Shot in Sao Paulo, the video for Bruce Dickinson's reimagining of Tears Of The Dragon has already won numerous awards at film festivals.
Bruce Dickinson has unveiled some pretty extraordinary new visuals for his reworking of Tears Of The Dragon.
The film was shot in Sao Paulo, Brazil in September 2025 and saw the Iron Maiden vocalist and a film crew take over a disused brewery along with his House Band of Hell. It also features Brazilian ballet dancer Renata Bardazi and the Almai orchestra, who also played on the re-recording of the track taken from last year’s reimaginings album More Balls To Picasso.
If that wasn’t impressive enough, the visuals have also been shown at a number of film festivals around the world and has won numerous awards.
“When we reimagined the whole More Balls To Picasso album we always wanted to do an orchestral version of Tears Of The Dragon,” says Bruce. “Antonio Teoli scored it and we recorded it, then we called up the film-maker Leo Liberti who previously shot a load of live stuff for me in Brazil that was fabulous. We found this amazing location, an enormous old school brewery that was almost like a renaissance building, and we made up the orchestra so they looked slightly zombified.
“All the HBOH band members are in the video and I gave them all instruments to play. The whole thing was brilliant madness. Leo also came up with the idea of having a ballet dancer interpreting the song, and she was amazing, poetic, and that adds an incredible extra-emotional dimension to the video.”
Watch it below:
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