Research into Album Covers

The reasons we chose these album covers is because they represent the world of metal and rock very well,as you can see they are very dark sometimes evil looking and they are clearly identifiable as metal and rock bands.The colours used in the album covers are mostly greys and blacks to show the anger and darkness of the rock and metal music genre.In our research int album covers we did not just want to look at album covers showing artwork,we also wanted to look at album covers showing the band themselves as this was the aim of our front cover.We looked at some album covers showing the band on the front and we noticed most of the time some form of effect is used on them such as a grey tint or some over effect which emphasises them greatly compared to when just being put in front of blank background.The aim of our album cover is to incorporate these things into our such as the band being on the front with the dark/grey colour but at the same time we also want some sort of effect in place to liven it up more.