You Might Like: The Who Album Covers Ranked.This minimalist front cover is a heavy contrast against the album’s music, which features three songs that are over 10 minutes long (“Empire of the Clouds” is nearly 20!) and clocks in as an album at over an hour and a half long. It depicts Eddie, aggressive as ever, decorated in some form of tribal war paint set against an all-black background. The Book of Souls is Iron Maiden’s most minimalist album cover, and unfortunately not in a good way. You Might Also Enjoy: Aerosmith Album Covers.The music, on the other hand, feels right at home among their longtime themes, featuring epic new shred fests for Maiden diehards like “Hell on Earth” and “Darkest Hour.” This album cover features plenty of the violence and military bloodlust that Iron Maiden has ruminated on for their entire career, but lacks the electrified horror and nightmare fantasy that characterizes their best album art. Here, Eddie is cast as a samurai, covered in blood that presumably came from his freshly slain enemies. Senjetsu updates an album art trend that Iron Maiden kicked off all the way back in 1984 on Powerslave, in which Eddie is rendered as a fearsome powerful figure out of global history. The art has little of the nightmarish atmosphere that adorns most of Iron Maiden’s album covers, but perhaps this was meant to complement the music, which itself feels a little more like straight-ahead, party-hardy rock and roll than most of Maiden’s classic material. On the cover, a grim reaper that can’t really even be visually confirmed as Eddie stands at the center of a digitally rendered Dionysian gala, featuring a variety of nearly naked masked figures that graphically speaking look like they belong in a Nintendo 64 game. While the cover for Dance of Death features a touch of ironic humor that may very well have been created on purpose, there is no getting around the fact that this release features Iron Maiden’s worst album art. Let’s begin with our least favorite album cover, which made its debut way back in 2003.
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