Musical Monstrosities

Rise from your grave! I just found some awesome creatures deserving of this thread. Massive image dump incoming.


Kvelertak, by Kvelertak. The skull-faced lady is supposed to represent the sorcerer Fossegrim, who appears in a song on the album. The weird owl-and-ram-women conglomeration is my favorite part, though. That owl is a pimp.


The skull-faced ogre has one of the most aesthetically pleasing designs i've seen in a monster in a long time. I also enjoy the mini-Cthulhu cameo and the brooding Grim Reaper figure.


Not a monster per se, but this effigy-looking figure in tribal paint is certainly unsettling. Doubly so with the blood vessels/roots snaking every which way in the background.


More by Giger. The central devil has just enough of Giger's usual texture (in the horns and around the skull) to be recognizeable, but it isn't excessive. This looks reminiscent of some sort of disturbing manuscript illustration. The fact that the devil's face is hidden is neat, too.


As far as I can tell, this whole thing is anatomically accurate, but the way it's taken apart makes the face look like something wholly new. One for the uncanny valley team, that's for sure.


On the more whimsical side of things, this geometrically improbable beast looks like a refugee from an Escher print. The tentacular organism hiding in the cloud of smoke is cool in that it leaves you guessing.


Last one for now. This fallen-angel being combines the best parts of mummy and burn victim. There's an interesting something in the background as well: just a tribal-tattoo background, or a two dimensional abomination from the gulfs of space? We'll never know for sure.

I've been waiting for an oppertunity to share this rad cover.



Really viewed best with both sides back to back. As awesome as the monsters are, I think it's the skull planet that does it for me.

Is...Is that a zombie wizard with a scorpionfly moutn battling a giant mantist, with a skull planet (presumably made out of skulls) in the background?

There are no words in the language of mortal men to express the level of awesomeness.

That's not a planet made of skulls, that's a single skull big enough to be a planet. Presumably the rings are smaller bone fragments, while the moons are made of what else was left. Flesh into earth, blood into water, the usual.

I found these a while ago.

This belongs here.

HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS BEFORE.


I really like the fleshy background on this one. Junior Bruce.


Yes, a giant demon with an enormous tounge and a small blonde.
The band is called Stoned Jesus.


EXUMA


AXEHAMMER


The Secret, featuring one of the hardest to find band names, released this little black metal-ish gem. I like how they went with the satanic goat thingy and made it so very creepy.


Iron Gypsy wants you to be very certain that they play heavy metal.


I'm just gonna end this with the Cramps, cuz why wouldn't I?

Is this an actual album cover?
It looks like an image that appears when a site doesn't let you hotlink to images.

Iron Gypsy has interesting album covers.



These are also the only albums they ever released.

There is a reason for that.



Well more, since half the entire album is a homage to 70's movies.

Also, Gun is fucking amazing and that album cover is glorious.

I smell a mod around here.
A DIABOLICAL ONE.
Also a kinda lazy one since if you copy the pics url it shows you the actual pic.

Screaming Mechanical Brain - There is No God in Space has this sort of cool thing.
That album also has a song that sounds like some sort of SCP log.

I'm gonna post here a lot.

Ahem. The Wall.







I'm suprised no one actually posted about this already.

Google Chrome says that this topic has malware because one of you hotlinked to a "metalsucks.com".