Best and Worst Iron Maiden album covers

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Looking at the Dance of Death cover, you get the feeling none of those masked people, animals, etc., were there in the first version - that it was just Grim Reaper Eddie. And that would have been a pretty awesome cover. But then they threw all those smooth digital people in, got the perspective all wrong so none of them have any spatial relationship to any of the others, and...yeah, it's an atrocity.

Interestingly (okay, maybe only to me), my T-shirt from that tour is one of my favorite shirts, because it doesn't have Eddie on it - it's got a photo of the band on the front. I think that might be the only time they've ever done that.

My favorites are Powerslave and Live After Death, with The Number of the Beast and A Matter of Life and Death close behind. I like the cover to Piece of Mind a lot, though I don't love the album as much as many others do.

Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link

Dance of Death is so Eyes Wide Shut. Ick!

Matter of Life & Death cover was great, also liked Brave New World.

Of the old covers, Killers might be my favorite...sooo iconic!

Not an album cover, but this might be my alltime fave:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trooper.jpg

VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link

Killers is iconic and hard to top, but I like all the Blade Runneresque aesthetic that they bought into for the Somewhere in Time era as well.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link

Agh forgot Somewhere in Time. As Mr Veg noted, that's the "lay on your bed kicking your feet studying the album cover for hours" cover

VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Killers.jpg

(e_3) (Edward III), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 04:44 (thirteen years ago) link

how about the original cover for maiden japan, which their manager put the kibosh on when he found out they were planning to fire di'anno

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/DSCN0738.jpg

(e_3) (Edward III), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 04:54 (thirteen years ago) link

^ cover of purgatory was favoritest metal tee for 8th grade me

(e_3) (Edward III), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 04:58 (thirteen years ago) link

thing'd prolly go for $200 on ebay now

(e_3) (Edward III), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 04:59 (thirteen years ago) link

that flight of icarus cover is awesome!

markers, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 05:07 (thirteen years ago) link

Purgatory is great!!!

VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 05:07 (thirteen years ago) link

killers is pretty much unbeatable, but i've always loved number of the beast. the hierarchy of chaos, etc.

http://thedaysoflore.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/iron-maiden.jpg

pull the strings!

a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 07:21 (thirteen years ago) link

unofficial, but competitively horrid:

http://www.ead666.com/Images/Boots%20Covers/1982/1982-04-03-MadridFront.jpg

a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 07:34 (thirteen years ago) link

three years pass...

i wonder if this is where they got the font logo from?

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_ku-xlarge/cqfkw2t5u36cmo8aumsf.jpg

gimme the lute (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 7 March 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link


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