Transylvania is a region in what is now Romania.
Of course, Iron Maiden wouldn’t just choose a random place to pen a track about – Transylvania is the home of Count Dracula in Bram Stoker’s classic horror novel. The success of the novel has made Transylvania almost synonymous with vampires in the E...
[Instrumental]
[Guitar Solo]
[Guitar Solo]
[Outro]
Transylvania was written by Steve Harris.
Transylvania was produced by Wil Malone.
Iron Maiden released Transylvania on Mon Apr 14 1980.
The initial idea on this one was to have lyrics. It originally had a melody line for the vocal, but when we played it, it sounded so good as an instrumental that we never bothered to write lyrics for it.
—Steve Harris