Album Cover Art Ideas to be turned into art is one subject that leads to one band in particular, from the late seventies to the present, and that band is Iron Maiden.
For an Album Cover Art Ideas to develop so fast and done so perfect from an idea of the band to keep the anonymity and to use a certain figurative but fictional person” Eddie” in place of the faces was a great and brave move by the band:
- – BRAVE: why I would say brave is because a band is usually recognized by their members and the cover which usually depicted them on the covers whether as normal portraits, photographs or even specially made up in deigns of different stages of their album theme.
- – GREAT: because of this idea coming from the band and getting the right designers involved to portray Eddie in different forms and stages of decay, the album covers not only led to :
1: great works of art that were so unique, as it told a story relating to the album and the theme of the album.
2: the art was so good and the artist’s ideas (with obvious band input) so amazing it became a cult on its own, as non-Iron Maiden fans were now buying these albums, just for the art.
3: it become such a huge success it created a new genre of an art form, album art, and spread amongst more and more bands and thus changing not only the art world but the bands ideas on the covers as they soon realized as a marketing tool, the better or weirder, outstanding or even stranger your cover, the more it will sell.
4: this covers that was created by some bands like Iron Maiden led them to start marketing the albums by turning their album art into posters and t-shirts and thus once again as a marketing tool made them more than just megabucks but more famous as more and more people started collecting these albums just for the art productions and which made the band even more famous and at times infamous as well.
5: with the marketing strategy behind this idea which started basically in the rock and metal band scenes and later spread across all genres, bands like Iron Maiden starting doing more than just Album Art and used the same idea to create specific art ideas to describe a scene for each single released as a cover which also kicked off the marketing departments drive to push that into poster and t-shirt designs and the rest is history.
