Randalf
Ancient Mariner
I very much appreciate the visual consistency and overall style of the The Book of Souls and Senjutsu albums and their representative media, so I kind of wish The Final Frontier also went with that. The album cover isn't the best, but I don't hate it either. The comic-book style "single covers" are absolutely brilliant and I really like the booklet imagery; that Starblind/The Talisman page spread is beautiful!
However, all of the mentioned visual elements are totally different from each other and I think it would have been pretty cool if it all was a bit more stylistically overarching.
The other side of the coin is, admittedly, that the versatility & variation kind of appropriately underlined the sci-fi adventure vibe of the The Final Frontier era!
Anyway, it's not like I'd specifically fancy a brand new, alternative visual package for that album, but I think it'd be speculatively very interesting if they went all-out with the retro sci-fi comic book imagery at the time! It would certainly stand out quite colourfully between the grim A Matter of Life and Death & The Book of Souls.
(...kind of related to the topic, right?)
However, all of the mentioned visual elements are totally different from each other and I think it would have been pretty cool if it all was a bit more stylistically overarching.
The other side of the coin is, admittedly, that the versatility & variation kind of appropriately underlined the sci-fi adventure vibe of the The Final Frontier era!
Anyway, it's not like I'd specifically fancy a brand new, alternative visual package for that album, but I think it'd be speculatively very interesting if they went all-out with the retro sci-fi comic book imagery at the time! It would certainly stand out quite colourfully between the grim A Matter of Life and Death & The Book of Souls.
(...kind of related to the topic, right?)