New Maiden cover art

[spawn]

http://www.ironmaiden.com/ironmaiden/news/news_190902.asp

Theres the artwork for the box set. I give it a resounding "Meh".

Im still getting it. I want my biscuit tin!

 

[Spiff]

uke:

Putting some effort into it probably would have been too much to ask.

 

[salty]

When are they gonna tell Riggs to dump his digital art, pick up the water colours again and return to his former Eddie painting glory!?

 

[spawn]

I dont think Riggs will have anything to do with Iron Maiden anymore, from the interviews I have read, he is pissed at them because he never got any money from the merchandising/album covers that carried his artwork. Im not sure what the deal was, perhaps they just boguht the paintings and did as they saw fit with them, I dont know...

 

[Tough As Steel]

Yeah...i think for the price, the artwork should have been ball-grabbing stuff.

I think, i will have a good think about it before rushing out to buy it.

I am much more interested in their next studio album, i have enough live versions of their old stuff already.

 

[Sydo]

I hope we're not the sort of people who buy an album for the shitty cartoon-crap 'artwork' now, are we?

 

[Spiff]

Spawny?

 

[spawn]

Yeah, anyone that would buy an album based on cover art alone is an IDIOT...

 

[weetbix]

Uh-huh ... hands up who admits to being that kind of idiot.

I know I have done it before

 

[spawn]

Never! thats like someone who buys a rerelease just because the cover art is changed! Pfft!

 

[Spiff]

If I was that kind of idiot then I'd own all of Rhapsody's albums. Thank Ged I'm not!

 

[spawn]

I know! I only own 3 of them luckily!

 

[Spiff]

I own one. Can't remember the name of it... it has a dragon on the cover if that helps!

Actually, it has "The Emerald Sword" on it... or "Eemrald" as the singer bloke would call it.

 

[spawn]

Ive got Symphony Of The Enchanted Lands, plus Rain Of A Thousand Flames and Power Of The Dragonflame.

Have you heard the 19 and a half minute song at the end of POTD? Epicus Operaish Bullshittius.

 

[Spiff]

Ah, it's "Symphony" that I have then. Might go and listen to it after I finish this CD (Bruce Springsteen's "The Rising" - the album of the year!!).

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

I quite like the BBC Archives and the Best Of The B-Sides covers. The Beast Over Hammersmith one though looks like a dodgy unofficial bootleg release cover or something.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Meh...

I still want it though.

 

[Southy]

does it seem as though Derek Riggs is as dissalusioned with the band as most of us are ?

 

[salty]

Would be kinda cool to see Hugh Syme come and do another cover. Take a different slant on their album covers like they did with X-Factor.

Rather than get artists come and paint Eddie to a standard that doesnt match the covers of the 80's...go a full different photographic digital path with it. That could be kinda cool.

 

[Spiff]

Hugh Syme rules, but I think he's better suited working with Rush. He's a bit too stylish for Maiden, although The X Factor *was* a great cover.