Metal Storm's Favourite Album Art: Round 2!
Round 2 is here folks!
Before seeing the top 50 covers that made it into Round 2, let's explain how Round 3 is going to work; this time, you pick your top 4! The 4 you choose MUST be from the list below (the 50 most popular choices from Round 1). Round 3 will see this list of 50 drop down to 20. Be sure to check out as many of these as possible, you may have missed some awesome artwork!
Please message Doc Godin with your TOP 4 picks from Round 2.
Here is the list for Round 2:
Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit
Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea
Alcest - Écailles de lune
Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising
Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thundergod
Amorphis - Skyforger
The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand
Ayreon - The Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer
Be'Lakor - Stone's Reach
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
Born Of Osiris - The Discovery
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Cormorant - Dwellings
Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom
Dissection - Storm Of The Lights Bane
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free: Part II
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
High On Fire - Death Is This Communion
Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
Iced Earth - Horror Show
Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Keep Of Kalessin - Reptilian
Kvelertak - Kvelertak
Les Discrets - Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées
Mastodon - Leviathan
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Obituary - Cause Of Death
Opeth - Heritage
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Septicflesh - The Great Mass
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Solstafir - Svartir Sandar
Spawn Of Possession - Incurso
Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Vildhjarta - Måsstaden
Wintersun - Wintersun
The end of Round 2/Beginning of Round 3 will be on August 8th.
Before seeing the top 50 covers that made it into Round 2, let's explain how Round 3 is going to work; this time, you pick your top 4! The 4 you choose MUST be from the list below (the 50 most popular choices from Round 1). Round 3 will see this list of 50 drop down to 20. Be sure to check out as many of these as possible, you may have missed some awesome artwork!
Please message Doc Godin with your TOP 4 picks from Round 2.
Here is the list for Round 2:
Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit
Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea
Alcest - Écailles de lune
Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising
Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thundergod
Amorphis - Skyforger
The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand
Ayreon - The Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer
Be'Lakor - Stone's Reach
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
Born Of Osiris - The Discovery
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Cormorant - Dwellings
Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom
Dissection - Storm Of The Lights Bane
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free: Part II
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
High On Fire - Death Is This Communion
Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
Iced Earth - Horror Show
Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Keep Of Kalessin - Reptilian
Kvelertak - Kvelertak
Les Discrets - Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées
Mastodon - Leviathan
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Obituary - Cause Of Death
Opeth - Heritage
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Septicflesh - The Great Mass
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Solstafir - Svartir Sandar
Spawn Of Possession - Incurso
Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Vildhjarta - Måsstaden
Wintersun - Wintersun
The end of Round 2/Beginning of Round 3 will be on August 8th.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
Written by [user id=20536] on 31.07.2012 at 17:20 But then again most people who like that sort of art also like cheesy music and there are loads of people on MS who love cheesy music
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Staff Posts: 21306  |
Personally I've always favored paintings, or at least if it's digital... something that looks like it was painted, not simply Shopped. 
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Written by Tiago Rocha on 31.07.2012 at 17:43 Well, this pretty much proves it's a popularity contest (as we already should have known). There were only a couple here I'd even consider putting in my top 10. T'was all expected, though, so no harm, no foul. 
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| thewaytonever Posts: 69  |
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power<----- Seriously? It's not even cover art for christ's sake its a god damn picture of a dude faking getting punched in the face. Stupid trendy bastards and your silly votes. On a brighter note how can you go wrong with Todd McFarland doing your cover art Iced Earth's the Dark Saga is a winner but I personally think that Night of the Stormrider was their best album art.
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| ?apleee Mouthcrab Posts: 260  |
All three of mine made it, and I'm only surprised about Somewhere Far Beyond, I was expecting IFTOS or NFIME. I'm going to vote for different ones this time. Written by BloodTears on 31.07.2012 at 12:11 I considered it, but it's not THAT good, is it?
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| Boxcar Willy REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Posts: 9175  |
Kvelertak - Kvelertak This was the only one of mine that made it 
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| Mattybu Posts: 2589  |
Laaaaaaaaaaaaaame starting my own album artwork contest, no wintersun/opeth/pantera cock straddlers allowed
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| BitterCOld The Ancient One Admin Posts: 15289  |
Written by Edmund Fogg on 31.07.2012 at 16:40 it is pretty funny, really. "everyone's taste sucks but mine."
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| Ocean Sage Posts: 474  |
I like Black Sabbath's first album cover, both Mastodon ones, and High on Fire's Death is this Communion. It has Cthulhu on it!
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| CHEF METALHEAD KEEP IT METAL Posts: 168  |
I know it's to late but this is killer... 
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| Doc G. Full Grown Hoser Staff Posts: 9718  |
Written by Alakazam on 31.07.2012 at 16:17 Ouch! Keep in mind this is readers poll type thing. Popular vote will generally see these types of results.
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| theFIST Posts: 1075  |
Written by Doc G. on 01.08.2012 at 00:39 that"s why the system chosen for this doesn"t work sorry for not having given any input for that on time, but here"s how it coud work: include all nominations in list 1 (round 2) with the album covers then people"d have the complete range to choose from, not just the typical write in candidates
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| BitterCOld The Ancient One Admin Posts: 15289 |
Written by theFIST on 01.08.2012 at 00:58 how is it not working? just because you don't like the results? how in hell could we possibly reasonably judge something like album art? limit it to Art History majors? if we allow audience participation, the popular artists will always do better. it's the way it is here and everywhere.
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| Doc G. Full Grown Hoser Staff Posts: 9718 |
Written by theFIST on 01.08.2012 at 00:58 Posting all the nominations would have resulted in a list damn near 300 names long. Some people (most people) want to go about this casually, not spending tons of time sorting through a list in which the results will serve no actual purpose, but just be a fun observation. The amount of people that would just choose their own picks again would be almost 100%
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Written by BitterCOld on 01.08.2012 at 01:03 yes, but it"s the usual story of many simply submitting their favourite albums (many having the same favourite leading to the already popular albums getting into the top 50) which in combination with the 50 limit gives those people no chance to even look at the covers of less popular albums if all nominated album covers got displayed in the round 2 list, that"d allow for people to look at and choose from all covers submitted, not just the already well known ones of course some would still vote for their favourites without checking anyways, but if the 50 limit was just for entering round 3 good looking covers of less known albums would have a more serious chance of staying in the race until the end it would be one round more to get through, but the results would be much more based on looks than on already likes
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| theFIST Posts: 1075 |
Written by Doc G. on 01.08.2012 at 01:11 yes, the list would have been longer, but making the pictures accessible in he post instead of just writing the album names as text would allow longer lists to be looked at more casually than the short list requiring image searches also, the long list would include many others than the common "their own" picks, while in the short list most of the others are already taken out of course it doesn"t serve a purpose, but a big part of this site doesn"t to casual visitors
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| BitterCOld The Ancient One Admin Posts: 15289 |
It wouldn't make a lick of difference. the vast majority would vote for the same albums. every year MS puts up 10 bands for a genre in the awards. every year a popular band fails to make our cut. every year people froth at the keyboard about how Megadeth/Kreator/Dimmu/Absu whatever should be in the awards. Every year that band gets more write-in votes than 3 or 4 of the lesser known bands we nominate. Combined. it doesn't matter that we literally go out of our way to try and provide links to sites to explore nominees music. it would be exactly the same here.
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| WorpeX Made of Metal Posts: 1354  |
Went through all of them. At least 60% of these have awful or uninteresting artwork. With that said, I found two albums with some kickass artwork that I voted for in addition to the two that I had from last round that made it into this one. Iced Earth - The Dark Saga Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came Vildhjarta - Måsstaden Spawn Of Possession - Incurso
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| Doc G. Full Grown Hoser Staff Posts: 9718 |
Written by theFIST on 01.08.2012 at 01:24 I'm sorry. Putting this together has already been fairly time consuming, I don't have endless hours to put into linking roughly 300 albums to there images for what might curb the voting slightly, which would then be rendered unnecessary by the time the next round is up. All that just for a fun little observation? Pass. I don't get paid to do this, and there is other shit to do around here. Also, this: Written by BitterCOld on 01.08.2012 at 01:26
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| AngelofDeth Cyborg Raptor Posts: 1183  |
Damm I have to individually look at all these??? some links woulda been nice... Well Ill get to this tomoro I guess. But hey one of my top 3 made the list!
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