All 12 pressings

Folder 256

Europe

'MADE IN EU' on the disc and the optimal media GmbH etching separate it from the four Brazil and one Argentina releases that share barcode 0190295567606

Catalogue
0190295567606
Label
Parlophone
Released
2019
Confidence
Likely
Why this grade

The 2019 Parlophone remaster in a digipak. Barcode 0190295567606 is shared by six releases on the master (Europe 14614118; Brazil 15335106, 16534899, 19634848, 30190853; Argentina 36908403). The disc's own 'MADE IN EU' and the 'manufactured by optimal media GmbH' etching on the mirror band leave only the European release; none of the South American pressings is a German-pressed disc. The owner's note gives the ring as '0190295567606 AJ75917-01 IFPI L578', and the close-ups bear out every part of it. Probable rather than Confirmed: the matrix 'AJ75917-01' has not been compared with the identifiers on Discogs release 14614118 (no release JSON is cached), so nothing unique to that release has been checked yet, and an uncatalogued EU repress can't be ruled out.

Reference
Discogs 14614118
Median sale
DKK 75
Sale range
DKK 37-98
On sale now
49, from DKK 52
Last sold
1 October 2026
A photograph of pressing 256, Europe

What the record says

Every line below was read off a native-resolution crop of the photograph named beside it.

The mirror band was photographed in close-up at an angle, with reflections (IMG_5104-IMG_5107), and the etching reads clearly: '0190295567606', then 'AJ75917-01', then 'manufactured by optimal media GmbH', plus a separate mould code 'IFPI L578'. The ring matrix is 0190295567606 AJ75917-01.

0190295567606 AJ75917-01 — a partial reading, consistent with 6 of the 6 matrix entries Discogs records — Variant 1, Variant 2, Variant 3, Variant 4, Variant 5 and Variant 6 — so it cannot be narrowed to one.

Barcode and Other Identifiers: Matrix / Runout

As Discogs records them for release 14614118. Green: in my collection (0 of 6). Red: missing.

✗Matrix / Runout (Variant 1)0190295567606 AJ75917-01 manufactured by optimal media GmbH
✗Matrix / Runout (Variant 2)0190295567606 AJ75917-01 manufactured by optimal media GmbH
✗Matrix / Runout (Variant 3)0190295567606 AJ75917-01 manufactured by optimal media GmbH
✗Matrix / Runout (Variant 4)0190295567606 AJ75917-01 manufactured by optimal media GmbH
✗Matrix / Runout (Variant 5)0190295567606 AJ75917-01 manufactured by optimal media GmbH
✗Matrix / Runout (Variant 6)0190295567606 AJ75917-01 manufactured by optimal media GmbH
Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 6 of them

Front of the digipak: IRON MAIDEN logo, A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, the tank artwork

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Back of the digipak: barcode '0 190295 567606', Parlophone trade mark, 'Original ℗ 2006 Remaster ℗ 2015' and '© 2019 Iron Maiden LLP' under licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group company, catalogue '0190295567606'

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Disc label: 'Parlophone', '© 2019 IRON MAIDEN LLP', 'A WARNER MUSIC GROUP COMPANY', 'MADE IN EU. LC0542. SDRM BIEM. 0190295567606'; disc sits in a clear tray inside the card digipak

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Mirror band etching: '0190295567606'

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Mirror band etching: 'AJ75917-01 manufactured by optimal media GmbH'

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Mirror band mould code: 'IFPI L578'

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The photographs

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The object, and what marks it out

Sleeve, labels and inserts

  • Card digipak with a clear plastic tray, edges worn white
  • Single silver CD with a full-colour printed label of the back-cover helmet-and-rifles art

What distinguishes this pressing

  • 'MADE IN EU' on the disc and the optimal media GmbH etching separate it from the four Brazil and one Argentina releases that share barcode 0190295567606
Ten tracks, and the recording credits

Tracks 1-5

  1. 1Different World
  2. 2These Colours Don't Run
  3. 3Brighter Than A Thousand Suns
  4. 4The Pilgrim
  5. 5The Longest Day

Tracks 6-10

  1. 6Out Of The Shadows
  2. 7The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg
  3. 8For The Greater Good Of God
  4. 9Lord Of Light
  5. 10The Legacy

Bruce Dickinson - vocals · Dave Murray - lead and rhythm guitar · Adrian Smith - lead and rhythm guitar · Janick Gers - lead and rhythm guitar · Steve Harris - bass, keyboards · Nicko McBrain - drums.

Produced, engineered and mixed by Kevin Shirley, assisted by Drew Griffiths. Recorded and mixed at Sarm West Studios, London. Glass mastered and pressed by Mediamotion. Published by BMG Music Publishing International Ltd. Phonographic copyright and copyright Iron Maiden Holdings Ltd.; licensed to EMI Records Ltd.

Personnel, production and artwork credits are sourced from Discogs release 3382321, this master's own main release (Europe EMI, 0946 372321 2 5), and apply to the recording rather than to this pressing. Where this copy's own packaging carries the producer, publisher or copyright lines, they are quoted in the evidence above.

Condition, from the photographs

A photograph cannot grade a record - this is a description of what is visible, not a grade.

  • Case/inlay: general handling wear with some edge and corner softening; no cracks or splits visible in these shots.
  • Disc: light surface marks and handling sheen catch the light. No visible deep scratches or disc-face damage in these photographs.

Nothing on this page comes from playing the record. No Goldmine grade is claimed for it, or any other. I have no record of where this copy came from.

What is settled, and what is not

Compare matrix 'AJ75917-01' and mould code 'IFPI L578' with the identifiers listed on Discogs release 14614118; a match would lift this to Confirmed.