I can’t say that would be my favorite Iron Maiden cover, but it’s definitely in the top ten and probably the best of the band’s late-era period. Less busy, less hell-ish without the CGI, should be nicer over all. If the band wanted to keep the Eyes Wide Shut masquerade aesthetic, you could have a couple, illustrated partners dancing on the side. There are versions of this cover without all of the CGI nightmare fuel, and it looks great. The thing that upsets me about this cover is that it could have been great. Man, woman, child, or literal dog, nobody has hair. Another thing I love, and I’ll keep this one brief, everyone’s bald. And before you’re ready to move on from that your gaze shifts slightly to the right and you notice a giraffe-human hybrid with a broken neck. Why there’s a wolf and a literal toddler at what’s essentially an orgy is a question that only God Himself can answer. There’s a baby floating on top of a wolf. I won’t go into every little detail that’s wrong with this album cover, but my favorite part of the cover is the right side. Bruce Dickinson called the cover a mistake in his biography. When the artist found out, he asked for his name to be removed from the liner notes. The album cover we got was actually a rough draft / demo that accidentally got used for the final release. How did the band look at this and decide, “yeah, that’s good.” Well, the answer is they didn’t. I get that the early days of CGI were rough, especially if you don’t have a budget on the level of Steven Spielberg, but that doesn’t excuse the result. I get what the band was going for here, but oh boy was the execution rough. There wasn’t any other album I considered for the worst spot on this list. Please keep that in mind when rabidly typing in the comments. A lot of that is of course opinionated, which is the whole point. All I am taking into account is how aesthetically pleasing, recognizable, on-brand each cover is, as well as if it helped develop the band’s live show, merchandise, or future album covers. There’s no strict criteria for this list. So now seems like the perfect time to rank all of the band’s album covers from worst to best.
EDDIE IRON MAIDEN ALBUM COVER FULL
The band just announced their 17th full length studio album, Senjutsu, and revealed the album cover. Iron Maiden easily have some of the best album art in the history of the genre and arguably music at large. However, one of the things they’re most well known for has nothing to do with the music itself. They’re one of the main stars to come out of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, helped inform that would become power metal with Bruce Dickinson’s operatic vocals and Steve Harris’ galloping grooves, and according to them did it all without any radio play.
Iron Maiden are famous for a lot of things.
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