Hallowed Be Thy Name
| "Hallowed Be Thy Name (live)" | ||||
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| Single by Iron Maiden | ||||
| from the album The Number of the Beast and A Real Dead One | ||||
| B-side | "The Trooper (live)" "Wasted Years (live)" "Wrathchild (live)" |
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| Released | 4 October 1993 | |||
| Format | Picture Disc | |||
| Recorded | 1993 | |||
| Genre | Heavy metal | |||
| Length | 7:51 (live single version) 7:12 (album version) |
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| Label | EMI | |||
| Writer(s) | Steve Harris | |||
| Iron Maiden singles chronology | ||||
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"Hallowed Be Thy Name" is a song written by Steve Harris for the 1982 Iron Maiden album The Number of The Beast. The song include 2 guitar solos: the first is played by Dave Murray, and second was played by Adrian Smith from 1982 until 1988.From 1990, second solo is played by Janick Gers. It is the most covered song by the band with fourteen different versions by artists like Dream Theater, Machine Head, Cradle of Filth and Brown Brigade.
The cover of the live version recorded in 1993 depicts Bruce Dickinson being impaled from behind by Eddie, in the form of Satan. The same idea of Eddie killing the departing vocalist had previously been used on the cover of the Venezuelan release of Maiden Japan (with him holding the severed head of Paul Di'Anno). This theme was also used during Bruce Dickinson's farewell performance, during the Raising Hell concert, where horror Illusionist Simon Drake, after seemingly killing Dickinson in an iron maiden torture device, gets impaled by Eddie.
The song has also been released as a live single from the 1993 album A Real Dead One and on The Best of the Beast, and has become a live staple for Iron Maiden. The band recorded a newer version of this track in 2006 and it was used as a b-sides on the "Different World" single.
Iron Maiden also recorded this song as part of EMI's television series 'Live from Abbey Road'.
This single was also released as a red 45 rpm (7") vinyl.
In the lyrics of the song, the motif of Gallows Pole explicitly appears, which may allow a link to many works of art involving this motif and also may allow the song to be analyzed in a wider context.
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[edit] In popular culture
Jamie Thomas skated to the song in Toy Machine's Welcome to Hell video. A live version of the song was released as downloadable content in the video game Rock Band 2 on 9 June 2009.
[edit] Single track listing
- "Hallowed Be Thy Name" (recorded live in Moscow, Russia, on 2 or 3 June 1993) (Harris) – 7:26. The bootleg from the 4 June show contains a different version to this one.
- "The Trooper" (recorded live in Helsinki, Finland, on 27 August 1992) (Harris) – 3:53
- "Wasted Years" (recorded live in Bremen, Germany, on 16 April 1993) (Smith) – 4:42
- "Wrathchild" (recorded live in Helsinki, Finland, on 27 August 1992) (Harris) – 2:57
[edit] Formats
- CD Single
- 7" vinyl Posterbag
- 12" vinyl Picture Disc
[edit] Covers
The song was covered in the following years:
- 1995 - by Ceremonial Oath
- 1996 - by Solitude Aeturnus
- 1998 - by Cradle of Filth
- 2002 - by Iced Earth
- 2002 - by Dream Theater
- 2005 - by The Iron Maidens
- 2007 - by Brown Brigade
- 2008 - by Machine Head (Maiden Heaven: A Tribute to Iron Maiden)
- 2010 - by Guignol and Mischief Brew
- 2010 - by Motherjane
- 2010 - by Antim Grahan
- 2011 - by Edmund Welles
[edit] Personnel
- Bruce Dickinson – vocals
- Dave Murray – guitar
- Adrian Smith - guitar (album version)
- Janick Gers – guitar (live single version)
- Steve Harris – bass guitar
- Clive Burr – drums (album version)
- Nicko McBrain - drums (live single version)
[edit] Chart performance
| Chart (1993) | Peak position |
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| Irish Singles Chart | 16[1] |
| UK Singles Chart | 9[2] |
[edit] References
- ^ "Irish Singles database". http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement. Retrieved 2011-10-12.
- ^ "Official UK Singles Archive 16th October 1993". http://www.theofficialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/1/1993-10-16/. Retrieved 2011-10-12.
