Album Covers - 1 - Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

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This album is an Iron Maiden album released on the 29th of September in 1986, the same year hugely popular albums were released by the other big metal bands such as Metallica releasing "Ride The Lightning". The typical features of this album cover are the same as the rest of the iron Maiden albums with their mascot "Eddie the Head" being the present centre piece. More examples of Eddie being the centre piece and main attraction are albums such as "The Number of the Beast" and "Powerslave".


A typical Iron Maiden trend is to base an album around a certain theme,  for example this one is based heavily on time travel and the idea of future and past. One of the songs on the album is called Alexander the Great, who reigned in 334BC whereas another song is called Stranger in a Strange Land, which talks about a "world of ice and snow". These two contrasts fit together perfectly and immediately hit the theme of time travel and the very abstract theme Iron Maiden stride to achieve for. I think that this album cover for "Somewhere in Time" portrays the genre of heavy metal very well and represents it as something shrouded in mystery and uncertainty just like what the album is trying to convey about space and time.


 I love the font on the cover, it clearly has the same generic "IRON MAIDEN" in capitals, however the album name is shown in very digital looking writing to convey the futuristic nature.




In turn, Eddie the Head is a cyborg looking creature in this album, were previously he has been a mummy, the devil, a fighter pilot and a pharaoh. In this instance though he is a cyborg in a huge post apocalyptic looking city and he has gunned someone down with a laser pistol. All of this connotes what Iron Maiden wanted to portray when they decided on the theme of time.

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