And that's the evil 'virus' that we talk about in those lyrics." Because somebody tells them it's bad, they go, 'Oh, it must be bad then,' instead of looking for themselves. Mentally, they keep feeding in these horrible things, and people start believing something is bad when they haven't even heard it for themselves they don't even know about it. So the lyrics are about the hatred of the journalists and the cynicism of the journalists and their attitudes and why that's poisonous - that they are the virus. But the fans didn't want that, and the journalists were really fed up that they did not have the power to kill IRON MAIDEN because it's a band of the fans. And they really wanted IRON MAIDEN to fail. They wanted IRON MAIDEN to fail, and they loved it that Bruce left the band. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "It's the reaction that we had from the British press. In a new interview with Crash TV, former IRON MAIDEN singer Blaze Bayley was asked about the lyrical inspiration for the band's 1996 song "Virus", which was featured as a brand new track on the band's first-ever career retrospective, "Best Of The Beast".
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