2. Avenged Sevenfold.
• This is a self-titled album and the most
significant feature on this cover is the band’s
logo – the ‘deathbat’ – which is a skull with
wings. This logo is featured on most of their
merchandise.
• Also, the font style of the band’s name is the
same on all of their albums.
• The font style and their logo are very
important and represents what kind of band
they are. For example, you can tell from the
‘deathbat’ that this wouldn’t be an R&B
band, but more rock or metal. Also, on this
cover there is a lot of ‘white space’, they
chose this deliberately as it makes their
logo, which is black, stand out a lot, so it
looks appealing on the shelf to their fans.
• As well as this, all their CD covers does not
feature themselves on it. This could be
because they want people to care more
about their music than what they look like
unlike, for example, Beyonce, she is
featured on all of her album covers.
3. KoЯn – See you on the other side.
When you first look at this CD cover, you will
think of Alice In Wonderland. But as you look
at it you can tell it is a very twisted
representation of the play. This shows that
they can take something which is a happy
fantasy and turn it into a dark and twisted
fantasy.
As well as this I think the title of the band links in
with the cover. It is called ‘See You On The
Other Side’, these sides could refer to good
and bad. I think they named it this as most
people are on the good side, like in an Alice
in Wonderland world for example, but the
band could be on the bad side, which is
completely the opposite & more creepy.
Because of this you can tell that this band isn’t
going to be a pop band, but more of a dark,
twisted metal band.
4. Metallica – Death Magnetic.
• Like the band Avenged Sevenfold, Metallica
also have the same font style for their name
on every album and on their merchandise. It
is like a brand logo for the band.
• The main feature of this album is the outline
of the coffin. Most people associated coffins
with death, and death is a dark thing. This
tells you that this band is going to be more
dark and metal as you’re not going to find a
coffin on R&B CD cover.
• The album name also links with the image
on the CD cover. It is called ‘Death
Magnetic’ and obviously the coffin
represents death. But also around the coffin,
it looks like they are iron fillings, which
magnets have been used to manipulate
what direction they go in. The album title &
image could be symbolic, maybe it means
that death could be ‘magnetic’, as you can’t
get away from it or escape it if you’re
attracted to it.
5. Pendulum – Hold Your Colour.
• This album is very different to the others
because of all the different colours, however
it is like the KoЯn album as they are very
unusual.
• You can tell from this cover that they have
used a programme like Photoshop as it
looks very computerised and technical. For
example, there are a lot of layers to this
over, the eye being the first one. In each of
these layers they have changed the hue &
saturation levels and made them very
different.
• As this album is so technical and you could
call it almost ‘rave like’, you can tell that this
is more like a techno, drum and bass kind of
band.
• Also, the band name and the title of the
album are very clear. As they are both white
on black or black on white, and the dominant
colour of the CD cover is green, so they
stand out a lot.
• Even though this cover is very weird and
has a lot of complex images and layers on it,
I like it a lot because of this & because it is
different. And also as it very bold and stands
out a lot, I think this will appeal to their fans.
