2023: Best Album Art

2023: Best Album Art

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A list by
24emd
Created
August 12, 2023
Entries
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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
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Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare
Art style is very cool for a space cover, colour scheme and smaller details are great
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Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
Funny cover, I've used it in quite a few memes
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Whalesong - Leaving A Dream
Nice and mysterious
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Morwinyon - Wastelands
Landscapes are always good if the art style is cool. Colours are nice
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Oak - Disintegrate
Fairly simple but high quality
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Suotana - Ounas I
Nice Nordic winter
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Winterage - Nekyia
Great depth, has a long distance feel
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Hills Like White Lions - Meander
Exo One vibes, which is always good
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Thumos - Symposium
Very detailed with nice art style
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Miserere Luminis - Ordalie
Silhouette in fire is epic
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Bell Witch - Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate
Love the contrast. Funeral doom album covers are often great
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Avaland - The Legend Of The Storyteller
Way way better than the album itself. Lovely contrast
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Blaze Of Sorrow - Vultus Fati
Less is more fantasy approach. Great landscape in the background
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Subterranean Disposition - Individuation
Very large scale and unique
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Yossi Sassi - Prediluvian
More Exo One vibes minus the people, large scale with lots of contrast
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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
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Die Like Gentlemen - Hard Truths
Colour scheme and art style are amazing
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Sylvania - Purgatorium
Stunning depth with nice colour contrast
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Aeonian Sorrow - Katara
Great art style and very detailed
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Earthside - Let The Truth Speak
Colours are great, I usually don't like green, but the contrast with the red is lovely
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Laster - Andermans Mijne
Nice and unique, looks like an art gallery
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Stortregn - Finitude
Amazing swirl of colour
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The Lion's Daughter - Bath House
Grotesque and hugely detailed
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Lightlorn - At One With The Night Sky
Amazing space scene, reverse curvature is unique
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Alkaloid - Numen
Great colours and space visuals, logo fits very well
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Psygnosis - Mercury
Looks something like Earth's core, cool colour and detail
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TesseracT - War Of Being
Beautiful and abstract
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Hiems - Stranger In A Wasteland
Art style is very cool and so is are the colours and landscape
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Terminalist - The Crisis As Condition
Cool space scene with nice colours, very prog-thrash standard
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Skálmöld - Ýdalir
Great folk landscape, I especially like the colours
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Angra - Cycles Of Pain
Nice misty vibe to it, colour scheme is cool
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Scorched Moon - Obsidia
Cosmic visuals with nice colours
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Ocean's Edge - The Voyager
Blue with good contrast, from the sea to space with mountains and clouds in between. Pretty epic
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Omega Infinity - The Anticurrent
Fantastic sci-fi thing with nice vibrant yellow
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Dark Flood - Illusion Of Light
Similar to Ocean's Edge but even cooler
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Drakwald - Black Moon Falls
Dark with great elements, meteors and large moon especially
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Dreadrealm - Live From The Fall
Overwhelmingly beautiful mountain/lake landscape. Metren has good taste
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Dragoncorpse - The Drakketh Saga
Probably the most epic dragon I've ever seen, sick colours too
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Sunbeam Overdrive - Diama
Clouds are the main attraction here, very beautiful
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Aviations - Luminaria
Amazing visuals and nice colour scheme
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Temple Balls - Avalanche
Great winter landscape. Lots of detail too
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Noveria - The Gates Of The Underworld
Large scale sci-fi, lots of details on the ground and the sky is awesome
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Anima Hereticae - Descended From The Mountains
Snowy mountains with a beautiful orange sky, pretty epic looking steed too
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Anomaly - On The Cursed Wings Of Stolas
Pretty cool space/sci fi thing
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Shylmagoghnar - Convergence
Pretty unique design, very nice with also uncommon colour scheme
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The Flower Kings - Look At You Now
My dreams after pizza
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Thorn - Evergloom
Cool trypophobia
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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.
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Wyrgher - Panspermic Warlords
An Exo One still, like duh
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