The Best Album Artwork - Metal Storm Awards 2023

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This fan-favorite category is always a pleasure to peruse. Album covers are artistic works in their own right, but they don't always receive the same attention as the stuff inside the packaging, so we're going to amend that. If you need a refresher course, scan the album index to see who put forth the most impressive effort in making their artwork shine.
Official Metal Storm nominations
1  Haken - Fauna (user nomination) 18
2  Fires In The Distance - Air Not Meant For Us (user nomination) 14
2  Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite (user nomination) 14
4  Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars (user nomination) 13
5  Baroness - Stone (user nomination) 11
6  Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death (user nomination) 10
7  Ne Obliviscaris - Exul (user nomination) 7
7  Ahab - The Coral Tombs (user nomination) 7
7  Earthside - Let The Truth Speak (user nomination) 7
10  Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals (user nomination) 6
10  Omnerod - The Amensal Rise (user nomination) 6
10  Obituary - Dying Of Everything (user nomination) 6
10  Thragedium - Lisboa Depois de Morta (user nomination) 6
14  Insomnium - Anno 1696 (user nomination) 5
14  Kvelertak - Endling (user nomination) 5
14  Soen - Memorial (user nomination) 5
14  Xandria - The Wonders Still Awaiting (user nomination) 5
14  In Flames - Foregone (user nomination) 5
14  Kalmah - Kalmah (user nomination) 5
20  Deadly Carnage - Endless Blue (user nomination) 4
20  angra - Cycles Of Pain (user nomination) 4
20  Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific (user nomination) 4
20  Afterbirth - In But Not Of (user nomination) 4
20  Evile - The Unknown (user nomination) 4
20  Overkill - Scorched (user nomination) 4
20  Bell Witch - Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate (user nomination) 4
27  Fleshvessel - Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed (user nomination) 3
27  Smoulder - Violent Creed Of Vengeance (user nomination) 3
27  Miserere Luminis - Ordalie (user nomination) 3
27  Malokarpatan - Vertumnus Caesar (user nomination) 3
27  Alkaloid - Numen (user nomination) 3
27  ...And Oceans - As In Gardens, So In Tombs (user nomination) 3
27  Esoctrilihum - Astraal Constellations Of The Majickal Zodiac (user nomination) 3
27  Memoriam - Rise to Power (user nomination) 3
27  Enslaved - Heimdal (user nomination) 3
27  Hexvessel - Polar Veil (user nomination) 3
27  Riverside - ID.Entity (user nomination) 3
27  Mental Cruelty - Zwielicht (user nomination) 3
27  Children Of Bodom - A Chapter Called Children Of Bodom (user nomination) 3
27  Cavalera - Morbid Visions (user nomination) 3
41  Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed (user nomination) 2
41  Crom - The Era Of Darkness (user nomination) 2
41  ghost - Phantomime (user nomination) 2
41  Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags (user nomination) 2
41  Varathron - The Crimson Temple (user nomination) 2
41  Suffocation - Hymns From The Apocrypha (user nomination) 2
41  Panopticon - Rime Of Memory (user nomination) 2
41  Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare (user nomination) 2
41  Delain - Dark Waters (user nomination) 2
41  Altari - Kröflueldar (user nomination) 2
41  Aetherian - At Storm's Edge (user nomination) 2
41  Green Lung - This Heathen Land (user nomination) 2
41  Frozen Dawn - The Decline Of The Enlightened Gods (user nomination) 2
41  Hemina - Romancing The Ether (user nomination) 2
41  Phlebotomized - Clouds of Confusion (user nomination) 2
41  Frozen Soul - Glacial Domination (user nomination) 2
41  Cryptopsy - As Gomorrah Burns (user nomination) 2
41  Onmyo-za - Ryūō Dōji (user nomination) 2
41  Frozen Crown - Call of the North (user nomination) 2
41  Sworn - A Journey told through Fire (user nomination) 2
41  Thurnin - Utiseta (user nomination) 2
41  Ocean Of Grief - Pale Existence (user nomination) 2
41  Carnosus - Visions of Infinihility (user nomination) 2
64  Galactic Empire - Special Edition (user nomination) 1
64  Distorted Reflection - Doom Rules Eternally (user nomination) 1
64  Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle (user nomination) 1
64  Ablaze My Sorrow - The Loss Of All Hope (user nomination) 1
64  Suotana - Ounas I (user nomination) 1
64  Secret Sphere - Blackened Heartbeat (user nomination) 1
64  Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium - Nahab (user nomination) 1
64  Humanity's Last Breath - Ashen (user nomination) 1
64  Modder - The Great Liberation through Hearing (user nomination) 1
64  Vulture Industries - Ghosts From The Past (user nomination) 1
64  Gridlink - Coronet Juniper (user nomination) 1
64  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse; Or, Dawn Of Eternal Night: An Annihilation Of Planet Earth And The Beginni (user nomination) 1
64  The Abbey - Word of Sin (user nomination) 1
64  Alatyr - Úsvit (user nomination) 1
64  Acausal Intrusion - Panpsychism (user nomination) 1
64  Exocrine - Legend (user nomination) 1
64  Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit (user nomination) 1
64  Outergods - A Kingdom Built Upon The Wreckage Of Heaven (user nomination) 1
64  Blaze Of Sorrow - Vultus Fati (user nomination) 1
64  Nuclear Power Trio - Wet Ass Plutonium (user nomination) 1
64  Currents - The Death We Seek (user nomination) 1
64  Pupil Slicer - Blossom (user nomination) 1
64  Beastwars - Tyranny Of Distance (user nomination) 1
64  Satanic Warmaster - Aamongandr (user nomination) 1
64  Austere - Corrosion Of Hearts (user nomination) 1
64  Sylosis - A Sign Of Things To Come (user nomination) 1
64  Ice Giant - Ghost of Humanity (user nomination) 1
64  Shadows - Out For Blood (user nomination) 1
64  Saturnus - The Storm Within (user nomination) 1
64  Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade (user nomination) 1
64  Wyrgher - Panspermic Warlords (user nomination) 1
64  Valdrin - Throne Of The Lunar Soul (user nomination) 1
64  Lamp Of Murmuur - Saturnian Bloodstorm (user nomination) 1
64  Cavalera Conspiracy - Bestial Devastation (user nomination) 1
64  Trichomoniasis - Makeshift Crematoria (user nomination) 1
64  King Gizzard - PetroDragonic (user nomination) 1
64  The Lion's Daughter - Bath House (user nomination) 1
64  Nattverd - I Helvetes Forakt (user nomination) 1
64  Neurotech - Ave Neptune (user nomination) 1
64  Nite - Voices of the Kronian Moon (user nomination) 1
64  Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 3 - A Fullmoon Madness (user nomination) 1
64  Anachronism - Meanders (user nomination) 1
64  Brand Of Sacrifice - Between Death And Dreams (user nomination) 1
64  Entheos - Time Will Take Us All (user nomination) 1
64  Sol - Promethean Sessions (user nomination) 1
64  Blazon Rite - Wild Rites And Ancient Songs (user nomination) 1
64  Hellish Form - Texas is Sinking (user nomination) 1
64  Flight - Echoes of Journeys Past (user nomination) 1
64  Dreadrealm - Live From The Fall (user nomination) 1
64  bloodbound - Tales from the north (user nomination) 1
64  Lightlorn - At One With The Sky (user nomination) 1
64  Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium - Ahab (user nomination) 1
64  Twilight Force - At The Heart Of Wintervale (user nomination) 1
64  Carma - Ossadas (user nomination) 1
64  Dehumanizing Itatrain Worship - Otakuslam​♡​Animecide (user nomination) 1
64  Extermination Dismemberment - Dehumanization Protocol (user nomination) 1
64  Telesterion - Epopteia (user nomination) 1
64  Baltum - Losing Myself (user nomination) 1
64  Baltum - Aeternum Vale (user nomination) 1
64  Warcrab - The Howling Silence (user nomination) 1
64  Grant The Sun - Voyage (user nomination) 1
64  Die Like Gentlemen - Hard Truths (user nomination) 1
64  The ocean - Holocene (user nomination) 1
64  Foretoken - Triumphs (user nomination) 1
64  Khan - Creatures (user nomination) 1
64  Dopelord - Songs Of Satan (user nomination) 1
64  Labyrinthus Stellarum - Tales of the Void (user nomination) 1
64  Inquisition - Veneration of Medieval Mysticism and Cosmological Violence (user nomination) 1
64  Lord mountain - The oath (user nomination) 1
64  Kontrust - Madworld (user nomination) 1
64  LOVEBITES - Judgement Day (user nomination) 1
64  Venus - Obscured Until Observed (user nomination) 1
64  Swallow the Sun - Moonflowers (user nomination) 1
64  Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium (user nomination) 1
64  Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze - The Fractal Ouroboros (user nomination) 1
64  Celestial Sanctuary - insatiable Thirst for Torment (user nomination) 1
64  Sanguine Glacialis - Maladaptive Daydreaming (user nomination) 1
64  Hwaino - Ashes of The World Tree (user nomination) 1
64  Sidus - Seismos (user nomination) 1
64  Voice Of Baceprot - Retas (user nomination) 1
64  VOB - Retas (user nomination) 1
64  Scarred - Scarred (user nomination) 1
Total votes:
353