Metal, Hardcore, Indie, Rock
Singer Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden collaborated with directors Leo Liberti and Antoine de Montremy in September 2025, following his performance at The Town festival in São Paulo, Brazil, to create an epic new film to go along with his reworking of the iconic song “Tears of the Dragon,” which was included on his 1994 solo album “Balls To Picasso” last year, as per Blabbermouth. The album is now titled “More Balls To Picasso.” In order to make a dramatic music video for the song, Bruce and his House Band Of Hell took over an abandoned brewery in São Paulo with a full film crew. Antonio Teoli conducted the Almai orchestra. The song was re-recorded in the studio with Teoli and the orchestra, giving the moody ballad a whole new depth.
Together with Bruce and Brazilian ballet dancer Renata Bardazi, their performance in the video produced a visually striking and emotionally powerful film that has already been screened at several international film festivals, earning them major accolades and awards. Since then, it has been made available and is seen below. Behind-the-scenes video from the production of the piece is also accessible.
When we reimagined the whole ‘More Balls To Picasso’ album, we always wanted to do an orchestral version of ‘Tears Of The Dragon’. Antonio Teoli scored it and we recorded it, then we called up the filmmaker 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 House Band Of Hell 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.
