Album cover art thread

[lofty vale]

Post album covers that you find beautiful, captivating, evoking. Ideally not the ones that we've all seen 1000 times already. If for some reason you must post NSFW cover art, put it in spoiler tags. The original thread was accidentally purged by a mod.

[opaque grail]

from scratch again

oranje spam as a show of support for tonight

[lofty vale]

lmao

[winged elbow]

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/jackstauber/images/b/b4/Micropop-0.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20221031235447

[lofty vale]

🪞 💀

[opaque grail]

nice

[winged elbow]

https://nowflensing.com/cdn/shop/products/have-a-nice-life-deathconsciousness-cd-boxset-pre-order-28436068859982_2048x.jpg?v=1695004354

[lofty vale]

mfw

[opaque grail]

who did it better

this artwork was done by contemporary artists, I thought they did it for aquilus 🤔 how is another band using the same art

[lofty vale]

it's "ERLKÖNIG" by julius von klever 19th century

any further credits are probably for layout/design/booklet etc

[opaque grail]

oh

[south grove]

and it's based on a popular poem

[opaque grail]

dam that was dark

[covert summit]

👀 who

[lofty vale]

invocation (chile)

[covert summit]

Oooh thank you

[earnest badger]

from what band is this

[opaque grail]

slomatics

[earnest badger]

thank you

[opaque grail]

it's drone metal/doom metal

good stuff, their other covers are also nice

[crimson mulch]

Those r super cool.

[meager marten]

thanks 🌸

[lofty vale]

penguins

[south grove]

'but why?!....'

https://youtu.be/uBk9lLFWGcI

[lofty vale]

one of my all time faves

[opaque grail]

dam

[lofty vale]

its taken from a tiny corner of some larger painting

but i keep forgetting which

[opaque grail]

oh yeah i think i've seen that before

[lofty vale]

there we go

"Der Dunkle Tag" by Pieter Brueghel

moody skyes

it's the yellow vibes in the cover art, combined with the title, "a portal through bloodstained mirrors" that do it for me

like u lookin thru a portal at some arcane citadel

[opaque grail]

evocative titles are awesome

[opaque grail]

nice i think ive seen this one on transcending obscurity's page 🤔

looks like some cult ritual going on

[lofty vale]

possibly

Replicant i think it says

i just got it from randomly crawlin bandcamp

[opaque grail]

yes replicant

they are indeed signed to transcending obscurity

[lofty vale]

i think we are both so kvlt now we can decypher band logos and pinpoint which label they are signed to with little to no effort

[opaque grail]

the kvlt meter is nearing completion

[opaque grail]

@lofty vale remember that cover which i said was from an aquilus album but was actually some old ass painting. The band which released an album with the same cover has changed it now to this.

it's also preddy sick

[opaque grail]

this one

[lofty vale]

ah ye

nise

altho the other one was a lot more epic

but i guess it's bad PR if you're competing with high profile band

[opaque grail]

yeah thats what i figured

[opaque grail]

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[bronze kestrel]

Xasthur - Inevitably Dark

[lofty vale]

🩸 ☠️

[opaque grail]

sick

[lofty vale]

horse be like, bruh, how come I don't get a fuckin spase suit

[opaque grail]

i think the horse is choking

[south grove]

I think the astronaut is questioning why he doesn't come closer to earth.

[opaque grail]

whats that

[lofty vale]

celestial sword

[opaque grail]

noice

incredible, i was able to read the band name from there

[livid rain]

lol

[opaque grail]

.cover

[bronze kestrel]

Order of Nosferat - Vampiric Wrath Unleashed

[livid rain]

Creeping Death Single

I dig it

[lofty vale]

🌫️ 💀 🗻

[stiff shore]

Has anyone posted the Kid A cover yet

[lofty vale]

AI generated slop

[stiff shore]

AI is not welcome here i think

I hope too

This looks like shit

[lofty vale]

no rule against it but im happy to name and shame it when i see it

[pearl summit]

bro

i paid i guy on fiverr to make it..

it was AI?

[opaque grail]

XDDD

i mean...

just check the symmetry in the parts that are supposed to be symmetric

it's definitely AI

[winged elbow]

So badly executed

[south grove]

easy money 🤑

[lofty vale]

LOL

how much did you pay

[pearl summit]

$35..

[opaque grail]

holy shit dude

my condolences

[winged elbow]

Well, for 35$ it was obvious it wasn’t hand made… for 35$ you got what you asked for… pure shit

[fervent abyss]

Found out the other day that all these album covers were made by the same guy

Guys name is Ed Repka, has a really cool art style

[opaque grail]

nice

[lofty vale]

💀 🍷

[pearl summit]

nothing beats this album cover..

[opaque grail]

.co

[bronze kestrel]

Abduction - Toutes blessent, la dernière tue

[stark sparrow]

oh my god. These are amazing. I dont have anyto share but they are amazing

[opaque grail]

damn incredible

[opaque grail]

i remember this cover

idk if ive posted it before

[covert summit]

Wrach?

[opaque grail]

second one

the one with kali

[covert summit]

Ah, yeah Wrach

[opaque grail]

nice

[covert summit]

I'll be checking out some of the albums that have been posted here lol, I'm a bit bored of bm at the moment

I haven't heard anything that interesting

[opaque grail]

ive taken a deathcore break for the past 2 days

will get back to bm in a bit

[covert summit]

I've taken a deathcore/dark trap break recently

But also listen to some bm

Need to find something that's interesting

@opaque grail do you know this?

[opaque grail]

no

looks sik

[covert summit]

I'll post a link in songs sharing

[covert summit]

Same, band, their album art is beautiful

[south grove]

it is! Very nice stuff!

[opaque grail]

.cover

[bronze kestrel]

The Great Old Ones - Cosmicism

[covert summit]

.cover

[bronze kestrel]

Tjaktjadálvve - Winterlust

[lofty vale]

nise

[rose radish]

I dont know if i continue working on it, might get scrapped

but i liked the artwork a lot

[south grove]

it's nice, text has a little limited contrast at sections. If intentional it's fine though.

[rose radish]

yeah its intentional. people should have to look a bit closer you know?

if they care enough to look for the artwork, they should try to notice the details

[lofty vale]

half of it looks AI generated

[rose radish]

it is honestly, but i still dug it so i edited the contrast

[lofty vale]

[rose radish]

😂

[fervent abyss]

Mount POGGERS

[opaque grail]

yes shit

😩

[covert summit]

.cover

[bronze kestrel]

Ethyl - De plaisirs noirs et mornes

[autumn fog]

.cover

[bronze kestrel]

Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs

[autumn fog]

this is sick, what band is this?

[viral stump]

rx bandits

[lament ocean]

I love Mirar's use of classical paintings for the album covers!

[covert summit]

Mirar is amazing

[viral stump]

quality was trash

once more round the sun

[livid rain]

This album is top tier

[lofty vale]

the cover reminds me of an episode of ren and stimpy where stimpy reveals his booger collection

[livid rain]

I only remember that show from that one episode with the fart baby

[gilded grotto]

Based.

I came back.

Ready to get more.

[gilded grotto]

How to tell you're brutal death metal without telling you're brutal death metal.

[gilded grotto]

Mastodon has great cover arts.

[gilded grotto]

Reminded me of that First Fragment last ab cover.

[gilded grotto]

Did you know you can use google lens?

[gilded grotto]

I have very mixed opinions about this. It doesn't sound anything like the album.

[gilded grotto]

Iconic afffff

Original cover slaps too

Especially this saturated red one

[gilded grotto]

Do you know Mesarthim and Darkspace @viral stump ?

They have neat space themed ab covers too.

[gilded grotto]

This one reminded me of that Arcturus album with the aurora borealis as the cover.

Heyyy @covert summit ! Great to see you again!

Man

[gilded grotto]

I always thought Death's best ab cover was the Human. It has so much essence...

[covert summit]

Great to see ya too (I'm sorry I don't remember you)

[gilded grotto]

Nah

I probably changed my name

Bro

I remember a year back

You shared Paysage d'Hiver

And I didn't get it

I actually thought it was the worst shit I had ever heard

Ultra lo-fi and raw shit

But now I love it.

[covert summit]

Oh based asf tho

[gilded grotto]

It truly makes honor to the project's name

Thobias Wintherr is a great one in atmo black.

[covert summit]

Gotta listen to it then

[fervent abyss]

My favorite album cover is Scream Bloody Gore

[gilded grotto]

He is the man behind Paysage and Darkspace

[fervent abyss]

For a debut album, it’s a surprisingly really good one

[gilded grotto]

That's my second fave

[covert summit]

How big are you on Québec bm?

[gilded grotto]

Fucking vibe

[covert summit]

Ohh

[gilded grotto]

It sounds as the music itself

As if you were there, hanging with the zombies!

[fervent abyss]

Yeah even tho the music/lyrical themes isn’t really what they would’ve became later, it’s still a solid death metal album

[gilded grotto]

Not that big because I really need to get more into it. But Gris is fucking awesome.

Pinnacle depressive black metal.

[fervent abyss]

Yeah I’ve heard someone say the album sounds like it was recorded in the same cave as the skeletons

And I agree

[gilded grotto]

😆

[fervent abyss]

That’s what I like about it

[gilded grotto]

How would you rank Death albums @fervent abyss ?

[covert summit]

You'll definitely enjoy sombres forets then

[gilded grotto]

I have them pending

[covert summit]

Check out Onirique - Orphique

[gilded grotto]

Thank you so much.

I listened to To Lay Like Old Ashes by Austere once again today.

"This Dreadful Emptiness" is one of those songs...

[covert summit]

Yeah Austere is great

I love their track Just For a Moment

[gilded grotto]

Third, fourth and fifth track of that work are great

[covert summit]

Indeed!

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[bronze kestrel]

Orphique - Consécration cadavérique
-# Requested by Boredom

[gilded grotto]

DAMN!

got my attention

Saved for later!

This band has collaborated with Sombres Forêts

[viral stump]

no

[viral stump]

what album is this that's sick asf

i forgot image search exists

[covert summit]

Ordalie - Miserere Luminis

[covert summit]

You'll enjoy it, it's a beautiful album

[gilded grotto]

Google Lens

It has never failed me a single time

[bronze kestrel]

Absu - The Sun Of Tiphareth
-# Requested by Chaosphere

[gilded grotto]

@viral stump your cup of tea

[bronze kestrel]

Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
-# Requested by Chaosphere

[gilded grotto]

One of my favorite ab covers in existence

Fucking twistedly insane

Similar one beneath

[bronze kestrel]

Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects - Sol Niger Within
-# Requested by Chaosphere

[gilded grotto]

Fucking peak

[covert summit]

.cover

[bronze kestrel]

Lifvsleda - Det Besegrade Lifvet
-# Requested by Boredom

[gilded grotto]

Reaper shit

Do you know...

Uhh...

I forgot the name 😭

[covert summit]

Lmaoooo ouchies

[covert summit]

@gilded grotto this is worth listening to purely because zombie vocals

[gilded grotto]

Damn

[covert summit]

.cover

[bronze kestrel]

Asphodèle - Jours pâles
-# Requested by Boredom

Psychonaut 4 - Have a Nice Trip
-# Requested by Chaosphere

[gilded grotto]

Damn

Tis one good

But the original is way more artistic

[covert summit]

Psychonaut is cool

[gilded grotto]

One of the best modern depressive black bands out there

I want to see if they truly get into progressive territories

This song left me with a really good taste.

https://youtu.be/ugmpWVTeI7c?si=jF4nQEMWjkD8oRqD

[covert summit]

True, I wonder if I may have anything saved that's close to competing

[gilded grotto]

None

Good one too

[bronze kestrel]

None - Inevitable
-# Requested by Chaosphere

[gilded grotto]

Solid stufd

Contemporary depre black is dead in terms of quality

It is not in terms of quantity; there are lots of new projects, but a lot of them are shitty or plain mediocre.

The 'golden era' was the 2000's decade.

I really want to listen to depre black with disso black and prog black.

Like a modern V: Halmstad (Niklas angående Niklas).

[covert summit]

I havent explored dsbm too much so I don't have much of an opinion, some of it I enjoy some of it no

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[bronze kestrel]

Lunatii - Elimino
-# Requested by Boredom

[gilded grotto]

It is a very hit or miss genre, unfortunately.

Mostly because it has grown out of Internet culture.

And it doesn't really have a quality filter.

[covert summit]

True true

[gilded grotto]

If the edgy teenagers would put themselves copying to Strid, Thy Light, Gris, Nyktalgia or Totalselfhatred instead of Lifelover, the genre would be so much better.

The funniest thing is that Lifelover is the copy of another band that is also a copy of other bands. 🤣

Forgotten Woods, pioneers of post-punk + black metal.

Which is, essentially, Burzum + Joy Division.

[covert summit]

Lmaooooo

Yeah some dsbm bands are just shit

[gilded grotto]

Nyktalgia is very riffy depressive black.

They have actual black metal (tremolo picking, blast beats...)

[covert summit]

I don't think I've listened to them but now I'll have to

[gilded grotto]

I can just share their best songs.

They only have two full-lengths with four tracks respectively.

[covert summit]

I typically enjoy atmo bm and symphonic black metal

[covert summit]

Sure

[gilded grotto]

"Exitus Letalis" and "Lamento Larmoyant" for their first one.

"Peisithanatos" and "Pavor Nocturnus" for their second one.

[gilded grotto]

Do you know this song?

https://youtu.be/klWbkubdoWY?si=eFbby27bkaNv7tDW

It borders sympho black.

[covert summit]

Yup, I am a true chad totalselfhstred enjoyer hehe

[gilded grotto]

[covert summit]

I screenshotted these names and will listen to them in the morning, thank you!

[gilded grotto]

You're welcome.

[covert summit]

:D

Aquilus is the great symphonic bm out there imo

[viral stump]

should out to album covers with a random woman on it

[opaque grail]

definitely the best among bands that are still active

[opaque grail]

this symbol looks familiar, who's this?

o found it in songs-sharing

[covert summit]

Yup

[gilded grotto]

Great!

[fervent abyss]

Mb didn’t see this earlier

Tbh I don’t really know how to rank all Death albums because I haven’t fully listened to all of them

Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy are both really good albums

I honestly kinda prefer the more death metal sound they had early on compared to the prog stuff from Human and onwards

But even their prog stuff is really good

Been listening to Human again recently

Not to mention this is a cool album cover

[gilded grotto]

💀

[gilded grotto]

My favourite too.

[gilded grotto]

Very influential.

[fervent abyss]

Haven’t listened to music in general too much recently, been busy with school

😭

[gilded grotto]

Damn...

I really really feel you...

I do the opposite in a slight way.

I use music to comfort myself from the overwhelming and inhumane amounts of near pointless work and tasks.

[livid rain]

Individual Thought Patterns and The Sound of Perseverance are probably my favourites

[fervent abyss]

Tbh I don’t really think Death has a bad album

All albums are good

[gilded grotto]

Yes.

My least fave is SH.

Cannot stand the production... 🤕

[fervent abyss]

Each album even has a different sound to it, almost like it’s a differnet band each time

(Which it actually kinda was cause the lineups kept changing)

[gilded grotto]

I wouldn't go that far. You can still identify Schuldiner is behind the songwriting.

[fervent abyss]

I know, I just mean like the general sound

Not necessarily the song writing

[gilded grotto]

But the fact that he always wanted to improve and evolve is what makes Death great.

[fervent abyss]

Everyone always considers that their weakest album, tbh I still think it has good songs

Altering the Future and Defensive Personalities

Those are both good songs imo

[gilded grotto]

Yeah.

I said my problem was the production.

The music is alright.

[fervent abyss]

Plus that was the album that laid the groundwork for the deeper themes that would show up in later albums

[gilded grotto]

The lyrics are the absolute highlight.

Funny as all hell.

[fervent abyss]

Kinda fair yeah

Tbh tho I never had a problem with the sound production

[gilded grotto]

I really do.

Considering how their other albums (especially SBG) sound.

SBG production is the pinnacle of any OG death metal.

Present and deep-toned bass guitar, crisp cymbals, good snare tone, bass drums sounding like they should sound, guitars with the perfect amount of distortion, iconic clean tone, and some of the best vocals from Chuck.

And that overall reverb, goddamn...!

Human also had a letdown in the production.

They solved it with the remaster.

But the songwriting compensates for everything.

[covert summit]

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[bronze kestrel]

Ars Onirica - II: Lost
-# Requested by Boredom

[gilded grotto]

.co

[bronze kestrel]

Immolation - Acts Of God
-# Requested by Chaosphere

[gilded grotto]

Just change the positioning of their logo to the upper right and you have a perfect album cover.

[covert summit]

True, the logo placement is not it haha

[autumn fog]

.co

[bronze kestrel]

Alcest - Shelter (Deluxe Edition)
-# Requested by Freya

[gilded grotto]

[opaque grail]

.co

[bronze kestrel]

Realm of Wolves - Hegemon of Cold Seas
-# Requested by HØÜND

[opaque grail]

.co

[bronze kestrel]

Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh
⚠️ NSFW - Click to reveal
-# Requested by HØÜND

[covert summit]

👀 wazzat

[opaque grail]

angr

[lofty vale]

so much dead stuff in one pic

[opaque grail]

i see a rat, a fox, a bird

dunno what the others are

maybe there's a snek too

[south grove]

uhmen maybe a hrse as well

[opaque grail]

yea the big one is probably a horse

[lofty vale]

more likely a deer, as these are woodland critters

i see a larger dead bird at the bottom

[opaque grail]

speaking of deer, i clicked some great deer pics recently

[lofty vale]

and there's the human skvll ofc

[south grove]

uhmen skv77

[lofty vale]

and those shrooms are probably deathcaps i guess

poor mr fox tho

[opaque grail]

he had to die

for the art

[south grove]

as had the person, considering the rotten state it might have been the first and may have even inspired that pic. 🤔

[opaque grail]

lmao

🐟

[lofty vale]

inkwizzishun

[opaque grail]

i knew it, it's the same artist as these covers

he has a distinctive way of doing water

[south grove]

#1260634492310257767 message

[midnight gate]

damn beautiful cover

[livid rain]

Forgot if I already posted this but it's good

[lofty vale]

👀

[covert summit]

.co

[bronze kestrel]

Ensomhet - The Fall of Yggdrasill
-# Requested by Boredom

[lofty vale]

i do like a bit of tape kvltism

[opaque grail]

[fervent abyss]

👀

[lofty vale]

nice pixels

[opaque grail]

@lofty vale what cover does this remind you of, i cant place it

but there is some cover with a black horse that looks just like that

@covert summit

[covert summit]

Well the black horse could be synestia

[opaque grail]

thats a white horse 👺

and it's a skelly horse

i mean a regular fully fleshed black horse

[lofty vale]

maybe one of these, first that come to mind

das all i got

also

[opaque grail]

moulin banal

that one looks sick

[lofty vale]

very jingle bells

[opaque grail]

santa claws

[lofty vale]

those presents will get delivered cum snow or brimstone

[opaque grail]

it's not any of those, im not sure if there actually even is an album that im remembering, maybe im just going insane

[lofty vale]

nah it does ring a bell

but i think it's the dissection or emperor bell that is ringing for me

you could always find the artist and see what else they've done

there's a moderate chance if the style is very similar its the same guy

[opaque grail]

yeah, i will try that

[lofty vale]

nvm this guy's style changes drastically from album to album

xD

[covert summit]

Vro you know moulin banal?

Ily

Also what's the first one

[covert summit]

O I forgor

[covert summit]

Very good quebec bm

[opaque grail]

Nice

[covert summit]

Hey do you know any sketch bands?

there was this ultra sketch band with a grayish or very dull coloured photo of streets with a purple logo

I'm going insane looking for it

[lofty vale]

heckin sketch bro???? what the flip!!! be careful out there friendo

[covert summit]

I'll do things to you if you don't tell me what the first album is br0

[lofty vale]

firtan - marter, but the cover art is from a painting that's been used a few times already

[covert summit]

Ah okay ty vr0

Saying vr0 hurt my soul

[lofty vale]

np brÿthÿr

[opaque grail]

😱

i cant say i do, even if i do, im not aware if they are sketch or not

[covert summit]

Dang

I can't find that band I'm going insane

[verbal raft]

Can't believe this hasn't been posted

[livid rain]

Higher quality

[lofty vale]

wuzzat

[livid rain]

Jubian by Ripped to Shreds

Pretty good Entombed worship band

[lofty vale]

neato

[autumn fog]

sorry its kinda nsfw but i really like the attention to detail in anatomy

[blazing dove]

my festive version of midas by wunderhorse

[lofty vale]

probably AI but i'll let it slide coz it had good taste 😒

[opaque grail]

reminds me of this for some reason

has a similar crispness

[lofty vale]

tru. same lighting

[gilded grotto]

What's the band?

[gilded grotto]

And tis one?!

[gilded grotto]

Inquisition never fails giving great visual art to their albums

[gilded grotto]

No. Simply no.

[gilded grotto]

What's the band?

[gilded grotto]

!?

[gilded grotto]

I know an artist that makes tapes about ovni/alien/extraterrestrial drawings

Cover arts slap too

This is the artist

[opaque grail]

III by ANGR

[opaque grail]

i forgot 💀

i need to look for it

[gilded grotto]

🙏

[lofty vale]

thats reissue art, i prefer original cover for every single one. these reissues all look homogeneous and bland imo

winner is clear

[opaque grail]

colours are more intense

[livid rain]

Ripped to Shreds

[opaque grail]

what does this remind me of 🤔

[lofty vale]

wampyres probably

feelin wampyric might wamp later 😳

(uwu)

[opaque grail]

what sleep deprivation does to a man

[gilded grotto]

Whatever you say. :shrug:

All are cool for me.

[gilded grotto]

Thank you, kind sir.

[livid rain]

It's pretty solid Entombed worship stuff

[gilded grotto]

Alright. Not interested in the music, but thank you anyways.

[opaque grail]

do you play albums and just stare at the art for 30 minutes

@lofty vale is good at that too

[south grove]

like a 3 houre trance of staring on bm covers while getting ear blasted at the same time?

doesn't sound too bad imagining the slop that's on tv nowadays

[covert summit]

I would but my music player broke

Something about a python library it can't fucking find

Peak

[south grove]

what, that shit should be freely available somewhere!

[covert summit]

Can't access it somehow

[south grove]

captain gxj

[covert summit]

xd

[south grove]

yeah, so you're missing file xd12 or the authorization for that in opt/taur../ :/

[covert summit]

my interpreters on pycharm did a fucky wucky recently

maybe that has a connection

[south grove]

maybe^^

[covert summit]

Oh I fixed it

yay -S python-pysdl2

I have all my cute friendly bands back!

[south grove]

looks awesome

[covert summit]

Indeed!

I love quebec bm

I need new quebec bm if you know any bands

[south grove]

nah, the french is repellent to me, I am working on it, though

I'll look some of those up you just posted

got a 3.5 hour train ride tomorrow, enough time to stare at album covers

[covert summit]

Start with Kaevum

Non french and 100% politically questionable but musically awesome

[south grove]

thanks! 👍

[gilded grotto]

Bloody link

[opaque grail]

what's that album

[bold heath]

Music From Big Pink

by "The Band"

Yes, their name is literally "The Band"

[opaque grail]

lol

[lofty vale]

not original at all. won't listen

[opaque grail]

i love the severed part of the neck

[lofty vale]

nice pixels bro the white one is my favourite

[lofty vale]

wuzza

t

[livid rain]

A dragon

[opaque grail]

Shadows Over The Fallen Lands by Tårfödd

[untold moat]

If you have an aged version of the cover than it just hits different

[lofty vale]

aged version

[opaque grail]

lmao

[quartz oracle]

.

[hardy pike]

I think the best covers I know are all king gizzard albums. That's kinda boring

all the same band

[quartz oracle]

you should figure what the art style/artist is and see what other work is in that genre or by that artist

im sure you could find some other cools tuff

[quartz oracle]

this one is so awesome damn

[hardy pike]

the artist is jason galea but I think he works strictly with the band

[quartz oracle]

jason needs to cool it on the lsd lmao

[hardy pike]

not an album cover, but pretty cool

[quartz oracle]

damn what is this from

[hardy pike]

a magic the gathering artist called dominik mayer

[hardy pike]

I think his later works aren't as good as what they had been

[quartz oracle]

rlly enjoying living

seeing and experiencing so much cool shit like this

[hardy pike]

?

[quartz oracle]

like that art

just grateful to be alive

[hardy pike]

I love living as well

[quartz oracle]

❤️

I hope I dream of colorful skies and cool soundscapes

goodnight friend

[autumn fog]

not a crazy album cover by any means but it just tickles my brain idk

[opaque grail]

thats why it's my pfp

[lofty vale]

rip green fallen angel thing

[opaque grail]

i like to think it was a rising angel 👼🏼

[lofty vale]

🕊️

[lofty vale]

sp00py

[covert summit]

Wazzat

[covert summit]

Stupid ass replies button

[opaque grail]

Enterprise Earth's upcoming album

Descent Into Madness is the name, from what I can read on the cover art

[opaque grail]

No idea what is happening in the cover but the album is sick

[warm marten]

Deathwestern by Spiritworld goes pretty hard.

[opaque grail]

conifere

[verbal pewter]

What band is this

[opaque grail]

Ancient Sphere

[covert summit]

Trve kvlt ç4d

[lofty vale]

this guy is committed to the eldritch dark secrets of the sea, exchanged his hand for some squigglywigglies

[south grove]

On first glimpse it looks like an untidy abandoned wardrobe standing next to the apartment's entrance. But on second view, it's a shrine.

[dusk pivot]

both drawn by the band's bassist

[opaque grail]

nice

[opaque grail]

Skull bricks

I love the sky

[south grove]

It reminds me of Dürer paintings somehow. Those heavy color gradients.

[lofty vale]

tfw u shit so much the whole bathroom becomes a swamp and u just sit there trying to come to terms with it

[opaque grail]

lichen tomb?

[lofty vale]

ashen

[opaque grail]

oh well

lichen would have been new

[opaque grail]

whats this

[covert summit]

I second that, what is it

[opaque grail]

people before mirrors were invented

[covert summit]

LMAO

[lofty vale]

verval wederkeer

(i didnt listen)

[opaque grail]

the effect is so cool

i guess it's some knife work

[south grove]

mate, at least censor it from my innocent eyes just scrolling through!!1

[lofty vale]

we poasting all the 6/10 covers of platinum selling albums we all seen 6 gorillion times in the last 30 years i guess

[opaque grail]

quick someone post toxicity

[covert summit]

Alright bet

SCREW YOU!!!!!!!!!!

[opaque grail]

[eager current]

absolutely iconic

[eager current]

Mushroom Death Sex Bummer Party - Wine Lips

[opaque grail]

fever dream core

[lofty vale]

xD

[lofty vale]

i ain't even mad, that's impressive

[opaque grail]

[opaque grail]

solid album as well

[covert summit]

Wazzat

[opaque grail]

this gift is a curse

album is heir

pretty good album

[covert summit]

I'll check it out

[opaque grail]

when the shrooms hit just right

💀 🍄

[pearl summit]

see if u can read the band name lol

[opaque grail]

i know this artist

this guy

has also done a lot of other popular cover artworks

[slate shuttle]

i fw this image fam

[lofty vale]

this isnt an album cover, and is just some AI slop u generated isn't it

[opaque grail]

wtf bro how'd you know that

[lofty vale]

something about the pillow just looks off

[livid rain]

New Conan

Out in about a month

[opaque grail]

damn cant wait

[gilded grotto]

FIREEE

[gilded grotto]

Da fuq is that dogshit quality?

[gilded grotto]

Absolutely true!

[gilded grotto]

No fucken way. You've seen nothing then.

[opaque grail]

hence my pfp now

[gilded grotto]

Did you listen to the album though @opaque grail ?

[opaque grail]

yeah i did

[gilded grotto]

It has a meh score on RYM (around 3.20/5)

[opaque grail]

it was nice meloblack

but nothing very new

[gilded grotto]

Meloblack?!

It was tagged as atmo black on rym

Damn people...

[opaque grail]

oh well, it's a pretty blurry line

[gilded grotto]

I expect 7/10 bm

[gilded grotto]

Oh, I see.

[opaque grail]

i would give it a 6 i think

[gilded grotto]

Alr

Fair enough.

More of a curiosity than anything then.

[opaque grail]

i only listened because of the cover art

which is mostly why i listen to any album

[gilded grotto]

As it should be.

Man, I remember I once listened to an uberobscure black metal album

That featured an entire hip-hop section

[opaque grail]

lmao

[gilded grotto]

Cannot remember if it was trap

Or anything else

[gilded grotto]

Yeah, it was nuts

But it also was kinda meh for the most part

Although it also had its parts

I cannot remember the name

But I remember the cover being a church

Under a sky similar to the one in Morbid Angel's Domination

Bizarre purple sky

With the edification on the center

And bm aesthetics

Like that

Cannot remember if the logo was down on the ground or up on the cross

Yeah, it actually was as shite as the cover art

But I still remember it of how fucking kvlt was despite not being black metal at a hundred percent.

[opaque grail]

not an album cover but this is awesome

@lofty vale guess the artist

[lofty vale]

ai? xD

[opaque grail]

it's lewandowski it looks very different from his hoodied scythe bearing character infested work

[lofty vale]

ahh

some of the things being rather melon shaped instead of spherical trhew me off

[opaque grail]

the lines are blurring

[opaque grail]

.cover

[bronze kestrel]

Wolven Ancestry - The Wrath of Gaia
-# Requested by HØÜND

[opaque grail]

some more sadboi wolf covers

[slate shuttle]

no it’s real 😰😰😰

[lofty vale]

i hope u know that if you live by the slop you die by the slop

[south grove]

and it's a sloppy death for sure!

[lofty vale]

when adam burke departs from his usual skullslop he makes some pretty cool shid

[opaque grail]

i stand by the skullslop

but yes this is an awesome cover artwork and i absolutely love this album too

[simple falcon]

eureka by きのこ帝国 (Kinoko Teikoku)

top tier shoegaze cover

[opaque grail]

bruh

[lofty vale]

@ruby nebula check out the unironic 🤙 in this imperial triumphant cover

transcending mere mortal hustlebustling

[ruby nebula]

They're just disgustingly NYC.

[opaque grail]

bekhira

[lofty vale]

shakira's lesser known cousin

[opaque grail]

💃🏼

[lofty vale]

new sodom

@spice talon cheggit

[opaque grail]

big guy

[ruby nebula]

@lofty vale found the most kvlt BM cover

[lofty vale]

[opaque grail]

💀 wtf

i will make many memes with this

[opaque grail]

@ruby nebula isn't this similar to the stuff you got from AI a while back

you were going for different emotions or something

[ruby nebula]

Yeah, different temperaments. And yes, that alcest cover was a major inspiration for what I wanted out of it

[opaque grail]

ah

[ruby nebula]

We got that as a big flag in our rehearsal space.

[prime owl]

Ozone dehumanizer, Italian underground stuff

The album is called NIHIL 3

[empty widget]

Local Hardcore band (technically an EP but shut up)

all of Lovebites covers are like this btw its sick

[opaque grail]

.co

[bronze kestrel]

Labyrinthus Stellarum - Rift in Reality
-# Requested by HØÜND

[spice talon]

Bruh what is that band name

[opaque grail]

cosmic labyrinths

🫨

[spice talon]

It's unreadable

[opaque grail]

it's written right over there BRO

[lofty vale]

br0 can't even read LOL

[lofty vale]

idea for your next album @ruby nebula

[opaque grail]

romantic black metal

(it's real)

[covert summit]

It's a pretty decent sounding album too

[empty widget]

thats the chillest black metal album cover ive ever seen

too bad i hate black metal

[south grove]

yeah, too bad!

[empty widget]

not for lack of trying man

[south grove]

it's ok, it's not for everyone.

[opaque grail]

Yes it's only for the musically superior dungeon dwelling kvltlords

[covert summit]

.co

[bronze kestrel]

Urfaust - Compilation Of Intoxications
-# Requested by Boredom

[opaque grail]

those tits

[covert summit]

Of course

You notice the tits

[south grove]

well, it's the first thing we all crave after entering this world.

[opaque grail]

eternal

[grave scaffold]

Best album cover oat

[opaque grail]

cold

[opaque grail]

.co

[bronze kestrel]

Hypocrisy - The Arrival
-# Requested by HØÜND

[opaque grail]

👽

this has to be the funniest black metal cover ive seen

well it's obviously melodic going just by the cover but still bm adjacent melodeath i guess

those graphics have 2000s written all over them

[lofty vale]

kek

[opaque grail]

nice

probably same artist as that other album cover of theirs

i forget the name, it has some half naked women in the wilderness or something like that

no, it's a naked baby

[fervent abyss]

Derpy red eye goat

[opaque grail]

🕯️ 3 years ago today

respect posting

[wary tusk]

I'm a simpleton

[opaque grail]

.co

[bronze kestrel]

Severoth - By the way of light
-# Requested by HØÜND

[opaque grail]

reminds me of that ulver cover

.co nattens madrigal ulver

[bronze kestrel]

Ulver - Nattens Madrigal
-# Requested by HØÜND

[lofty vale]

and

[opaque grail]

yes

[lofty vale]

sp00py

[feral tulip]

Band ragequit album demo btw

They’re like punky

[south grove]

what is it?

[covert summit]

Dauþuz - Vom schwarzen Schmied - Bergkgesænge

[south grove]

thanks!

[covert summit]

You're welcome! This is the clean vocals version of the album but they have the same thing in screamy

[opaque grail]

lmao never heard of that before

only come across instrumental versions of albums

[feral tulip]

White pony, it’s simple but it just feels diff

[livid rain]

classic

[opaque grail]

"Are you not entertained" ass cover

[gilded grotto]

Up there

[gilded grotto]

meh

[gilded grotto]

That's such a great cover...

[opaque grail]

yeah i forgot what it was

[upbeat egret]

Two of my album cover ideas

The sitting stickman is already on my EP hehe

[opaque grail]

nice

[covert summit]

Wazzat

[lofty vale]

ash borer final album

The Irrepassable Gate

[covert summit]

Danke, will listen

[thorn summit]

World Is Yours album cover by M.O.T.F.D is on the simpler side but I love it, especially with how the limited use of colors contrast together

[lofty vale]

one of my all time favez

[opaque grail]

noice

[boreal tiger]

Even though everyone has seen it a billion fucking times, the meaning is what makes it A MASTERPIECE. It’s iconic because it visually explains the entire album.

The cover shows Lady Justice - she is a symbol of fairness, law, and balance - cracked, bound by ropes, and collapsing, while money falls from her scales. It's not decorative, it's a visual summary of the album’s thesis.

1. Lady Justice is blindfolded - justice is supposed to be impartial
2. The cracks in her body mean that the system is broken from the inside
3. The ropes that are holding her up mean that JUSTICE IS BEING CONTROLLED, not independent
4. Money outweighing the scales means that the truth and fairness are corrupted by wealth and power.

She is not completely destroyed, but slowly falling down. THATS THE KEY... The system still exists but it no longer works

aboslute best cover in the history of music
||and don't even let me talk about the meaning of each song and how it all connects into this image!||

[lofty vale]

it's cool solid 8/10. fave part is the logo recess effect with green underneath, only just noticed that tbh

[opaque grail]

never really looked at the artwork properly before

[boreal tiger]

dudes i tell you, this cover is as deep as it goes. incredible message and symbolism

[boreal tiger]

Metallica punched out of concrete, it's beautiful

[south mirage]

all these are peak

[lofty vale]

peak pixels

[opaque grail]

lmao why did i find this funny

the sky is so cool

[lofty vale]

its a rare adam burke work that doesn't involve a skull

[south grove]

it's nicely hidden

[opaque grail]

oshid of course it's adam burke

something about the way he uses highlights is recognizable

[opaque grail]

sick

[opaque grail]

lmao

[lofty vale]

@ruby nebula @spice talon @quaint kettle new d0rkthr0ne in may

maybe they will rewind a bit to their speedier metal and less doomy shit

[spice talon]

Hopefully

back to ROOTS

[spice talon]

CRO-MAGNON METUL

[south mirage]

would go hard as an album cover

[lofty vale]

when you accidentally a whole habanero

[south grove]

nice

[final flax]

talent for living

front/back of the cd

[lofty vale]

return to monke

[spice talon]

[south grove]

It is a classic

but also a great sounding album

[spice talon]

10/10 album

the cover is questionable though, but still a classic

[lofty vale]

when the novel u readin is pretty damb fire y0

[quick prawn]

heavier metal album covers sre so hard peak

[empty widget]

there is no world in which that says mourning veil

[opaque grail]

lmao

thats one of the worse ones i've seen

the logo

[lofty vale]

i guess it has deathcore vibes

like lorna sh0re logo?

[opaque grail]

true, but lorna logo still pretty readable

the best logos are readably unreadable

[spice talon]

lorna shore

[lofty vale]

lawna sure

[lofty vale]

i think about this one a lot, i think he absolutely nailed the vibe of spring/summer rainstorm. made by aran, of lunar aurora

[opaque grail]

the female figure i didnt even notice at first

[lofty vale]

a u r a

[quick prawn]

it fits the songs so well

[quick prawn]

ew

[south grove]

they dismantled the violin 😐