What's your favourite artwork of 2006?

[batmura]

My favourites so far:

Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Novembre - Materia
Cloudscape - Crimson Skies

 

[saut]

lol @ disappointing year for album art, wtf

silence of anothor kind is pretty cool with the cutout

 

[saut]

and the best was probably 10,000 days now that i think about it

 

[illidurit]

10k days = highest album art quality to music quality ratio in history

 

[saut]

lol so true

 

[intimidatingcrustaceans]

yeah I kinda wish they'd spent as much time developing the music as they did on the art direction

 

[Kir-ir-Bannog]

yeah I kinda wish they'd spent as much time developing the music as they did on the art direction

how much longer did you want to give them (how many years since lateralus?????????)

 

[Jon Snow]

Yea but they didn't spend all 5 years working on this record, dummy

 

[the_drip]

sounds like they spent about 5 days on the music...4 years on the stupid fag gimmick artwork/layout. Tool fails.

 

[intimidatingcrustaceans]

instead of 5, i would have given them 5 years and 4 days, then the album would have been mindblowing...

...what i meant was i'd rather have an album of very good music (especially after such a long wait as you pointed out) than look at a 3D picture of justin chancellor posing with an eagle

 

[the_drip]

anywho...best artwork of year = Fartriden tbqh aamof..

 

[FRUGiHOYi]

instead of 5, i would have given them 5 years and 4 days, then the album would have been mindblowing...

...what i meant was i'd rather have an album of very good music (especially after such a long wait as you pointed out) than look at a 3D picture of justin chancellor posing with an eagle

haha i think we all would. that album failed.

 

[Opethian666]

anywho...best artwork of year = Fartriden tbqh aamof..

At least spell it right you numbnut, it's Fart Ridden. And yes their new album art kicks farting ass!

 

[Kir-ir-Bannog]

Yea but they didn't spend all 5 years working on this record, dummy

yes. i know. well done.

 

[Jon Snow]

^oh you knew? oh ok

Honestly nothing has really impressed me so far this year.

 

[Liquid Diamonds]

What's with all the '10 000 Days' hatred? It's an excellent record!

Anyhoo, my album art of the year is either that or 'The Eraser'.

 

[Alteredmindeath]

Aurora Borealis new album art is cool.

 

[Pethical]

cult of luna - somewhere along the highway. simple, effective.

 

[i aint play this]

10000 days

 

[Peachy]

cult of luna - somewhere along the highway. simple, effective.

I didn't much like the artwork, or the album for that matter.

Actually, the artwork might be better than the album. Simple, yes, and fairly effective, but I've seen simple done substantially better.

My vote:

The Great Cold Distance, I suppose.
10,000 Days was quite impressive, but the album was basically average, nothing all that great.

Honestly, I can't think of any that really stunned me.

Perhaps the new ISIS will take the cake. They usually do.