Stuart Crouch Creative – art direction, design.
The album cover by Mark Wilkinson presents Eddie dressed up as a samurai and holding a katana. The album Senjutsu marks the second use of the band's original logotype (with the extended letters R, M and N) on a studio album cover since The X Factor (1995), the previous one being for The Book of Souls (2015). The album also gave the band its highest chart position in the US at number three. Senjutsu is one of Iron Maiden's most successful albums, chart-wise, to date peaking at number one in numerous countries such as Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Scotland, Sweden and Switzerland, and marked their first album not to peak that position in the UK charts since A Matter of Life and Death (2006) it did, however, top the UK Rock & Metal Singles and Albums Charts. Wall of Sound scored the album 9/10, calling it an 'epic and triumphant return for the lads. Critical reception Professional ratings Aggregate scoresĪt Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album has an average score of 83 based on 15 reviews, indicating 'universal acclaim'.
