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aapatsos
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Posted: February 21 2009 at 13:57 |
Ommadawn wrote:
Their bests are Powerslave and Somewhere In Time. The details are simply incredible. but my personal favorite is Killers , that scene is amazing!
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I could not agree more... Killers cover has something wicked...
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Drew
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Posted: February 21 2009 at 13:59 |
Piece of Mind then Number of the Beast
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Eraserhead
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Posted: February 27 2009 at 12:45 |
Gotta go with Killers
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In heaven, everything is fine
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Stooge
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Posted: April 25 2009 at 16:22 |
Killers. Probably because it was their first good album cover.
I bought Somewhere In Time on vinyl just for the big album artwork even though it's my least favorite 80s Maiden album.
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DevilRy
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Posted: April 25 2009 at 18:01 |
Powerslave. Worst album art ever? Dance of Death:
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aapatsos
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Posted: April 25 2009 at 18:08 |
^ by far, at least terrible...
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stonebeard
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Posted: April 25 2009 at 18:10 |
Tie between Somewhere in Time and Powerslave.
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MFP
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Posted: April 25 2009 at 18:29 |
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el böthy
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Posted: April 26 2009 at 14:50 |
Seven son is pretty cool, but had the Trooper image be the cover that would have been my choice. I actually have that one as a poster in my room.
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"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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debrewguy
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Posted: April 26 2009 at 19:39 |
The debut's Eddie matches the music - raw. After that, Eddie became more "commercial" .
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"Here I am talking to some of the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice,” Lieutenant Columbo, episode The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case.
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LandofLein
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Posted: June 19 2009 at 19:26 |
The Killers one is perfect, it is the most simple, and yet the most terrifying, it gives off a jack the ripper/london streets at night feel
the only bad thing about it is how similar it is to the previous album's art
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lucas
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Posted: June 21 2009 at 02:26 |
The T wrote:
I don't like the awful mix of colors and the absolutely terrible Devil... It doesn't look evil but utterly ridiculous... |
Yes, this devil doesn't look really frightening.
The devil in the movie 'legend' is really scary in my opinion :
Another representation that is worth mentioning is the one of Jean Delville's symbolistic movement :
The cover for 'Number of the beast' probably inspired this one for the death metal band Anata :
And some pastiche of Number of the beast cover :
But back to the topic I like these ones :
even if the last one is very derivative of E, W & F's cover artwork of their album 'All 'n all'
And Derek Riggs used the same theme for Gamma Ray :
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"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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lucas
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Posted: June 21 2009 at 02:30 |
LandofLein wrote:
The Killers one is perfect, it is the most simple, and yet the most terrifying, it gives off a jack the ripper/london streets at night feel
the only bad thing about it is how similar it is to the previous album's art
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Much more sophisticated than the previous one, much more details. And note that the hair style changed from punk attitude to heavy metal attitude. Plus don't forget the shadow/light play.
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"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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luger7
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Posted: June 25 2009 at 15:17 |
Dance of death is the best cover, haha.....
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Viva .MX cabrones!
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Kashmir75
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Posted: June 25 2009 at 22:10 |
I love Somewhere In Time. So much detail, references to the previous albums, and the cartoon drawings of the band members are excellent.
Powerslave is great, too. As is the latest one, AMOLAD.
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Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while...
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The Sleepwalker
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Posted: June 29 2009 at 16:14 |
Piece of Mind.
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zappaholic
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Posted: June 29 2009 at 19:12 |
lucas wrote:
Another representation that is worth mentioning is the one of Jean Delville's symbolistic movement :
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That one was so good it was used on two albums - A Tribute To Insanity by Hexenhaus and Blessed Are the Sick by Morbid Angel.
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken
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LandofLein
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Posted: June 29 2009 at 23:06 |
lucas wrote:
LandofLein wrote:
The Killers one is perfect, it is the most simple, and yet the most terrifying, it gives off a jack the ripper/london streets at night feel
the only bad thing about it is how similar it is to the previous album's art
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Much more sophisticated than the previous one, much more details. And note that the hair style changed from punk attitude to heavy metal attitude. Plus don't forget the shadow/light play. |
True, but it just seems like the same basic idea
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CPicard
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Posted: June 30 2009 at 07:11 |
Powerslave. I consider buying the LP version just for the purpose to nail the cover on my walls.
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