Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Travis Smith was born on February 26, 1970, just outside San Diego, California.Growing up, Smith had no formal art education aside from a semester in high school.He got his start designing album covers for his friend's band, progressive metal group Psychotic Waltz.
Metal Hammer called the album "one of the genre’s first masterworks". [15] [16] Joe DiVita of Loudwire referred to the album's alternate cover as one of the scariest heavy metal album covers of all time, saying it was "clearly better than the original". [17] Autopsy has been said to have pioneered gore lyrics on the album.
Butchered's infamous album artwork depicts an "evil zombie doctors pulling a dead baby as it comes out of a dead woman." [22] It was created by longtime collaborator Vince Locke and is frequently identified as one of the most gruesome album covers of all time.
The album features several tracks that are re-recorded versions of tracks that appeared on the band's Reincremation demo and Human Waste EP. The cover artwork was created by Dan Seagrave. [2] The album was dedicated to the memory of fellow metal band Atheist's bassist Roger Patterson, who had been killed in a car crash earlier in 1991. [3]
The cover was highly controversial and remains so: in 2008, the album’s Wikipedia page was placed on a blacklist by the Internet Watch Foundation as they believed the image could be regarded as ...
Sinister Slaughter is the second full-length album by American death metal band Macabre and was released in 1993 by Nuclear Blast Records. [2] The cover artwork is a parody on the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band featuring the band members, serial killers and mass murderers instead of famous people.
Humanure is the second studio album by American deathgrind band Cattle Decapitation. [3] [4] [5] It was released on July 13, 2004 through Metal Blade Records and has been noted for its iconic cover art, depicting a cow defecating what appears to be human body parts in a wasteland environment — the image has been compared to the artwork for Pink Floyd’s album Atom Heart Mother.
The album played a considerable role in the development of many extreme metal subgenres, and death metal bands such as Cannibal Corpse cite the album as an influence. [ 6 ] [ 5 ] [ 7 ] The lyrical themes follow those found on their first album Endless Pain , containing descriptions of macabre scenes of death and horror.