ARTWORK COVER CASE ANALYSIS

Recorded during a 2004–2005 world tour which promoted their third studio album Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses).

9.0 Live - Slipknot

When looking at the image, you can see the many hands in it could resemble how crowded and chaotic a mosh pit is. The band being a heavy metal band, mosh pits are common to this style of music.

I f you look carefully you can see the faint image of the slipknot pentagon symbol/logo, which is a way to recognise the band

First live album by American heavy metal band Slipknot.

We picked to look at this CD cover because it was something that we could possibly achieve and we all liked the band Slipknot so we decided to look at this CD cover.

Minutes to Midnight – Linkin Park

We chose this album cover because we are doing a song by Linkin Park so it would be logically to look at there style of album covers. Again it’s the whole band in black and white with the background fading out. It is a very basic picture but fits the cover ideally.

The positioning of the band members and the lack of colour show the album as a more dark and masculine cover, which if you were looking at it in a stereotypical way, fits it’s target audience of male listeners.

The type of font used also suits the genre of the music and band.

The Linkin Park symbol can be found on the CD, with the same title as on the cover. Round the edges of the symbol you can see the names of the songs played on the CD in order.

Third studio album by Linkin Park.

Released on May 14, 2007 by Warner Bros. Records.

Shows a change in the group’s musical direction.

Marks the beginning of divergence from their signature nu metal sound.

The name Minutes to Midnight takes its title from the Doomsday Clock, which a symbolic reference of a clock face.

Hybrid Theory – Linkin Park

We looked at this album as well as Minutes to Midnight because Hybrid Theory is the album in which our song has been taken from.

The first album by Linkin Park.

Once again , the font is used to give off a masculine type feeling (sold strong font). It’s also quit similar to army type font, which is a masculine occupation.

The CD uses the same artwork as on the cover, which a lot of albums do.

Released on October 24, 2000 by Warner Bros. Records.

Just like Minutes to Midnight, the songs on the album are listed on the the CD.

The artwork on the album is similar to street art. The main picture stands out from the background as it’s the only colourful thing on it. If you look closely, you can see wings behind the image of the army guy, symbolising something much deeper than what’s to the eye, as this masculine man is being linked so something such as insects which are small and weak.

Folie à Deux – Fall Out BoyThe title is French. It’s a rare psychiatric syndrome, where the symptoms of a delusional belief are transmitted from one individual to another, which explains the image.

The fifth studio album by Fall Out Boy.

Recorded from July to September 2008 at The Pass Studios and The Casita in Hollywood, California.

Released on December 16, 2008The image is an example of Folie à Deux. The human believes he is a bear, and the bear believes it’s a human. Painted by artist Luke Chueh

Folie à Deux = A madness shared by two.

The simplicity of the title font juxtaposes with the idea of the artwork, bringing back the theme of madness.

The similarity in font between the title and the bands name, shows a hint of the theme being quite personal and a state of their own hidden madness.

Into the Aether - AnavaeFirst album released by Anavae

Released 01 May 2012

A & E – someone holds the letter’s A & E which are the first and last letters of the bands name, showing its’ the bands initials. An aether is

‘personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians; son of Erebus and night or of Chaos and darkness.’ and the themes are shown in the art work

The idea of air and sky is created by the smoke allowing us to actually see ‘air’

The guy standing in the centre of the image could represent the Olympian; son of Erebus

The darkness is represented by the fact its’ a dark image, even though the lighting is quite bright, there is still la dark feel to it.

It seems that a lot of album artwork with hidden meanings makes more sense when you look into the name of the title of the album.

Nothing Personal – All Time LowThe third album by All Time Low.

Released through Hopeless Records on July 7, 2009.

The mixture of different colours could represent the number of different personalities within the band, similar to the various different images used.

The playful colourful imagery juxtaposes the formal background. You can see that the fun exciting park of the artwork was underneath the wallpaper background. This could represent that underneath people’s serious personality, lies a fun interesting person into a lot of different things.

The band uses the same type of font for their band name on every album cover.

The create part of the cover is quite childlike. It’s on writing paper people us in school and you can see a pencil. It’s as though someone doodle on a piece of paper, and someone else has covered up with something more appropriate, but it’s been exposed against slightly.

The birds flying away from the inside of the albums’ artistic part represents the imagination running free and wild like a bird.