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When a lot of people hear the name ‘Black Sabbath’ all they think of is the heavy stuff. But there was a lot more to us than that." ...
Please come back soon / Sooner than you want to / It’s the only thing in this whole world / That will please me,” Neko Case ...
Album covers are what you see when you rest your eyes on the physical product. It should be enticing, and it should be ...
Metal Fan Reveals She Owns 54 Different Versions of Classic Album Ahead of Band's Final Show originally appeared on Parade.
The cover for the avant-garde 'Two Virgins' captures John Lennon and Yoko Ono completely naked. It sparked outrage, leading distributors to clandestinely sell the album wrapped in brown paper bags.
A Scottish women’s charity said Carpenter’s new album cover evokes “tired tropes” of women being “possessions,” while fans have defended her cover as satirical commentary on sexism.
Now, it was a tough call between this Nightwish album and the one that came before, Oceanborn. They are both symphonic power metal masterpieces but this one has a special melancholy to it. It seems ...
Out of all the album covers from the 1990s on our list, the cover of the 1995 album Washing Machine by Sonic Youth is the simplest. But sometimes, simplicity is just so cool.
The album cover for Funeral For Justice achieves a similar feat, too. Robert Beatty’s artwork depicts a large crow with blood dripping off its talons, cascading onto a coffin below with an ...
The 12-track album covers a lot of emotional ground across its 69 minutes, but the overwhelming sense is that, honestly, everything is going to be OK. “ Yesterwynde has a very optimistic vibe to ...
Fittingly, the album closes with a bittersweet lamentation ("Lanternlight"), too, that easily ranks as one of Nightwish 's most affectively decorated and sung songs in quite some time.