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Topic | Jesse Ranks User-Nominated Cover Art - The Rankings |
Jesse_Custer 04/13/17 6:16:03 PM #22: | 71. Destruction - Live Without Sense - LOLIAmAnAlt http://www.metal-archives.com/images/5/2/8/2/5282.jpg?4122 Originality: 5 Aesthetic: 1.25 Story: 5.5 Personal: 0.25 Average: 3.0 I can't think of anything I actually liked about this cover. Not sure how else to describe it than a fat guy with Martin Scorsese eyebrows and poor dental care using strings to control what looks like lights (I can't even tell with certainty if they're lights because the image is so poorly cropped). I guess he's supposed to be some kind of sinister puppet master, but he just looks like some drooling guy with brain damage. And I don't even know where to begin with that pathetic excuses for fingers, so I won't even try. It's hardly the worst artwork I've seen, but it's really amateurish. There's some sense of story, but it's not clear enough for a higher score. Puppet strings can be an effective metaphor, but typically they are used to control, well, puppets, not just some mechanical equipment that would already be off stage. It just doesn't make much sense. To sum up this cover, I'll leave it to esteemed critic Jay Sherman: ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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