Best albumcovers
Rene van der Meer
I was looking to my Lp and Cd collection and there are tons of cool album
sleeves, but if you look to all bands and the albumcovers, I think Iron
Maiden is the winner.
All the covers are so cool.
There´s so much in one image !
Eddie is GOD !!
I´ve got every album on LP and first I was happy with this, because I
bought it for the music, but I´ll buy a lot of their singles, just because
of THE MIGHTY EDDIE !!
René
mai...@dds.nl
Xavier Benzal
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>>
>>I was looking to my Lp and Cd collection and there are tons of cool album
>>sleeves, but if you look to all bands and the albumcovers, I think Iron
>>Maiden is the winner.
>>All the covers are so cool.
>>There´s so much in one image !
>>Eddie is GOD !!
>>I´ve got every album on LP and first I was happy with this, because I
>>bought it for the music, but I´ll buy a lot of their singles, just because
>>of THE MIGHTY EDDIE !!
>>
>>René
>>mai...@dds.nl
I concur that Maiden do have excellent covers, and that they, as with all
great covers, should be experienced on LP. The CD format has killed great
covers (and inserts too). Some of my favorite covers, trying to stick to
extreme Metal & Hardcore, in no particular order are -
Most Cannibal Corpse covers (esp. "Butchered at Birth" and "Tomb of the
Mutilated" - Uncensored covers of course)
Beherit "Electric Doom Synthesis" (for it's simplicity)
Obituary "Cause of Death"
Bolt Thrower "Realms Of Chaos" and "Warmaster"
Mayhem "Out From The Dark" which is also the cover for the "Live In Leipzig"
digipack, and "Dawn of the Black Hearts"
Immortal "Battles In The North", "Pure Holocaust"
Burzum "Aske"
Incantation "Upon The Throne Of Apocalypse"
Demoncy "Faustian Dawn"
Havohej "Dethrone The Son of God"
Sinister "Hate"
Disembowlment "Dusk", "Transcendence Into The Peripheral"
Dellamorte "Everything You Hate"
Dark Funeral "The Secrets Of The Black Arts"
Abruptum
Deicide "Once Upon The Cross"
Vondur "Strifsyfirlysing"
Vital Remains
and of course, Cradle Of Filth
I'm sure there are more, but I can't think of them right now.
For more fun, some crappy covers -
Burzum "Burzum", "Det Som Engang Var"
Slayer "Reign In Blood", "South Of Heaven", "Seasons In The Abyss"
Incantation "Onward To Golgotha", "Mortal Throne of Nazarene"
Morpheus Descends "Ritual of Infinity"
Anal Cunt "Everyone Should Be Killed"
Malevolent Creation - Anything after, and including "Eternal"
Napalm Death "Fear, Emptiness, Despair"
and many more....
Eric Christopherson
blas...@usa.net (blas...@usa.net) wrote:
: I concur that Maiden do have excellent covers, and that they, as with all
: covers (and inserts too). Some of my favorite covers, trying to stick to
: extreme Metal & Hardcore, in no particular order are -
: Immortal "Battles In The North", "Pure Holocaust"
I'm trying to figure out what's so great about these covers... all they
are are silly photos of some silly looking people looking all scary or
whatever. The music is fucking amazing, but the covers are pretty near
poop.
: Incantation "Upon The Throne Of Apocalypse"
I love the cover for "Immortal Throne of Nazarene" myself.
: Dark Funeral "The Secrets Of The Black Arts"
I honestly don't see the appeal of Necrolord's art... it looks like the
shit people always drew in High School instead of taking notes, except in
color.
: Abruptum
?
I've seen three covers, and two of them are nothing but band logos, and
the other ("Evil Genius", I think) is a really goofy painting of the band.
: Vondur "Strifsyfirlysing"
Fuck yeah!
: Vital Remains
Please don't say "Let Us Pray"...
: and of course, Cradle Of Filth
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! All I can think of is the cover for "Vempire", which
made me cringe, although I did like the cover for "Dusk...". Both CDs
are equally crappy, though.
: I'm sure there are more, but I can't think of them right now.
Godflesh "Selfless" and the first one, Endura "Black Eden", Skepticism
"Stormcrowfleet", My Dying Bride "Turn Loose the Swans", and of course
"Dictius Te Necare" by Bethlehem and "Brave Murder Day" by Katatonia.
: For more fun, some crappy covers -
Katatonia "Dance of December Souls"
Creepmine "Shadows"
Bathory "Under the Sign of the Black Mark" (looks like something out of a
bad 60s horror movie)
Cradle of Filth "Vempire"
Mortiis "Fodt Til a Herske" (the B&W one with him in that funny pose)
and on and on and on...
-eric-
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I see the man on the corner preaching of his god
I see another that doesnt want the burden of his cross
And I stand dead in the center with nothing at all
I stand dead in the center with nothing at all
blas...@usa.net
In article <682enk$2qc$1...@mark.ucdavis.edu>,
ez05...@dogbert.ucdavis.edu (Eric Christopherson) wrote:
>: Immortal "Battles In The North", "Pure Holocaust"
>
>I'm trying to figure out what's so great about these covers... all they
>are are silly photos of some silly looking people looking all scary or
>whatever. The music is fucking amazing, but the covers are pretty near
>poop.
That's the charm of it. Plus, the snow is pretty.
: For more fun, some crappy covers -
>Katatonia "Dance of December Souls"
>Creepmine "Shadows"
>Bathory "Under the Sign of the Black Mark" (looks like something out of a
>bad 60s horror movie)
>Cradle of Filth "Vempire"
This cover rocks. Woo Hoo!!
>Mortiis "Fodt Til a Herske" (the B&W one with him in that funny pose)
Any record cover with an elf looking motherfucker kicks ass!! :)
I R Baboon
Venom - Nightmare
Mercyful Fate - Corpse Without a Soul
Slayer - '83 Promo pic
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goden
blas...@usa.net (blas...@usa.net) vomited forth:
>I concur that Maiden do have excellent covers, and that they, as with all
>great covers, should be experienced on LP. The CD format has killed great
>covers (and inserts too). Some of my favorite covers, trying to stick to
>extreme Metal & Hardcore, in no particular order are -
>
>Most Cannibal Corpse covers (esp. "Butchered at Birth" and "Tomb of the
>Mutilated" - Uncensored covers of course)
>Beherit "Electric Doom Synthesis" (for it's simplicity)
>Obituary "Cause of Death"
>Bolt Thrower "Realms Of Chaos" and "Warmaster"
>Mayhem "Out From The Dark" which is also the cover for the "Live In Leipzig"
>digipack, and "Dawn of the Black Hearts"
>Immortal "Battles In The North", "Pure Holocaust"
>Burzum "Aske"
>Incantation "Upon The Throne Of Apocalypse"
>Demoncy "Faustian Dawn"
>Havohej "Dethrone The Son of God"
>Sinister "Hate"
>Disembowlment "Dusk", "Transcendence Into The Peripheral"
>Dellamorte "Everything You Hate"
>Dark Funeral "The Secrets Of The Black Arts"
>Abruptum
>Deicide "Once Upon The Cross"
>Vondur "Strifsyfirlysing"
>Vital Remains
>and of course, Cradle Of Filth
>
>I'm sure there are more, but I can't think of them right now.
I really like Bolt Thrower's '. . . For Victory' album and Morgion's
'Among Majestic Ruin'. Both are extremely well-done.
>
>For more fun, some crappy covers -
>
>Burzum "Burzum", "Det Som Engang Var"
>Slayer "Reign In Blood", "South Of Heaven", "Seasons In The Abyss"
>Incantation "Onward To Golgotha", "Mortal Throne of Nazarene"
>Morpheus Descends "Ritual of Infinity"
>Anal Cunt "Everyone Should Be Killed"
>Malevolent Creation - Anything after, and including "Eternal"
>Napalm Death "Fear, Emptiness, Despair"
>and many more....
Death: 'Spiritual Healing'
Amorphis: 'Privilege of Evil'
Fall: 'Vigorous Repercussions . . .'
Grip, Inc.: 'Nemesis'
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Rene van der Meer wrote:
>
> I was looking to my Lp and Cd collection and there are tons of cool album
> sleeves, but if you look to all bands and the albumcovers, I think Iron
> Maiden is the winner.
> All the covers are so cool.
> There´s so much in one image !
> Eddie is GOD !!
> I´ve got every album on LP and first I was happy with this, because I
> bought it for the music, but I´ll buy a lot of their singles, just because
> of THE MIGHTY EDDIE !!
>
> René
> mai...@dds.nl
Iced Earth - Days Of Purgatory....great artwork...
Entombed - Left Hand Path...
or most of Manowar's Cd Covers
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pretty much and godflesh cd has a really cool cover!
so does corrupted and also eyahategod "take as needed"
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Deadmetal
How about Neurosis' "Through Silver in Blood"? That one was cool.
Pasi-pekka Peisa
On 28 Dec 1997, Deadmetal wrote:
> How about Neurosis' "Through Silver in Blood"? That one was cool.
Yeah, it's fucking great, but Enemy of The Sun's cover is even better.
Come to think of it, propably THE best cover there is, with Winter's Into
The Darkness. On both cases you CERTAINLY know what'll you get just by
looking at the cover.
Almost all of the Darkthrone covers are quite pretty too.
But Carcasses Necrotism has propably the worst cover of all the albums I
own.
Desmodus Rotundus
It's a sig.
goden
Pasi-pekka Peisa <ppe...@uiah.fi> vomited forth:
>Come to think of it, propably THE best cover there is, with Winter's Into
>The Darkness. On both cases you CERTAINLY know what'll you get just by
>looking at the cover.
I was going to mention that cover, but I couldn't have said it any
better.
Desolate waste rules.
SabFan
1) Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
2) Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
3) Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror
4) Death - Symbolic
5) Kyuss - Blues for a Red Sun
Of all the Maiden covers, Killers is my fave.
SabFan
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goden
Pasi-pekka Peisa <ppe...@uiah.fi> vomited forth:
>Winter: Into The Darkness
>
>This one is an absolute must too. One of the few bands in the world that
>manage to look and sound more grim than Laibach, and that's something!
>It's a grainy black-n-white picture of war torn landscape, with
>last survivors walking through muddy charred ruins, carrying whatever is
>left to be carried. The picture looks real desolate and hopeless.
At first I thought it may have been a picture of a place hit by an
atomic bomb, but it looks more like a fireswept landscape from maybe
the 1920s or 1930s.
I did an Altavista search for the names of Winter band members and
found a few pages with mentions of the name Joe Gonclaves. I emailed
all the Joe Gonclaveses I found email links for, but I guess none of
them are the REAL Joe Gonclaves (or the only one that matters) since
none emailed me back. Or maybe I got the real one, but he thought I
was a psycho . . .
Hagamoto Yamocho
Carcass: first two LP's. Hands down, the kings.
Grotesque
Deadmetal wrote:
> How about Neurosis' "Through Silver in Blood"? That one was cool.
Without a doubt Bathory- Twilight of the Gods and Darkthrone-
Goatlord those are only 2 of many...
Pasi-pekka Peisa
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, it was written:
> >Come to think of it, propably THE best cover there is, with Winter's Into
> >The Darkness. On both cases you CERTAINLY know what'll you get just by
> >looking at the cover.
>
> I was going to mention that cover, but I couldn't have said it any
> better.
This thread in fact made me go through my album collecion, and here's list
of THE best album covers, although I kinda like most of the covers I have.
Anathema: Serenades
Standard doom stuff, not too clishe to be cheesy, and they were among the
first to have album covers like this. Plain beautiful. Oh, it's a
painting-like photograph of a girl in a mummy-like shroud, holding a
animal's skull in front of her head. The colours are of orange-brown
shades. Resembles a bit of Fields of The Nephilim covers, but not too
much.
Apoptygma Berzerk: Second Manifesto
It's a plain simple black cover with a colour picture of a
rotting human hand in the middle. Somehow the hand looks very beautiful
and not at all threatening or disgusting.
Bathory: Twilight of The Gods
Really epic picture, just like the music. Snow covered mountains in the
midst of icy swirling mist under a bloodred sunset. This could be out of
some story by Tolkien.
Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath
Gothic album cover before gothic was even invented? A very English looking
picture of a pale black clad girl standing among leafless trees near an
old stone house. This could easily be taken straigh out of some of
Hammer's Dracula films. I think that's exactly the image Ozzy and the boys
were after, actually.
Cradle of Filth: Principle of Evil Made In Flesh
In all it's gothic cheesiness, I still kinda like this one. This looks
like it COULD be straight outta some vampire movie, but unfortunately they
don't make movies that would look this cool. It's a lesbian vampire
drinking her bare-breasted victims blood in grayish-blue tone of colour.
Cypress Hill: Black Sunday
Real grim. Cypress Hill sure has a taste for gloomy covers, but this could
very well actually be some Death Metal band's cover. A scratched brownish
black-n-white picture of a graveyard hill, with rotting skeletons
underneath and real desolate looking leafless tree on top of the hill.
Darkthrone: Under A Funeral Moon
I remeber that I thought this is propably the coolest cover I've ever seen
when Under A Funeral Moon was first released. I still say it's grainy
expressionistic black-n-white darkness has a lot of appeal to me. Really
mystic and dark looking, a guy in a corpsemask standing with a skull-staff
in a nordic forest.
Darkthrone: Transylvanian Hunger
The grainy black-n-white style taken even further! Now it's almost
xerox-style totally broken and smutty picture with no shades of gray
at all. Real absolute, aggressive and expressive.
Darkthrone: Panzerfaust
More in the lines with Under A Funeral moon, but colder and darker. A
grainy dark picture of wintry forest, with a shadow of someone under a
full moon.
Fields of The Nephilim: The Nephilim
I've always loved the album covers of Fields of The Nephilim. It's rather
hard to describe them, since they're usually rather abstract, using
photographs of different surfaces, painting, calligraphy and what-not, bit
like stuff by Dave McKean, except they did it way before McKean, and I
think they did better job at it. Anyway, this album's cover is just some
old worn-out surface (could be wallpaper) as a background, and on top of
it some calligraphy and ornaments, making it look a bit like a book's
cover. The backcover and inlay's of the booklet are absolutely beautiful
too.
Fields of The Nephilim: Psychonaut 12"
This too is propably a picture of some wallpaper surface, however, the
colour is bluish-purple. In the backcover there's some calligraphy again.
Fields of The Nephilim: Elizium
This one is a beautiful smutty and quite abstract picture, that I guess
originally was a photograph of a naked woman. Some of the picture looks a
bit like it's done by adding and wiping color on and off the picture (or
even by using some monogram technique and printing on a photograph?).
Anyway, the result is greenish-brown abstract picture with some taints of red.
Fields of The Nephilim: Earth Inferno
Not quite as cool as Elizium, but still great. The cover is a montage of
photographs with some painting and calligraphy on them. There's a animal
skull like on the Anathema's Serenades, a nude lady, hands, a man's faace
shaded by a cloack, all merged together, so that they become almost
abstract. Almost, but not quite, and that's why I like Elizium better,
cause it took it even further. Still one of the best album
covers ever done, I'd think.
Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
Plain black cover with white graphics on it that resemble a bit of an
EKG pattern. I've heard it's a picture of pattern that a dying star left when
it exploded into a supernova and then fade away.
Joy Division: Closer
A peaceful black-n-white picture of dead Jesus lying on a shrouded
stone bed, with weeping women around him. Everyone looks real statue-like,
frozen and pale.
Laibach: Laibach
Laibach has their very own and unique style of doing covers, posters and
such. Laibach are in fact a music department of an artists society/state
called NSK, so no wonder their album covers are always done with
professional artistic touch. In the covers of Laibach albums are almost
always glimpses of NSK's grim philosophy and attitude. This philosophy is
a bit too complicated to be explained here, but it has a lot to do with
creating their own image by using totalitarian imagery and politic
propaganda as a form of art. Laibach have often been accused of being
nazis, but that accusation could not be less accurate.
On the cover of their first album there's a grim picture of a man
nailed/entangled to a cross. The only colours are black, white and silver.
Now, with Laibach, it's always useful to know your art- and political
history.If I'm not completely mistaken, this picture happens to be a
re-editet version of an old anti-fascist photograph, with a man nailed to
a swastika, Laibach just replaced the swastika by a normal cross.
Laibach is known to do lot of this kind of tricks, for example, once (in
the times when Jugoslavia was still under totalitarian communist rule)
there was a competition for young artists to do a poster that would praise
the great communist party and achievements of communism. Laibach took part
in this competition, and they won with their poster. Later, however, their
first prize was reclamed, when it was found out that Laibach had used an
old war-time nazi poster that praised fascism, and had just replaced all
the nazi symbols and swastikas with communist symbols! I believe they were
accused of nazi propaganda, but I think the bottom line here was the
similarity between ALL totalitarian systems. Wel, enough of that...
Laibach: Dvorana M.B. 21. December 1984
It's a live album, and the cover is in fact picture of the poster that
they used to advertise their gig. It's a plain blackish-brown
Laibach-cross (a fat bulk cross, that variates by it's shape, depending on
the purpose, sometimes resembling more a christian cross, sometimes a
swastika, sometimes something else, this time, it's a bit like an
upside-down satanist cross) on a creamy white background.
Laibach: Nova Akropola
A black-white-silver picture bit like on their first album, this time it's
a deer (very noble and German-like, like straight outta bottle of Jägermeister)
inside a grim looking building that could be a prison or an asylum.
Laibach: Opus Dei
My favourite Laibach cover, and propably my favourite Laibach album too.
The cover looks absolutely grim, totalitarian and malicious. It's a
black-white-silver picture of Laibach's singer, dressed as a God of War
(or something), and I promise you, he could make Hitler pee in his pants
just by looking at him.
In the backcover and through the inlay there's pictures of axes that form
a swastika. Laibach got a lot of bad press for being nazis (again), but it
turned out that the swastikas they got the nazi accusations for were
originally desgined by an anti-nazi artist.
Neurosis: Enemy of The Sun
Absolutely awesome! Total pain, anguish and despair. Picture of really
macabre looking corroded statue with totally despaired and terrified
expression, orange hungry flames engulfing the picture and the statue. No
words can do right to this picture (but music can, just listen to the
album and you'll understand...and if not, you're propably dead).
Neurosis: Through Silver In Blood
Not as expressive as the Enemy of The Sun cover, but still very effective.
A metallic face with blood dripping from empty eyeslids, and ornament-like
silver twinserpent on the picture, looking like the serpents are
piercing the eyes of the metallic face.
Siouxsie And The Banshees: The Scream
Really ethereal and smooth picture in the cover of this pre-goth post-punk
album. Rather dark underwater picture of diving people, with light
coming up from surface forming smooth patterns on the bare skin of the
people in the otherwise murky bluish-black water.
Skinny Puppy: VivisectVI
A montage of self luminous greenish blue X-ray photos on a dark black
background. The picture becomes abstract, almost like in Fields of The
Nephilim covers, creating strange, almost eerie mood.
Terveet Kädet: Ääretön Joulu
In fact it's just a grainy black-n-white photograph of Läjä Äijälä (the
singer), hanging uside down from bondage gear, and having a lit candle
rammed down his ass. Not exactly too great a cover, but if someone puts
his own picture with a LIT candle stuck up his ass on the album
cover, I'll give him my full support! Totally freaked out bizarro action!
The Third And The Mortal: Tears Laid In Earth
A bit funny to speak about Thrid and The Mortal and having candles stuck
up someone's ass in the same message, but that's how it goes. Anyway, more
Norweigan forest, but this time with a bit different approach. A
orange-red swamp with one single small lonely tree growing in the middle,
and at the background there's a wall of grim looking dark forest rising
over the swamp and the lonely tree. Reading the lyrics makes the cover
even better. Alone against the grim masses.
Winter: Into The Darkness
This one is an absolute must too. One of the few bands in the world that
manage to look and sound more grim than Laibach, and that's something!
It's a grainy black-n-white picture of war torn landscape, with
last survivors walking through muddy charred ruins, carrying whatever is
left to be carried. The picture looks real desolate and hopeless.
Well, that's it, cheers!
Nils Christian Framstad
You finally got out of Purgato..., eh, Sauna, Desmodus? Happy Ch... eh,
midwinter, BTW.
Pasi-pekka Peisa wrote:
>
> The Third And The Mortal: Tears Laid In Earth
>
> A bit funny to speak about Thrid and The Mortal and having candles stuck
> up someone's ass in the same message, but that's how it goes. Anyway, more
LOL!
(BTW: You sure you didn't mean "to speak about [...] and _have_ candles
stuck [...]" ?)
> Norweigan forest, but this time with a bit different approach. A
> orange-red swamp with one single small lonely tree growing in the middle,
> and at the background there's a wall of grim looking dark forest rising
> over the swamp and the lonely tree. Reading the lyrics makes the cover
> even better. Alone against the grim masses.
Yeah - I want Autopoema to be played in my funeral.
The only bad thing about the cover (my only complaint about the entire
album, I suppose), is that it is difficult to _read_ the lyrics.
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Cliff Evans
blas...@usa.net wrote:
> Some of my favorite covers, trying to stick to
> extreme Metal & Hardcore, in no particular order are -
>
> Most Cannibal Corpse covers (esp. "Butchered at Birth" and "Tomb of the
> Mutilated" - Uncensored covers of course)
I always thought these were kind of cheesy...more high-school stuff.
> Obituary "Cause of Death"
Taken from the artwork for the paperback releases of the writings of
H.P. Lovecraft...and probably their best cover. What *were* they
thinking with the last one?
> Immortal "Battles In The North", "Pure Holocaust"
Oh, come *on.* In the cover for "Pure Holocaust" you can see the
mustache on one of the guys through the corpsepaint. I resisted buying
anything by them for awhile because they looked so stupid.
> Burzum "Aske"
I like the one for "Filosofem" better...evil, evil music disguised as a
Ricola ad.
> Incantation "Upon The Throne Of Apocalypse"
Yep, not to mention "Mortal Throne Of Nazarene."
> Deicide "Once Upon The Cross"
Yep...and I like the new one too, in a more Boschian vein.
> and of course, Cradle Of Filth
Maybe "Dusk...". *Maybe.*
> For more fun, some crappy covers -
> Slayer "Reign In Blood", "South Of Heaven", "Seasons In The Abyss"
Nopenopenope. These are good because they don't look like someone
sketched it out in their notebook during history class or copied Frank
Frazetta. Abstract/expressionist/surreal metal album covers rool.
Some of my faves...
My Dying Bride- "Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium."
At The Gates- "Terminal Spirit Disease."
Mindrot- "Dawning."
Godflesh- all of them.
Bloodlet- "Entheogen."
Deadguy- "Fixation On A Co-Worker."
Darkthrone- "Transilvanian Hunger"
Niden Div.187- "Impergium."
Neurosis- "Enemy Of The Sun"
Ulver- "Bergtatt"
Celtic Frost- "To Mega Therion."
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In article <34A912...@earthlink.net>,
Cliff Evans <boz...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Obituary "Cause of Death"
>
>Taken from the artwork for the paperback releases of the writings of
>H.P. Lovecraft...and probably their best cover. What *were* they
>thinking with the last one?
I don't know. You would think that they would have gotten such a good cover
using an artist like Bernie Wrightson, but I guess not.
>> Immortal "Battles In The North", "Pure Holocaust"
>
>Oh, come *on.* In the cover for "Pure Holocaust" you can see the
>mustache on one of the guys through the corpsepaint. I resisted buying
>anything by them for awhile because they looked so stupid.
That's why they kick ass! :)
>> Burzum "Aske"
>
>I like the one for "Filosofem" better...evil, evil music disguised as a
>Ricola ad.
>
>> Incantation "Upon The Throne Of Apocalypse"
>
>Yep, not to mention "Mortal Throne Of Nazarene."
>
>> Deicide "Once Upon The Cross"
>
>Yep...and I like the new one too, in a more Boschian vein.
>
>> and of course, Cradle Of Filth
>
>Maybe "Dusk...". *Maybe.*
>
>> For more fun, some crappy covers -
>
>> Slayer "Reign In Blood", "South Of Heaven", "Seasons In The Abyss"
>
>Nopenopenope. These are good because they don't look like someone
>sketched it out in their notebook during history class or copied Frank
>Frazetta. Abstract/expressionist/surreal metal album covers rool.
I don't know. I just think they're ugly.
>Some of my faves...
>
>My Dying Bride- "Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium."
>At The Gates- "Terminal Spirit Disease."
>Mindrot- "Dawning."
>Godflesh- all of them.
Yep. Godflesh have always had superior record covers.
>Bloodlet- "Entheogen."
>Deadguy- "Fixation On A Co-Worker."
>Darkthrone- "Transilvanian Hunger"
>Niden Div.187- "Impergium."
>Neurosis- "Enemy Of The Sun"
>Ulver- "Bergtatt"
>Celtic Frost- "To Mega Therion."
>
All good!
Panos Maheras
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:03:14 GMT, goden (goden) wrote:
>Pasi-pekka Peisa <ppe...@uiah.fi> vomited forth:
>
>>Winter: Into The Darkness
>>
>>This one is an absolute must too. One of the few bands in the world that
>>manage to look and sound more grim than Laibach, and that's something!
>>It's a grainy black-n-white picture of war torn landscape, with
>>last survivors walking through muddy charred ruins, carrying whatever is
>>left to be carried. The picture looks real desolate and hopeless.
>
>At first I thought it may have been a picture of a place hit by an
>atomic bomb, but it looks more like a fireswept landscape from maybe
>the 1920s or 1930s.
Ok, here is the DEFINITE information regarding the Winter cover picture:
It's a real picture taken at the end of the WW II, I _think_ in Russia.
The picture is taken by the most famous WW II photographer (whose name, funnily
enough escapes me at the moment but with some research you'll find it), who also
took the famous picture of the Russian soldier raising his flag on the top of a
building in Berlin when it was taken by Russians in 1945.
Panos Maheras.
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>>At first I thought it may have been a picture of a place hit by an
>>atomic bomb, but it looks more like a fireswept landscape from maybe
>>the 1920s or 1930s.
>
>Ok, here is the DEFINITE information regarding the Winter cover picture:
>
>It's a real picture taken at the end of the WW II, I _think_ in Russia.
>The picture is taken by the most famous WW II photographer (whose name, funnily
>enough escapes me at the moment but with some research you'll find it), who also
>took the famous picture of the Russian soldier raising his flag on the top of a
>building in Berlin when it was taken by Russians in 1945.
It didn't look like a Capra pic, but maybe it is.
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>Bloodlet- "Entheogen."
aaron turner has always done cool layouts & artwork...i think that his
cover for the ac/eyhategod split was cool or some of the converge stuff he
has done...
too bad bloodlet suck
-henry
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Best ones hum! Well Dark Throne Secrets Of the Black Arts is kind of
cool. Immortal Battles In The North is great, But I have to say I think
the best one I've seen is the cover of Nordic Metal compalation.
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John Tracy
AllI have to say is that just about any album cover by Wes Benscottter
is amazing. All of my faves were painted by him. But the cover to
Mortician's "Hacked Up for Barbecue" was a dissapointment.
John Tracy
On 27 Dec 1997 08:37:08 GMT, ez05...@dogbert.ucdavis.edu (Eric
Christopherson) wrote:
>I'm trying to figure out what's so great about these covers... all they
>are are silly photos of some silly looking people looking all scary or
>whatever. The music is fucking amazing, but the covers are pretty near
>poop.
What is the fucking deal with those covers? The only one that wasn't a
shitty pose photo was the first one, and it wasn't even good.
John Tracy
Worst covers...
The cover art to the "Death is Just the Beginning" series is pretty
lame (except for vol. 3). I personally think that they purposely make
cheesy graveyard scenes just so they can get away with putting crosses
all over the covers. Also, I just saw a flyer from nuclear blast that
had some nekid chick who was wearing a non-inverted cross. I know this
all sounds hypercritical, but I think there's a good chance that NB is
Christian since they haven't got rid of Mortification, and all their
new bands sound like pure shit.
John Tracy
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997 11:26:56 -0400, Cliff Evans <boz...@earthlink.net>
wrote:
>> Incantation "Upon The Throne Of Apocalypse"
>
>Yep, not to mention "Mortal Throne Of Nazarene."
Which one of those had the goat orgy inside? That picture kicked ass.
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> Best ones hum! Well Dark Throne Secrets Of the Black Arts is kind of
^^^^^^^^^^^
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take that back now, you insolent slut!
i think you meant Dark *Funeral*...:)
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hmm, the best cover i've seen in a long time is DARKTONE:GOATLORD.
another fave of mine is ARCTURUS:la masquarade infernale
the worst is probably the clssic thrash/speed album by EXODUS "fabulous
disaster"
leda
I like the Immolation covers a lot.
Hypocrisy's OO is rather nice.
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a long time ago, in article <34b3f31f...@news.aa.net>, jtr...@aa.net
wisely uttered the following pearls of wisdom...
>Christian since they haven't got rid of Mortification, and all their
>new bands sound like pure shit.
About album covers :
Is anyone else sick of necrolords covers ? I used to like them a few years
ago. But, due to oversuse by swedish bands ( and others) ive become completely
sick of his artwork. It all looks the same to me. Boring, cliche, bland...
Other cheesy covers :
-13 candle or whoever is that cradle of filth rip off on cacophonous( abyssos
maybe) ?
- deteriorate s rotting in hell
- dismal euphony s album with the girl taking a shower
..thats it for the moment .
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On 5 Jan 1998 17:57:15 GMT, hvl...@axess.spamkiller.com (H.V) wrote:
>a long time ago, in article <34b3f31f...@news.aa.net>, jtr...@aa.net
>wisely uttered the following pearls of wisdom...
>>Christian since they haven't got rid of Mortification, and all their
>>new bands sound like pure shit.
>
>About album covers :
>Is anyone else sick of necrolords covers ? I used to like them a few years
>ago. But, due to oversuse by swedish bands ( and others) ive become completely
>sick of his artwork. It all looks the same to me. Boring, cliche, bland...
Since everyone ripped off the idea from "In the Nightside Eclipse" the art he
seems to be asked to do is boring, boring, boring.
>Other cheesy covers :
>-13 candle or whoever is that cradle of filth rip off on cacophonous( abyssos
>maybe) ?
>- deteriorate s rotting in hell
Yes, yes, BEYOND YES!
>- dismal euphony s album with the girl taking a shower
>..thats it for the moment .
- Any cannible corpse cover
- New DISMEMBER covers
- Anything ever done by Cradle of Filth
Sathanas
Those are my fave...
Bolt Thrower "Warmaster"
Benediction "Transcend the Rubicon"
Burzum "Filosofem"
Mayhem "Pure Fucking Armaggedon"
Moonspell "Wolfheart"
Unleashed "Where no Life Dwells and Shadows"
Marduk "Those of the Unlight"
and probably a lot more that I am not thinkong of this morning...
and the worst:
Typhon "Unholy Trilogy" (the worst vocal too)
Black Funeral "Vampyr..."
and all with band picture on them (I hate those cover)
Steve
KCUF airmaster
On Sun, 04 Jan 1998 08:39:42 GMT, hat...@dcc.net.au.DeathToSpam (Flag Of Hate)
wrote:
>blah blah blah (moonsli...@webtv.net (Kevin Knipp))
>
>> Best ones hum! Well Dark Throne Secrets Of the Black Arts is kind of
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>SACRILEGE!!!!!!111!!!!1111!!1!!!!!!11!
>take that back now, you insolent slut!
>
>i think you meant Dark *Funeral*...:)
That is an unfortunate error...
KCUF airmaster
On Sun, 04 Jan 1998 02:30:32 GMT, jtr...@aa.net (John Tracy) wrote:
>Worst covers...
>
>The cover art to the "Death is Just the Beginning" series is pretty
>lame (except for vol. 3). I personally think that they purposely make
>cheesy graveyard scenes just so they can get away with putting crosses
>all over the covers. Also, I just saw a flyer from nuclear blast that
>had some nekid chick who was wearing a non-inverted cross. I know this
>all sounds hypercritical, but I think there's a good chance that NB is
>Christian since they haven't got rid of Mortification, and all their
>new bands sound like pure shit.
Christianity is a prurient disease.
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> hvl...@axess.spamkiller.com (H.V) wrote:
>About album covers :
>Is anyone else sick of necrolords covers ? I used to like them a few years
>ago. But, due to oversuse by swedish bands ( and others) ive become
>completely
>sick of his artwork. It all looks the same to me. Boring, cliche, bland...
Well, I think Necrolord's stuff is better than that Giger rip-off shit Dan
Seagrave did before he stopped doing album covers (like on one of Edge of
Sanity's covers and one of Invocator's).
Dara O'Kearney
Best cover - Diamond Dogs (David Bowie)
Worst - Big Thing (Duran Duran)
Slan libh,
Dara (np: DAVID BOWIE - I'm Afraid Of Americans)