Album Art ov the Century Tournament: Pool A – Round 2
Round 2: FIGHT!
If you were here for Round 1, you know what’s up, head down to the results below. For those that missed our intro week, here’s a quick blurb of why/what we’re doing.
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.
If you wanna check back on the individual results from Round 1 in Pool A, then you can do so here and here. If you want the TL;DR, here are the absolute smashings:
– Mastodon‘s Leviathan surprisingly pulled the plug on Remission
– The Secret extinguished Lantern
–Horrendous rightly decimated that lame Anaal Nathrakh shit
– Early tourney fave Bell Witch‘s Mirror Reaper shat on Endrot
– Gatecreeper somehow made that Edge Of Sanity look even more cartoonish.
And these matches ended up super close:
– Carcass just scraped through over Lorn‘s Arrayed Claws
– High On Fire sadly took down Awe‘s Providentia by bugger all.
– Deluge washed out Yautja.
– Execration beat Serious Beak by 0.62%
– Paysage d’Hiver staged an epic comeback and took down our Sacredest of Sons
– Deathspell Omega only just defeated Cattle Decapitation, and
– Baizley’s Baroness barely beat Howls Of Ebb.
Here are today’s matches –
Mastodon – Leviathan [2004]
Paul Romano
Carcass – Surgical Steel [2013]
Martin Nesbitt
High On Fire – Death Is This Communion [2007]
Arik Roper
Intonate – The Swerve [2016]
Martin Lacroix
Volahn – Aq’Ab’Al [2014]
Aron Briggs
The Secret – Lux Tenebris [2018]
View From The Coffin
Kvelertak – Kvelertak [2010]
John Baizley
Morbid Angel – Gateways To Annihilation [2000]
Dan Seagrave
Horrendous – Ecdysis [2014]
Brian Smith
Deluge – Æther [2015]
Metastazis
Moss Upon The Skull – In Vengeful Reverence [2018]
JF Lemay
Earth – The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull [2008]
Arik Roper
Execration – Return To The Void [2017]
Zbigniew Bielak
Power Trip – Manifest Decimation [2013]
Paolo Girardi
Paysage d’Hiver – Paysage d’Hiver [2014]
Opeth – Ghost Reveries [2005]
Travis Smith
Cormorant – Diaspora [2017]
Jeff Christensen
Rivers Of Nihil – The Conscious Seed Of Light [2013]
Dan Seagrave
Bereft – Lands [2017]
Sam Alcarez
Shroud Ritual – Five Suns [2017]
Luciana Nedelea
Deathspell Omega – Fas – Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum [2007]
Timo Ketola
Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper [2017]
Mariusz Lewandowski
Fen – Winter [2017]
Gatecreeper – Sonoran Depravation [2016]
Adam Burke
Thou – Summit [2007]
Baroness – Red Album [2007]
John Baizley
Lotus Thief – Rervm [2014]
Spectral Lore – III [2014]
Benjamin A. Vierling
Stälker – Shadow Of The Sword [2017]
Matt Stikker
Progenie Terrestre Pura – oltreLuna [2017]
Alexander Preuss
Sinmara – Aphotic Womb [2014]
Alexander L. Brown
Meshuggah – Koloss [2012]
Luminokaya
