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Albums You Love With Artwork You Hate


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Ever had this problem: You love an album but the cover art is so bad it's embracing.  Specifically, I would draw your attention to the Canadian band Razor. Several of their album covers make me cringe, but the album I really love by them, Evil Invaders, had absolutely deplorable artwork that looks like it was made by a 6th grader. I love the album, but I don't always recommend it to people because the cover is sooooo bad. Maybe this could be it's own thread.

 

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It makes sense for this to be its own thread, so I did that. I don't think bad art has ever affected my enjoyment of an album, but it has kept me from checking stuff out in the past, and there are some albums I love with absolutely horrible art. The first one that comes to mind is Satyricon's Dark Medieval Times. High-school art class reject drawing, anyone?

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This is a great thread.  You see I love both those Satyricon and Graveland covers as although they may be artistically flawed their (to my eye at least) look like effort has been made.  I also love the content on Dark Medieval  Times, haven't heard the Graveland one.

This nonsense, arty, farty bollocks of a cover piece annoys the crap out of me.  Love the record though.

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I don't mind lo-fi album covers, but those particular ones are clumsy and devoid of skill. There's no atmosphere there for me, no marriage of form and function, they're just bad. That's ok though, like I say it never affected my enjoyment of the music.

Here's a stupid, poorly done painting. I don't love Deteriorate's Rotting In Hell but I like it a lot. The best I can say for the image is, at least it's memorable...

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Wow, those Pantera covers are pathetic, lol.

As for the Cancer album, that's from the original version of Dawn of the Dead, both shows it in the movie and was used as a promonent promotional still. I suspect that if they had gotten the right to use the original it probably would have looked much better.

 

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^Two great records there Macabre.

heres a couple I have stashed in the back of my mind

 

Breaker Dead Rider, with awful font, (like how cheesy the art is tho ngl)

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nearly identical and somehow more ridiculous

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another silly cover

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and who could forget this, this is the only one i truly hate, horrendous

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lastly wtf XD

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On 10/8/2019 at 10:33 AM, FatherAlabaster said:

It makes sense for this to be its own thread, so I did that. I don't think bad art has ever affected my enjoyment of an album, but it has kept me from checking stuff out in the past, and there are some albums I love with absolutely horrible art. The first one that comes to mind is Satyricon's Dark Medieval Times. High-school art class reject drawing, anyone?

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The woman who did this also drew the cover to Burzum's 'Det Som Engang Var' if I recall correctly. I think she did a much better job on the Burzum album than this one... This would have been much better without that silly warrior-on-horse figure. 

On 10/8/2019 at 12:14 PM, Parker said:

Another good example is Graveland's Carpathian Wolves:

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This cover is awesome in my opinion, although their re-release is soooo much better. 

On 10/19/2019 at 1:27 AM, MacabreEternal said:

Mütiilation - Vampires of Black Imperial Blood

"John, we need to make an album cover where we look all gothic and imposing!"

"S'ok Dave, my Mum's got this old sideboard and chair we can use.  Will even use one of the old girl's candles too!"

"Ah, spot on John!"

Yeah, this is pretty dumb. The two copies that I own have the alternative cover which is your more traditional Darkthrone style. It's amazing. This... this is awkward. 

I also agree that the Iron Maide - 'Dance of Death' cover is one of the worst of all time, yet the album is pretty good. What a shit fucking cover. 

Here are some albums that I really love that have less than happening artwork: 

Katatonia - 'Last Fair Deal Gone Down'. The bathroom scene is neither melancholic or atmospheric. It's shite. 

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Paradise Lost - 'One Second'. The album is average at best, but that old person's face just doesn't do it for me. 

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Cradle of Filth - 'Bitter Suites to Succubi', 'Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder', 'Darkly Darkly Venus Aversa', and 'The Manticore and Other Horrors'. This band has my favourite album covers of all time and these, my worst. Look at this stupid thing. 

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Fleshgod Apocalypse - 'Agony'. Just a terrible cover, but an amazing album. Lol what even is this? 

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