Rockin' Album Covers

[Sky]

Fuck you Sky, you ganked ALL my album covers. Iron Maiden, Ac/Dc, Cramps. All of them.

So I'll submit this one :P

Har! I was going to post that one too. Actually had to go off and do some work.

I like Giger, but those guitars are cheesy. Something more like this would've been cooler:



I always wanted George Lynch's bones guitar:

[Mrbloodworth]

I was trying to find an image of Beefcake the Mighty T-bone bass...but no luck. I guess its just too old =(.

[Special J]

Covers I like that are sitting in my vinyl collection...

[Nevermore]

[Nebu]

Was that "Brain Salad Surgery" by ELP back there?  I forgot that I had that and Tarkus in the closet. 

Two other of my old favorites (that I own).

[stray]

Fuck you Sky, you ganked ALL my album covers. Iron Maiden, Ac/Dc, Cramps. All of them.

So I'll submit this one :P

Har! I was going to post that one too. Actually had to go off and do some work.

I like Giger, but those guitars are cheesy. Something more like this would've been cooler:

That's Chris Stein's git, right? The "Gigerstein"?

[Mrbloodworth]

Yeah, the name is correct, i don't know who it belongs too.

[Nebu]

Yeah, the name is correct, i don't know who it belongs too.

ELP = Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.  You know... Carl Palmer of ASIA fame! 

[Righ]

Good call. Anything by Vaughn Oliver is 

http://www.leninimports.com/vaughan_oliver_gallery.html

[Mrbloodworth]

Yeah, the name is correct, i don't know who it belongs too.

ELP = Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.  You know... Carl Palmer of ASIA fame! 

I was referring to the guitar sky posted, i know who ELP is :P

[Cadaverine]

I really like Whelans artwork.  He did covers for some reissues of H.P. Lovecraft books which are incredible. 

[stu]

I took a look at Whelan's Dark Tower work. Badass stuff.

[stray]

Did someone post that already?

Anyways, I was about 14 when that came out. Not the greatest "art", but Rob was an original. Metal and dreads! Such a fucking cool combo at the time.

[Tale]

The biggest ever "band I discovered before everyone else" was The Stone Roses, whose guitarist John Squire is an artist - he does a wider variety of art nowadays, but at the time he had a Jackson Pollock influence ... plus fruit.

For the music that this goes with, listen to this from about 3:30.

First album - gatefold opens up into a massive b/w photo of the band rehearsing.


9 min 53 sec EP version of a song:


Photo inside second album:

[Signe]

Did someone post that already?

Anyways, I was about 14 when that came out. Not the greatest "art", but Rob was an original. Metal and dreads! Such a fucking cool combo at the time.

Everytime I hear him talk it makes me giggle.  Dee Snyder used to make me laugh, too.  They have speaking voices that belong to someone else.

[stray]

Heh yeah. I don't remember seeing any interviews of him back then. You could barely make out what he really looked like either, even in person. He was his stage persona. Now that he promotes his movies though, he kind of comes off like a hippy.

Dee Snyder sounds like a character from Grease.

[Sky]

Jackson Pollock is art like a car wreck is music.

[stray]

But...but... A car wreck IS music.

[Sky]

 

[Llava]

http://www.myspace.com/thestenchofredemption

WARNING:  This link posted to illustrate how a car crash is like music.  It's gonna be loud.

[Signe]

I like Jackson Pollock.  Lots.

[HaemishM]

http://www.myspace.com/thestenchofredemption

WARNING:  This link posted to illustrate how a car crash is like music.  It's gonna be loud.

Fuck me. 

[stray]

Deicide's not my thing, but they do have one of the baddest drummers ever.

Still not what I mean by car wreck though. I just meant actual, literal car wrecks.

[Llava]

I listen to plenty of death metal, but I really don't like Deicide.  There's really no music out there that's too heavy for me to tolerate, but it does definitely pass a threshold where there's no discernible pattern or flow and that's where it loses me.

Plus I don't like the guy's singing/whatever-you-want-to-call-it style.

[Selby]

I listen to plenty of death metal, but I really don't like Deicide.  There's really no music out there that's too heavy for me to tolerate, but it does definitely pass a threshold where there's no discernible pattern or flow and that's where it loses me.

Plus I don't like the guy's singing/whatever-you-want-to-call-it style.

Completely.  Deicide in my opinion sucks.  Glen Benton's anti-God thing just is annoying and old.  One track records tend to wear thin easily.  A handful of songs on their early records have some good guitar work intermixed with the repetitive blast beating and overly driven riffing.  I see they don't have the insanely muscle bound brother guitarists anymore, those two guys scared the hell out of me over how big they were.

edit: new keyboards suck

[Llava]

Yeah, my metal tastes run more along these lines.  More harmony, less  .

[Signe]

I used to like Deicide.  And Sepultura.  These days anything with too much drama just makes me nervous.  Pretty soon I'll only have the stomach for Jimmy Cliff or sommat.  I startle too easily these days. 

Dammit.

[stray]

Sepultura's not drama! Uh, or are they? Cavalera even does a lot of reggae now, so no need to listen to Cliff.

Hmm, since I posted an album cover, I'll just say that White Zombie is my style of metal. Whatever metal Mike Patton does as well. Even Metallica. I like metal bands with groove. A lot of bands can do it every so often (Pantera, Sep, sometimes Slayer, Machine Head), but their whole sound is based around it.

[Righ]

Its not so much that its the style of Deicide that is the problem, they just don't try hard enough. Good death, doom and drone metal is abundant today, so there's really no point in listening to underachieving has-beens. :)

Awesome death metal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjzIBI3jkKY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpH3qhP_UE

[Tale]

Shhh. We're supposed to post album covers.



More: http://www.stevecarter.com/albumcovers.htm

[stu]

Al Davis

I didn't know owner of the Oakland Raiders was into the Christian music scene!

Here's a cover I had kinda forgotten about:

[Righ]

That also happens to be one of the greatest albums of the 1990s. This cover is greater than the album it covers:

[Nevermore]

Al Davis

I didn't know owner of the Oakland Raiders was into the Christian music scene!

Here's a cover I had kinda forgotten about:

I almost posted that one along with the Dead Can Dance cover.  Mezzanine is one of my favorite albums of all time.

[Fraeg]

pig destroyers new one



genghis tron






my first record (from dads collection, rocking it on my mono fischer price record player)

[Moaner]

After Butchered At Birth, this is my favorite album cover.