Hehe, fair enough. I tried phrasing it a few different ways then gave up
What I meant was that many of the Iron Maiden covers aren't necessarily connected to the theme of the albums as much as they should be. The later covers have been better at fusing the art with the theme of the albums (though DoD is still a horrid cover
). I think the covers of Iron Maiden, Piece Of Mind, Seventh Son, No Prayer, Fear Of The Dark, X Factor and to a lesser extent SiT can be examples of albums where the cover (while great in their own right), don't necessarily fuse with the songs that are on the album. They end up being a showcase for "This year's Eddie" instead of conveying the feel of the album. And in some cases that's pretty self explanatory since very few Maiden-albums have as clear a theme as AMOLAD has. I mean, in most cases it's tied to the title track and nothing else, simply because the rest of the album isn't tied to a single concept.
But since AMOLAD
is heavily centred around war and conflict, it makes sense to have the cover be about war first, and Eddie second, so to speak.