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2024: Best Album Art


The best album art of 2024. I usually gravitate towards album covers based on these factors:
-Level of detail (Foreground, background, etc. One dimensional album covers don't work for me usually)
-Art style (Renaissance is cool, power metal fantasy cartoons are not)
-Colour scheme (Vibrant colours but not too wacky or fluro)
-Winter, space, large scale visuals
-Contrast (Through colour and actual landscape)
-Abstract/paradoxical

No particular order, they are all great

Created by: 24emd | 08.12.2023



1. Solbrud - IIII
Not easy to describe why, but it's certainly unique.
2. Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall
Not exceptionally original when it comes to this genre, but this art is very good-looking, especially in the texture of the fog.
3. Infected Rain - Time
At the time of writing, I know nothing about this band except that this cover is incredible.
4. Darkspace - Dark Space -II
Greyscale cosmic
5. Borknagar - Fall
Cool colours and design
6. Scanner - The Cosmic Race
Really cool space scene
7. Vorga - Beyond The Palest Star
Sci-fi thrash looking, on a black metal album
8. Vemod - The Deepening
Phenomenal, the colours, the design, the depth
9. Chapel Of Disease - Echoes Of Light
High quality and very good looking
10. Engulf - The Dying Planet Weeps
Colours and design are great, I honestly would prefer just the background though.
11. Notochord - Aegis
Good weather, pretty obscure on the defining details
12. Infant Island - Obsidian Wreath
13. Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach
14. Kings Winter - The Other Side Of Fear
15. Wandering Oak - Resilience
16. Far Beyond - The End Of My Road
17. Cave Sermon - AI's Lullaby
18. Morta Skuld - Creation Undone
Finally some art from this style which isn't unbearably cringy or generic
19. Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer
20. Hand Of Kalliach - Corryvreckan
21. Cathubodua - Interbellum
22. Kiuas - Samooja: Pyhiinvaellus
23. Neurotech - Memory Eternal
24. Acathexis - Immerse
25. Deception - Daenacteh
26. Hideous Divinity - Unextinct
27. Hamferð - Men Gu​ð​s Hond Er Sterk
28. Cantique Lépreux - Le Bannissement
29. Among The Lights - Sphere Of Solitude
30. Belore - Eastern Tales
31. Aquilus - Bellum II
Probably halo effect but still fantastic
32. Fractal Gates - One With Dawn
33. Ghost On Mars - Out Of Time And Space
34. Deliria - Phantasm
35. As The Sun Falls - Kaamos



Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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Comments: 1   Visited by: 30 users
12.01.2024 - 07:59
poring dark
Nice list, looking forward to how this will develop over the year. And yes, they are all great!
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