Album cover

[VerbalPuke]

Sometimed I criticize metal for being too silly. But then sometimes it is the over the top silliness that I love. I am a hypocrite.

[Hellraiser]

My favorite metal covers are those drawn by German artist Andreas Marschall. He is mostly known for drawing the covers for all of Blind Guardian's albums in the 90s. He also designed the covers of the first 3 and the latest 2 HammerFall albums, Grave Digger's "Heart Of Darkness" & "Tunes Of War", In Flames' "The Jester Race", "Whoracle" and "Colony", Rage's "Black Mind", "Trapped" and "End Of All Days", Statovarius' "Visions" and everything for Running Wild from 1991 to 1998 including their magnum opus "Black Hand Inn".

And those are just his most well known works. He also did covers for a lot of other bands. He used to be one of the most sought after cover artists in Europe in the 90s. In the 2000s he decided to focus on aspects of his career other designing album covers. Amongst other things he directed music videos and small feature films. But recently he made a comeback. As mentioned above HammerFall are working with him again, he has been drawing for Obituary since 2005 and he is also doing covers for bands such as Orden Ogan, Crystal Viper, Symphonity, Holly Cross and Warbringer.

Is it okay to hotlink pictures from Amazon?

[MalaCloudy Black]

My favorite metal album covers are all real easy picks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Too_Late#/media/File:Saint_Vitus_-_Born_Too_Late.jpg

[VerbalPuke]

Oohh...i like that second one a lot. Fucking brilliant.

[Hellraiser]

Some of the artworks I mentioned:

Stratovarius - Visions (1997)

Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side (1995)

Running Wild - Black Hand Inn (1994)

And something more recent:

Crystal Viper - Queen of The Witches (2017)

 

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

I've never been a metal fan so can only appreciate such nonsense from afar.

 

But....

 

 

Ahhhhhh. Icelandic buttocks.

[MalaCloudy Black]

49 minutes ago, VPNutsRoastingOnAOpenFire said:

Oohh...i like that second one a lot. Fucking brilliant.

I'm also a fan of..

[VerbalPuke]

[MalaCloudy Black]

Great band too. Very straight up, traditional doom metal. Got a great jam called "Cromwell". 

Here's one: