Album cover research

Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me

This band can be considered to fit in to quiet a few genres and since we came up with the idea to use them in the video I decided to include them in the album cover research.

This album cover is quite different from what you would expect from an album cover to begin with. Not having the bands name or title anywhere on the front which can be considered to be strange as it does not promote the band at all.

Taking the fact they don't have any writing on the front of the album its not rare for this band to do so and they usually have different album covers with this one being no different. The cover it self sees a young girl either sneaking up or hiding from two men dressed in masks which at first offers quite a halloween sense to it.

Wanting to know more I decided to research to the cover and found this on wikipedia.

"The album cover is a picture titled "Untitled #44" from Nicholas Prior's "Age of Man" collection which the band saw at an art show and later used. Unusually, the outside of the cardboard case contains no song listings, and doesn't contain the name of the album or the band name anywhere but on the spine. The record company instead placed stickers on the plastic wrapping to indicate the name of the album and band, and on the UK version to indicate that it had the bonus track."

This album cover while is stylish can mislead the audience as it offers no direction to who the band can be without looking at the spin so I will have to include the band name etc on mine when I decide to start working on the design

Design ideas

• Use Pauls drawings as the front cover
• Have the band name on the cover with album title
• Use Photoshop to design the cover etc