Closer
Joy Division
Released in 1980
Genre: Post-Punk
Nominated by Polytheme_Pam
Album Art was designed by Martyn Atkins and Peter Saville, with photography from Bernard Pierre Wolff. The photograph on the cover is of the Appiani family tomb in the Cimitero Monumentale di Staglieno in Genoa, Italy.
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Dawn of Black Hearts (1994)
Mayhem
Released in 1994
Genre: Black Metal
Nominated by purple
Album art was a photograph taken by the bands guitarist, Euronymous (รystein Aarseth), upon discovering Dead's body. It was rated 1 out of "The 50 Most Controversial Album Covers Of All Time" by Gigwise.com _________________ Doubles & Conch
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I hadn't even realised the Mayhem cover was a photograph, looks like a drawing to me. Anyway, I went for Closer. That Mayhem cover is really too harsh for me to stomach. Knowing the story behind it only makes it worse.
Hmm... ๐ค Well I do like bleak and morbid photography which stirs desperate images of an artist who was on the brink facing the cold reality of life and the ever present certainty of death
And I do like grisly and bloody shock value images of human remains that are perpetuated for volatile music along with the possible exploitation of a life that tragically once was for monetary gain.
After reading the description for the Mayhem cover, I feel trolled by life.
I stumbled across Mayhem articles a few years ago. After reading about them, I had to flip through a puppy calendar just to erase the sick feeling in my gut. ๐
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