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LANDMINE MARATHON’S SOVEREIGN DESCENT COVER ART IS BOSS

 Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 at 2:29pm by

The cover of Landmine Marathon’s last album, Rusted Eyes Awake, looked kind of like an old EC Comic. It was definitely all-caps FUCKING METAL, and the non-polished quality of it matched the music perfectly.

The band has gone in a new direction for the cover of the new record, Sovereign Descent, hiring the legendary Dan Seagrave, and while it’s definitely still all-caps FUCKING METAL, the style and atmosphere are completely different. And not “bad” different – just different.

Does the tonal difference from the last cover foretell of a tonal difference in the music, too? I guess we’ll find out when Prosthetic releases the album on March 16.

-AR

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  • Dwarfskeet

    I think it looks a lot like Warbringer’s “Waking Into Nightmares” cover. Am I the only one?

    • iolanach

      That one’s also by Seagrave.

      Love ‘em both btw. Prefer this one though.

      • Dwarfskeet

        I wasn’t jockin’ on it in any way. Just saying they kinda go hand in hand. But I agree, they are both awesome, this one is just a tad bit cooler.

        PS: There are some pretty awesome album covers coming out lately.

    • http://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/ Alkahest

      Definitely does.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Anthony-Showalter/100000592087843 Anthony Showalter

      Dan Seagrave has been doing my favorite album covers since the 80′s. Morbid angel’s “Altars of Madness” various Suffocation album covers, even The Devil Wears Prada, but other than that, it’s all death metal. Look him up!

    • Captain Wookie

      I know both are by Seagrave but still, thats too close

      • JOnny fIve aces

        the guy’s old and out of ideas. what do you want?

    • http://thenumberoftheblog.wordpress.com/ groverXIII

      Came here to mention this. Looks like I’m not the only one who noticed.

      If the same artist did it, then that’s to be expected.

  • http://www.myspace.com/skeeterbeets Skeeter

    I love covers like this, an interesting cover is one way to always get my attention.

  • NoNameNoSlogan

    Yeah, the cover art is fuckin sweet.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rodney-Wilder/42003558 Rodney Wilder

    Looks quite similar to the cover artwork for Becoming the Archetype’s “Terminate Damnation”. I wonder if that was his handiwork also.