Favorite album cover art

[PrincessHades]

Probably gonna get some lolz, especially for the second one. The guy looks like a roided and poorly spraytanned bodybuilder in peak show condition, and his face just looks wrong, but for whatever reason, I'm always enthralled by album covers with reptillian/insectoid creatures. Think Cirith Ungol-One Foor in Hell and Protector-Leviathan's Desire...

 

[Bloopy]

You could at least pick good quality images of the covers to help your cause. Those JPEG artifacts are making my eyes itchy.

 

[Cronopio]

 

[PrincessHades]

Mainly Paul Chain but might as well put the whole split here...

 

[PrincessHades]

Basically the entire Ripped to Shreds discography

 

[CiG]

Basically the entire Ripped to Shreds discography

Speaking of Andrew Lee, his other band Houkago Grind Time's album art is even better...

Spoiler

 

[PrincessHades]

I'm not gonna make a new thread for this






A few logos I really like. From top to bottom: Protector, Epitaph (Sweden), Sarcofago, Root



I love Voivod's too, it's not in all its glory on their debut but the cover looks sick and everyone knows what their logo looks like anyways

 

[CiG]

Gross.

 

[PrincessHades]

This will always be the definitive cover to me. I don't really understand why it was scrapped. It's a cheesy, cartoonish depiction of the band as cannibals, and while I know it's meant to represent something very dark, it's only really implicitly so, and honestly the first time I saw it, I just thought it was the band having a BBQ.

My best guess is just that it was seen as "culturally insensitive" which, given the time and how tame this is, seems odd. It's a very silly painting of something that really happens in some parts of the world.

I think album covers have a huge impact on how an album is received, and I think that had they kept this cover, Pleasures of the Flesh would be almost as liked as the two albums bookending it.

 

[PrincessHades]

Invocation - The Archaic Sanctuary (Ritual Body Postures) - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives

 

[Ares_Kevin]

Detestation - Massacre of Hate

Skeezy af

 

[PrincessHades]

 

[CiG]

 

[Fernie_Almeida]

Dry kill logic: the darker side of nonsense

 

[PrincessHades]

Argus - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives

They've only put out 4 albums, but all their album covers are amazing imo. They have the same appeal to me as Cathedral's early album art.

 

[CiG]

Brad Moore is a great artist. Very unique style.

 

[no country for old wainds]

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Argus - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives

They've only put out 4 albums, but all their album covers are amazing imo. They have the same appeal to me as Cathedral's early album art.

if you aren't aware, he also did this classic:

 

[CiG]

Love the art he did for Organic Infest. Crazy mindfucked shit.



Also all the stuff he did with Züül.