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Okay, my turn to start a thread!

What do you is/are the coolest metal album covers?

Id say either Iced Earths Something Wicked or like any of Gamma Rays

your opinion??

I like any with Artwork like that, Sonata Arctica's new one is pretty kool, i agree with Gamma Ray's, i like Turilli's as well.

Blind Guardian's Somewhere Far Beyond, Imaginations from the Other Side and Nightfall in Middle-earth

Stratovarius' Destiny and Elements Pt. II

Rhapsody's Rain of a Thousand Flames and Power of the Dragonflame

Iron Maiden's Live after Death, Brave New World

Metallica .. And Justice for All

Rammstein's Sehnsucht just rocks
Both Elements are beautiful too, and I'd also say Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon

The Chosen Ones is great too

made by Derek Riggs

I love this one, THIS is a guiter. Well it's no metal but still, it rocks (and this album rocks too)

The best:
1. Helloween - Better Than Raw
2. Symphony X - The Odyssey
3. Judas Priest - Painkiller
4. Dio - Killing The Dragon
5. Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
6. Manowar - Warriors Of The World
7. Iron Maiden - Brave New World
8. Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
9. Yngwie Malmsteen - Fire And Ice
10. Helloween - Metal Jukebox

The worst:
1. Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death :sick:
2. Helloween - Pink Bubbles Go Ape
3. Helloween - Chameleon
4. Judas Priest - Point Of Entry
5. Rainbow - Difficult To Cure
6. Gamma Ray - Heading For Tomorrow
7. Black Sabbath - Born Again
8. Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy
9. Judas Priest - Stained Class
10. Judas Priest - Turbo

Dunno...

Iron Maiden - Brave New World for sure, i love that motive, i have a flag in my room...

Opeth - Damnation and Deliverance, including additional artwork. I just love the style of those photographs...

Emperor - Anthems to the welkin at dusk. Perfectly fits the atmosphere...

and .. well, dunno... i dont really like all those colorful cheesy motives of many bands.. Derek Riggs old work is great though and you cant go wrong with Andreas Marshall either...

i also like the photomanipulations of.. that guy i cant remember, who made the artwork for Dimmu Borgir´s Death Cult Armageddon and the last Kreator Album.. although very HR Giger influenced.

Why don't put some pictures with it, so that we know what we're talking about?







And my favorit:

Spiderman wrote: And my favorit:

Was it paintet by H.R. Giger? here is another expmple of his artwork as a cover
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brian Salad Surgery, one of my favourite album and cover

Its totally not gigers style.

you mean Agent Steel? well, maybe, but it is inspired, it's a bit similar to creature from "Alien", though I've never seen this movie, I just know his paintings.

1.- Somewhere in time -iron maiden-
2.- Powerplant -gamma ray-
3.- Reckoning night -sonata arctica-
4.- V -symphony x-
5.- Elements II -stratovarius-
6.- Powerslave -iron maiden-
7.- Youthanasia -megadeth-
8.- Better than raw -helloween-
9.- Live after death -iron maiden-
10.- Dreamspace -stratovarius-

H.R. Giger and Derek Riggs are my fave's. One uses his aliens and the other one his eddies and wierd creations...those guys are extremely creative.

It's done by Dimitri Patelis. I had to check it out, cause I never looked for it myself. Check out http://www.creatorx.com/, he's got some pretty nice artwork.

Shit, I forgot this:

strato - destiny
nightwish - oceanborn
nightwish - century child
theatre of tragedy - velvet darkness they fear
kotipelto - coldness
stratovarius - intermission

i'll think about more...