The blending on that second one is so haphazard; just a random blanket of noise on the top, that ghost thing is just randomly floating through the fog like a quick cutout and those buglike ufo’s just look like they were duplicated to try to add more crap to the piece.
To be honest, I love it. I think they did it on purpose, Breen style. The band totally bought it
I honestly don’t get why some bands (intentionally) create fugly covers that are not even remotely clever or funny. I mean, if the cover of your album looks like absolutely shit, how is the music supposed to be any different…?
Good cover arts are nice to have (marketing?), but I don’t “listen to album arts” and don’t think they are dealbreaker. Good track is good track regardless of “cover art”
We’ll “agree to disagree” then. Cover art is part of the whole package. Not giving 2 shits about it is cheapening your music. It’s not a question of marketing or sales. I’ll always question poor taste, even if the music is good.