Best album cover ever?

[Dazed and Brutal]

 

[WNxScythe]

Evoken, "Antithesis of Light"

Wish I could find a good copy of that image. It's gorgeous...

Best. Cover. Ever.

Beksinski is an amazing artist.

 

[Susperia]

I was under the impression that it was John the Baptist following his beheading, although it does look very similar to this Holofernes fellow.

It's Judith Beheading Holofernes. If you would like to know the story I can tell you it.

edit: ^Ohh that is Belsinski?? Cool...he's great.

 

[You Fools]

 

[entanglement]

The nile cover isn't that special.

 

[entanglement]

Best. Cover. Ever.

Beksinski is an amazing artist.

Seconded.
That's a brilliant effort.

 

[Belligerent]

Finally got a response from Travis Smith and his art is only available in 12x12's which is a bummer...
still love his work tho'.

 

[CF87]

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Great fucking choice Greys,

 

[You Fools]

The nile cover isn't that special.

It does look odd between the others, and on refelction it is'nt as good. I can remember when it came out it just caught my eye. Ah well.

 

[Xorv]

"The Winter Wake" has good artwork also. Better in my opinion.

ya I was gonna put that one in too...Heres a few more from this website I found.....

check out this website....

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...ric+wizard&gbv=2&svnum=10&hl=en&safe=off&sa=G

 

[Fractal_Mortality]

Dude... it's Judith with the head of Holofernes. For people who hate Christianity so much some of you guys know very little about it.

Actually, the other posters were right, the painting for None So Vile is Herodias' daughter holding the head of John the Baptist. There's no record of a platter in the bible regarding Judith, but there is one for the NT story:

"On Herod's birthday the daughter of Herodias danced for them and pleased Herod so much that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked. Prompted by her mother, she said, "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist." The king was distressed, but because of his oaths and his dinner guests, he ordered that her request be granted and had John beheaded in the prison. His head was brought in on a platter and given to the girl, who carried it to her mother. "

~Matthew 14:6-12





Also, here's an old interview with Jon Levasseur

"CoC: On _None So Vile_ there was a classical art influence on the packaging [the cover is Herodias with the head John the Baptist by Elizabeth Sirani -- Paul]; who had that idea?

JL: The one who came up with the idea for the cover picture was Flo, because he's really good with art; he studied in communications and marketing and stuff like that, and he came up with that and we looked at that and it all clicked right away. The cover is so brutal because when you think of what really happened to John the Baptist, it's so brutal -- how he died and for what he died. He died for a dance, the daughter danced and then he got his head chopped off, that's vile, it's "none so vile", because nobody these days would do a dance for somebody's head. Even though there is no blood and guts on the cover, it's classy, it looks good, but it's still very brutal. That's how we like to think of ourselves: we're really brutal but we try to do it in a good way, with good taste and originality. That cover took a lot of people by surprise."

Here's a small pic of the original

 

[genocide roach]

i love that exhumed cover. i love ALL exhumed covers. but gore metal is my favorite

http://www.myspace.com/grbands
~gR~

 

[Susperia]

You're totally right-------And I fucking knew that! Since I have that album, I can't believe I suddenly decided it was Judith.

Thank you for clarifying, I remember now, I just feel embarassed though. =( Oh well...It could be a Judith, heh.

 

[Fractal_Mortality]

Lol, it's cool man. I recall a lot of people claiming that was supposed to be Jesus' head, mostly due to the fact that that would make the cover all the more "br00tally" anti-Christian... However completely historically inaccurate/irrelevant, haha.

 

[Jimmy... Dead.]

Well I sure learned something. Thanks guys

 

[Satanstoenail]

Good call. Many of Slayer's covers are great.

 

[Stormwatch]

 

[Belligerent]

The original viking metal band
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i92/RIPDIME05/disturbingalbumcover7.jpg

 

[Alcapoth]

Well, this was an easy answer for me...unquestionably Opeth's Still Life;