Thumbnail for 5 point 1 is a pain - See what I mean? You're hosed no matter what. Without an architect on the payroll you might as well pack it in.
Thumbnail for Dolby 51 recommended - The engineers at Dubly Labs invented this cruel scheme for speaker placement to drive people who live in actual houses instead of recording studios absolutely fucking batshit. Hey, I would love to enter the room through a trap door in the floor as much as anyone, but it's just not in the cards is it? No, instead 9 out of 10 homes in the world are going to have a big damn doorway in the way of one or more of those speakers. Oh sure, you could sit with the speakers within arm's reach but who would want to? I mean, nearfield ain't all that hot.
Thumbnail for Dolby 51 Nates - When you have a smallish room and don't feel like making it feel smaller by sitting in the middle of it you have to compromise the Dubly 5.1 setup to honor the voice of WAF inside all of us, no matter how cruelly beaten down she may be. You know you want the couch right up against the wall don't you? Don't listen to Ethan Winer and his horror stories of bass buildup and such, he's got that big cavernous room anyway, he can put his damn couch in the middle of it. Meanwhile, us little people have to have the couch against the wall, I'm sorry but thems just the breaks. So what has to give? The damned surrounds that's what. You have to bodge them up like a pair of oversized headphones on chairs. Half-ass! Aaarrgh! I can't help it!
Thumbnail for sunn2 - Basket-faced medieval peasant life and modern day crushing doom metal, what could be more appropriate?
Thumbnail for sunn1 - Hair, wood grain or smeary ink? You be the judge. This album is one for promoting negative neighbor relations.
Thumbnail for SWA 1801front BIG - I dream of owning a big empty barn in the middle of the sticks and having one, (hell, two) of these things in there shaking the dust out from between the boards. Cripes, the bass on my Mackie HR-824s is so fat and tight I can imagine how heavy this sucker is for the larger scale experience.
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Thumbnail for cover - I don't know what you are supposed to call it, but I like it. Contains one of the most beautiful sad songs ever made, "Thy Hand Belinda When I Am Laid In Earth". I liked this rendition better than others. You can't sing this shit too fast, it sounds rushed. Slow and low is the way to go.
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Thumbnail for Cathedral Equilibrium - Dave Patchett and Catherdral's classic first meeting. Here we have a 1:1 ratio of great music and great art. Definitely can see the Bosch influence IMO.
Thumbnail for King Diamond Abigail II - A damn fine album cover if I do say
Thumbnail for Galactic Cowboys SIYF - These guys were one of the first metal bands I ever saw in concert. This album is only okay, but the cover art kicks ass. I love the purples and greens. Top notch rendering.
Thumbnail for meat loaf bat out of hell front - This album cover made an indelible mark on my mind even though I was far too young to actually be into the music. Now that I own the vinyl I have to say that the music ain't all that great. I appreciate Meatloaf's melodrama and bombast, but the fact is the cover is way cooler than the tunes IMO.
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Thumbnail for SeaHags - Even more of a disparate music to cover art ration than Meatloaf. This gorgeous artwork graces an uneventful, also-ran LA Glam band. I haven't seen anything to equal this one, at least not using this same technique.
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Thumbnail for Brain Salad Surgery - Initially purchased solely for the Giger, but the music I actually came to really enjoy. This represents one of the great losses of modern day music distribution. How the hell do you put a die cut gatefold on an iTunes download? Let us bow our heads for a moment of silence...
Thumbnail for Death Spiritual Healing - The first or second death metal album I ever bought. What's not to like about Ed Repka? The ever-present outstretched hands, the creepy-looking humans...the guy rocks.
Thumbnail for Slough Feg Deadmen2 - This one's a real beauty. Very nice printing job on the CD too. The varnish really makes it pop. In a way the composition and color is vaguely similar to Bat Out Of Hell, the rounded hill, the red and orange dramatic sky... It appears to be a creature made from severed limbs and a few tentacles thrown in for good measure.
Thumbnail for cianide1 - The artists from Ye Olde Days probably had no idea that their scary religious paintings about death and Hell would be future heavy metal album covers. I wish I knew who did this one.
Thumbnail for Happy vs Angry HDMI plugs - A demonstration of the human's natural inclination to find anthropomorphia in unlikely places.
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Thumbnail for Mercliess Death-Evil In The Night - A perfect throwback to the days of thrash albums with killer Ed Repka art. I don't know how much Ed charges, but this cover was probably the best strategic move MD could've made. This cover is the main reason I bought the CD. Music isn't bad, but it isn't great either. I keep wanting the vocal patterns to be better.
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