Metallica's Load - Despite being the composed of bull blood & some guy's semen, the cover is strangely hypnotic. Although it was hailed as Metallica's sell-out period, the Load-era produced great songs, classic videos & an aming album cover. This strange meeting of visceral with cerebral is beautiful in a weird way, coupled with the period's simplified logo, make for an iconic piece.
Queens of the Stone Age's Queens of the Stone Age - This cover is hideous, so hideous in fact that in catches you & stays with you for ages. Perverse is a word that comes to mind, so is homo, but when coupled with the album opener
Regular John, it makes for a freaky audio/visual piece of art. Misleading for anyone looking more for a say,
Queens IN the Stone Age, maybe.
Baby Grandmothers' Baby Grandmothers - Despite some of the sonic flaws of this intriguing & obscure piece of Psychedelia, the cover is almost faultless. Simplistic & eye-catching it is a shining example of how less (sometimes) is more. So many motifs can be applied to this piece of modern art, not least being a sunset/rise connotation. Almost 50 years old it still looks modern & original. Awesome.
Cypress Hill's III: Temples of Boom - It is safe to assume that the foreboding fortress on the cover is the eponymous Temple of Boom, & the shadowy figure is the Stoned Raider who is mentioned throughout the album. The Temple is magically expansive, seemingly without a lower or upper limit. The bridge sticks out across the darkness with a stunning sense of awe. Dark, eerie & so weeded. The album itself, is even better.
