Your favorite album cover (include a pic!)

fartmaster

Rules are simple show a pic of your favorite album cover...

Somnus

Hard to think of one that's my favourite. But I love Gojira's From Mars to Sirius cover.

Malice

Rather than an endless parade of pictures I'd like to hear people explain why they like the particular album cover. What do you find so interesting about that Deicide cover fartmaster?

Anyway, there have been a few recent album covers that I've quite liked but in terms of impact and due to the fact that I used to have a big poster of it on my bedroom wall I had to go for this:


As I'm a big fan of the Cthulu mythos, images like this are really evocative to me.

DazMarz

Always loved this album cover purely for the amount of little in jokes, details and everything that's in it! Plus I love Eddie in his Terminator/Future-Cyborg-Assassin mode!

GLaDOS

Matches the theme of the album perfectly;
The "nakedness" of the couple as everything is laid bare
The distance forming between them that they try to bridge
The old and used look, which matches the relationship

Not too read too much into it

Somnus

Ok I love the covers for these two albums because I always thought that the names of each song were depicted in them.

In Awake you have The Mirror, 6:00 (With the clock in the moon), always thought the statue could be the Silent Man, the planets in the back Space Dye Vest, the man in the mirror seems to be disappearing which could be Innocence Faded, the spider in the web is obviously Caught in a Web.
The way the image is in colour in the mirror instead of grey could possibly be Lifting Shadows off a Dream.

As for Images and Words it's not as easy.

The moon could be Under a Glass Moon. The bed could be Wait for Sleep and the little kid could be the "Sleeper" for Metropolis part 1. The flaming heart might be interpreted as the "Miracle"

Again, some may be far fetched but those covers always made me think :P

ride-the-spiral

:cool:

Catari Jaguar

GirlOfGlass

I love all of Opeth's album covers, but Damnation is my favourite.

Nightwish

Mine is Epica - The Score

bertie4evr

Like how surreal it is.

rgt320q

Two of my [many] favourites here.

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon. So simple yet so iconic.



Emperor - s/t EP. Can't beat a bit of Gustave Doré.

Jako8

I love the cover of Rush's "Farewell to Kings".
Mainly because of the way the "King" is depicted here in a sordid scene with his crown on the ground. It's just so awesome.

waltersobchak

SMELL THE GLOVE BY SPINAL TAP..

How much more black could it be??

Motley Crue

In 2002 when Guns N' Roses played China, it was the only thing Axl had concrete decision on - this would be the cover, regardless of the fact it would take another six years for the album to be released. Its powerful and its not photoshopped (under Chinese vandalism laws if the person who wrote that on the wall had of been caught he risked imprisonment or even death), perhaps not the most iconic GNR album cover, but it still means something

dasdog

A quite obvious one which always reminds me of Picasso:



The brilliant Jim Fitzpatrick:

Beekay

Very creepy image

not usually into covers telling tories or that sort of stuff but this one always got me.


and this one too :

GrizzlyMan

Speaks for itself:

metzengerstein

love this one

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cournioni

bazza1

Cool pic this!

jagerbreath

Instant Classic

Nephilim Wolf

ed1604 wrote: »

not usually into covers telling tories or that sort of stuff but this one always got me.

and this one too :

Awesome album and cover. Some of my favourites:



I love this cover, and to me it's one of the best Moonspell covers in a long time. The woman on the front of this album looks like the embodiment of night.



This looks like a really old book cover, with the swirly things on it as well.



I could never quite figure out this album cover, it's very weird but also really incredible.



What I love about this cover is the way the swan is red, but the trees, river and sky are grey.



This has to be one of the best Nokturnal Mortum covers I've ever seen. To me it looks like some viking warrior working/forging a new sword with a statue of either a young women or man looking on.

keeponrockin

\m/ \m/ :P \m/

Rud

and finally something that is not an album cover never mind a rock album cover but is the inlay of The Prodigys album "Music For A Jilted Generation".i just love it!

old gregg

I was in love

Useful.Idiot

Funeral Doom band Ea's latest album, great cover:

Earth's newest album The Bee's Made Honey in The Lion's Skull:

Triptykon's new album cover, artwork by H R Giger:
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I really like Isis' album covers even though they are very simple. Oceanic:

This one for Slough Feg's Traveller is just geekily awesome:

Irish black metal band Altar of Plagues album cover for White Tomb, perfectly describes the barren, desolate atmosphere of the album:

mike65

Some awful teenage fantasy sh-ite so far!



A perfectly realised image reflecting growing post-war confidence and international "sophistication" (who said they look like Showroom Dummies? ).

nacho libre

nacho libre

"This has to be one of the best Nokturnal Mortum covers I've ever seen"

Agreed. Which is fitting because Голос Сталі is their best album to date as well!

Motley Crue

I like the two variations of this cover



and then its counterpart, used for the single of the album

nacho libre

Jemmaa

Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe



Type O Negative

Seth Brundle

Much of the artwork by Ed Repka, Derek Riggs and Pushead also.

Mushy

Dr.Poca wrote: »

Ok I love the covers for these two albums because I always thought that the names of each song were depicted in them.

In Awake you have The Mirror, 6:00 (With the clock in the moon), always thought the statue could be the Silent Man, the planets in the back Space Dye Vest, the man in the mirror seems to be disappearing which could be Innocence Faded, the spider in the web is obviously Caught in a Web.
The way the image is in colour in the mirror instead of grey could possibly be Lifting Shadows off a Dream.

As for Images and Words it's not as easy.

The moon could be Under a Glass Moon. The bed could be Wait for Sleep and the little kid could be the "Sleeper" for Metropolis part 1. The flaming heart might be interpreted as the "Miracle"

Again, some may be far fetched but those covers always made me think :P

Think its the same for BC&SL. Find it a great idea, love trying to link the songs to the images.

fartmaster

Malice_ wrote: »

Rather than an endless parade of pictures I'd like to hear people explain why they like the particular album cover. What do you find so interesting about that Deicide cover fartmaster?

what this one...







lets just say Thrashy/death metal album covers are brilliant for their artistic impressions, they are beautifully grotesque at the same time! glen Benton (lead singer) looks like some sort of hell spawn demon straight out of the depths of tartarus!!!

heres another i quite like from Dismember...

slavetothegrind

Because i remember getting it after awaiting the release and listening to it over and over whilst finding all the little hidden thingys in the artwork:)

JacobCampbell

Gamma Ray's album "Majestic". I got this picture on my guitar. By the way, this album are great, one of my favorite from GR

antomagoo

Love this cover as it was my favourite Maiden album


Think this is an amazing album and amazing album cover to go with it

actuallylike

Surprised this hasn't been added yet, the bleedin state of them!!!

antomagoo

@actuallylike thats f'ing brilliant, good find

InigoMontoya

Also like the Dismember and Amorphis covers already posted.

Nailz

HMD

JacobCampbell

Oh, how could i forget abut VENOM. They first who covered Satan on their album

Caco

jagerbreath wrote: »

Instant Classic

I always laughed & thought that looked like Eddie Vedder (early 90's) getting punched :pac: (even though I love Pearl Jam!)

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