Judging by the cover

[blaaacdoommmmfan]

On 3/7/2021 at 11:32 AM, Strawberry said:

Never ever judge anything by looks alone alone because if you do your often miss out on some great things. I bet if I showed the October rust album cover to people who had never head a Type O Negative song before I bet most if not all would never guess it was a gothic metal album. 

Absolutely. The cover draws me in. But if the music is not unbelievable. I'm not going to get it. I do read reviews so if review is intriguing I'll give an album a go even if cover is rubbish. Obviously recommended albums are worth a go to so cover is not important for this as long as album is really good

Re October rust. What genre did you expect from title. Industrial metal maybe like fear factory

[Innominate]

On 3/7/2021 at 5:32 AM, Strawberry said:

Never ever judge anything by looks alone alone because if you do your often miss out on some great things. I bet if I showed the October rust album cover to people who had never head a Type O Negative song before I bet most if not all would never guess it was a gothic metal album. 

I never saw it before and I never would of guessed it was a gothic metal album. Except for the rose thorns and dark camera filter... and the fact the band's name is a reference to blood and the album title is the words "October" and "Rust" put together.

[NokturnalBoredom]

I absolutely judge an album by it's cover when I'm deciding whether or not to stock it in my store. Having an eye catching cover is important and I tend to err on the side of Necrolord covers and covers with cool drawings or paintings on them. Some good albums have shitty covers (like the early Gorgoroth albums) and that's a case where you have to take a chance on the album because the cover is not telling you anything about what the music is like, which is the most important reason for choosing a good album cover.

Like I know that Cold Lake is a bad Celtic Frost album based on it's cover. Same with Vanity/Nemesis (and I was right on both counts). You don't go from having amazing covers like To Mega Therion and Into The Pandemonium and then go putting out covers like Cold Lake and Vanity/Nemesis unless your music has also gone downhill by a lot. For another example: Helloween's Keeper of the Seven Keys pt I has art that lets me know that it's a power metal album. Chameleon has art that looks like a Super Famicom logo and you know that the music is going to be bad as a result.