Well basically just list out your favourite artists. It doesn't have to be artists who work with only metal bands.
Also post links of their work or links to their sites, blogs etc

For me I would have to say

John Dyer - Baroness, Pig Destroyer, Black Tusk, Kylesa, Kvelertak and a few more.
http://www.myspace.com/johndyerbaizley
This guy is awesome, he's pretty much one of my favourites. I love pretty much all his artwork. You can make out a John Dyer as soon as you see it. He's got a very distinctive style with the use of beautiful women, some might say overuse, but i have no complains

Malleus Rock Art Lab( Urlo, Lu, Poia) - Ufomammut, Swans, Kyuss, Roadburn, Supernatural Cat
http://malleusdelic.wordpress.com/
www.malleusdelic.com
Ok these guys are the best at screens, I mean i haven't seen better work coming out in while. I just love everything they put out. Their posters are done with such care and they really put a lot of work into each design. Again these guys have a thing for women a lot of beautiful women in their designs.

Brian Mercer- Clutch, Eyehategod, Black Tusk, Zoroastor, Lamb of God and a lot more
http://mercerrock.com/index.php
This guy again does mainly posters and flyers for bands and festivals. Again he's got a unique style with the use of skulls and sculptures.

Ok I'm going to stop typing now and just give you links.

Florian Bertmer - Agoraphobic Nosebleed, 16.
http://florianbertmer.blogspot.com/

David Dandrea - Shrinebuilder, OM, Agalloch, Ludicra
http://www.dvdandrea.com

Aidan "Brute!" Hughes

I always loved the propaganda style album artwork



Storm Thorgerson <--- Check out that body of work

Legendary album artist, responsible for some of the most recognizable album covers (Dark Side Of The Moon)

Written by Spirit Molecule on 29.04.2011 at 09:41


Malleus Rock Art Lab( Urlo, Lu, Poia) - Ufomammut, Swans, Kyuss, Roadburn, Supernatural Cat
http://malleusdelic.wordpress.com/
www.malleusdelic.com
Ok these guys are the best at screens, I mean i haven't seen better work coming out in while. I just love everything they put out. Their posters are done with such care and they really put a lot of work into each design. Again these guys have a thing for women a lot of beautiful women in their designs.

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David Dandrea - Shrinebuilder, OM, Agalloch, Ludicra
http://www.dvdandrea.com

The guys in the Malleus group are actually part of Ufomammut and Dvid D'Andrea did the artwork for this year's Roadburn. and has also done great work on Asunder and Graves At Sea albums.
Totally love his style. Also love Malleus btw. They have a nice retrospect bok out as well.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 29.04.2011 at 17:06

Written by Spirit Molecule on 29.04.2011 at 09:41


Malleus Rock Art Lab( Urlo, Lu, Poia) - Ufomammut, Swans, Kyuss, Roadburn, Supernatural Cat
http://malleusdelic.wordpress.com/
www.malleusdelic.com
Ok these guys are the best at screens, I mean i haven't seen better work coming out in while. I just love everything they put out. Their posters are done with such care and they really put a lot of work into each design. Again these guys have a thing for women a lot of beautiful women in their designs.

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David Dandrea - Shrinebuilder, OM, Agalloch, Ludicra
http://www.dvdandrea.com

The guys in the Malleus group are actually part of Ufomammut and Dvid D'Andrea did the artwork for this year's Roadburn. and has also done great work on Asunder and Graves At Sea albums.
Totally love his style. Also love Malleus btw. They have a nice retrospect bok out as well.

Yes i know they are..notice the names Urlo, Lu, Poia I just ordered a Ufomammut tee..very excited. I hope i can buy a few of their prints in the future, too expensive to ship it to india though(even if they did)

Checked out Aidan "Brute!" Hughes, some nice stuff

Mine would be Par Olofsson, who painted the covers of some of my favorite brutal death metal albums.

Yeah Par Olofsson is cool , hes got a very unique style as well with the sci fi fantasy mix.
Paul romano is quite alright as well, I like his mastodon stuff
http://www.workhardened.com/

Jacob bannon(converge) is another cool artist I loved his jane doe cover art.
http://www.jacobbannon.com

I don't know who does the black dahlia murder merch, but they have some pretty cool designs on their tees.

Written by Spirit Molecule on 13.05.2011 at 07:00

Jacob bannon(converge) is another cool artist I loved his jane doe cover art.
http://www.jacobbannon.com

I was just going to post something about him. Brillaint stuff, I love the graffitti influenced style.

I guess most people will know Alex grey, so i didn't bother mentioning him, but there is this guy luke brown who has some cool stuff as well. Very similar to grey.

Rick leech, another guy from the sludge scene.
http://www.gigposters.com/designer/133842_Rick_Leech.html

Josh Graham from A storm of light, hes has some really cool stuff.
http://www.suspendedinlight.com/main.htm

Is it just me or does some of the best art(my favourite atleast) come from the sludge/stoner scene ?

Written by Spirit Molecule on 30.05.2011 at 05:40

Rick leech, another guy from the sludge scene.
http://www.gigposters.com/designer/133842_Rick_Leech.html

Josh Graham from A storm of light, hes has some really cool stuff.
http://www.suspendedinlight.com/main.htm

Is it just me or does some of the best art(my favourite atleast) come from the sludge/stoner scene ?

No[pe, it's not just you. I think that as well.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 31.05.2011 at 09:46

No[pe, it's not just you. I think that as well.

Yeah it feels like most albums with the "stoner/sludge/post-metal" kind of tag has amazing covers... Not that I complain.

Most of my favourite artists are from the sludge scene anyway. I love how they give as much importance to art as the music.

I'm actually surprised that this topic isn't as active as I hoped. Thought there would be more people on here who enjoyed the art side of metal as much as I do

Cover art wise most metal tends to be atrocious, marred by the same cliches you see everywhere, forests, skulls, garish photoshopping and the like. However more undergroundy, extra-metal stuff has some great thoughtful covers, on some specific distros I can spend hours just browsing through the artwork lusting after the albums just for the way they look. Paradigms Recordings is a good example of this: http://www.paradigms-recordings.com/store.html

Seldon Hunt is amazing if you like completely insane abstracts: http://www.seldonhunt.com/

There is also a big difference between the design of an album cover and the actual art. Bands that commission or get rights to actual art pieces are one thing - but how it is created into the cover is another. It is very easy to pick a great artist and slap a logo on top of the art. I like your link !J.O.O.E.!, those guys remind me of how jazz labels handle cover art.

Written by EternityRites on 01.06.2011 at 14:01

Seldon Hunt is amazing if you like completely insane abstracts: http://www.seldonhunt.com/

There is also a big difference between the design of an album cover and the actual art. Bands that commission or get rights to actual art pieces are one thing - but how it is created into the cover is another. It is very easy to pick a great artist and slap a logo on top of the art. I like your link !J.O.O.E.!, those guys remind me of how jazz labels handle cover art.

I've heard the seldon hunt name before, can't remember where. Some nice stuff on there, but some of them i felt were just to chaotic to look at.

I know what you mean, though some of those might look good and might also represent the album well. I generally prefer when the whole thing is done from scratch.
For our cover art (on my profile) we just used 2 photographs that our vocalist had taken and made the art, and then slapped the logo on it

Oh I have to add Travis Smith (http://www.seempieces.com/GalleryFrameset.html), especially after seeing his newset Opeth album. Beautiful and hilarious at the same time:

Written by EternityRites on 01.06.2011 at 22:01

Oh I have to add Travis Smith (http://www.seempieces.com/GalleryFrameset.html), especially after seeing his newset Opeth album. Beautiful and hilarious at the same time:

Ahh the guy who did the nevermore stuff. Never knew his name. Checked out his other work, really cool. Didn't know he had done so much. Thanks for that.
Oh this guy won best cover art for Dead soul tribe's January tree for one of the previous MS awards. Well I don't think they mentioned him in there though
As for the new Opeth, I didn't like it as much as their previous stuff. I mean its great artwork, but a little out of place for them I felt. I know Akerfeldt is a big prog rock fan so maybe that something to do with the cover being more classic prog rock styled? Unless they have taken a new direction with the music as well. Will have to wait for the album to find out.

Http://s001.radikal.ru/i195/1007/8b/779285415926.jpg

Taking in account cover art from metal albums, into some of my favorite covers, i like for example these artists:

Luis Royo:



Andreas Marschall:


Another in a similar style, but different artist:


Some other artists that i like: Anne Stokes, Tom Wood , Ciruelo.



Some of my favorites covers of metal albums from my collection:









(in 3D =))

I completely forgot I made this. A while ago I posted on a Livejournal community my favourite 100 cover artworks. Ignore the retarded Livejournal name I use, It was made a long time ago. And just to clarify I only used LJ because all my friends did and it was a great way to keep up to date with each other before Facebook came along:

Written by Guest on 03.06.2011 at 14:45

I think you'll agree my taste is impeccable

That Khlyst cover is beabsolutely gorgeous. Heh I'm sort of surprised we have so similar tastes in artwork judging by the link. I never understood "love's burial ground" though... it confuses me a lot because it just looks like awful copy paste and I don't even know what I'm looking at, a woman, a train station... don't really know. Never "got" the Pearl Jam either then again I know shit about Pearl Jam. But yeah... I agree with most of the link.

Written by X-Ray Rod on 03.06.2011 at 16:22

Written by Guest on 03.06.2011 at 14:45

I think you'll agree my taste is impeccable

That Khlyst cover is beabsolutely gorgeous. Heh I'm sort of surprised we have similar tastes ina rtwork judging by the link. I never understood "love's burial ground" though... it confuses me a lot because it just looks like awful copy paste and I don't even know what I'm looking at, a woman, a train station... don't really know. Never "got" the Pearl Jam either then again I know shit about Pearl Jam. But yeah... I agree with most of the link.

That's what I really like about Love's Burial Ground one. It's a random mishmash of images but despite knowing of it for ages it was only recently that I spotted the image of the girl. I like underground tube systems too, it's just a very random thing to put on a cover art. Same for the Pearl Jam one really, it's just totally random.

Written by Guest on 03.06.2011 at 16:26

That's what I really like about Love's Burial Ground one. It's a random mishmash of images but despite knowing of it for ages it was only recently that I spotted the image of the girl. I like underground tube systems too, it's just a very random thing to put on a cover art. Same for the Pearl Jam one really, it's just totally random.

I preffer the simple version that never made the cut because the labl thought it was "too dark"


I get a more fucked-up sense from it.

Written by Guest on 03.06.2011 at 14:45

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Which band's cover art are the 1st and 9th ones? I really like that list but I would add a couple of more though.

Written by Mikyz on 03.06.2011 at 16:31

Written by Guest on 03.06.2011 at 14:45

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Which band's cover art are the 1st and 9th ones?

Khlyst - Chaos Is My Name
Which is really odd because the latest comment of that review was YOURS

I don't know about the 9th... it's pretty awesome, I suppose it's the same dude that makes the Converge artworks, his style is quite unique.

Written by Mikyz on 03.06.2011 at 16:31

Written by Guest on 03.06.2011 at 14:45

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Which band's cover art are the 1st and 9th ones? I really like that list but I would add a couple of more though.

Psh, 100 isn't enough for you?! =P

The 9th one is Integrity's 'To Die For'

Written by X-Ray Rod on 03.06.2011 at 17:13

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Oh yeah, I didn't recognize it, it's hard to remember all of the album covers >.< I didn't listen to Khlyst yet anyway, I'll have to do it soon.

Written by Mikyz on 04.06.2011 at 02:25

Written by X-Ray Rod on 03.06.2011 at 17:13

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Oh yeah, I didn't recognize it, it's hard to remember all of the album covers >.< I didn't listen to Khlyst yet anyway, I'll have to do it soon.

I know the feeling sometimes I came across a band that seems interesting and I check out and see that I posted a commment ages ago in the review thread. I feel so old when that happens... Alzheimers here I come!

Written by Guest on 03.06.2011 at 17:29

Psh, 100 isn't enough for you?! =P

The 9th one is Integrity's 'To Die For'

100 is never enough I meant that I'd choose others over some of those you chose as personal favorites, if I were to limit myself to 100 that is Don't worry, you still have impeccable taste...

Written by Mikyz on 04.06.2011 at 02:29

Written by Guest on 03.06.2011 at 17:29

Psh, 100 isn't enough for you?! =P

The 9th one is Integrity's 'To Die For'

100 is never enough I meant that I'd choose others over some of those you chose as personal favorites, if I were to limit myself to 100 that is Don't worry, you still have impeccable taste...

In that case I demand 20 of your favourites, not including any that may have been placed on my list!