Art

Abzu · Post by **Abzu** » 08 Aug 2009, 02:15

This was posted on the MySpace.

I wonder if this is legitimately potential album art or just just new thingie VadimVon posted to promote his KhaosArt via Morbid Angel's MySpace account (along with all of the other advertisements).

Abzu · Post by **Abzu** » 08 Aug 2009, 02:18

It is considerably better than the Teenager-on-Photoshop style stuff that was going up before.

Sarcofago · Post by **Sarcofago** » 08 Aug 2009, 02:19

I don't know, ut is really awesome

zim · Post by **zim** » 08 Aug 2009, 02:52

it looks terrible.

Mutilator · Post by **Mutilator** » 08 Aug 2009, 04:23

[quote name="zim"]it looks terrible.[/quote]

Uros · Post by **Uros** » 08 Aug 2009, 06:31

Mesarthim · Post by **Mesarthim** » 08 Aug 2009, 13:10

[quote name="Skinfection"]
[quote name="Mutilator"]
[quote name="zim"]it looks terrible.[/quote][/quote][/quote]

vO)))id · Post by **vO)))id** » 08 Aug 2009, 14:39

indeed, this looks just stupid.

compare it to the masterworks of their previous album artwork (except for domination maybe), and you'll laugh about it too.

wtf really...

-M- · Post by **-M-** » 08 Aug 2009, 16:44

[quote name="Lumbergh"]
[quote name="Skinfection"]
[quote name="Mutilator"]
[quote name="zim"]it looks terrible.[/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote]

Godsdefeat · Post by **Godsdefeat** » 08 Aug 2009, 19:32

WTF!?

Mesarthim · Post by **Mesarthim** » 08 Aug 2009, 22:17

I can't believe they haven't fired this cocksucker yet.

if he wants to design their website, fine, whatever.

but t shrits and album covers? get the fuck out.

vO)))id · Post by **vO)))id** » 08 Aug 2009, 22:32

[quote name="Lumbergh"]I can't believe they haven't fired this cocksucker yet.

if he wants to design their website, fine, whatever.

but t shrits and album covers? get the fuck out.[/quote]

this.

and, it all looks so incredibly childish and weak.

Abzu · Post by **Abzu** » 08 Aug 2009, 23:10

Is it just me or does he seem to just be throwing up his art now and slapping a Morbid Angel logo on it to get tons of MySpace compliments?

zim · Post by **zim** » 09 Aug 2009, 00:09

[quote name="abzu"]Is it just me or does he seem to just be throwing up his art now and slapping a Morbid Angel logo on it to get tons of MySpace compliments?[/quote]

yeah, he started doing it a lot more lately. personally i think he is abusing his position.

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 09 Aug 2009, 01:55

drastic improvement over the older stuff (barring the border and flames and whatever that red structure thinger behind the...hard-on bearer, there, those both look like campy filters to me), but i still don't care for it. the contrast between the foreground and background really doesn't work, the bold outlines and more solid coloring of the former really clash with the soft lines and more gradated shading of the latter, there's no cohesion to the image at all. it gives the impression that they were composed separately and the foreground was just kinda layered on top just for the hell of it. the top/left bordering also suggest there's more to it (like we're only looking at a quadrant of a larger image or some-such), but i'm not sure where it could really lead with what's already there, so it's just distracting and ugly.

i'm also curious as to whether this stuff is commissioned/sanctioned by the band or if it's more like what zim and the vermonter lady describe :hmm:

zim · Post by **zim** » 09 Aug 2009, 02:06

[quote name="Famous Mortimer"]drastic improvement over the older stuff (barring the border and flames and whatever that red structure thinger behind the...hard-on bearer, there, those both look like campy filters to me), but i still don't care for it. the contrast between the foreground and background really doesn't work, the bold outlines and more solid coloring of the former really clash with the soft lines and more gradated shading of the latter, there's no cohesion to the image at all. it gives the impression that they were composed separately and the foreground was just kinda layered on top just for the hell of it. the top/left bordering also suggest there's more to it (like we're only looking at a quadrant of a larger image or some-such), but i'm not sure where it could really lead with what's already there, so it's just distracting and ugly.

i'm also curious as to whether this stuff is commissioned/sanctioned by the band or if it's more like what zim and the vermonter lady describe :hmm:[/quote]

i don't think any of this posted art goes through the band, they probably just told him they'll accept anything with the logo on it.

i hope they get dan seagrave to do the album artwork :seagraveobsession: now he is an artist, not a photoshop'ist

zim · Post by **zim** » 09 Aug 2009, 02:10

behold.. FIRE-FLOWER

TamPron · Post by **TamPron** » 09 Aug 2009, 02:12

that thing is ugly, but they posted another picture that I thought was pretty good

zim · Post by **zim** » 09 Aug 2009, 02:13

you like the fire flower?

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 09 Aug 2009, 02:30

don't like that one either. what purpose does copy-paste-ctrl+t'ing the hard-on bearer from the image in the OP serve? what do any of these have to do with morbid angel?

lots more bright, gaudy filter type texturing and flames, bleh. way too many bold, sharply defined lines, it's the major common formal element in everything the hard-on bearer does and it's just not attractive at all.

Abzu · Post by **Abzu** » 09 Aug 2009, 02:38

Dan Seagrave would be an awesome choice again.

TamPron · Post by **TamPron** » 09 Aug 2009, 04:08

they should use a Wesley Willis peice as the album cover

beandorkio · Post by **beandorkio** » 09 Aug 2009, 04:21

I like the fire flower pic

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 09 Aug 2009, 04:28

[quote name="TAM TAM"]they should use a Wesley Willis peice as the album cover[/quote]

yes, very much yes

Methuselah Honeysuckle · Post by **Methuselah Honeysuckle** » 09 Aug 2009, 04:31

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 09 Aug 2009, 06:30

new topic, it's wesley willis time! fire-flower can taste a panda's ass.

Methuselah Honeysuckle · Post by **Methuselah Honeysuckle** » 09 Aug 2009, 06:50

i vote this one

vO)))id · Post by **vO)))id** » 09 Aug 2009, 19:36

[quote name="Famous Mortimer"]don't like that one either. what purpose does copy-paste-ctrl+t'ing the hard-on bearer from the image in the OP serve? what do any of these have to do with morbid angel?

lots more bright, gaudy filter type texturing and flames, bleh. way too many bold, sharply defined lines, it's the major common formal element in everything the hard-on bearer does and it's just not attractive at all.[/quote]

and, the mirroring of the background in almost all his work is so lame. Kids did that back in '96!

and now, the foregrounds are looking half mirrored as well.

it might have worked (a little) with the Domination cover, but not with this stuff.

TamPron · Post by **TamPron** » 09 Aug 2009, 20:09

[quote name="Nick"]

i vote this one

[/quote]

That is a good choice, sir.

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 10 Aug 2009, 00:34

[quote name="Void"]
[quote name="Famous Mortimer"]don't like that one either. what purpose does copy-paste-ctrl+t'ing the hard-on bearer from the image in the OP serve? what do any of these have to do with morbid angel?

lots more bright, gaudy filter type texturing and flames, bleh. way too many bold, sharply defined lines, it's the major common formal element in everything the hard-on bearer does and it's just not attractive at all.[/quote]

and, the mirroring of the background in almost all his work is so lame[/quote]

the background is mirrored because its symmetrical and symmetry represents order which obviously plays second fiddle to ALMIGHTY ANTIKOSMIK KHAOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

(also, darkness)

vO)))id · Post by **vO)))id** » 10 Aug 2009, 01:55

I guess that makes it very KVLT and UBER GR1M then!!!

please mirror the MA logo next time too!

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 10 Aug 2009, 02:58

seriously though what is it with those dudes and substituting C with K

vO)))id · Post by **vO)))id** » 10 Aug 2009, 03:10

it's "more metal"

...if it's up to this hard-on bearer, the C album would have been called "Kovenant". Or the K album will be called "Kovenant"

David Vinkent

just kidding, that's just silly

Ninny · Post by **Ninny** » 10 Aug 2009, 05:56

Beunhaas

vO)))id · Post by **vO)))id** » 10 Aug 2009, 13:02

[quote name="Ninny"]Beunhaas[/quote]

Mutilator · Post by **Mutilator** » 10 Aug 2009, 22:34

[quote name="Famous Mortimer"]seriously though what is it with those dudes and substituting C with K

[/quote]

Isn't it Australian?

Sadistik Exekution - Kaos

We are death fukk you

...

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 10 Aug 2009, 22:42

these duders are from south carolina though. maybe they got some aussie blood in them or something

Teignub · Post by **Teignub** » 10 Aug 2009, 22:54

[quote name="TAM TAM"]
[quote name="Nick"]

i vote this one

[/quote]

That is a good choice, sir.[/quote]

Win!!!!!!!1111!!!!!!11!!!1

Svartmetall · Post by **Svartmetall** » 11 Aug 2009, 05:19

The first pic looks shitty. The 'fire flower' one is less bad.

But...I keep thinking if they want dceent cover art, why not get Venosa to do an awesome painting like he's done for both Cynic albums? This Vadim hard-on bearer strikes me as more of a hack every time I see new stuff from him, though I will admit that I still ike this piece by him:

...and think it actually wouldn't be a bad album cover.

zim · Post by **zim** » 11 Aug 2009, 08:15

[quote name="Skinfection"]our lord and master says that would be lame album art as well[/quote]

Abzu · Post by **Abzu** » 11 Aug 2009, 09:45

That ten minute photoshopfiltermasturbationfest?

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 11 Aug 2009, 10:35

if nile were a high school band and they knew a kid in the graphic arts department who could do some pretty, like seriously really bitchin' stuff on the computer with graphics, that would be the cover of their demo

Abzu · Post by **Abzu** » 11 Aug 2009, 10:54

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 11 Aug 2009, 11:15

and we're all from south carolina too! hiyooooooooooo

Abzu · Post by **Abzu** » 11 Aug 2009, 11:18

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 11 Aug 2009, 11:20

actually i shouldn't say 'from' because i am not from here, i am simply here

maybe all the other folk are though

Lavabug · Post by **Lavabug** » 12 Aug 2009, 16:03

[quote name="Svartmetall"]The first pic looks shitty. The 'fire flower' one is less bad.

But...I keep thinking if they want dceent cover art, why not get Venosa to do an awesome painting like he's done for both Cynic albums? This Vadim hard-on bearer strikes me as more of a hack every time I see new stuff from him, though I will admit that I still ike this piece by him:

...and think it actually wouldn't be a bad album cover.[/quote]

I have to admit I like this one too, colors are too vibrant but at least it is relevant to Morbid Angel.

The first image in this thread is... horrible. At least draw some genitals on that fucking thing.

Ninny · Post by **Ninny** » 20 Aug 2009, 17:52

It's the morbidangel.com frontpage now

Abzu · Post by **Abzu** » 20 Aug 2009, 19:39

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 20 Aug 2009, 23:34

who the fuck did they design the splash page layout for? just for shits and giigles, i connected my TV as a second monitor at 1920x1080, and you STILL can't see the 'enter' graphic at the bottom with the browser maximised.

questionable content and absolutely thoughtless layout, i sincerely hope MA isn't actually paying these guys.