My First Time Hearing Iron Maiden Hallowed Be Thy Name (Reaction!!) 

with respect , the band members don't mess around with any dark or evil stuff , merely story tellers and amazing musicians!

The lead singer is so impressive he practices opera to keep voice in shape and one of the only bands that has its own 747 to tour with that the lead singer is the pilot of (not kidding) not just that but hes also an award-winning beer brewer, film scriptwriter, international fencer, TV presenter & sports commentator, and Sunday Times #1 best-selling author with the publication of his autobiography What Does This Button Do? and one of the most energetic front men in any band ever

Don’t be too frightened of the imagery, for real…the title track is about a dream the bass player had…they’re not evil, at all…they’re all very down-to-earth guys…drummer is a born-again Christian. They just make music about sometimes dark (and also, sometimes very real) subjects.

Fuck yea. One of the best songs ever ever. You can’t go wrong with any song from their first 5 or 6 albums for sure.

Steve Harris was inspired about the last man to be hung in England. Try "Still Life" it's a pretty deep song. Great reaction 💯

Now you're on a Maiden journey, you absolutely must react to Phantom of The Opera from their first album with their original singer Paul Dianno. It's probably one of their best songs, and goes through so many changes in feel and tempo It's almost classical in its composition. Then do Remember Tomorrow from the same album....oh my god. What a sound and what a voice. But do the studio versions.

Classic song by one of the best Metal bands. Just want to say I really enjoy your reactions. Keep up the great work!

Ahhhh....should have done the official video!

ANY Iron Maiden song you react to should be of their live performance's I promise you will not regret it!

This song is theoretical, or story driven, as many of them are. It’s this guy struggling with his fate as he is about to be hung. In the end he realizes that he believes in God, thus Hallowed be Thy name”, and realizes he has nothing to fear from death. I know you struggle with the images from the cover. It’s important to note that they equate the devils and demons in their artwork to the evil humanity does to each other. As a teen in the 80’s I tried explaining the symbolism to my poor mother who HATED my Iron Maiden t-shirts because she thought they were devil worshippers. Rest easy, my friend, they are not, just inclined to use symbols and metaphors.

#Uptheirons. These are the goats of Metal.

shout out to whomever recommended them, Right On, your going to love this group, great rabbit hole for you to go down, they have an incredible catalogue

Welcome to the IRON MAIDEN WORLD

The Galloping beat of the base is A signature of Steve You will hear a lot of it on your iron maiden journey

Iron Maiden is the GREATEST(live;)BAND in the world now and forever🤘 Up the mighty Irons!!!🤘🤘

The bass always sounds like riding a 🐎 into battle love it.

Raised on this. Still worth a listen now and again. Thx!

He's on death row, walking outside to get hanged.

maiden needs to be seen live try this live in toronto 2008.

Bro. This whole album is good. Every song is great.

Excellent reaction. You summed it up.

Check out The Ryme of the Ancient Mariner. It's the poem put to music and is incredible.

That image is for the song 'The Number of the Beast' which writer/bassist Steve Harris said he had a nightmare and wrote about the move 'The Omen'. When it came out it was the first time movie audiences were told about the story of the Anti Christ and the number of the beast 666. So the band mostly writes about history, events, books and movies. Very little fluff songs. The band is not into Satanic stuff whatsoever but they do cover subjects that are dark sometimes. This song has different pictures associated with it. Thanks for sharing and great reaction. Chris

Rime of the ancient mariner. Is a good story

back in high school I would turn my Opee Chee folder inside out and draw that Iron Maiden cover on it, plus Maiden Japan...

Nice Reaction, Sir. I first heard them at my friends house when I was13. They were one of our favorite bands, until I moved, and we lost contact. I know this song, but most of them I don't, so I try and catch a lot of reactions to them. One brother is a drummer, and the other plays 6 string Bass and it a gifted musician, and I learned a lot from him.

The album "piece of mind has a back masking track and when you play it backwards it says "don't meddle with things you don't understand ".

Up The Irons \m/

Thumbs-up number 500 for you, amigo!

Iron Maiden Imagery is great.

That was 🔥🔥🔥

Formed un Leyton east london in 75. Bruce Dickinson is the lead singer. Eddie is the mascot you see on the album cover. Some of their songs have history in them. The trooper Run to the hills The number of the beast. Take your daughter to the slauter was no 1 in the uk. They are metal legends to alot of people.

Anybody else use to own an airbrushed Iron Maiden Jean jacket back in the day? 😂

The note he holds in the beginning is amazing! Not too many people can do that.

RIP Clive Burr

Bro, you gotta see this live.

With his roots in rudimental drumming (used on the battlefields of old to communicate orders to troops) Clive Burr was one of the most influential metal drummers of his day. Along with Dave Lombardo of Slayer and Lars in Metallica, takin what hard rock band like Jetrho Tull and Black Sabbathd had done in the 70's and updating it for an age that was becoming more gear driven. Bigger drum kits were just the big thing. Clive was as much a part of the original Maiden sound as Paul, the original singer. Number of the Beast would be his last album with the band. Most of their songs are written by the bass player and he is the primary source of that galloping style that you commented on early. Funnily enough, one of their other big early hits was a song about a guy riding into battle with a sword on horseback, The Trooper. Based on the famous poem about The Charge of the Light Brigade. The first two Maiden albums were little horror stories, set to music. That was Paul's style. When Bruce took over at vocals, the songs became more about literature and history. If Paul had stayed their singer, it would have ruined the band. His lifestyle was unhealthy and destructive, but his voice was fucking gold. To change singers and not loose all their fans, they needed to replace him with someone special and they did, The Air Raid Siren himself. All of the metal bands that come after them, cite their influence. TOOL is Pink Floyd for the new millennium. Rich the Ancient Metal Beast

Such a tight musical band and great concert experience every time. You should check out a couple live performances as well. They do not disappoint and to this day still rocking. Side note : Bruce Dickinson ( singer ) has a pilots license and flys the bands personal plane to their shows. EPIC album covers and posters as well

The medievil sound to the bands music is in almost all of their albums. Maiden is well known for their theatrics in studio and live on stage.

Man I really enjoy your reactions. I'm old school I was forgenot enough to see bands back in the day. Acdc Ozzy Alice in chains Ect. Then we saw the Big Dogs Mettalica. Man check this out, Mettalica Seattle 1989 "For Whom The Bell Tolls" Hopefully you can do a reaction to This one. We hope so. Be cool stay safe.

CHECK OUT THEIR LIVE STUFF!!!!!

It always surprises me when more reactors don't comment on how long he holds that low note. Do you have any idea how amazing that in itself is?

I used to be afraid of Eddie as a kid. The album covers

Counterparts Beat Beat Counterbeat Beat,Etc... (Like A Heart 💜)

Live version ❤❤❤

The band was one of the early bands of the new British wave of heavy-metal that came out in the late 70s early 80s The gentleman in the band are a rather eclectic group of individuals. The lead vocalist Bruce Dickerson is also commercial airline pilot and an avid sword fighter. Story tellers of scary stuff but they’re a rather normal group of boring nerdy dads Hahaha. 😄.

Up The Irons 🤘

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Maiden are a band to be seen live - plenty of vids

The picture with the devil on a puppet string is the cover of the album and it's unrelated to this song. "The number of the beast" it's the name of the album and there is another single with this name.

Love Iron Maiden (Legends) song about a man who is on death row and about to be executed, this is the perspective of that man. Iron Maiden is must see live reactions. Check out *Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death - En Vivo!* but live version. They are storytellers thats for sure. Great reaction, looking forward to more. New sub.

Whatch it live bro, the fans will help with interpretation! 😊 thanks for reaction 😊

This album was a major punch to the head for the entire world of rock in the very early '80s. Hard to comprehend today. Totally fed into the "satanic panic" of the time, regardless of the actual lyrics.

Yoooo! I heard this song for years and didn’t think about that. “I heard it on a video game”. Gangplank galleon from donkeykong. 😂 fk yes bro🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk so my rookie channel analise maiden lol, hey wake up my manits a long way to the top if u wana rock and roll, u welcome tnks from brazil

You mentioned about the devil on strings but if you look closer the image then changes to Eddie (the bands mascot being controlled by the devil and asking the question do we actually know who is controlling who.

They Don't Call HIM" BRUCE The Air RAID SIREN Dickinson !!"..😮

Listen to the live beast over Hammersmith version, the same year. And then you'll see how they are so big

The song is the story of a condemned criminal( middle ages) being taken from his cell to his execution. The wrap up of the sone is essentially is release from this world & his acceptance, even oy, of it.

Complete respect for listening to different genres, it’s inspired me to do the same. I’ve watched a lot of reaction music videos. Just some hopefully helpful advice from what I’ve liked about my favorite reactions. They made much more about the music than themselves Never ever stop in the middle of a guitar solo! React but don’t pause, you can talk after. Silence is golden in reaction videos, people are watching for REACTIONS, not commentary. Watch the entire video without interruptions, comment during the video occasionally, but save the rest once it’s done. The more you make about you, the less people will listen. Best of luck!

I think it’s funny when he said “people be playing with things the don’t understand” because that is crazy how this happens in the 80s when it was released saying “o this band is satanic” when if you listen to the number of the beast song it actually about a dream that the bass player had and also the drummer is a born again Christian and as you said don’t mess this things you don’t understand

Awesome song!

Ahhh studio version rocks. 1982 and it's better than anything you can possible hear on the radio today. Do Rime of the Ancient Mariner(studio version) and Eagle Fly Free-Helloween (studio version)

If you ever do live Iron Maiden, please do early stuff

Have you reacted to Michael McDonald. Anything he sings. Has an album Michael McDonald, The Ultimate Collection. Was also a Member of the Doobie Brothers. Great Band.

Clive Burr on the drums.

People were so scared of this group thought they were a devil worshiping band the exact opposite actually very intelligent and thought provoking songs they have and you will learn a lot of history as well

You should check out the live after death live version just saying.

PLEASE REACT TO IRON MAIDEN THE PRISONER, YOU’LL LOVE IT❤❤

Never worry about interjecting an opinion. We're here to see a reaction, not listen to the song a millionth time. Cheers for the serious review. Keep up the good work. Nice Golden Axe name drop, by the way. I highly recommend "For the Greater Good of God" or "Paschendale" by Iron Maiden for superb lyrics.

Welcome to the pit brother. Look into suicidal tendencies next. Underrated and awesome band from the same era. How I laugh tomorrow is an awesome song.

The song is about a prisoner about to be executed and going through the 5 stages of grief.

YOU REALLY NEED TO SEE THE ACTUAL VIDEO OF THEASE GUYS PLAYING THIS . BRUCE DICKENSON'S VOICE IS OPERA STRONG , ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL VOICES IN MUSIC fuckin period . THATS HIS VOICE IN 1981 , NO INSTRUMENT MAGIC THERE BRO , THATS THE REAL FUCKING THING 😎⚡️💯🎵

Note: The album title "The number of the beast" actually has no direct Satanic connotations at all. The title track is based on a nightmare that Iron Maiden's bassist and songwriter Steve Harris woke up from after having seen the horror movie "Omen II". Not that it really matters to us atheists, who don't believe that any "forces" to meddle with even exist, but there you have it anyway.

I wouldn’t worry too much about the imagery. It’s just art, and any mythology around gods, devils, magic etc is just that.

Just look at their biography

Please react to one of my favorite Iron Maiden songs “Invaders”! They are great storytellers and a lot of their songs are about history not the devil 😊

I would imagine tool had some influence by this group These are 1 of the 5 godfathers of metal

It's the story of Eddie. Iron maiden is a constant story. Try the number of the beast

Thanks for playing the Studio version. Its the one many of us grew up with. It has much more presence than the over played live veesion

React to Dan Vasc - The Number Of The Beast, an Iron Maiden cover. It's very vey good! I promise.

Why didnt you do the live video? Just wondering?

white people are fantastic musicians songwriters producers and they're just all around excellent people with great culture

Re the 'satanic' stuff. Now firstly I'm a pretty traditional Catholic, Latin Mass etc so I'm not unaware of the concerns of some. However, I do think that a lot of the 'satanic panic' over bands like Maiden is a case of cultural differences between the notoriously 'tongue in cheek' culture of Britain and the more earnest culture of much of America. (This isn't to say there aren't Metal bands that are actually satanic, but Maiden are definitely not one). In Britain, the inter dominational religious wars of the 16th and 17th C killed a LOT of people, yes there were other reasons for these wars but puritanism versus ecclesiasticalism were dividing lines. After the British Republic collapsed under its own sanctimony in 1660 and the monarchy was restored, the country had had more than enough of finger wagging puritans and extreme Catholicism and the result was the emergence of the Church of England of cups of tea and de fanged priests. Steve, Bruce and the boys were brought up in the soft Anglicanism of the 60s and 70s Britain. Religion wasnt front and centre but rather a constant in the background. When Maiden made it over to the States, they were quite shocked that many Americans took their 'dark' theatre seriously. Bruce has been interviewed extensively on this and pointed out that Christopher Lee, an actor noted for his demonic roles, wasnt accused of being a mouthpiece for satan because he played these roles.. he was a devout Christian... but he was also an ACTOR. Bruce's point was that the 'dark kitsch' is exactly that.. it's not meant to be taken seriously, and he's got a point when he quotes the well known trope that America and Britain are two nations seperated by language... we share a language and much history but our societies are very different culturally in many aspects. As already mentioned, I'm a pretty devout Catholic and I see no issue with the theatre of Maiden and Motorhead and ACDC attacking my faith. If anything, especially with Maiden, much of the lyrics are deeply rooted in Christianity as much as they are in history. Also.. Nicko McBain is a very devout evangelical Christian. 😊

My point is that Maidens never were a satanic band because they never were led by any kind of corporative industry telling them what to do, they were always independent, creative and fantastic musicians who loved and love interaction with their fans.... So Irons are what they are thanks to their products blic, their concerts and their talent to tell great stories,what's more, they weren't ignorant, drug addicts.... lead singer was at that time, history teacher... If you dig more, you will know more about the best metal band of all times.

The members of Tool were sh!ttin' their diapers when Iron Mainden was formed. Can't compare them.

forces LOL

U Tube Censors And THEIR Spellcheck Interferences SUCK!!

The devil is not but the hate and fear that humanity is strugglin since the beginning. But stupid government and stupid parents told us that we were are own enemy, music and art in general was trying to told us the opposite. Seeing an image of the devil doesn't mean that somebody worship the devil

No iron maiden no tool it's has as that no comparison iron maiden have been going far longer than tool and even tool took different influences from many other bands While iron maiden are one of the bands that originated heavy metal/rock and have influenced many other bands I am 69 years old and have been a metal/rock fan most of my life iron maiden can still fill stadiums and arenas all over the world even at the age they all are😊

Ya gotta do the live 1982 version. I'm usually a studio version guy but iron maiden live 82 puts the studio version to shame. I can't and don't say that for many bands or songs.

The song is about a guy who is heading to the gallows to be hung.

Who *are Iron Maiden.

Don't dig too deep into it, the song number of the beast is about a dream the bass player had. Nothing to do with satanism, and the song hallowed be thy name is about a condemned man going to be hung

Tool !!!! You cart copare that band to rgemits like compmoaring PIZZA TO CAVIAR NO COMPARISON

Dude is few hours from being hunged, did you even read the lyrics wtf??

You do realize this is a religious song, has nothing to do with the cover. All iron maiden songs are religious, historical, or political. The covers are just great art work and display Eddie (the demon on the covers)is just a mascot. Its like saying that Steven King is s satanist because he rights horror novels.

My favorites from iron maiden, aces high. Trooper. Wasted years

Devils, demons and gods DONT EXIST. get over yourself mate😂

Devils, demons and gods DONT EXIST. get over yourself mate😂