10 Favourite album covers?

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

#9

This is a band that never really excelled at album covers, they never had really bad ones but rarely had great covers... exept for this one which I absolutely love...



The album by Rush is Fly By Night, their second album released in 1975. The cover is by Eraldo Carugati

I love the imagery and the colour of it.

[Charger]

^^
That is a funky looking cover. Angry Bird before Angry Birds was a thing!



#8 For me is this:




Savatage has had a lot of great covers and in the end it was a battle between Hall Of The Mountain King and this one...But this took the lead. It's like a painting from the 18th centrury. The raging sea, the tattered ship...it just looks cool! Would love to have this as a painting on the wall it is THAT good.

The art is done by Edgar Jerins.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

^^^
Yeah, that's a good cover.


#8



The Damned - The Black Album.

The mausoleum imagery is indicative of the change in style that The Damned had adopted, yes they still had some punkier songs but they clearly wanted to embrace the gothic.

Dave Vanian – artwork concept, design
Allan Ballard – photography
H. Leadbitter – design execution

[Vyn]

Two for one:

Sir Lord Baltimore's "Kingdom Come".



And "Wings Greatest" by Wings. I like the cover much more than the music it represents.

[Charger]

^^^^
There's quite a bit of similarities between that Lord Baltimore album cover and the Wake Of Magellan! Very cool cover that one too!


My #7 is a really creepy one!



Comes from the Third (and final) Charred Walls Of The Damned album called Creatures Watching Over The Dead.
It's a very spooky looking cover featuring a creature crucified in a very creepy looking forest that is taking the body over. The first time I saw this cover I was like Wow! That is really really cool and even scary looking cover. Also something that could work as a (somewhat disturbing) piece of art.
The art is designed by Pumpkinrot, a very talented artist who does some amazing Halloween decorations. Check out his site at pumkinrot.com.

[Zzzptm]

Really liking these all so far...

This one is my fourth...

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

#7

Gillan - Future Shock



I can't find a decent image sadly. It's not the front cover (which is adequate) but the back coyer of the CD which was also one of the images included in the gatefold series of images that came with the original vinyl release. The bleak SF image was always a favourite of mine.

[Zzzptm]

My fifth album cover that I do love... Time for the Jethro Tull...



That's the whole of the cover, there. 

[Charger]

What the heck? They made a whole newspaper as a cover art? That's pretty time consuming!


My #6 looks like this:




DIO really hasn't had a single bad cover art in the history of the band. But this most certainly is among the best ones. The dragon looks amazing and the shine on the logo fits perfectly.
This captures the essence of both the album and the band very well. Also the font is pretty!

This was the first art done by Marc Sasso for DIO and it still remains his best work!

[Zzzptm]

^^ It took longer to write up the newspaper stuff than it did to write and record the album!

And YES that is the BEST Dio album cover!

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

No. 6

Jeff Wayne's War of the World's



One of the first two or three albums I ever bought, and the first one to have a cover that fascinated me. Helped by a booklet that cam with the album which had additional paintings.

[Charger]

Well this is the spot where I'm going to do a band I've already done...and there might be another occation of this happening in the near future!

#5 is this monster!




Couldn't find a better pic of this sadly...

But anywho...This art is just simply put suberb. The massive Murray looking over a field of desponded slaves is about as iconic as the band. Lot of people praise the Holy Diver artwork but to me this is THE ultimate DIO artwork. It's just brilliant. The drawing style is rather simplistic but there's actually quite a lot of detail that you can barely make out.
I believe this is done by Barry Jackson.

[Zzzptm]

That one is 100% on the money, absolutely!

My number six will be more normal sized. Thick as a Brick is a one-off, I assure everyone.



I had never heard a Motorhead album before this one. But this cover spoke to me. It said, "Hey, I'm a pretty awesome metal album. See all those other bands with crappy album covers? Well, this band was so good, it inspired a REAL ARTIST to do a banging job on the cover, and not just some slop with 'sex sells' as the theme, but a proper exploding warthog head of quality, so you KNOW this is gonna be a banger!"

And you know what? The album cover was right! Thanks, album cover! 

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I forgot to post mine yesterday, hope you weren't waiting for me before continuing!

#5

New Model Army - The Ghost of Cain



If I'm honest NMA were never blessed with great cover artwork, so this is a bit of an exception!

Cover design Joolz Denby and Francesca Sullivan

[Charger]

I too wasn't around yesterday so no worries!


I was 98.6% sure Z would post Overkill so I left it out of my list!



My #4 is my introduction to Heavy Metal! So you all know what it is without me posting a picture....but I'll do so anyways! 




I still remember seeing this album at the local second hand store back in the mid 90s and was totally captivated by the art. Knowing nothing of the band or the music the purchase decision was solely based on the cover! And...well...the rest is history.