Album covers

[Luis]

 

[mark b]

Thats based on a picture(the woman on the lake)so it's not that original!!!

 

[anacrucix]

 

[Iced Dog]

some faves...

and some of the others posted like Ghost Opera, Mabool, Paradise Lost, The Winter Wake

 

[Time-Machinist]

 

[reidie]

 

[anacrucix]

that looks suprisingly like the sea of tranquility website.

 

[proulxski]

i honestly alwaysfgound symphony x's covers pretty amazing, well V, odyssey divine for sure.

I hate the band, and there music ALOT! however i've always found there album artwork somewhat creative, yet disturbing at that!

and one mf my faves by far!

 

[AutumnGust]

 

[Empty Vision]

There is nothing more METAL than Metalchurch's selftitled album cover, Im too incompetent with computers and the net to post the artwork up on here so you'll have to look it up yourself. But a guitar covered in cobwebs and mist, is there anything more metal?

 

[Beelzebub]

 

[PoisonSeed]

Hahaha

I bet they had their intimate moments...

 

[Kenneth R.]

i was getting face again as I scrolled down till I saw Time-Machinist's post.

I just really, really think airbrushed-photoshop-collage-type covers or stereotypical "mostly naked chick + swords and or stars or mythic shit" is so overdone, boring and uncreative. Like the Nightwish one. It's repulsive. The Dark Moor one is pretty bad as well. The Kiuas one is pretty good, but the font styling (the emboss, outline etc) could be greatly improved. Edenbridge is another airbrushed-photoshop hackup, Dream Theater's TOT is a boring photo-collage, I guess I don't have to continue because by now it should be obvious when these particular techniques glare out at the viewer.

I suppose my distaste for that kind of album art is because it patronizes me, the fan. It presumes that you, the metal fan, are drawn and easily sold on naked women, you like masculinity, battle and dragons/fantasy, and that none of these have to be very well drawn/painted/photoshopped for you to care, since you're ignorant of art. To me, that pisses me off.

Arena - The Visitor is an amazing album cover.

 

[progmetaldan]

Asia- Arena

I've always loved Rodney Matthews cd artwork, there's so much symbolism going on, the artwork on Veni Domine- Fall Babylon Fall is amazing as well IMO. DT- ToT and the new Symphony X i really like...

 

[proulxski]

reminds me alot of the battle cover!

 

[Kenneth R.]

See, THAT'S an example of a well-done album cover.

 

[SilentRealm]

no.. ken.. no

THIS is the example of a well done cover:

 

[progmetaldan]

See, THAT'S an example of a well-done album cover.

Sure is... I'd love to get his book, 'Countdown To The Millenium' I think it's called, it has all his album cover art work in it, Rodney Matthews would be my no. 1 choice to do my album artwork...

 

[reidie]

Just love the concept... the music isnt half bad either

 

[mark b]

Sure is... I'd love to get his book, 'Countdown To The Millenium' I think it's called, it has all his album cover art work in it, Rodney Matthews would be my no. 1 choice to do my album artwork...

Mattias noren is my fav prog cover creator!!!