General Iron Maiden discussion

[dickinson1978]

How on earth did they miss a trick for the AMOLAD cover and not had Eddie be a head sitting on the tank, which was the inspiration for his creation in the first place? Eddie may as well not even be on that cover, it’s like Where’s Wally trying to find him amongst the other zombies. Eddie must be the centrepiece of the album art, that’s the whole point.

I always will say that the corpse on the right bottom looks like sharon osbourne after the egg incident they did the same as margaret tacher and i remember zome people said the same here in 2006.

 

[Vaenyr]

Looking at the early 2000s album covers it kinda felt like they tried to not focus as much on Eddie. Up to VXI he was almost always very promininet. On BNW he has a cool design imo (one of my favorites) but he's just a cloud in the top half of the image. On DOD he's right in the middle, but surrounded by a million CGI characters. On AMOLAD he's a relatively small part of the overall image. It took until TFF for him to be prominent on album covers again. Live albums and compilations are a bit different, where DOTR or SBIT featured him prominently, while F666 didn't at all.

Though I must say, I like the AMOLAD cover a lot. Given the theme it fits that he's just another part of a bigger whole. An army consists of multiple people as well after all, and waging war without an army is rarely a good idea.