Many Doors To Hell

Album: The Mandrake Project (2024)
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Songfacts®:

  • As a solo artist and with his band Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickinson often sings about the supernatural and otherworldly. That includes vampires, which he covers on "Many Doors To Hell."

    "The song is about a female vampire who wants to turn back and become human again," he explained to Songfacts. "She has to wait until the eclipse until she can get out in the world, because only when there's an eclipse can she go out in the daylight."
  • Dickinson wrote the song with his producer, Roy Z. The song has a bombastic '80s feel, with an opening guitar riff that Dickinson describes as Scorpions-like. "At the same time, it's got this lovely Hammond organ underpinning the whole thing in the verse, which offsets the late '80s style big harmony chorus," he adds.
  • The song is part of The Mandrake Project, Bruce Dickinson's seventh solo album but just his second since re-joining Iron Maiden in 1999. Dickinson also has an interest in comics, and issued the album along with a series of graphic novels.

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