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It is an community about album covers so the music itself isn't necessarly good music
Welcome to Album Artwork Heaven — a cozy corner of Lemmy dedicated to celebrating the visual side of music! 🎶🖼️
This community is all about sharing, discovering, and appreciating album covers, music-related artwork, and the creative design that brings sound to life through imagery. Whether it’s vintage vinyl sleeves, modern digital art, obscure indie releases, or iconic classics — if it’s beautiful, striking, or just plain weird, it belongs here.
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I agree that a lot of Iron Maiden’s album covers are way better than their music. I remember when Seventh Son came out and the gatefold album had this amazing Egyptian paramid scene, but upon listening the album was good but there was better music at the time.
Aw yeah, Seventh Son has a great cover too, it was posted here earlier. I don't remember the gatefold scene, maybe the cassette version I had didn't include it.
I just realized it wasn’t seventh son with the Egyptian theme it was Powerslave. Still awesome art work.
That makes sense. I'd bought a cheaper Central American-manufactured cassette of Powerslave which didn't have any gatefolds. (I'm pretty sure it was a licensed copy: it had copyright and manufacturing info and I bought it at a store in Central America, but dunno how thorough their licensing was back then.)
By coincidence over the weekend in a box of old stuff I found my cassette of Live After Death! It was the first Maiden album I bought as a kid. The US version, so it had the fold-out of concert pictures.
Wow that was the first Maiden album I bought also, it was a cassette.