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2023: Best Album Art


The best album art of 2023. 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 | 12.08.2023



1. Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare
Art style is very cool for a space cover, colour scheme and smaller details are great
2. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
Funny cover, I've used it in quite a few memes
3. Whalesong - Leaving A Dream
Nice and mysterious
4. Morwinyon - Wastelands
Landscapes are always good if the art style is cool. Colours are nice
5. Oak - Disintegrate
Fairly simple but high quality
6. Suotana - Ounas I
Nice Nordic winter
7. Winterage - Nekyia
Great depth, has a long distance feel
8. Hills Like White Lions - Meander
Exo One vibes, which is always good
9. Thumos - Symposium
Very detailed with nice art style
10. Miserere Luminis - Ordalie
Silhouette in fire is epic
11. Bell Witch - Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate
Love the contrast. Funeral doom album covers are often great
12. Avaland - The Legend Of The Storyteller
Way way better than the album itself. Lovely contrast
13. Blaze Of Sorrow - Vultus Fati
Less is more fantasy approach. Great landscape in the background
14. Subterranean Disposition - Individuation
Very large scale and unique
15. Yossi Sassi - Prediluvian
More Exo One vibes minus the people, large scale with lots of contrast
16. Pressure Points - The Island
Amazing contrast - waves, moons, clouds, lightning, the waterfall, the cliffs, even some smaller details on the island that I can't even make out. Absolute feast for the eyes
17. Die Like Gentlemen - Hard Truths
Colour scheme and art style are amazing
18. Sylvania - Purgatorium
Stunning depth with nice colour contrast
19. Aeonian Sorrow - Katara
Great art style and very detailed
20. Earthside - Let The Truth Speak
Colours are great, I usually don't like green, but the contrast with the red is lovely
21. Laster - Andermans Mijne
Nice and unique, looks like an art gallery
22. Stortregn - Finitude
Amazing swirl of colour
23. The Lion's Daughter - Bath House
Grotesque and hugely detailed
24. Lightlorn - At One With The Night Sky
Amazing space scene, reverse curvature is unique
25. Alkaloid - Numen
Great colours and space visuals, logo fits very well
26. Psygnosis - Mercury
Looks something like Earth's core, cool colour and detail
27. TesseracT - War Of Being
Beautiful and abstract
28. Hiems - Stranger In A Wasteland
Art style is very cool and so is are the colours and landscape
29. Terminalist - The Crisis As Condition
Cool space scene with nice colours, very prog-thrash standard
30. Skálmöld - Ýdalir
Great folk landscape, I especially like the colours
31. Angra - Cycles Of Pain
Nice misty vibe to it, colour scheme is cool
32. Scorched Moon - Obsidia
Cosmic visuals with nice colours
33. Ocean's Edge - The Voyager
Blue with good contrast, from the sea to space with mountains and clouds in between. Pretty epic
34. Omega Infinity - The Anticurrent
Fantastic sci-fi thing with nice vibrant yellow
35. Dark Flood - Illusion Of Light
Similar to Ocean's Edge but even cooler
36. Drakwald - Black Moon Falls
Dark with great elements, meteors and large moon especially
37. Dreadrealm - Live From The Fall
Overwhelmingly beautiful mountain/lake landscape. Metren has good taste
38. Dragoncorpse - The Drakketh Saga
Probably the most epic dragon I've ever seen, sick colours too
39. Sunbeam Overdrive - Diama
Clouds are the main attraction here, very beautiful
40. Aviations - Luminaria
Amazing visuals and nice colour scheme
41. Temple Balls - Avalanche
Great winter landscape. Lots of detail too
42. Noveria - The Gates Of The Underworld
Large scale sci-fi, lots of details on the ground and the sky is awesome
43. Anima Hereticae - Descended From The Mountains
Snowy mountains with a beautiful orange sky, pretty epic looking steed too
44. Anomaly - On The Cursed Wings Of Stolas
Pretty cool space/sci fi thing
45. Shylmagoghnar - Convergence
Pretty unique design, very nice with also uncommon colour scheme
46. The Flower Kings - Look At You Now
My dreams after pizza
47. Thorn - Evergloom
Cool trypophobia
48. Deadly Carnage - Endless Blue
Very interesting, needs to be looked at close up, lots of seemingly unrelated elements all work together in a dreamlike package.
49. Wyrgher - Panspermic Warlords
An Exo One still, like duh
50. Wolves In The Throne Room - Crypt Of Ancestral Knowledge
No words.
51. Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns And Seven Seals
Good art style
52. Corrosive - Wrath Of The Witch
53. Gévaudan - Umbra
54. Sepulchral Curse - Abhorrent Dimensions
55. Aegrus - Invoking The Abysmal Night
56. Sorcerer - Reign Of The Reaper
57. Burden Of Grief - Destination Dystopia
58. King (AUS) - Fury And Death
59. Aeon Winds - Night Sky Illuminations
60. Cosmitorium - Broken Archetypes
61. Splice - Crypsoria's Echoes
62. Winterhorde - Neptunian
63. Nyrst - Völd
64. Devil's Reef - The Droste Observer
65. Déhà - I Am No Longer In The Shadows
66. Déhà - Above & Below : Darkness Still Reigns
67. Déhà - Sleep Well



Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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