History NightmareFuel / IronMaiden

* The video for "The Final Frontier". An astronaut heads to a planet to get a pyramid box and key, only to be creeped on by Eddie, who hides in the walls. When he arrives at the objects, he suddenly notices a noise behind him, only to turn around and find Franchise/{{Predator}}-like Eddie, whose movements are just plain [[UncannyValley WRONG]]. While it may seems as if he escapes, he isn't totally lucky: when he attempts to open the box, Eddie yanks him by the neck and throws him to his death in outer space. What a charming, fluffy, happy ending.

* "Rime of The Ancient Mariner"'s slow and creepy middle part is the last thing you want to listen to at midnight with the lights off. The fact that a brief snippet of that part is played over a photo of the band staring at the camera (with creepy stares too) on a brief segment of the documentary on Disc 2 of ''Live After Death'' doesn't help either. (2:33 in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0xHRaR0_WM this video]]).

** The censored cover makes for some good NothingIsScarier fare. The same event is shown but from far away.

* The video for "The Final Frontier". An astronaut heads to a planet to get a pyramid box and key, only to be creeped on by Eddie, who hides in the walls. When he arrives at the objects, he suddenly notices a noise behind him, only to turn around and find Franchise/{{Predator}}-like Eddie, whose movements are just plain [[UncannyValley WRONG]]. While it may seems as if he escapes, he isn't totally lucky: when he attempts to open the box, Eddie yanks him by the neck and throws him to his death in Space. What a charming, fluffy, happy ending.

* The [[http://www.ironmaiden.com/fefiles/images/TBOS-Packshot_995.jpg cover]] of ''The Book of Souls''. Usually there's a lot happening on the album covers, but here... its just Eddie staring at you and [[NothingIsScarier nothing else.]] No crazy faces, no badass battles. Just him ''staring into your soul.'' It's the first time in ages Eddie has been truly scary.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsOCHIMr7Fk Satellite 15 part of "Satellite 15... The Final Frontier"]] Essentially, it starts off with an extremely bizarre bass riff that becomes the underlying riff for two whole minutes, followed by a tribal drum riff being repeated over and over. Then doom metallish guitar chords kick in, where suddenly a second three beat drum riff kicks in and loops over and over for a minute while a bizarre HellIsThatNoise guitar riff plays. The drums and guitars stop eventually, only for a few guitar chords and Bruce singing about being lost in space and desperate for someone to hear his call ensue. Then suddenly a double bass drum riff and military drum line kick in, only for it to end with four {{Scare Chord}}s (for some this is where the intro really gets kickass). Then, of course, the rather upbeat and positive title track happens. Apparently it's a demo that Adrian Smith handed to Steve Harris and it appears on the album as is. One must wonder what the hell that H was smoking when he made it.

* Eddie has been known to look like the fantasy equivalent of CrazyAwesome. However, the original 1980 album cover of ''[[Music/IronMaidenAlbum Iron Maiden]]'' shows a more detailed drawing of Eddie - this is because Derek Riggs based the texture of Eddie's skin on a disturbing image he saw of a decapitated American head hanging from a Vietnamese tank. [[http://www.rastko.rs/kosovo/istorija/ccsavich-propaganda/009.jpg Here it is.]]

* Usually when they perform "Iron Maiden", they have Eddie show up from behind the stage, and the result it usally a mix of NightmareFuel and CrazyAwesome. However, the 1995 X Factor Tour had Eddie [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JZ_SQ4Bw5E being electrocuted to death]] with realistic smoke.

-->Your cursed ones, I'll blind them all

* If the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsOCHIMr7Fk Satellite 15 part of "Satellite 15... The Final Frontier"]] doesn't make you feel like some shit is about to go down, you are insane beyond belief. It will break anyone still sane after bejng able to listen AMOLAD in its entirety. Essentially, it starts off with an extremely bizarre bass riff that becomes the underlying riff for two whole minutes, followed by a tribal drum riff being repeated over and over. Then doom metallish guitar chords kick in, where suddenly a second three beat drum riff kicks in and loops over and over for a minute while a bizarre HellIsThatNoise guitar riff plays. The drums and guitars stop eventually, only for a few guitar chords and Bruce singing about being lost in space and desperate for someone to hear his call ensue. Then suddenly a double bass drum riff and military drum line kick in, only for it to end with four {{Scare Chord}}s (for some this is where the intro really gets kickass). Then, of course, the rather upbeat and positive title track happens. Apparently it's a demo that Adrian Smith handed to Steve Harris and it appears on the album as is. One must wonder what the hell that H was smoking when he made it.

* Try listening to "Dream of Mirrors" and not getting unsettled by its lyrics.

* "The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg". The fact that it's from an album full of lyrics rife with Nightmare Fuel is bad enough (The Legacy in particular), however the lyrics sound like a sad clown's lament and the horrifying image that the line "a thousand souls weighing down on me" creates. Sweet dreams.

* "Still Life", about a man who sees ghosts in his swimming pool. At the end, he takes his girlfriend with him and they drown themselves in the pool to be with the ghosts.

* "When I was living this lie, fear was my game/People would worship and fall, drop to their knees!/So bring me the blood and red wine, for the one to deceive me/For he is a man and a God, and he will die too!" To be fair, the whole song is pretty creepy.

* The lyrics from the title track of ''Killers'' are full of ParanoiaFuel.

** As shown above, the cover art for the Record Store Day exclusive shows Eddie wrecking the airship mid-air, with the reaper right next to him (in undoubtedly the scariest appearance of the reaper in the artwork yet). And a look at the [[http://s693.photobucket.com/user/mindtakis/media/DSC00745_zpsrsstjefx.jpg.html full artwork]], there's faces hidden in the clouds, and the action is happening right above the Beauvais cathedral.

* "Empire of the Clouds" is a retelling of the R101 airship disaster, and for the first 7 or so minutes, things aren't bad. Then, suddenly, the band Morse codes "SOS" with their instruments. Things get typical Maiden until 11 minutes in, when Bruce begins frantically singing as if he's caught in the whole struggle to get the doomed airship under control, along with some very nightmarish imagery. Then at 14 minutes in, the fatal crash and fiery explosion of the R101 on Beauvais Ridge is resembled by swelling strings, pianos, doomy chords and haunting choirs. It's extremely unsettling and really shows how horrific the crash was.

* "Empire of the Clouds" is a retelling of the R101 airship disaster, and for the first 7 or so minutes, things aren't bad. Then, suddenly, the band Morse codes "SOS" with their instruments. Things get typical Maiden until 11 minutes in, when Bruce begins frantically singing as if he's caught in the whole disaster, along with some very nightmarish imagery. Then at 14 minutes in, the crash and fiery explosion of the R101 on Beauvais Ridge is resembled by swelling strings, pianos, doomy chords and haunting choirs. It's extremely unsettling.