Well i like a few album covers....the ones that come to my mind right now are:

slayer's reign in blood


slayer's


venom's hell

Written by Ellrohir on 25.07.2009 at 01:05

(anyway, best album is LMHSYF, but it's cover is kinda weak )

I think the cover is good enough... Way better than Lost Tales and Dol Guldur that seems to be some kind of copy-paste picture tbh.

My favorites would be Oath Bound [Beautiful indeed], Lugburz, Minas Morgul and.... C'mon! If you liked Summoning covers I can't understand why you missed this one.

Because i dont like it that much than the others i featured

Http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/HelloweenWallsofjericho.jpg
IM GOING TO PUNCH THIS WALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another good one

Imaginations through the looking glass


especially the back cover picture is absolutely wonderful

Took a while for the Summoning and Slayer covers to get posted. Some very good choices in this thread, though. I particularly like the sort of Romanticist covers, like the Summoning ones. And the Windir one I'm posting.

Time to add my input:

About the second picture i would say it is very bad...but as you wish

For some reason I really love black and white covers.
My two favorites are:

Insect Warfare: World Extermination

Teitanblood: Seven Chalices

Slayer has some great covers, but my best cover is from Soulflys Dark Ages. help how to describe it.

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Morbid Angels Domination, Ahabs The Call of the Wreched, Opeths My Arms,Your Hearse, or King Diamonds "Them"

Ur 1st pic is not available, try again

For me, it would have to be this:

Dan Seagrave made the creature, and Par Olofsson did the background. Alone, they are fantastic artists, but together, they made something that was truly awesome.

Black Sabbath's self-titled debut, from 1970, had a fantastic cover IMO. Arguably, this could be considered the first 'proper' Metal album, too. I find it quite bleak and haunting, and perhaps reflects the nature of some of Sabbath's early music. Doom and gloom!

I like Metallica's ...And Justice For All and Megadeth's Peace sells

Written by Richard on 24.04.2010 at 04:11

Black Sabbath's self-titled debut, from 1970, had a fantastic cover IMO. Arguably, this could be considered the first 'proper' Metal album, too. I find it quite bleak and haunting, and perhaps reflects the nature of some of Sabbath's early music. Doom and gloom!

I've actually seen a picture of that house in the background from a different angle, but I forgot where I found it.

Its kinda scary :s ... its not matched with the band lol

Wintersun - Time hehe its my avatar also

Nightmare - dominion gate and genetic disorder are also amazing

Written by Dreamwar_86 on 29.04.2010 at 15:46

Wintersun - Time hehe its my avatar also

yes...at least the artwork is awesome...

Queensrÿche - The Collection

Conqueror by The Gates of Slumber

I forget if I or anyone else has posted this, but Gates' album covers are awesome. This one obviously reeks Conan which is a sure win. I also love the cover for Suffer No Guilt using the piece "Revenge of the Viking." Their latest is good too.

Written by Guest on 23.04.2010 at 03:04

For me, it would have to be this:

Dan Seagrave made the creature, and Par Olofsson did the background. Alone, they are fantastic artists, but together, they made something that was truly awesome.

This is awesome

This isn't my favorite Katatonia album (though I still think it's great), but it certainly is my favorite album cover from them. It's chilling.

Damn, a tough choice. To make it easier I chose a few of my favorite artists:

Danille Gauvin:



Nick Keller:



Dan Seagrave:

And my absolutely favourites:

Andrzej Masianis:



Zdzisław Beksiński:

Written by Guest on 23.04.2010 at 03:04

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Dan Seagrave made the creature, and Par Olofsson did the background.

it fits together really well, didn"t expect that to be by different artists

The stuff posted by Góral is my favorite type for album artwork... Beksiński is specially amazing.

Also, Debemur Morti's mysterious 100th release also has some sick artwork by a dude called Néstor Avalos.

I've made a list of my favourites right over here. As you can see, I'm not a fan of the whole cold/grim/bleak style of a lot of the ones above and many of my favourites end up being covers that most MSers hate :x

Out of the ones in the link, I think my overall favourite has to be the art for Impellitteri's Eye of the Hurricane. I think there's just something about all the white that's really striking and beautiful.



On a related note, Necrolord held an art exhibition at a festival I went to recently, which was pretty breathtaking, I have to say. Huge versions of In the Nightside Eclipse/The Gallery/The Forsaken/Ensiferum albums/Storm of the Light's Bane/etc that you could buy, take home and hang on your wall, along with smaller signed prints and backlit box frames with his album art inside. Sadly, I didn't actually buy anything because I'd already bought way too much at the merch stand, but it was still really cool. He's one of my favourite album artists and I hadn't even realised it until then.

Best album cover I've ever seen: Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse