Space/sci-fi themed metal cover art

This thread is for sharing cover artwork from metal albums which feature spaceships and other sci-fi themes.

Helstar: "Burning Star"

A space dog fight and a death-star like backdrop - nice!

Nocturnus: "Thresholds"

A spaceship in orbit, planets towers, space stations - nice!

Nocturnus: "The Key"

Arigato, Mr Roboto!

Iron Maiden: "The Final Frontier"

Nice idea, but the alien Eddie is not cool.

Iron Maiden: "Somewhere in Time"

Now, this Blade Runner-like theme is just my favorite album cover artwork ever!

Fast Kutz: "Burnin'"

Human vs. machine!

Fates Warning: "The Spectre Within"

The strange Cyber-Helmet-Woman strikes me as being sort of sci-fi like. I don't know who she is, but I think she is featured in one their videos. Does anybody know who this character is? Is the the traveler in time?

Suffocation: "Effigy of the Forgotten"

A sort of robot-like machine harvesting "organic material" - nice.

That second one is awesome. I gotta get those two albums - although I've never heard the band.

http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/oranssi-pazuzu--muukalainen-puhuu.aspx I love this one.

I love this artwork!

Time Signature wrote: UMUR wrote: http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/crystal-age--far-beyond-divine-horizons.aspx That looks a bit like the Nocturnus spaceship.

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4903. I can�t seem to copy/ paste the cover artworks from the page, so here�s a link.

 

Edited by UMUR - 17 Nov 2010 at 12:11am

Stooge wrote: Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian I'm honestly not sure what the cover is.  I don't pay much attention to the lyrics, but is it anything like the Guardian of Forever from Star Trek (episode: "City on the Edge of Forever")?  That's what the image reminds me of.

Yeah, you're right. I never noticed, and I'm a fan of "City on the Edge of Forever" - coooool.

Stooge wrote: Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian I'm honestly not sure what the cover is.  I don't pay much attention to the lyrics, but is it anything like the Guardian of Forever from Star Trek (episode: "City on the Edge of Forever")?  That's what the image reminds me of.

Hehe . . .
THATS why you have to get into the lyrics .  Thats what made the Arch/Matheos lyrics so
unique than other Metal/Thrash and even Prog Bands until Sabbat (uk) came onto the scene
with Martin Walkyiers lyrics .
Yes! You are correct Time Sig, "He" is the "Traveler in Time" and the Character in the song
"Exodus".  Heres where it gets pretty brilliant, that "Gate" is where he Time Travels and you
get to "Hear it", at the end of Exodus as the instruments "flange" in the fade-out, we then hear
our character (Possibly "us") going through the Gate .  Done in an interesting mix of Bass,
possibly guitars all flanged, phased backwards and Drum effects (Keyboards?).

. . . I guess I'm a hard-core GEEK to get all that when I purchased that great album soo many
years ago.  Just brilliant .

As you can see, the "Spectre Within" Character is the same "Figure" on the "Awaken the
Guardian" album (You see more of him inside/Lyric sheet).
Part 1:


Part 2:


I hope to have time and add some cool Bands that have cool Sci-Fi/Fantasy Concepts with
accompanying Cover Art soon . . .
When I'm not soo damn tired .


Edited by MAVIIIVAM - 17 Nov 2010 at 11:58pm

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