Paintings/Pictures that would make great metal cover art.

Reign in Acai

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Favela of My Dismay
Drawings from Vesalius' "De humani corporis fabrica" would work well as art for a band such as Impaled.
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Herbert Mason's photograph of St. Paul's Cathedral during the second great fire of London meshes well with any black metal piece.

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I know that Mortiis has used some of John Bauer's work for his records, but apart from that I can't really think of anyone; probably because Bauer is not known at all outside of Sweden. He was however quite a talented painter who, most importantly, choose interesting themes for his works, like fairy tales, sagas, history and myth:

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The brittish painter John Rackham made paintings in the same style as Bauer, and his would work fine for perhaps some folk oriented metal band.

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Beksinski - Wow, so imaginative, gloomy and bleak... and yet not too polished or overdone.

Philip Straub - Exactly the opposite. Cheap.
 
I know I'm not supposed to be in here, but I have begun to adore Beksinski recently, though I don't have any books on him or anything yet. I want to know how large he works though, does anyone know? He definitely works in oils, I can't imagine painting those in acrylic, but I wonder how large they are...
 
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Complete with the spoken intro from von Homburg: “On a mountain of skulls in a castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood," tells how he died, (poisoned, stabbed, shot, hanged, stretched, disemboweled, drawn and quartered by his own people) and then "Death is but a door, time is but a window. I'll be back."
 
spaffe, that john bauer stuff is pretty neat

Aye, he's very famous here in Sweden; he made illustrations for fairy tale collections, and portrayed the swedish/nordic forests in a way that a lot of people could relate to. Also the way he painted trolls is now how most people think of them.

Here's another one of his which I really like:

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I've no idea from which fairy tale or story it's taken, but it's so heavy with symbolism there's no need for a context
 
I'm interested to know more about Bauer as well, Spaffe. Very idiosyncratic (yet not overly "busy" or complex) and interesting looking art.