Worst Iron Maiden Album Cover Art

The Top Ten

1 Dance of Death

Not only the worst cover of maiden, is the wost cover than I ever seen in my whole life (and actually is a pretty cool album) I mean... what the hell happened here? at least the x fctor got an alternate cover art who made it better, this album only got this... CGI dancing girls with monsters with bizarre masks maing a parody of eyes wide shut... What the hell happened meanwhile this was created?

This isn't only Maidens worst album cover but worst metal album cover possibly ever. Just awful. Like someone with windows 95 copied and pasted a bunch of pixel people having a creepy orgy. Just god awful.

This is... Come on what HAPPENED TO EDDIE THE KILLER THE WELL KNOWN EDDIE, becomes some dance party grim reaper! Seriously maiden?

It's funny how the title track contains the lyrics "lifeless figures". Perfect description of the cover.

2 The X Factor

Utterly atrocious. This was during the post-Derek Riggs album covers sessions, and boy does it show. While there have been good covers besides Riggs, this cover is utter crap. Dated CGI combined with a horribly designed Eddie (what is up with that facial expression? ) make for the worst Maiden cover in history. The alternate cover is a lot better, and manages to express more with its minimalistic design than this utter monstrosity does. While the alternate cover was used in order to give retailers a less graphic cover to sell, it wouldn't shock me that these retailers weren't concerned with taste, but more with how crap this cover was, and released that the other had a higher chance of selling units. Despite this, I still quite like the album, and champion it as Maiden's most underrated. Shame about the cover though.

This looks like death metal in my opinion

Is That Supposed to be Eddie?

3 A Matter of Life and Death