album covers that you like

A pretty simple topic regarding album covers; simply post (or link to) album covers that you like. Whether you actually like the album or not has no bearing on this topic - just providing you think the cover is good.

I have a fair few album covers that I like, but for the moment I'll just post three:

• Butchered at Birth◊ by Cannibal Corpse (NSFW)
• Annihilation of the Wicked◊ by Nile
• Dirt◊ by Alice In Chains

I'll post more later.

EDIT: Fixed Dirt link.

edited 8th Dec '09 9:09:00 AM by Lordnecronus

• Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
• Monster Magnet - Tab... 25 (I didn't have the patience to finish listening to the title track, but still great cover)
• B12 - Electro-Soma
• Deftones - Deftones
• Pelican - What We All Come to Need
• Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
• Godflesh - Streetcleaner
• Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want to Be
• Underoath - Lost in the Sound of Separation

edited 8th Dec '09 10:13:48 AM by Litis

Any cover ever made by Necrolord or Dan Seagrave.

Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know◊
Cormorant - Metazoa◊
Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell◊
Melechesh - Sphynx◊
Angel Witch - Angel Witch◊
Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death◊
Judas Priest - Painkiller◊
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny◊

edited 15th Dec '09 10:52:54 PM by The Sanity Assassin

Sigh.

@Meta Four: Hm, didn't see that thread before. Even so, the last post in that thread was from September, and even though I'm not against necroing, doing it to a thread that was last posted in three or so months ago... yeah.

A Hawk and a Hacksaw: Déliverance◊

Supertramp - Crisis? What Crisis?◊

They Might Be Giants - The Spine

edited 6th Aug '10 8:38:48 AM by Fuzy2K

Dead Kennedy's Bedtime For Democracy is a really awesome album cover. So is Frankenchrist(the one that wasn't censored), but that's more of a personal liking.

edited 8th Jan '10 7:53:04 PM by iamathousandapples

A few of my favourite album covers:

• And So I Watch You From Afar - S/T◊ (Wins the LOL WUT prize)
• Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago◊
• Efterklang - Parades◊
• Explosions In The Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone◊
• Jeniferever - Choose A Bright Morning◊
• Mew - No More Stories...◊
• Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind◊
• My Latest Novel - Deaths And Entrances◊
• Vessels - White Fields And Open Devices◊

edited 8th Jan '10 4:13:00 PM by Saeglopur

I really like the cover for Fight With Tools

Sufjan Stevens: The BQE◊

This cover for Nirvana's Incesticide really scares the fuck outta me with the alien that crawled outta Uncanny Valley. But then again, I freakin' LOVE this album, ( especially Son of a Gun) so I really don't know what my status is on it...

• Fugazi - Red Medicine◊. In compact-disc-size, it took me ages before I figured out that the bottom half of this is the band swimming in the ocean upside down.
• Menomena - Friend And Foe◊. Those non-black-and-white parts are actually holes in the booklet where you can see through to the disk itself. Thus it looks a little different depending upon how you have the cd itself positioned, and of course looks different when you have the disc out of the case.
• Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom◊. Another kind of neat gimmick cover. You open it by pulling a tab on the side and... this happens◊.

edited 24th Jul '11 9:13:54 PM by MikeK

^ Hell yeah to Friend And Foe, amazing artwork. Speaking of Menomena, their new one, Mines◊, has artwork which is a Stereogram, so if you look at the front and back covers simultaneously with your eyes slightly crossed, the statue on the cover appears 3D, as ably demonstrated by this poster version◊.

edited 23rd Jul '10 2:15:17 PM by Saeglopur

I'm sure by now everyone knows I'm a huge Distillers freak, but I absolutely Love the cover from Coral Fang (NSFW) Anti-Christianity, Violence, and Nudity all rolled into one kick ass cover!

I have a poster sized version of this◊ (NSFW) on my wall.

Humina humina humina.

edited 25th Jul '10 9:28:30 PM by MiracleWhipHipster

Humina humina humina.

I agree with this statement, though you should probably mark that that's NSFW.

The vinyl version of this album has this◊, vinyl sized. So you can stare at it while listening to it, alone in the dark, while high.

edited 25th Jul '10 5:56:06 PM by SpainSun

^^ Awww, Surfer Rosa! It's da Pixies! I loved the song Gigantic, even if it's about a black guys dong...

While we're still on the subject, I have no frackin clue what this is◊

Haha, whatever it is, it represents the Pixies perfectly.

[1]◊

edited 25th Jul '10 9:43:53 PM by TheSanityAssassin

"^^ Awww, Surfer Rosa! It's da Pixies! I loved the song Gigantic, even if it's about a black guys dong..."

Whoa, it is?! And here I was thinking it was about...well, I just sort of thought songs by the Pixies weren't actually "about" anything.

On another note there's too many scary album covers here. Heres one◊ to balance things out.

edited 25th Jul '10 11:19:31 PM by Warron

Here's the lyrics to Gigantic, by the Pixies. Do the math.

Whoops, I forgot to add an album cover! I like this FIF for some reason. It brings back memories as a child listening to this in our old car. Also, I loved the Shadow Dogs, but that's not entirely why I like this cover. I loved this album.

edited 26th Jul '10 4:11:45 PM by shadowgirl_13_chaos

Hallucinations◊ by Atrocity. Made by H.R. Giger of Alien fame. He does a lot of album covers, most of which I like.