Sanctisonic Symmetry

Holy Fawn, Realms EP (2015)


I like the symmetry and simplicity of this cover, though I think the style and color of the text could be improved on. Here are two variants on the cover:

Cover without text


Cover with mirrored text


Elsewhere Other-Accessible…

• Holy Fawn at Bandcamp

I Like Dyke

Grumpy Dyke’s Phallocrator (2023)


• “Stoner rock meets industrial metal in the suppurating bowels of Hell.” — Garth Halloran
• “See ’em live or die!” — Jessica Tővetz
• “A rancidly toxic maxi-melange of racism, sexism, transphobia, open support for MAGA and open hostility to BLM. But Grumpy Dyke have an unacceptable side too.” — The Quietus


Elsewhere other-accessible…

• Grumpy Dyke at Bandcamp

Down in the Bassment

Cover of Damned to Earth’s self-titled debut


I like the cover and the music.


Previously Pre-Posted…

• Museek — in which I don’t like the cover but do like the music
• A Little Light Night Music — in which I don’t like the music but do like the cover

The Flight Album

Slow Exploding Gulls have always been one of my favorite bands and Yr Wylan Ddu (1996) is one of my favorite albums by these Exeter esotericists. The cover is one of their best too:

Yr Wylan Ddu (1996) by Slow Exploding Gulls


Yr Wylan Ddu is Welsh for “The Black Gull”. But it’s become a white gull to celebrate the album’s twenty-fifth anniversary:

Yr Wylan Ddu (2021 re-issue)


Elsewhere other-accessible

• Mental Marine Music — an introduction to Slow Exploding Gulls
• Slow Exploding Gulls at Bandcamp
• Gull-SEG — the oldest and best Slow-Exploding-Gulls fan-site