New Metal Church album cover revealed

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I like it...

Looks nice.

"this" and "present" are redundant though.

Pretty cool, especially cuz this band has historically had lousy album covers. This is kinda simplistic but it's way better than the covers for MASTERPEACE, WEIGHT OF THE WORLD, and especially HANGING IN THE BALANCE (yuk!)

It looks clean, But I got used to the past albums covers, with their guitar logo.
But something is certain, their music is going to be old school and kick ass as ussual.

i hope the music is more exciting than the cover.

powermacho wrote:

It looks clean, But I got used to the past albums covers, with their guitar logo.

If you look closely, the shadow on the ground is in the shape of the famous "guitar cross" logo.

It's cool and I love the last album so hopefully this will be just as good. Heck, I like all their albums.

I love this band. Though my favorite era was definitely the Wayne era I will buy anything they put out. Cover looks pretty cool to me. My favorite is still the self titled though with the moss covered guitar.

you are right. It is very cool to add that detail on the shadow.

I found this on their myspace
"After an overwhelming response to the album cover art for our new
release we have finally decided on a wining cover. The artists name is
Rainer Kalwitz from Germany who is amazingly talented. Due to so many
talented entries we have decided to incorporate several of the other
submissions for the inner sleeve of the CD. This has really shown us
what dedicated fans we have that truly understand our music and we are
so fortunate to have the best fans in the world. We raise the horns to
you , the Congregation!



We would also like to take this time to thank each and every one
of you for your hard work and for all of you that gave your opinions on
the art we put up on our myspace page. The ones on the myspace page
are only a fraction of the entries we received so you can imagine the
difficult decisions we were faced with when choosing the winner.



Once we have had a chance to contact everyone who’s artwork we
have decided on we will release their names. All artists names will
also appear on the CD with a very special thanks. We are so excited
seeing the new release come together and we are stoked to share it with
you. The fact that our fans were a part of this process makes us very
happy. We will keep you posted on the actual release date which should
be early summer.



Metal Church


"

Rainer also did the artwork for the new Temple of Blood album.

Temple of Blood wrote:

Rainer also did the artwork for the new Temple of Blood album.

That's pretty awesome.

Just found my new background screen. Thanks. I think it will be a good able based solely on the fact that the last one is terrific.

TrogDawn wrote:

I like it, but this one's better...

"WORST... album cover... EVER. Not only in the history of heavy metal, but in the history of recorded music. Thank you."

One guy made this picture and send it to band for the new cover, but apparently they didn't choose it:

Fat Freddy wrote:

"WORST... album cover... EVER. Not only in the history of heavy metal, but in the history of recorded music. Thank you."

But that leaves out so many great ones!

Witness:

TrogDawn wrote:

I like it, but this one's better...

Isnt that the new Judas Priest cover art??

sovdat wrote:

One guy made this picture and send it to band for the new cover, but apparently they didn't choose it:

That's a nice one. Better than the one they picked!!!

TrogDawn wrote:

I like it, but this one's better...

*shudder*

TrogDawn, thanks for the laughs.

Fat Freddy wrote:

sovdat wrote:

One guy made this picture and send it to band for the new cover, but apparently they didn't choose it:

That's a nice one. Better than the one they picked!!!

i agree

That would look even cooler without any of the words. I love album covers that are just pictures. So many old-school classics (more so in rock) that did that.

sovdat wrote:

One guy made this picture and send it to band for the new cover, but apparently they didn't choose it:

I dig this one better that than one they went with as well. Hope the music is good. I kinda lost interest in these guys after Master Peace.

the last picture is way better than anything I have seen before