I said this on the other thread, but I really like the new look of that cover.
As much as I do like covers with pictures of scenery; mountains, forests, lakes... I think it's a little tired, of course, many CD's use of scenery as a cover matches the music almost perfectly. I did enjoy the covers of Cosmic Genesis and ödemarken's son muchly, but I don't feel they matched the music all too well
This new cover, it takes a chance, does something different, something crazy, and I love it. I am more a fan of cartoonish art, or more abstract and symbolative art than carbon copies of photographs, or just photographs of scenery with nothing special going on. My reason for this being that your eyes can always see scenery, I know that maybe you can't see that particular scenery, but the fact remains that's exactly what anyone would see if they saw it. When you draw/paint something more abstract, or you make something that doesn't actually exist, something that comes from the imagination, and something that isn't actually anything
real, then you can make the person who sees it feel something different, something that a photograph or a portrait can't do, I don't know if i'm making sense here. It comes from the subconcious, the subconcious is really strange and powerful, and it's extremely difficult if you've ever tried to draw/paint like this, your logic will try to make you draw traditionally, it's hard to let go and let your subconcious take over or what not. Just when you look at it, don't try to make anything of it, don't expect it to
be anything, it is what it is. It's hard to explain. Ok, I keep editing this post because everytime I read it I think of something to add, sorry hehe.
Props to Vintersorg on the new cover, it has made me a lot more interested in this new album than I would have been otherwise, as i'm not too into Vintersorg
I want to be into Vintersorg more, but it's just not happening yet, maybe I will get to like it more in time
