SixesAlltheway
Ancient Mariner
This is the hardest round yet! Bat out of Hell, Moving Pictures, Gorgoroth and Sepultura ones are all deserving of points. Trying to decide which one of these four not to give points is really tough!
Album Cover Art Cup - ROUND 1 (Ladder 4)
- Thread starter MindRuler
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SixesAlltheway
Ancient Mariner
14 Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell - +3
14 Gorgoroth - Instinctus Bestialis + 2
12 Amorphis - Skyforger
10 Sepultura - Beneath the Remains + 1
9 Rush - Moving Pictures
2 Joe Stump's Tower of Babel - Days of Thunder
14 Gorgoroth - Instinctus Bestialis + 2
12 Amorphis - Skyforger
10 Sepultura - Beneath the Remains + 1
9 Rush - Moving Pictures
2 Joe Stump's Tower of Babel - Days of Thunder
Siddharth
Long Distance Trooper
17 Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell +3
14 Gorgoroth - Instinctus Bestialis
12 Amorphis - Skyforger
10 Rush - Moving Pictures +1
10 Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
4 Joe Stump's Tower of Babel - Days of Thunder +2
Fun fact: Sepultura's Beneath The Remains was earlier supposed to have a different cover art but at the last moment they changed to 'Nightmare in red'. That particular art was later used in Cause Of Death by Obituary.
14 Gorgoroth - Instinctus Bestialis
12 Amorphis - Skyforger
10 Rush - Moving Pictures +1
10 Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
4 Joe Stump's Tower of Babel - Days of Thunder +2
Fun fact: Sepultura's Beneath The Remains was earlier supposed to have a different cover art but at the last moment they changed to 'Nightmare in red'. That particular art was later used in Cause Of Death by Obituary.
MindRuler
Ancient Mariner
But the most exciting!
MindRuler
Ancient Mariner
With 10 nominators and only 6 covers in each ladder that can happen bro. But relax! One of your covers comes in the next ladder.2 rounds have passed and not a single cover I nominated was added!
SixesAlltheway
Ancient Mariner
Fun fact: Sepultura's Beneath The Remains was earlier supposed to have a different cover art but at the last moment they changed to 'Nightmare in red'. That particular art was later used in Cause Of Death by Obituary.
That's interesting! The cover to Beneath The Remains looks super simple if you're looking at it at a glance....but then when you find a good resolution picture of it you realize that there's like a whole world of detail on that skull!
Here's the artist homepage with a better picture:
Siddharth
Long Distance Trooper
Yeah, Beneath has great details on it. I almost went through an ethical dilemma between choosing it and Moving Pictures.That's interesting! The cover to Beneath The Remains looks super simple if you're looking at it at a glance....but then when you find a good resolution picture of it you realize that there's like a whole world of detail on that skull!
Here's the artist homepage with a better picture:
SixesAlltheway
Ancient Mariner
I really like Moving Pictures too - it was tough to leave one out! Moving Pictures is probably a better cover in many aspect but doesn't speak to me as much as the other three.
SixesAlltheway
Ancient Mariner
Indeed. Great cover. Done by Hugh Syme who I think did most of the following Rush albums. He has an incredible list of album artwork - only one Maiden album though - The X Factor!
MindRuler
Ancient Mariner
Yes and a few Megadeth ones too!
SixesAlltheway
Ancient Mariner
Love his 90s ´Deth covers! Countdown and Youthanasia covers match up so well with the musical output of ´Deth at the time. Like Riggs and Maiden.
MrKnickerbocker
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Hugh Syme's earlier work was stellar. He's also done everything for Dream Theater since Octavarium and, well, they're mostly terrible. Clip art + AI 