1,024 color illustrations

Celebrating 50 years of Iron Maiden, this incomparable visual book, featuring commentary by band members past and present, and never-before-seen photography from the Iron Maiden archives, chronicles the evolution of heavy metal’s most influential and enthralling band since 1975.

Iron Maiden is an institution. Hailed as pioneers of a new wave of British heavy metal in the 80s, the band has come to embody a spirit of fearless creative independence and ferocious dedication to their fans that has won them a huge following around the world and across the generations.

Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams traces the creative evolution of heavy metal’s most influential and enthralling band, from 1975 to 2025. Presenting iconic album and single artworks, photographs of the band’s instruments past and present, stage props, hand-written lyrics and artefacts from the archive and the band’s personal collections, as well as landmark photographs by Ross Halfin and John McMurtrie, Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams is rife with revelatory stories and intriguing insights from pivotal band members and management.

It is bookended by a foreword from band founder Steve Harris and an afterword by vocalist Bruce Dickinson.

Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams is the definitive legacy volume, celebrating the band’s creativity, dedication, personality and success.

Reviews

Iron Maiden have helped spawn an entire genre of music.

— Paul Stanley, Kiss

An astonishingly well-documented and lovingly curated look at a band that changed rock forever. Its fans will love it, but the appeal isn’t limited to them. A headbanging romp of a beautifully designed book.

— Kirkus Reviews

Contributors

Steve Harris

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Bruce Dickinson

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Iron Maiden

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Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson, founder Steve Harris, and band members past and present come together to tell the story of their legendary band. Founded in December 1975, Iron Maiden have released 17 studio albums, 13 live albums, four EPs, and seven compilations. Their third album, 1982’s The Number of the Beast, is one of the most popular heavy metal albums of all time, having sold 20 million copies worldwide.