Best and Worst Iron Maiden album covers

Best Eddie cover: Live After Death, Aces High & Killers

I went to Acapulco a few years ago, and they had a huge Walmart in the town that was eerily reminiscent to me of the Powerslave album cover. The thing looked like a goddamn temple, with a long ramp leading up to the entrance. I guess they haven't been subjected yet to commercials of old people chuckling "We got a marchin' band came through here yesterday!!"

For worst, I'd have to say Virtual XI. What the ---- is supposed to be going on with that one? The X Factor is pretty bad, too.

http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/821/maidenfrontier.jpg

New one is not so good. (The album is, tho!)

I don't know, I like that cover a lot! Not as good as their classic covers, not by a long shot, but miles ahead of the last couple.

This one is BY FAR the worst:

http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/iron_maiden-dance_of_death.jpg

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/i/iron-maiden/album-iron-maiden-a-matter-of-life-and-death-limited-deluxe-edition-with-bonus-dvd.jpg

I thought A Matter of Life and Death was not only their best album since the '80s, but also had one of the better covers.

But yeah, the cover of Dance of Death is an all-time low.

I guess it is better than I remembered, but I like the cartoonish aspect of the new one.

I think we can all agree on Dance of Death though, right? I mean, look at the baby!

(lol xpost)

isnt the story behind dance of death that the designers accidentally sent over a work in progress and it got sent into production without being checked?

Dance of Death should be subtitled "Oh Poser, so much to answer for..."

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.

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

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.

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

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/ResidentsAnimalLover.jpg

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

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

lotsa awesome 12" covers too

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Iron-Maiden-Sanctuary---Uncen-96848.jpg

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

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/16535.jpg

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

thing'd prolly go for $200 on ebay now

that flight of icarus cover is awesome!

Purgatory is great!!!

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!

great colors too, reminiscent of the british flag. plus cool how the singles flesh out the tale:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZMdFwon2pfg/Roo3CSicuCI/AAAAAAAACJI/Wy9QGv-Zqas/s400/Iron_Maiden_-_Run_to_the_Hills.jpg

http://991.com/newgallery/Iron-Maiden-The-Number-of-The-313828.jpg

unofficial, but competitively horrid:

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

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