Best Album Cover

[Sknight2112]

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??

[htcdude]

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.

[Twilight Legionnaire]

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

[MaFiaBoY]

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

[Electric Eye]

made by Derek Riggs

[MaFiaBoY]

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

[Mormegil]

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

[Twilightsymphony]

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.

[Spiderman]

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







And my favorit:

[Electric Eye]

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

[Twilightsymphony]

Its totally not gigers style.

[Electric Eye]

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.

[neonlightchild]

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-

[neonlightchild]

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.

[Spiderman]

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.

[Mormegil]

Shit, I forgot this:

[Painless_Cry]

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

i'll think about more...