18th Studio Album discussion

Kalata said:
The cover might not have a background again.
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Whatever the theme is, I just hope the cover will be different than the last two. I think the last really cool cover was The Final Frontier, and before that Brave New World.

Since I’m sure the music will remain similar, we should at least get a change of pace in album cover art. If there is another Eddie with a black background I’m going to lose my shit!
 
The next record will be intitled 'The Majesty Of YouTube' and the cover artwork will be an Eddie as Justin Bieber surrounded by CGI representations of Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Dua Lipa, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Nicki Minaj, M Pokora and their managers yelling at Justin "Eddie The Head" Bieber. :p
 
Mosh said:
As for the Blaze of it all, I've been curious about how they will handle this. Will they actually release video from Blaze's time in the band? I have a hard time believing it. Will they end the documentary on Bruce leaving and Blaze joining? Again, doesn't seem right. But then you have a documentary that will cover 1990 to 1999 to go with a video from 1992, i.e. most of the decade goes unrepresented. The only way to do it right is to include some live videos from the Blaze era and a live video from Ed Hunter. It's a lot of previously unreleased footage which doesn't really fit the band's approach to these things so far (mostly repackaging previously released material).


On this, I wouldn't bet against Maiden. They have usually been ahead of the curve when it comes to new formats (long form video, DVD, websites, VOD, etc). It hasn't become clear what the next standard is and maybe that's why Maiden is holding off. Right now it seems like streaming is the way to go, but there isn't a clear answer to how to release a product like an Iron Maiden video without giving a streaming service control over the license. They want to host it on their own platform, but it's not clear how to do that without building a streaming service infrastructure from the ground up. Somebody will figure it out and then Maiden will get on board with that imo.
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Great points on both counts. I don't foresee any Blaze live material being dredged up at all, and yeah, in the unlikely scenario Maiden gets back on the DVD re-release schedule and gives us Donington 1992, I would expect that to be the only release representing the '90s, since I believe that's the only release-ready live footage they produced in full (I'd love to be wrong about that, though). So I'd say History 4 would be the '90s.

I definitely agree that Steve is probably gun-shy about poor representation of the Blaze era. It could, of course, be spun to be shown in a positive light in the doc, though--basically portraying it as the break the band and Bruce needed to get back firing on all cylinders, yadda, yadda. And I hope you're right about the optimism in regards to future physical media of their (hopefully) growing unreleased backlog.
 
InfiniteDreamer544 said:
Whatever the theme is, I just hope the cover will be different than the last two. I think the last really cool cover was The Final Frontier, and before that Brave New World.

Since I’m sure the music will remain similar, we should at least get a change of pace in album cover art. If there is another Eddie with a black background I’m going to lose my shit!
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I have a bad feeling that's what we'll be in for. Seems they've found a new theme and might be sticking to it, whether the fans like it or not. I've heard some who like the simplicity, but on both albums, there's been more fleshed-out art in the booklet's interior that I would've preferred to the actual covers we got.
 
CA Bryers said:
…on both albums, there's been more fleshed-out art in the booklet's interior that I would've preferred to the actual covers we got.
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Iron Lurker said:
FWIW I liked the last 2 covers and interior art.
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I agree that the interior art on both of those albums is amazing, and better than the actual covers. Although I think the Book of Souls and Senjutsu covers are a tiny bit lazy, I still think BoS Eddie is one of the best.

However, if they go down the AI album art path then I’m done, never listening to Maiden again!! :mad:
 
I missed that interview, did he give a reason why? Grant would make sense, although I could also see them going with someone they haven’t worked with before.
 
InfiniteDreamer544 said:
I agree that the interior art on both of those albums is amazing, and better than the actual covers. Although I think the Book of Souls and Senjutsu covers are a tiny bit lazy, I still think BoS Eddie is one of the best.

However, if they go down the AI album art path then I’m done, never listening to Maiden again!! :mad:
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A couple of the Facebook groups I belong to are starting to have a bit too much AI Eddies. Funny thing is they all seem to be using the Shaman Eddie from Book of Souls. I left one group I just joined because it was more AI than anything else.
 
Mosh said:
I missed that interview, did he give a reason why? Grant would make sense, although I could also see them going with someone they haven’t worked with before.
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I’d have to search for it somewhere. Pretty sure the article was posted around the Senjutsu release in our news thread. I’ll see if I can find it.
 
Mosh said:
I missed that interview, did he give a reason why? Grant would make sense, although I could also see them going with someone they haven’t worked with before.
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Gyula Havancsak could be a good choice, then. I'm curious how Eddie created by him could look like, if he was the chosen one. :cool:

Gyula did, for example, these artworks :

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