Death Angels new album cover is awesome. It screams 80's trash but with a lot more polish.

I love all of the Iron Maiden covers. My personal favorite is AC/DC's Highway To Hell.

Off the top of my head...

Sorry to be obvious, but im still yet to see anything as cool as powerslave

Posted with the album links in case you are interested in listening the music behind the gorgeousness.

Dreare - Blank and Forward



Destroy Judas - Forever Like Stars​.​.​.​We Shine



Vacivus - Rite of Ascension



Blood Incantation - Interdimensional Extinction

Iron Maiden - Live After Death


Iced Earth - Plagues Of Babylon

Written by 3rdWorld on 15.10.2016 at 20:23

Original is 50 times better. This one ruins it with silly logo and unnecessary kvlt desaturation.





Naturally Bruce Pennignton's other colourful sci-fi artwork is great.

Written by Guest on 16.10.2016 at 16:39

Original is 50 times better. This one ruins it with silly logo and unnecessary kvlt desaturation.

Yes indeed. The only thing that I like about the album cover is that is has a black background which makes it look like actual space but otherwise the original is insanely better. I was surprised at first how they got such a good idea for artwork as the "bone fragments for space dust" for a demo, but only then found that it was from earlier sci-fi illustrations from Bruce Pennington. Loving his work a lot really.

Written by 3rdWorld on 16.10.2016 at 16:54

Yes indeed. The only thing that I like about the album cover is that is has a black background which makes it look like actual space but otherwise the original is insanely better. I was surprised at first how they got such a good idea for artwork as the "bone fragments for space dust" for a demo, but only then found that it was from earlier sci-fi illustrations from Bruce Pennington. Loving his work a lot really.

Shamed they shied away from the original, although I suppose then it would make it look like a stoner or psych-rock album or something.

Written by Guest on 16.10.2016 at 16:55

Shamed they shied away from the original, although I suppose then it would make it look like a stoner or psych-rock album or something.

Yeah more of a problem with the genre really that people are pigeonholing artworks to reflect the expectations/standards of the genre. More experimentation on palette/styles, variation and original artworks should be made and welcomed I guess.

Written by 3rdWorld on 16.10.2016 at 17:01

Yeah more of a problem with the genre really that people are pigeonholing artworks to reflect the expectations/standards of the genre. More experimentation on palette/styles, variation and original artworks should be made and welcomed I guess.

I always like it when a cover doesn't give away the genre, even if some genres often have great artworks in general.

Anomalie - Refugium



A perfect example of how to work with minimalism. One of my fav minimalist artworks ever probably.

Mastery - Valis

Cormorant - Dwellings



Quis ut Deus? & Weston Adam - Last Man on Earth



Bongripper - Miserable



Among Gods - Ghost Empire

This one's my all-time favourite:

Yeah thats a snazzy cover. Weird thing wikipedia has a page for that album but not the band. Haven't heard the album yet, will have to give a try as their last album A Northern Meadow was nice ambient-ish/soft industrial black metal.

Written by 3rdWorld on 19.10.2016 at 06:39

Haven't heard the album yet, will have to give a try as their last album A Northern Meadow was nice ambient-ish/soft industrial black metal.

Their self-titled debut is way more challenging if you ask me. Also, do not forget to check out the second disc and especially one of the greatest covers ever made, which is "Sleds" by Blut Aus Nord.

Klone - Here Comes The Sun

Written by tominator on 20.10.2016 at 02:38

Victorius - Dreamchaser

Diablo Blvd - Follow The Deadlights

No offense and do I appreciate your interest but frankly those can be considered generic and uninspired when taken upon with the genre's history. Try checking out the artworks of Travis Smith if you haven't already. Might suit your line of interest genre-wise, he is good with progressive and melodic metal genre artworks.

Written by Guest on 20.10.2016 at 12:10

Aaaaarrrgggghhhhhh

Summoning's cover featuring Marcel definitely wins the thread.

Written by Karlabos on 20.10.2016 at 15:08

Summoning's cover featuring Marcel definitely wins the thread.

I have to agree

Written by 3rdWorld on 20.10.2016 at 13:51

Written by tominator on 20.10.2016 at 02:38

Victorius - Dreamchaser

Diablo Blvd - Follow The Deadlights

No offense and do I appreciate your interest but frankly those can be considered generic and uninspired when taken upon with the genre's history. Try checking out the artworks of Travis Smith if you haven't already. Might suit your line of interest genre-wise, he is good with progressive and melodic metal genre artworks.

Yeah you might have a point. I'll edit them out.

I do know Travis Smith, mostly from his work on the Opeth covers.

Not the best of anything but really cool covers by Misanthropic-Art.

Written by Boxcar Willy on 21.10.2016 at 06:30

Link is not working, bruh.

Written by 3rdWorld on 21.10.2016 at 06:33

Written by Boxcar Willy on 21.10.2016 at 06:30

Link is not working, bruh.

When you've been gone too long and forget how to code here.

Written by 3rdWorld on 21.10.2016 at 01:05


but really cool covers by Misanthropic-Art.

Nah, not really. They all look stale and boring.

I don't know why but their work follows a monotonous framework of art and craft that by looking over once, you will see a hell lot of familiarity.

Written by Cynic Metalhead on 21.10.2016 at 07:29

Nah, not really. They all look stale and boring.

I don't know why but their work follows a monotonous framework of art and craft that by looking over once, you will see a hell lot of familiarity.

Its not a "they", just a guy named Chris Keisling working under that moniker.

There might be a lot of boring covers by him but definitely not these two.

Written by 3rdWorld on 21.10.2016 at 07:50

Written by Cynic Metalhead on 21.10.2016 at 07:29

Nah, not really. They all look stale and boring.

I don't know why but their work follows a monotonous framework of art and craft that by looking over once, you will see a hell lot of familiarity.

Its not a "they", just a guy named Chris Keisling working under that moniker.

I was talking about artworks.