The create-an-album game

[zabu of nΩd]

I just saw this on another forum, and thought it was an awesome idea. I'm bending the rules a bit from the original to make it better, though.

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Step 1:
Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Pick one of the first three random articles you get for the name of your band.

Step 2:
Go to http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
Pick a short phrase (i.e. 4-5 words) from the very last quotation on this page for the name of your album.

Step 3:
Go to http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
One of the first three pictures, no matter what they are, will be your album cover.

Step 4:
Use Photoshop/Paint/etc. to put the cover together, and post it in this thread.
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Here are the first two that I've done:

 

[zabu of nΩd]

 

[Vimana]

 

[SentinelSlain]

 

[zabu of nΩd]

^ nice

 

[False Joe]

aw

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Outdoing you all ftw.

Clash By Night - The First Requisites of Sanity
Genre: Progressive metal w/ hardcore influences

Treaty Of Paris - Easily, Often Miraculously
Genre: Weepy, gothy doomdeath

La Grande Strada - Strength, Courage, Dignity
Genre: Soundscapes/downtempo

 

[Vimana]

Cybernetics - Reason Has Always Existed

 

[zabu of nΩd]

^

V5, the cards do not seem to be favoring you in terms of interesting material, but at least your fonts look good.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Yeah, I have some pretty shitty quotes, and TREATY OF PARIS is the worst band name of all fucking time, but I tried to make the most out of them, meh.

BTW I'd so buy that Cybernetics album! I think to make this even more interesting we should put underneath it what style of music it would be judging by the cover and maybe some other funny details.

Last new one for today.

The Good Witch's Garden - Leading Cause of Stress
Genre: Feel-good stoner rock/psych

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Word. The GWG album is pretty cool btw.

Saint Dichu - Things May Get Worse
(experimental art music ala Bjork)

Los Alamitos - Where No One Considers
(Ethereal Salsa)

Ailinginae - There Is an Alchemy in Sorrow
(dreary piano-heavy Trip-Hop)

 

[Vimana]

I am currently making crappy covers since I am using Paintbrush, I will make better ones when I get a better program.

Polyembryoma - Each Day A Seperate Life
Genre: Progressive Tech Death with Ambient and Mediterranean folk influence

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

.ye - Believe in Yourself
Genre: Goa trance/ambient/dub

Sort of cheated on this next one, I altered the background image a bit (rotated and gave it a duotone-esque effect)

Trachystegos - One of Life's Small Joys
Genre: Harsh Noise/Ritualistic Ambient

Blue Skies - Conscious and Subconscious
Genre: Melodic Funeral Doom w/ Ambient influences

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Genre: Post-hardcore/screamo + dark ambient

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Tip: Photoshop does lettering and fonts hideously

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

The Ropes - We Shall Find Peace
Genre: Neoclassical Black Metal

(ok I confess I edited the photo for this one too)

Tłuste - The Chilling Pressure
Genre: Neofolk/Pagan minimalism

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Bored, so I'm doing more.

Database Right - I Hate Music
Genre: Noisecore

I even made and uploaded a few mp3s from this "album"...once again, because I'm bored. Fret not, they really took like 5-10 minutes of "effort" each...

Database Right - We Hate Music mp3
Database Right - Music Is Pure Shit mp3

<_<

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Isonomia - Separated by a Common Language
Genre: Pretentious West Coast USBM

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I Hate Music is the best album name ever.

Also, the Blue Skies album looks really nice.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Torso - Intelligence of the American Public
Genre: Old-School Death/Thrash Metal

Alright, I have a specific sound in mind for this. Picture it:

Signed to Pavement Records after a short stint with Kraze/Maze in the very early 90s, underground South Dakotan death/thrash metal band Torso were out to prove that the Dakotas had quality metal too. Armed with hatred for the US political system and most of society as a whole, the band crashed through 7 tracks (total playtime of 32 minutes approx.) of straightforward death metal with thrash overtones. The production is stale and poor, highlighting the snare drum for absolutely no reason, and giving it a very tepid and crunchy sound. The riffs, while good, are nothing to write home about. The strength lies in the basslines which do much more than follow the main rhythm guitar lines, though the production tends to not favor them either. The vocals are extremely average and generic deathgrunts with no real power behind them, and the album features mind-numbingly juvenile lyrics (second track "Bleeding Stumpfuck" has the excellent line "Penetrating broken stumps/My deviant needs/Storing them in my shed/Pumped full of my seed!").