"The Writing on the Wall" is a song by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden.

The song was released on 15 July 2021 alongside a music video,[1] and served as the lead single from their seventeenth studio album Senjutsu.

[3] The song's music video was directed by Nicos Livesey from BlinkInk, a London based animation studio, in collaboration with Bruce Dickinson and former Pixar executives and long-standing Maiden fans Mark Andrews and Andrew Gordon via weekly Zoom meetings.

[4] The video is a story written by Dickinson, inspired by the biblical stories of Belshazzar's feast and Daniel, as well as other biblical references[5] featuring the band's mascot, Eddie, in various styles influenced by the artwork of previous albums.

[6] The visual effects were provided by BlinkInk with fans of the band reaching out with storyboard ideas from across the globe.