Classic metal album cover art, done shitty
“Metal Art Abominations,” a group dedicated to producing shitty, childlike renderings of iconic metal albums is so kvlt that they don’t allow Photoshop or MS Paint images — according to “rule 1” on their Facebook page, all submissions “MUST be created on a smartphone with a mobile app (we recommend Sketch). We can’t have people showing us up using Microsoft Paint, Photoshop etc.”
I’ve always been a sucker for these type of art projects which are truly a product of the Internet age. Though “Metal Art Abominations,” isn’t really a new idea, indeed we’ve covered similar territory before here at Dangerous Minds, there’s something extra sardonic about these ultra-crude fabrications of “brutal” LP covers. The more seriously gory or satanic the original version is, the more effective the “abomination” version becomes. One also can’t help but laugh at a group that takes its mission so seriously that MS Paint is considered too refined of a tool. Even the 1:1 aspect ratios of the original album jackets are eschewed in favor of portrait mode of the phone app designs, making this purely throw-away glorious garbage art.
Here’s a gallery of personal favorites, but there’s dozens more over at the Metal Art Abominations page.
