Best Album Cover Thread!

GREATEST ALBUM COVER EVER !!!!

ultmetal wrote:

Chairman_Smith wrote:

ultmetal wrote:

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This one? It's "Draw the Line" 1978. Great album. Cool cover. I have it on vinyl and CD. Took me forever to find a near mint copy on vinyl. Most copies I saw were tore up and dirty. I guess white is hard to keep clean. There are versions with the Aerosmith logo at the top in black as well. I like the version here with just the line drawing.

Do you know if they printed vinyl copies of Done With Mirrors not backwards? I have one with it backwards and I know they changed it later.

No, all the vinyl copies are backwards, as far as I know. That's one I have yet to re-buy on vinyl. Keeping an eye out for a pristine copy.

My copy is pretty good. It has a few imperfections on the sleeve, worn a bit on the bottom left corner and a few crease marks, the inside has the paper liner notes in excellent condition and the vinyl itself is used, but clean.... not skips.

Interested, make an offer.

And add to that pretty much anything else done by Repka, Pushead, Mid, and Marald.

T-Roy wrote:

I've always like the Tourniquet, Sacrament and Tourniquet covers too. Would like to get "Testimony of Apocalypse" and "Stop the Bleeding" on LP.

There is a copy of "Master of the Metal" on vinyl on Ebay right now.
http://cgi.ebay.com/MESSIAH-PROPHET-Master-of-the-Metal-LP-1986_W0QQitemZ290090924487QQihZ019QQcategoryZ306QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

I am hopeful that Retroactive will released "Into the Pit" on vinyl.

where do even find a record player? used I guess on ebay or something. Wonder how much that MOM will go for?

some of my faves:

I've been going throuh my many metal wallpapers and have found some awesome album covers (many from bands I've never heard of before):







Sorry about the size of the first one (there were no smaller versions being as they are not very well known especially to me).

I gotta ask, some of you guys are just posting albums you like, right? Because there are a ton of covers posted here that
are just complete crap! Haha.

Eyesore wrote:

I gotta ask, some of you guys are just posting albums you like, right? Because there are a ton of covers posted here that
are just complete crap! Haha.

I can't speak for everyone else but I'm just posting covers that I think are the best artwork, not nessecarily (sic) the best album. As I said at the beginning most of those bands (Graveworm, Ancient Curse, Grimforce, Evereve, Ancestral, Dark Moor, and Catamenia). I was under the impression that this thread was about album covers and album covers alone.

T-Roy wrote:

where do even find a record player? used I guess on ebay or something. Wonder how much that MOM will go for?

Yard sale - 5 bucks I have a JVC turntable, works pretty good

DallasBlack wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

I gotta ask, some of you guys are just posting albums you like, right? Because there are a ton of covers posted here that
are just complete crap! Haha.

I can't speak for everyone else but I'm just posting covers that I think are the best artwork, not nessecarily (sic) the best album. As I said at the beginning most of those bands (Graveworm, Ancient Curse, Grimforce, Evereve, Ancestral, Dark Moor, and Catamenia). I was under the impression that this thread was about album covers and album covers alone.

I was making a joke. I find some of the album art here to be dreadful!

Eyesore wrote:

DallasBlack wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

I gotta ask, some of you guys are just posting albums you like, right? Because there are a ton of covers posted here that
are just complete crap! Haha.

I can't speak for everyone else but I'm just posting covers that I think are the best artwork, not nessecarily (sic) the best album. As I said at the beginning most of those bands (Graveworm, Ancient Curse, Grimforce, Evereve, Ancestral, Dark Moor, and Catamenia). I was under the impression that this thread was about album covers and album covers alone.

I was making a joke. I find some of the album art here to be dreadful!

I'm sorry I didn't read your post clearly. I thought you were saying the albums themselves were crap. Joking aside everyone has different opinions on what is good art and what is not. Some rich people buy paintings that I think are God aful but they are considered high quality.

DallasBlack wrote:

I'm sorry I didn't read your post clearly. I thought you were saying the albums themselves were crap. Joking aside everyone has different opinions on what is good art and what is not. Some rich people buy paintings that I think are God aful but they are considered high quality.

I know. Please don't ever analyze my posts too much. Haha.

Yeah, I tend to overanalyze a lot of people's posts. I'm still trying to get used to this discussion board thing (I've never been part of something like this before).

So it's sometimes best to ingnore my nieve rants.

DallasBlack wrote:

So it's sometimes best to ingnore my nieve rants.

Forums don't have enough adverbs!

OK, I've been wanting to post pics of groups who had a string of albums (2 to 4)
with neat covers that just seem to go together as a set. Sometimes, one or two
of the albums in the set weren't the bands' best effort, nor a particular favorite
of mine, but the cover still seemed to go with the others visually/thematically/chronologically,
so I included them to round out the set.

So here are the ones I can remember, arranged by group/era:


AC/DC:




BLUE ÖYSTER CULT:



BOSTON:



CIRITH UNGOL:




IRON MAIDEN:



JUDAS PRIEST (part 1):



JUDAS PRIEST (part 2):



KING CRIMSON:




KISS (part 1):



KISS (part 2):



KROKUS:



MOLLY HATCHET:



TED NUGENT:



QUEEN:



SAXON:



Y&T:



OK, I'll stop now...

LOL @ trog! Lots of good stuff. Iron Maiden and Molly Hatchet have some
SICK artwork. Judas Priest as well. There stuff looked computer
animated...only way before that kind of software existed. Killer!

I like this one alot

OK so the Annihilator one is just too funny


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opeth - morningrise
slayer - sout of heaven
pantera - cowboys from hell
megadeth - rust in peace
black sabbath - heaven and hell
nightwish - dark passion play
violence -eternal nightmare
metallica - kill em all, ride, mop and justice

Some of my faves:













more to come!

that annihilaotor cd cover is actually side splitting. the look on jeffs face is priceless