Later on, Eddie is found by a woman who calls herself The Clairvoyant. The Beast shatters his soul, leaving him without his powers.

Eddie then retreats outside, hijacking a space-vehicle and escaping.Īt some point, Eddie encounters his nemesis once more, but this time loses the battle. After losing, Eddie makes a scene, leading to him being spotted by his future self. He proceeds to play a game of cards with members of Iron Maiden, along with a trench-coat wearing stranger. Eddie decides, for the time being, to lay low at a bar. The music video for the song 'The Angel and The Gambler' is actually some-what of a sequel to the game, explaining the events that followed after Ed Hunter.Įddie, still in the future, is now on the moon, where various aliens have colonized and evolved into a human-like society. Then, a cybernetic version of himself from the future appears and captures him, taking him off to an unknown location. He then finds the Four Horsemen and battles and kills all four. Eddie treks through the futuristic world for a possible escape. Eddie attempts to attack the detective but is sent to the future by an unseen force. He makes his way through the pyramids of Egypt, where the detective finds him. Eddie is capable of escaping and travels through hell and into the mortal world. An unknown source sends a private detective a letter explaining that he is to save Eddie for unknown reasons. In the videogame Ed Hunter, Eddie is captured and locked away in an asylum by his rival The Beast. He then engages battle with the men, killing them all, before riding away. He stops at a bar in a shanty town and witnesses several cloaked men on similar vehicles attack and capture a tribe of, seemingly innocent, creatures. Here, he resembles his cybernetic design along with wearing a fedora and a trench coat. In the video for 'Run to the Hills', we see Eddie in a desert like wasteland riding some kind of futuristic vehicle. He manages to wipe them all out and the video ends with him standing victorious. Eddie is seen fighting off several skeletal soldiers, wielding swords. He is donning a uniform reminiscent of one worn by British Redcoat soldiers during the Revolutionary War. In the Camp Chaos music video for 'The Trooper', we see Eddie in the middle of a heated and hellish battlefield. Whether or not this is in the literal or figurative sense is unknown. According to the Legacy of the Beast comic series, he is the embodiment of free-will. It is theorized by fans that he was murderer that died and was sent to hell, only to be cursed with immortality. What is made clear is that he is undead and immortal, meaning that he would have had to have lived a mortal life at some point. As such, it is unclear how he ended up the way he is.

In the post-modern world of the internet age, where we have the luxury of looking into the past with rose-tinted glasses, Eddie is still here, making it okay for metal to have spectacle.Eddie's past and possible mortal life are unknown. But Eddie has stayed immortal for all time, and has shown up on everything from beer labels to jets. It’s this sort of over-the-top comic stage show that added to the fun behind each band. Music is a dosage of escapism and heavy metal was just fine with embellishing in the departure from reality. It was all a fantasy, because that’s what metal was always okay with being. In the ’80s it seemed every band had their mascot to further that image – Samson were known for Thunderstick, Motörhead for Snaggletooth, Riot for that weird weasel/mouse thing, Anthrax for Not Man, Megadeth for Rattlehead, etc. And every metal fan across the world cannot deny the most popular of these monsters is Eddie of Iron Maiden. Not only that, but then they sequentially added that same monster to every release going forward. Some played the Satanic threat card very heavily and have since built empires on a foundation of, “We are actually the spawn of the devil, be very fucking afraid.” But along the way, some fucking psychopath came up with the idea of adding a cartoon monster to a band’s live set. Box addresses requiring their little sister to answer fan mail. Unknown groups created their own fan clubs or ‘hordes’, listing defunct P.O. Mysterious promo photos, ridiculous attire, and absurd names for members. An iconic logo and a sprinkling of shock value sometimes caught the attention of the squares. Bands had to really plan out their brand, and looking back there were quite a few funny attempts at standing out in the crowd. Put yourself in the shoes of a young musician in the late ’70s/early ’80s and reflect on how you could make your craft known to the world at large.

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