Bruce Dickinson has released a video for "Change Of Heart", the companion piece to the award-winning clip for "Tears Of The Dragon" that appeared earlier this year. Both were shot in São Paulo in September 2025 with directors Leo Liberti and Antoine de Montremy.
The IRON MAIDEN singer performs in an abandoned space in the heart of the city, accompanied by guitarist Philip Naslund, while a parallel narrative plays out around him — a portrait of a society distracted, disconnected and unable to recognise the suffering directly in front of it, told through people of different ethnicities and backgrounds. Amid the decay, the film argues, life keeps looking for ways to be reborn.
Threaded through it is a child carrying William Blake's painting "The Good And Evil Angels". He never speaks and never accuses; he simply watches.
"When we shot a video for 'Tears Of The Dragon' in Brazil last year, I thought it would be a wonderful opportunity to also shine a light on the song 'Change Of Heart'," Dickinson said. "This song has always been very special to me with the wonderful new arrangement of it on the 'More Balls To Picasso' album, its message and power feels even more enhanced. We used the William Blake painting because he devoted much of his work to the eternal tension between innocence and experience, freedom and spiritual enslavement, consciousness and alienation, and I'm very aware that my own work often deals with the same subjects. So having the young boy in the video, carrying that particular painting is a very deliberate choice. The child embodies that primal awareness, capable of seeing what adults have learned to ignore."
The track is one of the standout moments on "More Balls To Picasso", the July 2025 reworking of his 1994 solo album "Balls To Picasso" — remixed, newly mastered and with many parts re-recorded, reframing a record whose original vision had been somewhat overlooked.
Attention now turns to what comes next. Dickinson's eighth solo album, the follow-up to "The Mandrake Project", was recorded largely in January and February at Dave Grohl's Studio 606 in Northridge, California with producer Brendan Duffey, who also handled "More Balls To Picasso". Duffey is mixing it at his own studio in Jupiter, Florida, and the album is tentatively due in early 2027 via BMG. Dickinson has said it will feature a collaboration with his eldest son Austin, formerly the frontman of metal bands RISE TO REMAIN and AS LIONS.
Source: blabbermouth.net