best album cover ever?

superconor

i think its the number of the beast by iron maiden. pure class.

s8n

korn's self titled debut......scary cover

Vlad Drac

The artwork for most Cathedral albums is class like Forest of Equilibrium ... my favourite cover ever though is probably Tales from The Thousand Lakes by Amorphis ... also Scum by Napalm Death and Left Hand Path by entombed are nice to look at.

Oeneus

I really really love the original cover for Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction that got banned back in the day.

Lucky for me I managed to find a copy of the original vinyl in London.

It's usually printed in the center of the CD leaflets of the album now.

Karl Hungus

Opeth's Deliverance is quite a fantastic album cover.
So deep and sorrowfull.


And also, Opeth's Blackwater Park
So deep and ominous.


And not exactly for it's cover art, but more the inlay art, Katatonia's 'Tonight's Decision'.

Repli

Most of iron maidens albums have good artwork
Especially rock in rio and real live one..
offspring - americana and ixnay on the hombre are also cool

Kali

before somebody else posts it...
Spinal Tap - Smell The Glove

But personally my favourite cover is Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentlemen.. whole inlay is great in fact ..

"Spiritualized may affect your ability to drive or operate machinery." etc. etc.

Pugsley

Iced earth - horror show

artvandelay

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here

cournioni

Sepultura - Arise


Morbid Angel - Gateways To Annihilation


Superjoint Ritual - Use Once And Destroy


Hate Eternal - King of all Kings

domeara01

these two cradle of filth album covers rock.

pyure

sepeltura - arise
korn - korn, issues
nirvana - in utero, incesticide

my favs. from my record collection...there was a morbid angel one i had which was dirt cool, but its long lost and cant remember the name of the album

strangly pretty much everyone who's posted on this thread has mentioned really dark death metal type stuff and posted pics of really dark depressing stuff...doesnt anyone know of any happy albums with good artwork ???

cournioni

Pantera's banned "Far Beyond Driven" cover.

domeara01

yeah well i have a really good happy album.
it is called type o negative. shall i say anymore.

Karl Hungus

Originally posted by satansdaman

This is definetly a brilliant cover.
It was taken by the photographer Simon Marsden:

http://www.simonmarsden.co.uk/

I love album covers that are truly works of art.

Also check out:
http://www.marsdenarchive.com/

You'll find that the inlay to Dusk... And Her Embrace was taken right here in Ireland:



Cork, no less.

Robbo

Aside from the usual round up of "Zorg the Impaler" fantasy art, I feel the urge to nominate White Zombies "Supersexyswingingsounds". That or the Stones "Exile on Main Street".

CRONIC ARSE

Warning: Nasty Images!

http://www3.hmv.com/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/341082.JPG
cannibal corpse: tomb the mutilated http://www3.hmv.com/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/304854.JPG
cannibal corpes:worm infested http://www3.hmv.com/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/836354.JPG
cannibal corps:vile http://members.tripod.com/~disposal/big-eaten.jpg
and thats just a few of the ****ers

[Mod Edit]I've knocked the image tags off these...
Cronic Arse, post stuff like that again, and you'll get a slap.[/Mod Edit]

Tazz T

Bonded by Blood - Exodus

The original cover showing the evil/good siamese babies about to tear each other apart - lovely - describes the miusic on the album perfectly.

CRONIC ARSE

Originally posted by AngelWhore
This is definetly a brilliant cover.
It was taken by the photographer Simon Marsden:

http://www.simonmarsden.co.uk/

I love album covers that are truly works of art.

Also check out:
http://www.marsdenarchive.com/

You'll find that the inlay to Dusk... And Her Embrace was taken right here in Ireland:



Cork, no less.

SORRY MAN DIDNT MEAN TO STUR THINGS UP DIDNT THINK IT WOULD CAUSE OFFENCE.

lanod44

The negative photo on the cover of nirvanas "Bleach" is really good

OLDYELLAR

Iron Maiden Rock in Rio has a deadly am cover slip over the actual box like, it changes like , ah i cant think of the name of it but when u tilt it , it goes from like dark night and then to the light of a concert on,
aye it kept me amused for ages in sinnotts music place tilting it over an back to see the colours change:D

Bateman

Nevermind
London Calling
The Stone Roses
The Holy Bible (who would ave thought fat chicks could look so good?)

kingconor

No young fairyboy, I must disagree, you see the best album cover ever is Appetite for Destruction, simple yet brilliant!

pugwall

The Velvet Underground and Nico
Andy Worhol

Karl Hungus

The Berzerker's CG version of their Iron Dragon that adorns the cover of Dissimulate is quite brilliant:

gaui3d0pnbz86o

Besides Cradles of Fliths album covers which have been shown, i really like this one by Children of Bodom, from their album Something Wild,

cournioni

I love this one...

In Flames - Whoracle

Axe

I agree, Maiden generally do great covers, even Best of The Beast. Another favourite of mine is AC/DC - Ballbreaker, it's class.

Lemming

Most Iron Maiden covers, the Gn'R 'appetite' cover (both the official and banned one), Metaloaf's Bat of of Hell cover, the original cover for Jimi Hendrix' "Electric Ladyland" album ... mmmm .. so many boobies ... hehe

And, one that everyone overlooks for its simplicity - the Black cover by Metallica. In a genre filled with stereotyped gothic imagery, skulls, pentagrams, etc, it IS refreshingly different and original.


Would I consider any of these to be the best album cover ever? I don't know, but I DO consider them to be a cut above the rest out there at any rate.

Beruthiel

we're going back a bit here now.....

I bought an lp (that's a long playing record for you young ones out there)
of Thin Lizzy - The Black Rose
drawn by Jim Fitzpatrick, 'tis beautiful

CRONIC ARSE

anthrax: fist full of metal. look at his tounge........................................ class cover!

Klytus

Tool's album covers are cool, especially Lateralus. Also Opeth has class album covers like Blackwater Park.

Tazz T

Despite being a class abum that Fistful of Metal cover is badly drawn.

Giblet

Pffft, all of them covers just dont have imagination :>

I've seen some good attempts, but I'll Let these speak for themselves:

Shark Sandwich


Brain Hammer


Break Like The Wind


Gospel According to Spinal Tap (Rock and Roll creation)


Heavy Metal Memories


Intravenus de Milo


Smell the Glove (none more black)


Smell the glove 2

The Rage Against The Machine cover with the monk on fire is pretty cool.

Bottle_of_Smoke

Runfree

I must agree that iron maiden have some cool covers.

Here is where i get my cd covers anyway

Cdcovers

King of Arrakis

Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power!! who hasn't been in that situaition before?

It wasn't me!

That Santana album
Nevermind

Stuff like that is pretty class. It doesn't need to be all this death metal stuff. Admittedly though, a lot of their covers are pretty inspiring.

Oh, and Radiohead, the Bends.