22 Easter Eggs from the new Iron Maiden video "The Writing on the Wall"

Legendary metal band Iron Maiden are often known for hiding what are called "Easter eggs" in their videos. These are small hints or inside jokes about something. And certainly the video for their newest hit "The Writing on the Wall" is no different. Here are 22 Easter Eggs from the video.

The video starts out showing black cloak-clad bikers riding through the desert, reminiscent of Mad Max. They are fast approaching a distant tower looming over the wasteland as the focal point of the "Belshazzar's Feast". Along the way, littering the sides of their journey are references to the band's past history, such as the Cart and Horses Pub, where then fledgling band Iron Maiden played their first show in 1976

These four riders remind you of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but they are clearly dead set on a mission. Their enemy is an overweight politco-type person who arrives in a large convertible with upside down American flags with no stars, that usually show the country's 50 states and unity, surrounded by those suffering from something

The license plate is seen later, as "Pres 1" and the flag is restored to its 50 star glory and right side up. Of course, this is after the riders beat their opponent and Eddie the 'Ead claims the car for himself. This is all but reminiscent of Mad Max, with the political figure being suggested that he should have known the outcome

Now on for the Easter Eggs

0:05 The back cover of The Number of the Beast

0:09 The zombie-like figure wearing a World Slavery Tour shirt

0:23 Belshazzar's Feast flyer

0:30 The skull ringed, hooded figure from Piece of Mind

0:48 Two abandoned-looking stores in the desert, the Aces High Store and Cart and Horses Pub

0:53 The wreckage of the Book of Souls Ed plane

1:02 Torn Union Jacks reminiscent of the cover art for the single "The Trooper", posters with Eddie's leering grin, clocks frozen in time at 11:58, approaching a tower from flyer

1:03 Eddie's grimace on a barrel of toxic waste and Eddie's face from "Twilight Zone" on a card beside the tail of a scorpion

1:08 17 tally marks, like you'd see in prison movies where prisoners are marking down until the end of their sentence, on one of the motorcycles

1:22 "Eddie Lives" on a barrel, the "Eddie's Archive Set" box buried partially in the ground

1:37 A tombstone reading No Prayer for the Dying, a space helmet containing a skull from The Final Frontier, goggles and dog tags from "Aces High"

1:49 "Trooper" beer cans littering the desert, wreck from the airship R101 from "Empire of the Clouds", "Sooty" Bear

4:09 Cyborg timecop Eddie from Somewhere in Time

4:23 Samurai Eddie straight from Trooper Beer (shouldn't it be ale?) Sun and Steel

4:55 Killers-era Eddie gets honored with a newer hatchet-wielding Eddie

4:57 The hooded Eddie from 2003's Dance of Death gets honors too

5:00 The scythe-wielding Eddie from From Fear to Eternity: The Best of 1990-2010 makes an appearance

5:02 Somewhere in Time-era cyborg Eddie reappears

5:09 The Powerslave pharaoh Eddie is now riding a motorcycle

5:15 The Mayan Warrior Eddie from Book of Souls is getting in on the fun on a motorcycle

5:44 666 in Roman numerals spray painted on the convertible

6:05 The mushroom cloud from the cover art of the single "Two Minutes to Midnight"