Bruce Dickinson’s has released a new music video for the reimagined version of “Tears of the Dragon”.The video features Dickinson with his House Band of Hell, joined by the Almai orchestra conducted by Antonio Teoli. The orchestra, which also appears on the studio re-recording, is presented with a slightly zombified look, adding a gothic and theatrical quality to the performance. A ballet dancer also appears in the video, interpreting the emotional tone of the song through movement. Against the decaying architecture of the old brewery, the result is a visual contrast between abandonment and performance, industrial ruin and orchestral drama.
In 2025, the old brewery, Antiga Fábrica da Companhia Antarctica Paulista, a former brewery complex in the Mooca district of São Paulo, Brazil, was used as the filming location for Bruce Dickinson’s music video for the reimagined version of “Tears of the Dragon”. The video was shot in São Paulo in September 2025, shortly after Dickinson’s appearance at The Town Festival. Directed by Leo Liberti and Antoine de Montremy, the video uses the abandoned brewery as a dramatic setting for the song’s expanded orchestral version. Dickinson described the location as an enormous old-school brewery, almost like a Renaissance building, which matches the atmosphere of the former Antarctica complex.
“Tears of the Dragon” was originally released on Bruce Dickinson’s 1994 solo album “Balls to Picasso”. The new version appears on “More Balls to Picasso”, a reimagined version of the album that gave Dickinson the chance to revisit the material with a heavier, fuller and more cinematic sound. The São Paulo video turns the former brewery into more than a backdrop: the scale, emptiness and aged beauty of the building become part of the song’s atmosphere, giving the reworked ballad a setting that feels both haunted and monumental.
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