2023: Best Album Art

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2023: Best Album Art

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A list by
24emd
Created
August 12, 2023
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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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1.
Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare
Art style is very cool for a space cover, colour scheme and smaller details are great
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2.
Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
Funny cover, I've used it in quite a few memes
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3.
Whalesong - Leaving A Dream
Nice and mysterious
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4.
Morwinyon - Wastelands
Landscapes are always good if the art style is cool. Colours are nice
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5.
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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8.
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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10.
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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12.
Avaland - The Legend Of The Storyteller
Way way better than the album itself. Lovely contrast
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13.
Blaze Of Sorrow - Vultus Fati
Less is more fantasy approach. Great landscape in the background
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14.
Subterranean Disposition - Individuation
Very large scale and unique
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15.
Yossi Sassi - Prediluvian
More Exo One vibes minus the people, large scale with lots of contrast
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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
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Die Like Gentlemen - Hard Truths
Colour scheme and art style are amazing
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18.
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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22.
Stortregn - Finitude
Amazing swirl of colour
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23.
The Lion's Daughter - Bath House
Grotesque and hugely detailed
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24.
Lightlorn - At One With The Night Sky
Amazing space scene, reverse curvature is unique
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25.
Alkaloid - Numen
Great colours and space visuals, logo fits very well
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26.
Psygnosis - Mercury
Looks something like Earth's core, cool colour and detail
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27.
TesseracT - War Of Being
Beautiful and abstract
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28.
Hiems - Stranger In A Wasteland
Art style is very cool and so is are the colours and landscape
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29.
Terminalist - The Crisis As Condition
Cool space scene with nice colours, very prog-thrash standard
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30.
Skálmöld - Ýdalir
Great folk landscape, I especially like the colours
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31.
Angra - Cycles Of Pain
Nice misty vibe to it, colour scheme is cool
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32.
Scorched Moon - Obsidia
Cosmic visuals with nice colours
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33.
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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34.
Omega Infinity - The Anticurrent
Fantastic sci-fi thing with nice vibrant yellow
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35.
Dark Flood - Illusion Of Light
Similar to Ocean's Edge but even cooler
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36.
Drakwald - Black Moon Falls
Dark with great elements, meteors and large moon especially
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37.
Dreadrealm - Live From The Fall
Overwhelmingly beautiful mountain/lake landscape. Metren has good taste
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38.
Dragoncorpse - The Drakketh Saga
Probably the most epic dragon I've ever seen, sick colours too
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39.
Sunbeam Overdrive - Diama
Clouds are the main attraction here, very beautiful
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40.
Aviations - Luminaria
Amazing visuals and nice colour scheme
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41.
Temple Balls - Avalanche
Great winter landscape. Lots of detail too
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42.
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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43.
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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45.
Shylmagoghnar - Convergence
Pretty unique design, very nice with also uncommon colour scheme
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46.
The Flower Kings - Look At You Now
My dreams after pizza
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47.
Thorn - Evergloom
Cool trypophobia
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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.
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49.
Wyrgher - Panspermic Warlords
An Exo One still, like duh
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50.
Wolves In The Throne Room - Crypt Of Ancestral Knowledge
No words.
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51.
Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns And Seven Seals
Good art style
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52.
Corrosive - Wrath Of The Witch
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Gévaudan - Umbra
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54.
Sepulchral Curse - Abhorrent Dimensions
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Aegrus - Invoking The Abysmal Night
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Sorcerer - Reign Of The Reaper
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Burden Of Grief - Destination Dystopia
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58.
King (AUS) - Fury And Death
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Aeon Winds - Night Sky Illuminations
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Cosmitorium - Broken Archetypes
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Splice - Crypsoria's Echoes
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Winterhorde - Neptunian
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Nyrst - Völd
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Devil's Reef - The Droste Observer
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Déhà - I Am No Longer In The Shadows
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Déhà - Above & Below : Darkness Still Reigns
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Déhà - Sleep Well
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