Iron Maiden released “Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter” in 1990 as their second single from the album
No Prayer For the Dying.
It was originally written and recorded by Bruce Dickinson for the
Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
soundtrack.
Dickinson: “Here I tried to sum up what I thought
Nightmare On Elm Street
movies are really about, and it’s all about adolescent fear of period pains. That’s what I think it is – deep down. When a young girl first gets her period she bleeds and it happens at night, and so she is afraid to go to sleep and it’s a very terrifying time for her, sexually as well, and
Nightmare On Elm Street
targets that fear. The real slaughter in the Freddie movies is when she loses her virginity. That is the rather nasty thought behind it all, but that’s what makes those kind of movies frightening.”
The song didn’t chart in the US, but it is considered the band’s highest charting single to date because it hit #1 in the UK and stayed there for 2 weeks. It also hit #1 in Finland.
