THE NEW HEAVEN AND HELL ALBUM COVER IS METAL AS FUCK
Thursday, March 12th, 2009 at 10:19am by Axl RosenbergLook: I don’t want to play into any kind of imaginary, percevied rivalry between Ozzy Osbourne and Dio-Sabbath Heaven and Hell. They are two separate entities. There’s no reason one has to be “better” than the other. Who cares, right? I mean, all parties involved are getting older and closer to death, which means that people will kinda naturally start to talk about their legacies, but so what if Ozzy’s next big project is some terrible sub-This is Howie Do It variety show on Fox while Black Sabbath are making what I’m 99.9% sure is going to be an album so rocking you’ll have no choice but to rape the neighbors’ cat? I mean, it’s totally irrelevant to the conversation, right?
Anyway, here’s the album cover for H+H Music Factory’s The Devil You Know. Yes, that giant eyeless demon appears to be holding someone who was not only crucified but stuck with hundrerds of additional nails. Yes, somewhere Kerry King and Larry Carroll are pissed they didn’t think of it, first.
The Devil You Know will be released on April 28. A first single, “Bible Black,” should be coming soon.
-AR
Kinda has an Alien vs. Predator vs. Dio vibe to it
awesome cover.has me psyched for some tunes. with an album cover like that they better bring it.
Holy shit, that’s bad ass.
Sort of depressing, how praise will immediately choke every sensibility in the metal community when this is released regardless of it’s quality. Why singers who sound like chicks being ass raped are considered “metal” and the best above all others I have no explanation for.
Great album art, I have no perception of how album art is “bad” or “good” around these parts anyway, basically if it was a giant Blues Clues wagging dog cock you guys would love it regardless, and if it had a band you frequently bash on it while instead being awesome, you’d think it sucks.
that is fucking wicked
This has all the makings of a great metal album art: snakes, horns, spiked weapon, demon/goatman thing, crucified dudes, and a red & black color scheme. Hopefully the music is at least half as awesome as this album art.
all I have to say is… HOLY FUCK !
DAMN is the first word that comes to mind!
ackkkk, the banner in the rss feed for this article was the Jonas Brothers. A BRIGHT PINK
Anybody know who painted the cover. Reminds me alot of Joe Pentagno’s work.
Sort of depressing, how praise will immediately choke every sensibility in the metal community when this is released regardless of it’s quality. Why singers who sound like chicks being ass raped are considered “metal” and the best above all others I have no explanation for.
Great album art, I have no perception of how album art is “bad” or “good” around these parts anyway, basically if it was a giant Blues Clues wagging dog cock you guys would love it regardless, and if it had a band you frequently bash on it while instead being awesome, you’d think it sucks.
I feel so sorry for you, you sad lonely little man.
If you don’t like Dio, and you don’t like the quintessential “Metal” band, still crushing harder than almost anyone else around, then you don’t like Metal. Period.
I saw heaven and hell 2 years ago, and they killed. Made every single one of the dozen or so opening bands look like chumps. Especially Queensryche and Alice cooper.
Yeah, I’m that guy. It was Dio’s first two Sabbath albums that gave me the final push into metal (following Priest’s “Screaming” which gave me the initial body slam). I’ve always found Dio Sabbath superior to Ozzy’s version, history nothwithstanding.
Is it painted by Brom? Kinda looks like his stuff.
Guess we differ there, the screeching ass rape singing never did it for me, I prefer a sonic howl and fist clenched powered urgency to that any day, week, month, or year.
I like the cover, but it looks like a Magic: The Gathering card.
Speaking of raping the neighbor’s cat, I have a story about that very scenario.
I know a guy who’s from a small town in a state in the midwest. Well, his little brother told him about this. Apparently, one of the kids in this friend’s little brother’s class was a little weird (about 7th grade, I think). So, I guess that this weird kid picked up a cat one day, and looked at it, and decided that he was gonna have sex with it. He waited until he was alone in his house, and took the cat, and stuck it in the cat’s pooper. Well, the cat wasn’t really expecting this, so it tightened up its sphincter muscles mighty fierce. Unfortunately, the cat tightened its butt up so tight that the kid couldn’t get his dick out. So, he sat there for I don’t know how long, until he could go to his mom and somehow communicate the idea that he had a cat stuck on his dick and he needed to get it off. They went to the hospital, and get this, they had to kill the cat in order to get it off.
To sum up: weird kid rapes a cat, cat squeezes its butthole shut, kid goes to hospital, they kill the cat to get it off. About half the people in the room when the story was told were so disgusted they couldn’t speak, and the other half laughed. I laughed so fucking hard I thought I was gonna die.
Amazing album art, but I probably won’t give two shits about the actual album. I’m not a young whipper snapper, but Dio was never my thing, and I doubt this album will be very “hard,” instead just a rehashing of Black Sabbath and Dio.
You can’t trust an album by it’s advertising. I can show you great bands with horrid album art, and vice versa.
Wicked! Saw them on the final leg of the Metal Masters Tour. I’m reserving judgment until after I give the album a few listens. I hope it isn’t as slow for me as Dehumanizer was.
@ezra: A giant Blue’s Clues wagging dog cock you say? Sounds pretty brutal to me. Much more brutal than the giant blue wagging super hero cock in Watchmen.
Cool cover, I just hope the band can pull it all together to make one final heavy as fuck album before they all get oldtimers and forget how to. I mean they fucking created the heavy, so why can’t they up the ante for the rest of the younger bands and show em how it is done. At the very least they took a big chance with the antireligious imagery of their cover. I doubt we will be seeing an exclusive deal with Wal-Mart, thankfuly.
ezra: Yada, I love Sabbath, I hate Dio, his voice is just, awful, that’s my opinion of course, but it’s like nails on a chalkboard to me.
Kevin: That would be my quote, I guess his comment was in moderation there.
seveword: Wow, break your fingers and spare us anymore stories.
Woo. Pretty excited for this.
You know it’s a good sign when the album cover features the allstar lineup like a Hollywood movie poster…
ronny james DIO, tommy IOMMI, geezer BUTLER, and vinny APPICE in…
THE DEVIL YOU KNOW
…coming soon…
Ronnie you ninny, not Ronny.
It is very true that an album cover can be very misleading, although that never stopped me in my youth from buying albums based strictly on the criteria that they looked cool and/or would make my mother cringe (anything with art by Pushead was a must-have). On more than a few occasions the music matched the cover to my delight..ST’s “Join The Army”, Samhain “Initium” AND “November Coming Fire” etc…
I guess an example of the opposite would be Frank Frazetta’s “Death Dealer” on a Molly Hatchet cover…a totally metal cover for a boogie-rock album.
And for the record, it’s TONY Iommi, not Tommy there superfan…
Wasn’t even paying attention, missed that one,
Awesome cover. Black Sabbath has a history of godawful covers, but this one looks like it’s breaking the trend.
Actually, now that I think of it, the only Sabbath covers that weren’t terrible were the Dio ones. Heaven and Hell was good, Mob Rules was their best one up till this one, Dehumanizer was average but good by their standards, and this ones sweet.
Pretty much true….although I think the cover of Sabbath’s debut fit the mood of the music perfectly. You have to take into account that it was intended to be viewed in a 12×12 format and there are things you might naturally overlook when it’s shrunk down to CD size.
The painter is a Norwegian dude called Per Haagensen: http://www.artbyper.com/
What can i say, the cover is an absolute killer, very very striking!!!
attackmole: Their best one was a black/death metal cover?
No, move along.
Please the cover to “Born Again” was without a doubt 100,000,000 times better than this.
And why didn’t the bring back Tony Martin instead of that hack Dio?
Fink and you Heaven & Hell fans type this in, and it gives you only, a 37 second sample
of the forthcoming single “Bible Black” Heaven & Hell myspace. Let me know what you think
Totally sick. If it’s the tour poster one will be framed on my wall.