Comments on: Assassin (Deu) – The Upcoming Terror

By: Invisible Oranges

Invisible Oranges — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:45:11 +0000

That is one helluva cover. The Assassin demo is a fun listen. Here's the download link:

http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=102

Thanks for sharing that, Ian.

By: Ian Christe

Ian Christe — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:13:58 +0000

The follow-up, Interstellar Experience, is a far better album, with a far weirder cover?an outer space scarecrow who uses the band members' heads as press-on nails:

http://vibrationsofdoom.com/test/test2/covers/Assassin-IE.jpg

The demo is at blog.bazillionpoints.com !

By: dhd

dhd — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:20:48 +0000

My friend Mike used to a whole spoken word performance based around the cover art gamble – he has it down to a science, from scoping the band's T-shirts on the back cover, to interpreting the thanks list. I think the only album which really fails the cover art test in every possible way and yet is pretty decent is Paradox "Product of Imagination", which actually you featured here a while back…

By: Invisible Oranges

Invisible Oranges — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:00:31 +0000

My memorable victories on cover art gambles as a kid were The Soup Dragons' Lovegod (fractals) and Rage Against the Machine's debut (monk self-immolation).

By: watson

watson — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:43:56 +0000

You're absolutely right about the "cover art gamble". I've found many great albums that way. My best find was Holy Terror's "Mind Wars" and my weirdest was Steve Earle's "Copperhead Road". I was in high school and it had a skull on the cover, still was a good album though.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:54:01 +0000

I took a chance on this in 1998, paying $3 for the record at a flea market. I was not disappointed. Thanks for calling attention to this. It deserves to be heard. "Speed of Light" is awesome.