Metal Storm's Favorite Album Art?
Have you ever taken a good look at some albums in your collection and thought to yourself "My God, if only this piece of shit album was half as good as the album artwork that covers it, it would be a solid 10/10." Pretty much anyone who owns Manowar's Anthology has surely thought that at some point or another.
The point being, it's time to give some props to the unsung heroes who create the album artwork of your favorite, and not-so-favorite albums. We want to know what Metal Storm, as a collective, considers the very best album artwork of all time.
Here's how it works:
Step 1: Go through your album collection, pick out your top 3 favorite album covers of all time, regardless of the quality of the music on the albums.
Step 2: Send a PM to Doc Godin here on Metal Storm with your 3 picks.
Step 3: Tune in on July 31st, and we will reveal the top 50 picks. You can then choose your top 3 favorites out of those 50, and we'll continue to whittle it down in that manner.
The deadline for Round 1 is July 30th.
The point? No point. Just for fun.
- The Metal Storm Team
The point being, it's time to give some props to the unsung heroes who create the album artwork of your favorite, and not-so-favorite albums. We want to know what Metal Storm, as a collective, considers the very best album artwork of all time.
Here's how it works:
Step 1: Go through your album collection, pick out your top 3 favorite album covers of all time, regardless of the quality of the music on the albums.
Step 2: Send a PM to Doc Godin here on Metal Storm with your 3 picks.
Step 3: Tune in on July 31st, and we will reveal the top 50 picks. You can then choose your top 3 favorites out of those 50, and we'll continue to whittle it down in that manner.
The deadline for Round 1 is July 30th.
The point? No point. Just for fun.
- The Metal Storm Team
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.Nick |
27.07.2012 - 20:06
There's a lot of cool artwork, but I'll go for these 3. Amorphis - Skyforger http://www.amorphis.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/skyforger_kansi.jpg Satyricon - The Age Of Nero http://www.satyricon.no/images/Satyricon_the_age_of_nero.jpg Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3055/3256421152_0135a7fafb.jpg
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scaesura Posts: 174 |
27.07.2012 - 20:18
I dont understand how anyone who selects Storm of the Light's Bane can do so over such superior artwork as Frost or Far Away from the Sun or whatever else you care to name.
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27.07.2012 - 20:39 !J.O.O.E.!
Account deleted Written by scaesura on 27.07.2012 at 20:18 Or about a million other artworks. It's an uninteresting and unspectacular artwork imo, but then so many of these are. Most are bad, overly shiny/messily put together photoshop jobs.
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scaesura Posts: 174 |
27.07.2012 - 21:06 Written by Guest on 27.07.2012 at 20:39 Indeed. Honestly I'm pretty disappointed by most people's selections. And I dunno how successful this will be, consequently.
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27.07.2012 - 23:13 ☥
Account deleted Written by scaesura on 27.07.2012 at 21:06 So, it's bullshit if the majority do not choose what you like?
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Ace Frawley The Spaceman |
28.07.2012 - 00:55
Hahaha, someone had to put forth the cover for Born Again by Black Sabbath. I read that this album caused quite a stir when it came out. Doesn't seem a big deal to me but I can imagine people would get upset because babies are beautiful and pure and a depiction of a demonic baby offends people. The bright blue and red they've used is a bit much, and really makes it stand out, with the nice touch of the yellow claws and fangs. Green eyes are weird. For the record, babies are beautiful and pure and sweet and I love them. Haven't heard this album though, so might give it a spin. Gillan on vocals with Sabbath - always been curious about that mix.
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28.07.2012 - 00:58 Written by Uldreth on 27.07.2012 at 12:17 the idea is great, but done too flat for being a really great cover
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28.07.2012 - 01:02 !J.O.O.E.!
Account deleted Written by Guest on 27.07.2012 at 23:13 I don't think it's that necessarily, I just think it would be nice if people put a bit of thought into what they were choosing instead of putting album arts from their favourite records. Obviously art is in the eye the beholder yada yada, but personally I think people have bloody awful taste in art. I mean that Sabbaton cover... seriously...
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28.07.2012 - 01:10 ☥
Account deleted Written by Guest on 28.07.2012 at 01:02 I'll quote Warman here, for truth. Written by Warman on 24.07.2012 at 18:20 Not everyone is going with "artsy" artworks.
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M C Vice ex-polydactyl |
28.07.2012 - 04:00
Does the back cover for Billy Idol's Cyberpunk count?
---- "Another day, another Doug." "I'll fight you on one condition. That you lower your nipples." " 'Tis a lie! Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!"
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28.07.2012 - 04:06 Written by Ace Frawley on 28.07.2012 at 00:55 I think it ended up that way because someone reversed the original colours, but Iommi liked it anyway, so it stuck. Give it a listen, it's a lot heavier than the albums either side of it.
---- "Another day, another Doug." "I'll fight you on one condition. That you lower your nipples." " 'Tis a lie! Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!"
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scaesura Posts: 174 |
28.07.2012 - 05:50 Written by Guest on 27.07.2012 at 23:13 Never said that though I see how you might think I meant that. Should probably have broken up my thoughts a bit. 1. Peoples selections disappoint me. Some are good, some are bad, some meh. 2. Also disappointing, there's no repeating/common selections - bad sign for this, just from whats been posted anyway. 2b. Thusly, since there are no repeating or common selections that I've seen just in here, be they good or bad, it may be difficult to come to any consensus.
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28.07.2012 - 06:28 ☥
Account deleted Written by scaesura on 28.07.2012 at 05:50 It's ok, I might have misunderstood. Sorry. 1. Well, yes, that's how it is 2. I disagree. This is the first round, in which the thousands of album arts out there are going to be narrowed down to fifty. Variation is normal at this point. I dont even think we've seen fifty posted yet.
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Ace Frawley The Spaceman |
28.07.2012 - 07:16 Written by Guest on 28.07.2012 at 06:28 There could be a heap more that have voted because the instructions were to PM Doc Godin with your 3 selections. I've already done that. I didn't post my selections to this thread but it has been very interesting seeing what others have chosen.
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28.07.2012 - 07:45 ☥
Account deleted Written by Ace Frawley on 28.07.2012 at 07:16 Conversely, I haven't sent Doc my votes yet. I'm holding till I make up my mind.
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28.07.2012 - 16:01 !J.O.O.E.!
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Somehow forgot about this one. The album is nothing special but the artwork is truly something else:
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Uldreth Posts: 1150 |
28.07.2012 - 17:08 Written by Guest on 28.07.2012 at 16:01 What's the band/album name? I saw this in yer "favourite album covers" collection too and got intrigued but couldnt find the bandname.
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28.07.2012 - 17:14 !J.O.O.E.!
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28.07.2012 - 18:35 Written by Guest on 28.07.2012 at 16:01 looks boring
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28.07.2012 - 19:36 !J.O.O.E.!
Account deleted Written by theFIST on 28.07.2012 at 18:35 You're right. Garish, horribly oversaturated, messy photoshop disasters like this are much better The key is, once you think you have enough detail and colour and planets and shit, ADD A FUCK LOAD MOAR.
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theFIST |
28.07.2012 - 19:57 Written by Guest on 28.07.2012 at 19:36 yes, very much well, i enjoy hearing, seeing and tasting much, so i like pictures with many details
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28.07.2012 - 20:40 ☥
Account deleted Written by theFIST on 28.07.2012 at 19:57 Every single piece of detail here corresponds to something in the album.
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28.07.2012 - 20:42 !J.O.O.E.!
Account deleted Written by Guest on 28.07.2012 at 20:40 That's how you use detail and colour effectively.
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28.07.2012 - 22:23 Written by Guest on 28.07.2012 at 20:40 yet the result of it just looks like a fairy tale illustration reminds me of vildhjarta: work on getting every note on the right place for boring the listener into sleep
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28.07.2012 - 22:26 ☥
Account deleted Written by theFIST on 28.07.2012 at 22:23 But I do not find it boring.
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theFIST |
28.07.2012 - 22:45 Written by Guest on 28.07.2012 at 22:26 because our tastes are different
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Uldreth Posts: 1150 |
29.07.2012 - 00:35 Written by Guest on 28.07.2012 at 17:14 Thanks. By the looks of it I won't be much interested but the artwork IS gorgeous.
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Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite |
29.07.2012 - 00:38 Written by Guest on 28.07.2012 at 19:36 that is some totally terribly horrendous cover art there. my flying fucking God.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff |
29.07.2012 - 00:40 Written by Guest on 28.07.2012 at 19:36 Oh dear lord this is just bullshit.... This is basically "wanking" in picture form. Urgh. There's no such a thing as "many details" anymore... It's wanking.
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Milena gloom cookie Staff |
29.07.2012 - 02:15
I'll be voting for my mainstream faves when this gets filtered, but getting a few underdogs in: <- Since it doesn't load for me, this is Madder Mortem's Eight Ways.
---- 7.0 means the album is good
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