Great album covers

[Dorkthrone]

List album covers you genuinely love.

The Mars Volta: Octahedron

Bedlam in Goliath


Funkadelic: Maggot Brain

[LORD M]

[ShroudStar]

Very weird and cool.


Evocative and both sinister and touching.


I love whoever is doing the graphic design for his soundtracks.

[Dorkthrone]

Evocative and both sinister and touching.

Drew Struzan (sp?) kicks ass.

[ShroudStar]

Oh man. No wonder that album art drew my eye.

[el coro]

a couple of my fave old struzan covers.

hes been doing them for a while..

--edit-
ninjacat11: thats funny you mention mars volta, i used to kick it with those guys way back in highschool...so crazy how big they made it. im glad though, they have impeccable taste.

[chriskot]

Electric Six - I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being The Master


Kansas - Point of Know Return

[tobbA]

I think Asian Kung Fu Generation has pretty neat album art

[Gavage]

Queen Adreena - Taxidermy



Electrocute - A Tribute To Your Taste



Jack Off Jill - Clear Hears Grey Flowers

Last one is by Mark Ryden, not sure about the other two.

[George Abraham]

http://991.com/eilcom/gallery/galler...me=Iron-Maiden

[Vorace]

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

Art by HR Giger

[Shard]

always liked sepultura and obituary covers


I think this is the artist:
http://michaelwhelan.com

[Jovian M]

Art by Ashley Wood, for Reuben's third album, "In Nothing We Trust"

[Dorkthrone]

I really don't like Dragonforce at all, but the work Andrew Jones did for this cover is the best thing I can attribute to them.


Also, Wolfmother is a terrible band, but at least they have good artistic taste. The fact that they used Frank Frazetta paintings for some of their covers is both badass and really disappointing.

[Kan Muftić]

Calexico by James Jean.

[aefx]

[Zapp!]

Was going to suggest "A Matter of Life and Death" but I was beaten to it.

So here are my other two then,

Alice Cooper, Raise Your Fist and Yell. It makes me laugh every time I see it



and Pink Floyd's The Wall

[Dusty]

Well Michael Whelan is actually my favorite artist of all time...but since someone already posted him....

Anything by Par Olofsson:
http://www.parolofsson.se/




Anything by Raymond Swanland:
http://www.raymondswanland.com/Pages/Title01.html


Anything by Dan Seagrave:
http://www.danseagrave.com/




Anything by Vincent Locke:
http://vincelocke.com/





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[AsaB]

These are a bit different, but I think the covers of the albums from world music label Putumayo are really charming. They're all done by artist Nicola Heindl. And of course, the music they contain is absolutely fantastic

Here are a few examples, all of which I own:



And one of my all time favourites is Absolution by Muse:

[carlosranna]

When i was a kid i just went crazy with this album cover. It was just the coolest thing ever!

[FranciscoShreds]

animosity and drumcorps split.


cattle decap.



soilent green







genghis tron

[kingshaj]

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[arttorney]

Whipped Cream and Other Delights by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Model Dolores Erickson, I don't know the Photographer.
I like all the Aidan Hughes ones I see. Here is a typical example:

[tarc]

The dragon, by Welshman Terry Oakes

Fly by night, by Eraldo Carugat

[RyerOrdStar]

Kamelot - The Black Halo

[thirdeye]

I could post like a milion of those... for now I'll only throw in those three.

Dave Mckean - amazing covers for metal bands like Fear Factory, Machine Head also great comic artist/cover artist - for example Sandman covers.

Don't know who made the one from Poison the Well - but it's one of my favs.

And last - classic from Storm Thorgerson, this one made for Pink Floyd's classic Wish You Were Here album. He's famous for loads of amazing covers for artists like PF, Dream Theatre, Peter Gabriel.

[Cthogua]

Anything by John Dyer Baizley Incidentally he's also a guitarist and singer for Baroness....and rocks a mighty beard
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[TheDirtSyndicate]

all the tool album art is killer.
but i've always loved this particular photo:


there's also a photo of a cow licking its own butthole that i love, but i cant find that online.
on the album einma i can only find the front cover that wasn't that intersting to me, but it has interchangeable covers that are awesome. had that lintuclar effect

[Shahan]

From at the drive-in to The Mars volta to Omar Rodriguez Lopez to fuckin El grupo Nuevo

i idolize omar rodriguez lopez

check this shit out

1. De loused in the comatorium - TMV

2. the apocalypse inside an organge - ORL

3. Mega Ritual - ORL

4. Amputechture - TMV

[Dave_]

One of my favorites at the moment:

A girl A gun A ghost - Through the Eyes of Ahab


All Shall Perish - Awaken the Dreamers



Halifax -The Inevitability Of A Strange World


The Human Abstract - Nocturne


The Human Abstract - Midheaven


NOFX
NOFX has some epic coverart imo

Surfer


Wolves in Wolves' clothing


Punk In Drublic


I Heard They Suck Live


They've actually gotten worse live






Opeth - Watershed


Opeth - Blackwaterpark


Opeth - The Roundhouse tapes


Salt the Wound - Carnal Reprecussions


Soulfly - Conquer (I prefer this one over dragonforce's once)


Trivium - The Crusade


One of my favorites:
War from a Harlots mouth - Transmetropolitan


Whitechapel - This is Exile


Zebrahead - Phoenix


Zebrahead - Broadcast to the world





More will be added some time. If the thread doesn't die.