My favourite artwork by far is Derek Riggs interpretation of Orson Scott Card’s 7th Son of a 7th Son frozen landscape. All its singles are amazing work. The Clairvoyant, The Evil that Men Do, Infinite Dreams and the coup de grace, Can I Play with Madness.
Close second would be Fear of the Dark. Then Brave New World, Powerslave, Somewhere in Time, Books of Souls and Senjutsu.
I do love the Trooper, but more so with Custer on the jaded steed. A tour shirt I grabbed at Maiden England 2012.
That Power Slave cover is killer. I’ve acquired a few variants. Like most of them, I find something new every time I look at.
I was 11 years old when I saw the new, debut Maiden record. It scared the shit out of me. That wins. Not the redone version, the original. There’s absolutely no explanation for why that horrid thing I got to know as Eddie was on there. To this day, it’s goosebump material that makes the cover of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath look like a Mahjong happening.
I think I was around 7 when I watched American Werewolf in London with my Dad on HBO; plus a lot more horror stuff that mom was not so thrilled with dad about. Then I started seeing all of the metal covers when I was around 11 or 12 – Killers, Venom, Haunting the Chapel…. And I wondered if my Dad was gearing me up to be a metal head, like he saw something in me similar to his young sailors that were into Sabbath and what not. Still even seeing pretty gory movies, those covers freaked me the f$&@ out for awhile and I had to build up some courage on many a record to buy them. Was like if the cover is this gruesome, what’s the sound like? Eventually I could not help but to dive in.
I wear the Aces High and Trooper shirts exclusively. But. Somewhere in Time was my introduction to Maiden as a 12-year old in Groton, CT; I’m now nearly 52 living out in the Arizona desert. So I have to go with nostalgia. SIT is my favorite and it’s killer. I find something new in it every time I look at. I still have the LP I bought back in 86’. The upside with Maiden covers is no one is wrong truly because they all are awesome artwork. They tell a story. Deliver you to realm like a novel or poem. And a Maiden fan has my respect no matter what because the there’s always a modicum of thought that goes into their positions.
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My favourite artwork by far is Derek Riggs interpretation of Orson Scott Card’s 7th Son of a 7th Son frozen landscape. All its singles are amazing work. The Clairvoyant, The Evil that Men Do, Infinite Dreams and the coup de grace, Can I Play with Madness.
Close second would be Fear of the Dark. Then Brave New World, Powerslave, Somewhere in Time, Books of Souls and Senjutsu.
I do love the Trooper, but more so with Custer on the jaded steed. A tour shirt I grabbed at Maiden England 2012.
Ooo, Somewhere in Time is pretty awesome.
Number of the Beast for me. It was my intro to the band and still my go-to Maiden CD if I’m playing metal CD’s while working.
You’re asking us to pick 1 out of 77. Wow.
Live: Live After Death.
Single: The Clairvoyant
Studio: Powerslave
That Power Slave cover is killer. I’ve acquired a few variants. Like most of them, I find something new every time I look at.
I was 11 years old when I saw the new, debut Maiden record. It scared the shit out of me. That wins. Not the redone version, the original. There’s absolutely no explanation for why that horrid thing I got to know as Eddie was on there. To this day, it’s goosebump material that makes the cover of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath look like a Mahjong happening.
I think I was around 7 when I watched American Werewolf in London with my Dad on HBO; plus a lot more horror stuff that mom was not so thrilled with dad about. Then I started seeing all of the metal covers when I was around 11 or 12 – Killers, Venom, Haunting the Chapel…. And I wondered if my Dad was gearing me up to be a metal head, like he saw something in me similar to his young sailors that were into Sabbath and what not. Still even seeing pretty gory movies, those covers freaked me the f$&@ out for awhile and I had to build up some courage on many a record to buy them. Was like if the cover is this gruesome, what’s the sound like? Eventually I could not help but to dive in.
I wear the Aces High and Trooper shirts exclusively. But. Somewhere in Time was my introduction to Maiden as a 12-year old in Groton, CT; I’m now nearly 52 living out in the Arizona desert. So I have to go with nostalgia. SIT is my favorite and it’s killer. I find something new in it every time I look at. I still have the LP I bought back in 86’. The upside with Maiden covers is no one is wrong truly because they all are awesome artwork. They tell a story. Deliver you to realm like a novel or poem. And a Maiden fan has my respect no matter what because the there’s always a modicum of thought that goes into their positions.