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grimwinter13
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:21 am

Sometimes you have to 'judge a book by its cover'. For a lot of technical death metal bands, I really enjoy seeing a crazy detailed and trippy album cover. Some of my favorites are Symbolik's Pathogenesis EP, The Faceless's Planetary Duality, the classic Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten, every album cover from Rings of Saturn (Dingir is especially cool), and Burning the Masses's Offspring of Time. Ya know...the kinda stuff you'd get stoned just to stare at it while the entire album plays.

So what are you favorites - super complex, colorful, and detailed as all hell covers?

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~Guest 74046
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 11:49 am

Cool topic. The vibrant, detailed artwork has always been of the biggest draws for me for metal in general. Here's some of my favorites...

Prosanctus Inferi - Noctambulous Jaws Within Sempiternal Night

This reminds me of Dan Seagrave's cover for Dark Recollections by Carnage taken a step further. Some of the most exquisite, and expressive use of color I've seen recently.

Occultation - Silence in the Ancestral House

So dreamy and surreal. Captures the vibe of the album perfectly.

Mekong Delta - Dances of Death

Very atypical artwork for a thrash metal band, but fitting considering their brand of eccentric, depth-defying technical thrash. Those burning oranges!

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Necrobiotik
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2017 6:50 pm

I super like the well detailed and inspired art works,or paintings made by true artists in cd covers. I never heard these mentioned bands before.A amazing cover for sure it´s a invite for a first listening. Here´s some i can remember by famous bands,not necessairly complex or colorful,but insteresting in the trippy aspect:

Sepultura-Arise(duh)

The 90´s death/thrash metal vibe,the apocalyptic and infernal atmosphere,the gloomy sight.

Tiamat - Wildhoney

The trippy and nature vibe,the sunny,lysergic atmosphere and good use of colors,portrays and captures the album concept with a beauty rarely seen .

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DecemberSoul
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2017 7:31 pm

Necrobiotik wrote:

Tiamat - Wildhoney

The trippy and nature vibe,the sunny,lysergic atmosphere and good use of colors,portrays and captures the album concept with a beauty rarely seen .

You know it's a Kristian Wahlin non-black metal artwork when he's managed to sneak in at least some butterflies and blossoms. Missing here: bugs.

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Necrobiotik
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2017 11:37 pm

Ghoul-Splatterthrash

I love all the Ghoul covers but this one it's like a Death Metal gig was meant to be :-P

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Unorthodox
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2017 12:33 am

Obviously Mastodons Once Around The Sun deserves a mention. I still don't know what the fuck is going on in it.

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g_k
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2017 12:57 am

always thought Morbus Chron's Sleeper in the Rift was trippy. shit how do you resize an image lol.

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Xymosys
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2017 5:05 am

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DividerOfShadows
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2017 7:04 am

g_k wrote:

always thought Morbus Chron's Sleeper in the Rift was trippy. shit how do you resize an image lol.

Spoiler: show

Dude, you gotta put the spoiler tag on the picture if it's too big.

I nominate these ones:

(I.) Kampfar - Profan

As far as I know, the band took the cover from Zdzisław Beksiński, a Polish surrealist painter. It looks dark and mysterious, and fits the music well enough.

(II.) Vader - Tibi et Igni

This one basically speaks for itself. Hellish, detailed, dark. Perfect.

(III.) Iron Maiden - Virtual XI

I reckon the fans of Derek Riggs' work won't be too pleased with this one because the cover was actually made by Melvyn Grant, the guy who also did "Fear of the Dark" and "The Final Frontier". Talented guy in my opinion. Also, this album is underrated as fuck.

(IV.) Akhlys - The Dreaming I

Jesus Christ, the horror. It fits the music perfectly, even though I'd say this one is more appropriate for nightmares than dreams.

There are probably more I could think of, but I don't want to steal the opportunity from ya, guys.

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DecemberSoul
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2017 3:37 pm

Strong contender for "even trippier":

https://www.metal-archives.com/images/5/3/7/7/53777.jpg

Aarni - Bathos (check out their logo on their M-A main page, too)

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Necrobiotik
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Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 2:20 am

g_k wrote:

always thought Morbus Chron's Sleeper in the Rift was trippy. shit how do you resize an image lol.

Nine years in this forum and you didn't even know to resize a image,Bro? :lol:

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Xymosys
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 10:56 am

Just discovered those guys

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Larval Divination
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 7:20 pm

My favorites:

Wormlust - The Feral Wisdom

Ascension - Consolamentum

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