{"id":350216,"date":"2026-01-03T16:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T16:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350216\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T16:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T16:27:10","slug":"iron-maiden-celebrate-the-trooper-being-used-in-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350216\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Maiden celebrate The Trooper being used in the\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerrang.com\/artists\/iron-maiden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iron Maiden<\/a> have taken to social media to celebrate The Trooper being used in the colossal Stranger Things finale.<\/p>\n<p>The heavy metal icons\u2019 1983 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerrang.com\/the-story-behind-piece-of-mind-by-iron-maiden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Piece Of Mind<\/a> classic follows in the footsteps of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerrang.com\/artists\/metallica\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Metallica<\/a>\u2019s Master Of Puppets, which famously played in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerrang.com\/stranger-things-4-watch-eddie-shred-master-of-puppets-in-the-upside-down\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stranger Things 4 when fan-favourite metalhead Eddie Munson<\/a> (Joseph Quinn) unleashed his best shredding skills in the Upside Down.<\/p>\n<p>Now, appropriately, the latest \u2013 and final-ever \u2013 episode of Stranger Things, Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up, nods back to Eddie and his heroics. If you\u2019ve not seen it yet then stop reading now, but if you have, then you\u2019ll have watched Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo) deliver a memorable speech at their high school graduation, with The Trooper blasting loud and Dustin revealing a superb HELLFIRE LIVES! T-shirt underneath his more formal graduation gown.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/tudum\/stranger-things-series-finale-duffer-brothers-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Tudum<\/a>, co-creator Ross Duffer explained that, \u201cA lot of it was inspired by Eddie \u2013 even at the end where [Dustin] rips the diploma and flips off the principal, which is something that Eddie said he wanted to do. A lot of it is honouring Eddie and what Hellfire had been. A lot of what Hellfire represents and a lot of what Dustin\u2019s talking about is one of the major themes of the show, which is that this is a story about outsiders and outcasts. It\u2019s about banding together and embracing your otherness to defeat the evils of this world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Posting about The Trooper soundtracking the occasion, Maiden write (alongside an upside-down picture of Eddie \u2013 nice!) on Instagram: \u201cStranger Things HAS happened&#8230; and Eddie got his moment! Yet to see the finale? Stream now on @netflix\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check it out below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iron Maiden have taken to social media to celebrate The Trooper being used in the colossal Stranger Things&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-350216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}