Album Cover Art Cup

[MindRuler]

It's time to find out what's the ultimate, greatest, most amazing, fantastic album cover artwork here on maidenfans forum.
Because everybody has a different taste this could be quite interesting.

The rules of the game are easy:

- Send me a list with 10 of your favourite album covers in a DM before august 31. You don't need to rank them in the right order.
- There are no limits in the type of album (studio, live, EP or compilation) or music genre but no Iron Maiden!
- If you don´t like the artist or music but you simply love the artwork:
Don´t hesitate to nominate.

Hopefully I will have enough nominations to start the game in september. The first part of the game will be themed ladders.
In the second part of the game there will be battles with knock-outs.
The finals are knock-outs too.

 

[Kalata]

It was about time for such a game. Why only 5 though? There are so many amazing album arts. I have to think about this for a long time.

I would love to participate in a Maiden one.

 

[Azas]

Done

 

[MindRuler]

It was about time for such a game. Why only 5 though?

I edited my post! Let´s nominate 10!

 

[Azas]

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[Azas]

Done—unless you go back and edit your post to allow nominating 15

 

[MindRuler]

Done—unless you go back and edit your post to allow nominating 15

No I won´t.
At first I thought 5 was enough but if there isn´t much respond there won´t be enough albums to make it exciting.

 

[Magnus]

@MindRuler , do covers which are actually paintings which existed long before bands that used them qualify? e.g. Theodor Kittelsen's paintings used by Burzum and other Norwegian BM bands, etc.?

 

[MindRuler]

@MindRuler , do covers which are actually paintings which existed long before bands that used them qualify? e.g. Theodor Kittelsen's paintings used by Burzum and other Norwegian BM bands, etc.?

I love it! Not sure if you mean this specific one but I might even vote for it.
So yeah...If memory serves me well Deep Purple used a Hieronymus Bosch painting once, Bruce stuff from Blake and Armored Saint some surrealistic one too.

 

[Magnus]

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I love it! Not sure if you mean this specific one but I might even vote for it.
So yeah...If memory serves me well Deep Purple used a Hieronymus Bosch painting once, Bruce stuff from Blake and Armored Saint some surrealistic one too.

One of them, yes.
And this one, and others too.

 

[MindRuler]

Feel free to send me a DM with your 10 favourite album cover but no Iron Maiden!
Thank you @Azas , @The Dissident and @Siddharth for sending yours allready.
I´ll post a reminder the last week of august.

In september we´ll start the ACAC.

 

[Siddharth]

@MindRuler Can I just give the name of the albums to you or do I need to send the images as well?

 

[MindRuler]

@MindRuler Can I just give the name of the albums to you or do I need to send the images as well?

Just the names mate!

 

[MindRuler]

 

[MindRuler]

Update: So far I received 6 lists. Together with mine that's 69 great album covers so far!
Yes, one album cover appeared in 2 lists!
There's even a band, quite popular on this forum, with 5 nominated album covers and one with 4. Strange but true: some really famous covers aren´t nominated yet!
For those who didn´t send me a DM with 10 of their favourite album covers, you still have 3 weeks.
Nomination lists received after august 31 won´t be included in the competition.

The first round will be themed "ladders" where the covers that end up high go through to the next round. The winner of each ladder goes through to the finals. The other high placed covers play knock-outs where the remaining ones are seeded into the finals.
More information about how to play in september but I´m sure it´s going to be fun!