Judge the album cover
You didn't have to look far to find bad speed metal covers back in the 1980's
Here is Razor's Evil Invaders
vs.
Whiplash's Power and Pain
***So which one do you prefer?
Here is Razor's Evil Invaders
vs.
Whiplash's Power and Pain
***So which one do you prefer?
Labels: Judge the album cover, Razor, Whiplash
posted by Metal Mark at
3:08 AM
4 Comments:
That Razor cover is just plain awful. There's no style. The artist can almost draw, but really suffers from lack of originality. C'mon, motorcycles and skulls? You have to do better than that if you can't at least make it look cool. The fake Harley-Davidson logo on the motorcycle just underscores everything that's wrong with this one.
Whiplash might not be the best cover, but it is easily identified as the work of Sean Taggart. I guess it's kind of dated now, but for 80s hardcore DIY artwork, his is pretty cool. He did Agnostic Front's Victim in Pain and I think Crumbsuckers' Life of Dreams also.
The Razor cover is like a 12 year old saw the Terminator and tried to draw their own version. I don't think that the figure on the Whiplash works, but I like the logog and the album title. It's got that rough sketchy look like and 80's independent comic book.
Bob-I like Taggert's covers with the Crumbsuckers and AF. The reason those work and the Whiplash one doesn't is because he used many figures on those other two covers. They create an overall feel and you don't look at any one too long because there is so much going on. Here for some reason he did a close up and it just looks odd and cheap.
Neither one of them is very good, but I will take the Razor cover.
This is painful--both are dreadful. I guess I'd take Whiplash over Razor, but that's like choosing death by shooting over death by suffocation.
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