{"id":2236821,"date":"2026-01-16T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2236821"},"modified":"2026-01-16T00:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:01:13","slug":"eye-of-melian-release-new-music-video-for-tears-of-the-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/eye-of-melian-release-new-music-video-for-tears-of-the-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye Of Melian release new music video for &#8216;Tears of the Dragon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>EYE OF MELIAN<\/strong> have released a new music video!<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Tolkien<\/strong>\u2011inspired symphonic project will unveil their third single <strong>Tears Of The Dragon<\/strong>, taken from their upcoming album <strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/distortedsoundmag.com\/eye-of-melian-announce-new-album-forest-of-forgetting\/\">Forest Of Forgetting<\/a><\/strong>, which is set for release on February 20th, 2026 via <strong>Napalm<\/strong> <strong>Records<\/strong>. Reimagining <strong>Bruce Dickinson<\/strong>\u2019s emotional classic \u2014 originally released in 1994 on <strong>Balls To Picasso<\/strong> \u2014 <strong>EYE OF MELIAN<\/strong> transform the song into an enchanting, cinematic experience.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the song, keyboardist <strong>Mikko P. Mustonen<\/strong> shares,<em> \u201cI grew up listening to this song, but it wasn\u2019t until I got older that I truly felt the weight of its lyrics. I\u2019ve always loved the fantasy reference \u2013 even something as powerful as a dragon must eventually yield and let its emotions break free.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the official music video for Tears Of The Dragon here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"EYE OF MELIAN - Tears of the Dragon (Official Video) (Bruce Dickinson Cover) | Napalm Records\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6m8LefCvmho?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Forest of Forgetting is set for release on February 20th, 2026 via Napalm Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/napalmrecords.us20.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=02a924be55e148730a070a9b1&amp;id=2a0715e601&amp;e=7f4bddac54\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information on EYE OF MELIAN like their official page on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/eyeofmelian?utm_source=Napalm+Bulletin&amp;utm_campaign=724ac0c738-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_08_30_09_32_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_2efae601e2-724ac0c738-16166235&amp;mc_cid=724ac0c738&amp;mc_eid=7f4bddac54\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source distortedsoundmag.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EYE OF MELIAN have released a new music video! The Tolkien\u2011inspired symphonic project will unveil their third single Tears Of The Dragon, taken from their upcoming album Forest Of Forgetting, which is set for release on February 20th, 2026 via Napalm Records. Reimagining Bruce Dickinson\u2019s emotional classic \u2014 originally released in 1994 on Balls To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2202519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[425206,425207,344299,432774],"class_list":["post-2236821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-eye-of-melian","tag-forest-of-forgetting","tag-napalm-records","tag-tears-of-the-dragon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Eye-Of-Melian-release-new-music-video-for-Symphonia-Arcana.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2236822,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236821\/revisions\/2236822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2202519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}