Best Metal Album Artwork

[@justinrisen1929]

Don't know why exactly but Opeth Sorceress may be my favorite album cover ever. Beauty and Ugliness, Life and Death all in one colorful and striking piece of art. The record is also amazing imo so that helps. Opeth is my fav band so may be a but biased lol

[@judaspriestfan]

4:51 im wearing this album on a t shirt right now

[@yoiamhere4737]

love the sound of perseverance with the cave and skeletons crawling up

[@simond1574]

For the Bathory one check out: The Wild Hunt of Odin by Peter Nicolai Arbo

[@AlexCBain]

Testament have had some consistently amazing artwork over the last few years. I know it’s kind of arguable wether or not Ghost are metal but either way they too have amazing album art.

[@Questformetal]

Yeah first ghost album love the art really sets the mood

[@hvitekristesdod]

Love anything Beksinski especially Antithesis of Light by Evoken

[@Andreiux]

Don't know how but nobody seems to be mentioning judas priest's Painkiller album cover. I thnik it's absolutely fantastic, the whole idea with the beastlike bladed bike is awesome and the colors make it stand out so well.

[@beanman2206]

1 any iron maiden album 2 any iron maiden album 3 any iron maiden album 4 any iron maiden album 5 any iron maiden album

[@samuelkidwell6728]

Dance of Death

[@hyalinamusic18]

In no particular order Octavarium - Dream Theater Design Your Universe - Epica Still Life - Opeth Into the Electric Castle - Ayreon ...And Justice for All - Metallica Aquarius - Haken Paradise Lost - Symphony X 10,000 Days - TOOL The Congregation - Leprous Colors - Between the Buried and Me

[@matthansen7935]

All album covers by Baroness and that Kvelertak album were done by John Baizley, the singer of Baroness. (Aperfectmonster on IG)

[@abby-normalactivity2480]

The Bellwitch cover is by Polish artist Mariusz Lewandowski. Check him out.

[@СтрахињаСтојилковић]

I love pretty much everything Necrolord has done.

[@simond1574]

My Top 10 in no particular order Alcest - Ecailles de lune (painted by the Les Discrets mastermind) Les Discrets - Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées (also by Fursy Teyssier) Baroness - Purple (They are all great. The 4 vinyl singles for Purple have each 1/4 of the album cover. This is great) Chapel of Disease - ...And As We Have Seen The Storm, We Have Embraced The Eye (love the painting) Opeth - The Roundhouse Tapes (The artist also works for Katatonia, Iced Earth and Devin Townsend) Audn - Vökudraumsins Fangi (love the colors) Mastodon - Leviathan (self explaining) Insomnium - Across the Dark (this is so dark and depressing, much more, than all the skeletons and gore) Rivers of Nihil - Monarchy (love Dan Seagrave) Havukruunu - Kelle Surut Soi (the last one is also fantastic) Some hon. mentions Solstafir - Berdreyminn (this guy also did some other greats like Temple of void) Tiamat - Wildhoney (Necrolord has a million great, but this is my fave) Temple of Void - The World that Was (see Solstafir :-) ) Korn - Issues (regarding the content of "Falling away" this picture is painfully fitting) Dream Theater - Metropolis 2 (great montage) Blind Guardian - Tales from the Twilight World (best fantasy cover of all time) Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage Iron Maiden - Brave New World Candlemass - Nightfall SPECTRAL LORE and MARE COGNITUM - Wanderers: Astrology Of The Nine Moonsorrow - Viides Luku Hävittety The Ocean - Pelagial (or Precambrian; pictures aren't that spectacular, but the packaging is) Saor - Aura

[@connerkz5771]

Unpopular opinion but my favorite art ever is probably City Of Evil by avenged sevenfold like I know a lot of technically better arts but this one is iconic to me and I think it really immerses me and I feel like I can stare at it and it brings back a lot of memories

[@filipnystrom1152]

Hey thanks for making the video i requested to see! Good picks

[@volin_d]

The covers starting from 3:05 (and many other metal album artworks) were inspired by Beksiński's art. If you like this style, I really recommend checking out his work, it's just amazing.

[@saemyt5106]

I knew scream bloody gore would be here

[@Questformetal]

Love the skeletons on it too much

[@saemyt5106]

Even the skulls in the background

[@sopsilist2030]

The Blood Fire Death album art is an actual painting of the Wild hunt

[@relinquishh]

Just a heads up, that Bolt Thrower album is called the 4th crusade not the 14th crusade :)

[@Questformetal]

So I’ve been calling it wrong this whole time 😂 fuckdamnit

[@heathbarry6015]

When it comes to album artwork, I enjoy landscape artwork. I am most likely to give the album a listen if it has a landscape picture in it. I think because most of the albums I've liked the most had those as album covers. I think Ensiferum has some of the best covers, but my favorite would be Unsung Heroes, done by Kristian Wåhlin www.discogs.com/artist/630115-Kristian-W%C3%A5hlin?subtype=Visual&filter_anv=0&type=Credits&page=1 whom also did works for Witherfall and Blut Aus Nord. Scardust - Sands of Time is another one of my favorite landscape covers. Gima - Will Of The Primordial is unique as it features a snowy forest painting with the band logo digitally placed in the cover, yet somehow works well. Iron Maiden also has a great album theme with amazing album covers. I've liked the Somewhere in Time album cover the best. Gyula Havancsák's album artwork is appealing to me from his work in Blind Guardian, Arkona, Stratovarius, ElvenKing but especially Týr covers. www.discogs.com/artist/1831858-Gyula-Havancsak?sort=year%2Cdesc&page=1&subtype=Visual&limit=25&filter_anv=0&type=Credits Other artwork I can think of is In Flames - Reroute to Remain. While there are some other great album covers for In Flames, the detail in the lighting and shadowing with the digital graphics makes me wonder what's going in the cover and what is the backstory there.

[@Questformetal]

All great album art covers and yeah somewhere in time is a great one too

[@mikenichols7760]

You seem knowledgeable maybe you'll know. Awhile back found a good album on youtube but cannot remember album or band but know the album art. Was a hardcore punkish type band.. had two clowns that was ripoff of ronald McDonald and bozo clown outside of maybe a rodeo or carnival and they were drunk with beer cans on ground lol. That ring any bells? Thx

[@ignasvasiliauskas4842]

Please rank Pantera's albums soon !!

[@andrej6918]

Would you do a Bolt Thrower discography ranking?

[@Questformetal]

Eventually I will but it’ll be hard love all the albums

[@andrej6918]

@@Questformetal Same lol, they have an almost perfect discography

[@hulud99]

About the original painting of that first AHAB album you mentioned, Google "the raft of the Medusa". A real life horror story!

[@Questformetal]

Lost at sea on a makeshift raft and resorting to cannibalism, now that makes the songs and album even creepier! Love it

[@simond1574]

@@Questformetal The original picture is MASIVE. You can see it in the Louvre, it's about 8m wide.

[@lambsauce9404]

Obviously Load has the best album cover!

[@ab-ud8np]

I adore Pantera's Vulgar Display Of Power! Violence against women will forever be funny... (and necessary)

[@PatrickWDunne]

Wtf? Also, it's a guy on that cover