AWESOME ALBUM COVER ART THREAD

[Lacquer Head]

Fucking love me some 80's Thrash Metal covers

 

[Abethedemon]

 

[dorkin44]

Haven't listened to this one but the weirdness of this one is my personal fave. The back art is cool too.

Spoiler: because size

Edit: Oh shit forgot Indelibly Stamped, that's some cool art too.

Spoiler: slightly nsfw

Same band has the creepiest album art though as well.

Spoiler: actually really creepy

 

[Anus]

I'm a huge fan of Dan Seagrave's art.

Spoiler: Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream

Spoiler: Carnage - Dark Recollections

Spoiler: Decrepit Birth - Polarity

Spoiler: Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness

 

[Tomboy]

I'm a huge Yes fan and love their album covers with Roger Dean's artwork.

Also The Grand Astoria's stuff's pretty rad.

Holy Diver by Dio

Brain Salad Surgery by Emerson, Lake and Palmer

Nursery Cryme by Genesis

Painkiller by Judas Priest (and honestly most of their album covers are rad as hell)

Point of Know Return by Kansas

Fire of Unknown Origin by Blue Oyster Cult

 

[Positron]

 

[Queen of Tarts]

Björk - Vulnicura

 

[ZehnBoat]

 

[Lacquer Head]

 

[Captain Homicide]

And I can't remember if I posted any Angelic Process covers here before, but here's Weighing Souls with Sand:

 

[Dalhox Wolfchains]

I really love this album, too.

 

[Lacquer Head]

Nice and Simple

 

[Van Darkholme]

Spoiler

 

[House Of Reeves]

I like the art for Father John Misty's "I Love You, Honeybear" album. Really cool part is the inside of the case is a pop-up book.

Spoiler

 

[Malt Liquor]

Occultation - Silence in the Ancestral House

Manilla Road - The Deluge

Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

Sulphur's Aeon - Gateway to the Antishpere

 

[Cable 7]

I love anything that's insane and just plain stupid when it comes to album art. Chapter 1: The End is tamer when it comes to insane hip-hop covers but it's still strange as hell.

The world is ending, the obviously green-screened in members of the Three 6 Mafia riding a Radio CD Player with jet turbines attached to it while one of the members hangs off the antenna. It's unfathomably stupid. And that's why it's so great.

 

[Big Nasty]

insane and just plain stupid

 

[Dudeofteenage]

 

[Van Darkholme]

Totally. Great album too. Actually all of the pre-Violator covers are pretty good IMO.

Spoiler

Just going through my own collection, could probably find more if I actually tried.

 

[Dudeofteenage]

I've heard that the Atom Heart Mother came from the band saying they wanted something totally non-psychedelic.