Album Art Of The Century Tournament: Pool A – Round 1.2
Round 1 of our new comp to determine your fave album art of the century continues with the rest of Pool A for you to vote on.
Judging by the response to the previous tournament brackets we’ve held here, you all really enjoy voting on trivial shit. Basically, as long as it has no tangible effect on your life, you’ll definitely be there to discuss, rage, and ultimately decide what’s right and what’s wrong. Especially if that topic involves arbitrary opinion on art. Voter apathy be damned. So following on from our recent metal-related comps –
- Best Post-2K Band Logo Bracket
- Most Innovative Modern Guitarist
- Sexiest Dude In Metal
- Greatest Metal Concept Album
- Worst Metal Song Of All Time
- Best Unsigned Band In The USA
We thought it would be cool to see which modern album(s) you think have the greatest cover art. If you’re the type of person who holds the view that art should never be compared or judged relative to other art, that’s cool, this ain’t for you. Rather than judge us, head on back to your dialectic circle-jerk while we have a bit of fun comparing some of our favourite album covers, calling each other wrong and dumb and wrong, ad infinitum.
As you may have guessed, there’s no set judging criteria, the only criterion you should use to cast your votes is which album cover you prefer. Some made the huge 128 seed field through being indisputably iconic, some conceptually unique, some for being instantly memorable, some for being perfectly representative of the music, some for being beautifully crafted, and some I have no fucking idea why you liked them enough to submit, aside from the fact you’re wrong and dumb and wrong. Anyway, out of the 128 entries we had to make 8 mirror-matches spread out across the pools. The full bracket will be revealed as we unveil each set of matches during Round 1.
If you missed yesterday’s tournament unveiling click HERE to go vote on those matches first. We’ll wait for you. For everyone else, here are today’s match-ups –
Cormorant – Diaspora [2017]
Jeff Christensen
Cormorant – Dwellings [2011]
Alice Duke
Rivers Of Nihil – The Conscious Seed Of Light [2013]
Dan Seagrave
Shrinebuilder – Shrinebuilder [2009]
Josh Graham
Mammoth Grinder – Extinction Of Humanity [2009]
Joe Petagno
Bereft – Lands [2017]
Sam Alcarez
Shroud Ritual – Five Suns [2017]
Luciana Nedelea
Expander – Endless Computer [2017]
Luca Carey
Cattle Decapitation – The Anthropocene Extinction [2015]
Wes Benscoter
Deathspell Omega – Fas – Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum [2007]
Timo Ketola
Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper [2017]
Mariusz Lewandowski
Endrot – Killer Chainsaw Robot From Beyond! [2018]
Om – Pilgrimage [2007]
Earl Kuck
Fen – Winter [2017]
Gatecreeper – Sonoran Depravation [2016]
Adam Burke
Edge Of Sanity – Crimson II [2003]
Necrolord
Dreadnought – A Wake In Sacred Waves [2017]
Mark Facey
Thou – Summit [2007]
Baroness – Red Album [2007]
John Baizley
Howls Of Ebb – The Marrow Veil [2015]
Wiley Trieff
Ruins – Cauldron [2008]
Kriss Hades
Lotus Thief – Rervm [2014]
Spectral Lore – III [2014]
Benjamin A. Vierling
Portal – Vexovoid [2013]
Kriss Hades
Stälker – Shadow Of The Sword [2017]
Matt Stikker
Witch – Witch [2006]
Progenie Terrestre Pura – oltreLuna [2017]
Alexander Preuss
The Great Old Ones – EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy [2017]
Jeff Grimal
Sinmara – Aphotic Womb [2014]
Alexander L. Brown
Cerebral Effusion – Idolatory Of The Unethical [2014]
Marco Hasmann
Meshuggah – Koloss [2012]
Luminokaya
Meshuggah – Catch Thirtythree [2005]
Tomas Haake
