Song · Iron Maiden
“Hallowed Be Thy Name” by Iron Maiden
From the album The Number of the Beast (1982)
“Hallowed Be Thy Name” by Iron Maiden appears on 18 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1990 and 2025. It was first released in 1982 on the album The Number of the Beast. Its best result is #24 on the Studio Brussel De Zwaarste Lijst (2016). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,439 classic rock song of all time.
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"Hallowed Be Thy Name" is the last word on Iron Maiden's 1982 album The Number of the Beast, and what a last word: a Steve Harris epic told by a prisoner waiting to be hanged, his thoughts turning philosophical as the hour closes in. Harris wrote it alone, and it's about as deep as his lyrics go.
Martin Birch produced and engineered, and the band charges through it like a runaway cart: Bruce Dickinson wailing from the cell, Dave Murray and Adrian Smith trading guitar fire, Harris galloping on bass and Clive Burr driving it all toward the gallows. It was never a single, yet critics rank it high among metal's finest songs, and it has stayed in almost every Maiden set list since. Dickinson has compared singing it live to telling the crowd the story of a film.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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Also listed as: Hollowed Be Thy Name.
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