last sentence, maybe it’s me. Anyway hopefully they’ll include Run To The Burbs on the new album.

      2. Transpocalypse Now! says:

        All the good OG’s OD’d.

  3. Nancy Phallusi says:

    Dickinson, who wrote the story for this video, confirmed some time ago that he was a conservative and a eurosceptic. Which probably also means he’s pro-Trump.

    1. Another upper middle class kid screwing things up for the proles.

      In all fairness, “anarcho-realist” seems to describe Iron Maiden pretty well.

      1. Nancy Phallusi says:

        They love the topic of war, which probably decreases the anarchist component in them.

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