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    Posted: June 03 2012 at 22:13
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Great. And has one of the best metal songs, Victim of Changes.
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That Amon Amarth cover is maybe the most metal thing I've ever seen. 
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Argh, after seeing the Molly Hatchett and Amon Amarth covers, I nearly had a hard-on! Stupid sexy Conan! 
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2012 at 19:41
Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

I personally think that when it comes to metal covers nobody beats Molly Hatchet, who self-ironically play with all the metal cliches in their album covers. here just one example:



but maybe I am getting it all wrong and they mean these covers seriously

Well..hard to beat Frank Frazetta,,,or Conan.

I always thought they were serious.


Edited by Snow Dog - June 02 2012 at 19:42
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Hard to beat this:



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I personally think that when it comes to metal covers nobody beats Molly Hatchet, who self-ironically play with all the metal cliches in their album covers. here just one example:

Molly Hatchet Album Art

but maybe I am getting it all wrong and they mean these covers seriously


Edited by BaldJean - June 02 2012 at 19:02


A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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I really like how Mayhem took Dead's suicide, which could've been (and probably was) catastrophic for the band, and decided to work it into their art style to make that occurrence part of their identity rather than calling it quits. That's quite metal, in my opinion.
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Originally posted by UMUR UMUR wrote:

So there´s a difference (not talking size or prefered personal taste Smile) between the breasts shown on the Sexual Carnage cover and the breasts shown on the Electric Ladyland cover? In your world the former is pornography and the latter art? Is that what you´re getting at?
 
 
Sorry to be off topic again here but I feel like I should say somethin since I put that picture up. Ha
 
You might find it disgusting, but I find the album cover of Dead's Suicide to be way more "art" than naked ladies. Ha- I don't think it is distasteful at all in comparison to the fact that the band advocates suicide, murder, rape, and other forms of violence. What do you expect? haha

But I'm totally ok with censoring anything on this website. If i wanted to truly find uncencorsed crazy crap I could go anywhere else on the web. I'm perfectly ok with the moderators keeping this place in line to a sort of extent. And while I post crazy stuff sometimes, if anything is too bad I'm ok with it being taken down- I'd hate to actually scare off some young kid that just getting in to Rush or something.

Also colorofmoney youare funny :)
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^
it would be perfect for a gothic rock band.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2012 at 14:04
Originally posted by zappaholic zappaholic wrote:


Very illuminating.  Cheers.


found the dates - USA: 16th October 1968 - UK: 25th October 1968 ... Wikipedia just gives the 25th for some reason.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by zappaholic zappaholic wrote:

I know you're not supposed to rely on Wikipedia as a source, but it has the following:

"The original North American-only Reprise release album cover featured a "fiery" photo of Hendrix' head. The slightly later Track/Polydor International album release cover, controversially, was a photo of a group of nude women, which was only replaced after Experience Hendrix took control of Hendrix' recordings."

Unfortunately it doesn't list dates other than the original release date.  If anyone has any further info, do tell.

It's messy. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was signed to a British label (Track Records) that had a distribution deal with Reprise in the USA. Hendrix's choice for the cover was the Linda Eastman (aka Linda McCartney) picture of the the Experience with some children by the Alice In Wonderland sculpture in Central Park, NY - Track rejected that and commisioned the Montgomery nudes picture and release the album in the UK and the rest of the World with that cover; Reprise rejected that and chose the Ferris picture and released the album in the USA with that cover 9 days earlier than the UK release (I have to take the person who told me that's word for that as I cannot find the actual release dates). Our policy here is to use "the earliest front cover as released in the artist's home country" - this caused arguments here because while Hendrix was American, the Hendrix Experience was 2/3 British, signed to a British label and managed by a Brit, Chas Chandler -  Wikipedia gives the origin for The Jimi Hendrix Experience as London, England - I maintain that is why we should have used the Montgomery nudes, but I was over-ruled because Hendrix was an American and Reprise jumped the gun on release dates (apparently).


Very illuminating.  Cheers.
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Points: 34055 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2012 at 12:42
i don't know if it is intentionally spelled that way or just a sloppy mistake, but i think not and their are some deep, underlying reasons it is made that way, mabe it is a word with more meanings then just one (1). i dunno, im no Arcturus expert but as i seem to understand BM culture it is deep, hidden in dark mysticisme and obsucrity

Edited by aginor - June 02 2012 at 12:43
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Points: 8138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2012 at 12:35
Originally posted by aginor aginor wrote:



http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1255/cover_61510442008.jpg
 
lol, they should learn french before giving a french title to an album. In french, it should indeed read "la mascarade infernale".
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2012 at 12:33
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:


Not just you Dean. There were many of us in favour of the nudes cover. I still very much am. Any other cover looks completely wrong to me. I will never agree with current PA policy on this.
*shrug* it doesn't make a whole heap of difference to me - I will treasure my original UK gate-fold vinyl copy regardless of what the PA or the Hendrix Foundation (hawk...spit!) think is the "original".

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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:


Not just you Dean. There were many of us in favour of the nudes cover. I still very much am. Any other cover looks completely wrong to me. I will never agree with current PA policy on this.
*shrug* it doesn't make a whole heap of difference to me - I will treasure my original UK gate-fold vinyl copy regardless of what the PA or the Hendrix Foundation (hawk...spit!) think is the "original".
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