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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