Bruce Dickinson has released a renewed music video for the song “Tears Of The Dragon”, giving new visual life to one of the most iconic tracks from his solo catalogue. The release continues the renewed creative chapter around his 1994 album, Balls To Picasso , which was recently reissued and expanded under the title More Balls To Picasso .
Taking over an abandoned brewery in São Paulo with a full film crew, Bruce and the HOUSE BAND OF HELL were joined by the Almai orchestra, under the direction of Antonio Teoli , to create an impressive video for the beloved song. Teoli and the orchestra took part in the re-recording of the track in the studio, adding an entirely new dimension to the atmospheric ballad.
Their performance in the video, along with Bruce and Brazilian ballet dancer Renata Bardazi , created an impressive and emotionally charged film that has already been shown at many film festivals around the world, earning it high-profile nominations and awards. It has now been released and is available to watch below.
Bruce comments: “When we redesigned the whole More Balls To Picasso album, we always wanted to do an orchestral version of ‘Tears Of The Dragon’ . Antonio Teoli wrote the music and we recorded it, and then we called director Leo Liberti, who had previously shot a bunch of live shows for me in Brazil, which was great. We found this amazing location, a huge old-school brewery that was almost like a Renaissance building, and we set up the orchestra so they looked slightly like zombies. All the members of the band HOUSE BAND OF HELL are in the video and I gave them all instruments to play. The whole thing was a brilliant madness. Leo also came up with having a ballet dancer perform the song, and she was amazing, poetic, and that adds an incredible extra-emotional dimension to the video”.
Part of the factors that have already pushed the project to wider recognition is its early success at festivals. The video has won distinctions as “Best Music Video” at several international events, marking a strong reception not only from music fans but also from the film festival circuit. Among the awards already secured are distinctions from the Los Angeles IAF Film Festival, the Los Angeles Film Awards, the New York International Film Awards, the East Europe Film Festival, Sweden’s Luleå International Film Festival and the Asia Independent Film Festival. It also won Bronze at the Berlin Music Video Awards, along with additional recognition for editing and overall production.
Further momentum builds as the video continues to circulate in major competitions. It has been officially nominated for several awards in 2026, including the Cannes Film Awards, the Cannes World Film Festival, the International Sound & Film Festival, the Rome Prisma Film Awards, the Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival, the Filmmaker Sessions and the New York Short Film Awards.
