Album Art
Although this great album has a very simple but iconic cover of the 5 band members skulls placed on a crucifix, it was the bands second option after the first cover proved to be to controversial. The original cover was created by artist and Juxtapoz magazine founder Robert Williams. The artwork titled ‘Appetite for Destruction’ [...]
Rather than try an explain the complicated entity that is Dangerdoom I’ll just talk about the cover artwork. This is one album where its hard for me to decide which I like more, the cover design or the actual music. For me everything works. The hard rendered type, the iconic character and the weathered feel [...]
What I love about this cover by Ohiogirl’s Andy Mueller (who also runs the record label Ohiogold which released this album) is that no only do you get a small notepad to design your own CD cover but on the first pressing they even included a lead pencil into the jewel case. This was released [...]
Regardless of what Michael has done to himself over the years there’s no doubt the dude can sing and dance. This cover for Dangerous is one of my favs and was also submitted by Elias of A+. Designed and painted by Mark Ryden, again of Juxtapoz fame. It’s one that would have looked glorious as [...]
Can you remember the last time you heard Cannibal Corpse on the radio? What about on MTV? This is a band that gets zero mainstream support but is one of the highest selling death metal bands in the world. Cannibal Corpse’s covers, while not exactly the best examples of good taste or typography have become [...]
It’s Underworld’s fifth studio album (to be released Oct 3 2007) and it looks like Tomato have gone back to a familiar style. In fact it looks like they just combined their first two album cover styles together. I know ripped at the 100 Days Off album but I did like it. That like all [...]
At first glance the cover looks like an image from National Geographic or a still from an Animal Planet documentary. On closer inspection you see that the animals are in-fact taxidermy, most likely shot in a public museum. The cover and inside imagery are the work of New York photographer Seth Smoot. Most of the [...]
This album combines two different Andy Warhol (The Factory) designed covers for two different music artists, The Rolling Stone’s Sticky Fingers and The Velvet Undergrounds self titled album. Both classic covers in their own right. So for a band with the name like Dandy Warhols it just seems fitting. This cover was painted by Ron [...]
I was really surprised when I first saw the cover design (by Shepard Fairey of Obey Giant fame). It was not what I had expected and I couldn’t decide if I loved it or hated it. It instantly reminded me of the Geoff Mcfetridge designed cover for Billy Corgan’s post Pumpkins band Zwan. Yet it [...]
This car crash of objects melded together is intriguing. I feel like I’m in a contemporary art installation. While it looks like an accident you can bet it was days of work to get them just right. And if you were to try and pull something off similar it wouldn’t have the same creative spark [...]
