Top 10 Iron Maiden album covers

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Comments

[Dan]

Good calls all round, though I'd have put Somewhere in Time at no.1.

I freely admit that's mostly because it's the only place I'll ever see the scoreline West Ham: 7 Arsenal: 3, but all the little references to other Maiden songs and albums, and the Rear Window cameo, are quite clever. 'This is a very boring painting', indeed.

[Izabael DaJinn]

Somewhere in Time really does have crazy details! Even as I was going to reply to your comment I looked at the cover again and noticed things I hadn't (Like the Tetragrammaton on the building on the far left. YHVH in Hebrew.) And there is a guy in the video store looks like he's stealing. And I wonder what the Korean letter say.

Some things are easy to understand like the 23:58 on the clock and the Bradbury Towers (Ray reference?) but so many others I'm not sure on.

Oh and where did someone call it "a very boring painting"?

xoxo
Izabael

[Jorge]

And there's also Batman!On the roof next to koreans letters

[Jorge]

And a "Fallen Angel"! Awesome!

[Izabael DaJinn]

That's cool! I didn't notice the batman! I wish I could find an ever higher res version!

[Don Kædmon]

Thank you Izabael for these enlarged pictures, especially of Somewhere In Time and Powerslave! This is a real treat as I've only seen the cd covers themselves. Big Maiden fan here, I got to see them live when they played Ozzfest a few years back. Wish I could have seen them on the Somewhere Back In Time tour though, but the dvd of that tour is awesome. Also, I noticed on the Powerslave cover, the formation of the Egyptians walking up the stairs of the pyramid looks very much like the tree of life, if you don't count the ones in the center holding the coffin (or that could be Daath-the hidden sephiroth too?) but there's even 10 there holding it too. Interesting!