#The Number of the Beast

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[ironmaidengifs]

IRON MAIDEN - THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST (1982)

[formulas-fatal-to-your-mom]

[alltheweirdkidsinoneplace]

Eddie Munson + potential Iron Maiden references

because I'm hyperfixiating and desperate. Also apparently not everyone was raised on 80s metal, so this might be new to some people and gatekeeping is lame. None of this is confirmed obviously and I'm probably reaching but here we go

let's start with the most obvious one: This is Iron Maiden's mascot. His name is Eddie. He's been on every single album cover, most single covers, merch, posters... He looks a little different every time, but he's always undead.

This is the cover artwork for the 1982 album The Number of the Beast. It features A huge version of Eddie, controlling the strings of a red, devil-like creature, which in turn holds the strings of a tiny version of Eddie. The Devil (Vecna, there I said it) is not shown to be aware of Big Eddie controlling him. It's all very double agent, The Spy parallel. Also if you take just the frame of Big Eddie's hand and the devil, it looks A LOT like Eddie Munson's puppetmaster tattoo. With a little fantasy and even more reaching there's also some vaguely mindflayery shape in the background of the image.

(probably irrelevant but still fun fact: This album was released on March 22nd 1982 - EXACTLY four years before Eddie Munson became the main suspect in Chrissy's death)

This one speaks for itself. We've all seen the Eddie prequel book that's gonna come out later this year with literally the same title as this 1983 song.

Interestingly, Eddie has batwings here, aka KAS THEORY CONFIRMED?

This one, holy shit. This is the artwork for the 1986 (!) album Somewhere in Time, and if the year and title weren't enough, there is so much more.

1. Again starting with the most obvious: There is a graffito on the wall to the very right that literally says EDDIE LIVES.

2. Under the graffito we see a hand reaching up from the ground (grave?). The version of Eddie that we get here is a cyborg, and the hand on the ground looks very cyborg-esque as well. The band members are seen a little towards the left as normal humans, so it's not like everyone's just a cyborg in this world. Ergo the hand belongs to a second Eddie, which is very in line with the whole "there is another timeline with shadow selves"-theory.

3. The red clouds in the background are very vecna-y.

4. The little winged figure from the Flight of Icarus cover is seen left of the big tower in the middle.

5. The neon sign of the movie theatre to the very bottom left contains the words "Live After Death" (illegible here, but it's there!)

6. The lyrics on this album! In particular Wasted Years, featuring the lines "But now it seems I'm just a stranger to myself

And all the things I sometimes do, it isn't me but someone else"

- again, very much in line with shadow selves. And even more Stranger in a Strange Land:

"Was many years ago that I left home and came this way

I was a young man full of hopes and dreams

But now it seems to me that all is lost and nothing gained

Sometimes things ain't what they seem

No brave new world, no brave new world

No brave new world, no brave new world

Night and day I scan horizon, sea and sky

My spirit wanders endlessly

Until the day will dawn and friends from home discover why

Hear me calling, rescue me

Set me free, set me free

Lost in this place and leave no trace

Stranger in a strange land

Land of ice and snow

Trapped inside this prison

Lost and far from home

[...]

They found his body lying where it fell on that day

Preserved in time for all to see

No brave new world, no brave new world

Lost in this place, and leave no trace

What became of the man that started

All are gone and their souls departed

Left me here in this place so all alone"

Does that sound like someone left for dead in the Upside Down or is that just me?

7. idk a fuckload more in the cover probablay because it's wild.

Bonus Metallica fact: Master of Puppets was released on March 3rd 1986. Eeven if he bought the album the day it was released (he would) that would have given him under three weeks to rehearse it so much that he could give the most metal concert ever on March 27th.

Anyway that's just from the top of my head; I might add on to it if/when I think of more. PLEASE spam me with your theories I beg you.

Side note: Contrary to popular belief, if you got into metal because of Eddie: That's awesome! Welcome! Again, gatekeeping sucks; we've all had our minds blown by a Metallica song for the first time at some point, so let's be nice to the newcomers.

[undergroundrockpress]

Iron Maiden, The Number of the Beast (1982) / Photo Montage by Ian Kay.

[faequeentitania]

Iron Maiden performing The Number of the Beast on the Australian show Countdown, November 12th, 1982. Featuring Bruce Dickinson (playfully?) ramming into Steve Harris, then wrapping himself around Steve's leg.

[adriheavymetal]

Aww love this one ,It's been a while since I listened to Iron Maiden, I love them so much, one of the best metal bands of all time .........................🎧🎼

🎸🥁🎤🎹🎷🎻🎧🎶👌☺☺❤❤💕💕🤘🤘❤☺ #listening #thesedays #ironmaiden #thenumberofthebeast #greatalbum #nwobhm #metallegends #myplaylist #music #albumart #albumcovers #heavymetal #metal #rock #classicrock #classicmetal #oldschoolheavymetal #80smetal

[practically-an-x-man]

Ran into some really odd metalhead irony today...

So today I was wearing an Iron Maiden shirt. The front is printed with their Number of the Beast album, and the back says "666: The Number of the Beast"

And my SFX instructor dress-coded me for it being "religious". He was like "I know it's a song, I love the song, but I have to be fair here. If someone walked in here wearing an 'I love Jesus' shirt, I'd have to dress-code them, so it has to go both ways."

Which... alright, I guess. I didn't get in trouble for it, I might have pushed back a little more if I had, but he just came up to warn me about it and I just won't wear that shirt in the shop anymore. Fine. Don't exactly understand all the fuss about it when it is very obviously a shirt for a metal band and not just a religious statement, but I can understand the desire to be fair. And it's just not worth arguing about, honestly.

But the ironic part is this: I threw on my battle jacket to cover the back of the shirt for the rest of class. My battle jacket is painted on the back with Metallica's Kill 'Em All album.

Somehow, an image of a bloody sledgehammer, a pool of blood, and the words "KILL 'EM ALL" in bold red lettering is more acceptable than Iron Maiden's "The Number of the Beast"

[big-low-t]

Iron Maiden released The Number Of The Beast album 42 years ago on this day, March, 22nd, in 1982.

Young me listened to this constantly after I got it. I had it on cassette and all the printing wore off so I could no longer read the side or song titles. Some of the kids at school turned that into a rumor that I had played it so much the vocals disappeared!

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IRON MAIDEN - THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST (1982)

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[andrewckeeper]

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[silvereyedowl]

73 yards is equivalent to 66.75 metres.

72.8 yards - which can easily be rounded up to 73 - is equivalent to 66.6 metres.

What I'm saying is "73 Yards" might be a particularly oblique reference to the number of the beast.