Tourniquet album covers ranked

9. Antiseptic Bloodbath
8. Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance
7. Crawl to China
6. Where Moth and Rust Destroy
5. Gazing at Medusa
4. Stop the Bleeding
3. Vanishing Lessons
2. Psychosurgery
1. Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm

Which Crawl to China cover did you use?

Worst: AB
Best: StB

CrimsonWarrior wrote:Which Crawl to China cover did you use?

The tomb one

I just like the first two album covers. Psychosurgery is my favorite! 

STB has a great aesthetic. It would look perfect as a biker MC logo.

STB is my favorite album and cover.
I do like that Gazing At Medusa cover as well.
Might as well flush that AB cover down the toilet.

I’ve mentioned it before, but someone who knows I love TQT gave me a mug with the AB cover on it. Thankfully, the other side is the StB cover, so I just look at that side.

Based on the original covers:



1. Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance
2. Stop The Bleeding
3. Psycho Surgery
4. Gazing At Medusa
5. Antiseptic Bloodbath
6. Microscopic View Of A Telescopic Realm
7. Where Moth And Rust Destroy
8. Vanishing Lessons
9. Crawl To China

Actually…

I also like the reissue of VL. I like the color scheme better than the original.

This is my favorite:

9. Antiseptic Bloodbath
8. Crawl to China
7. Vanishing Lessons
6. Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm
5. Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance
4. Where Moth and Rust Destroy
3. Gazing at Medusa
2. Psychosurgery
1. Stop the Bleeding

The 2001 reissue cover of Pathogenic is absolutely the worst.

Stop the Bleeding cover is the best.

But only the original, not the 2001 reissue with blood and new album title font and not the 2020 reissue with old cover but new title font.


Original:



2001:


2020:

^ I prefer the original myself. A classic design and the font screams with a sense of urgency…which is what I believe the artist intended to convey. While the 2020 design is nice, the scripted font style doesn’t come across in line with the style of music being performed. There’s no sense of urgency. No in your face message.

Ammocas wrote:^ I prefer the original myself. A classic design and the font screams with a sense of urgency…which is what I believe the artist intended to convey. While the 2020 design is nice, the scripted font style doesn’t come across in line with the style of music being performed. There’s no sense of urgency. No in your face message.

Yeah, the new font also has a shadow that looks too much like the basic shadow that you can add on Photoshop, distracting from the original hand-painted cover art.

The 2001 reissue of Psycho Surgery had a similar problem with new font and extra effects that were clearly done on a computer.

Original:



2001 reissue:

When in doubt…stick with the original cover art. Clearly obvious in this case.

It always irks me when companies make a new album cover for a remaster that doesn't look like it could have been made during the original album's year of release. Especially when you end up with abominations like Tourniquet's 2001 POD album cover.

I don’t mind the reissue cover of Psycho Surgery, but I didn’t like when Ted made the title one word.

Airola wrote:Stop the Bleeding cover is the best.

But only the original, not the 2001 reissue with blood and new album title font and not the 2020 reissue with old cover but new title font.


Original:



2001:


2020:

I like the 2020 reissue the best! 

It’s just like the original, but the color pops out more. The cursive writing is nicer too.

Airola wrote:The 2001 reissue cover of Pathogenic is absolutely the worst.

Horrible artwork. Absolutely horrible!

Who did this abomination?

TZ75 wrote:

Airola wrote:The 2001 reissue cover of Pathogenic is absolutely the worst.

Horrible artwork. Absolutely horrible!

Who did this abomination?

The same person who decided to give What A Joke the "happy meal" treatment?

TZ75 wrote:
Horrible artwork. Absolutely horrible!

Who did this abomination?

Brian Ames. The same guy who did the Microscopic View covers.

He has done a ton of designs and layouts for famous bands. Slayer, Flotsam and Jetsam, King Diamond, Cannibal Corpse... etc.

The best thing of that 2001 POD reissue is that it had very cool new photos of the band members. But the cover is terrible and the overall layout is terrible too with almost unreadable font on the lyrics. And not only that but on the side label it reads DISSONENCE instead of DISSONANCE.

When that reissue got a new pressing it was released with the old cover art and new layout with a better font too.

Airola wrote:

TZ75 wrote:
Horrible artwork. Absolutely horrible!

Who did this abomination?

Brian Ames. The same guy who did the Microscopic View covers.

He has done a ton of designs and layouts for famous bands. Slayer, Flotsam and Jetsam, King Diamond, Cannibal Corpse... etc.

The best thing of that 2001 POD reissue is that it had very cool new photos of the band members. But the cover is terrible and the overall layout is terrible too with almost unreadable font on the lyrics. And not only that but on the side label it reads DISSONENCE instead of DISSONANCE.

When that reissue got a new pressing it was released with the old cover art and new layout with a better font too.

I’m surprised Ted signed off on this. 

Did he trust the artist and not have the time to ask for a redo? Or did he actually like it? On the 2020 reissues, he seemed to care about the quality. 

The 2001 covers are very amateur looking (especially POD). 

Maybe it costs more, but the old fashioned hand drawn or painted artwork is a million times better! That’s why I love the Seventh Angel covers. I also love the comic book style of Ed Repka. His Megadeth covers are amazing!

TZ75 wrote:

Airola wrote:

TZ75 wrote:
Horrible artwork. Absolutely horrible!

Who did this abomination?

Brian Ames. The same guy who did the Microscopic View covers.

He has done a ton of designs and layouts for famous bands. Slayer, Flotsam and Jetsam, King Diamond, Cannibal Corpse... etc.

The best thing of that 2001 POD reissue is that it had very cool new photos of the band members. But the cover is terrible and the overall layout is terrible too with almost unreadable font on the lyrics. And not only that but on the side label it reads DISSONENCE instead of DISSONANCE.

When that reissue got a new pressing it was released with the old cover art and new layout with a better font too.

I’m surprised Ted signed off on this. 

Did he trust the artist and not have the time to ask for a redo? Or did he actually like it? On the 2020 reissues, he actually seemed to care about the quality. 

The 2001 covers are very amateur looking (especially POD). Almost like someone that barely learned how to use graphic design software for the first time would do. Maybe it costs more, but the old fashioned hand drawn or painted artwork is a million times better! That’s why I love the Seventh Angel covers.

Rodney Matthews’ cover art is second to none… those Seventh Angel covers are treasures…he also did a great job on some Stairway album covers.

Ammocas wrote:

TZ75 wrote:

Airola wrote:

TZ75 wrote:
Horrible artwork. Absolutely horrible!

Who did this abomination?

Brian Ames. The same guy who did the Microscopic View covers.

He has done a ton of designs and layouts for famous bands. Slayer, Flotsam and Jetsam, King Diamond, Cannibal Corpse... etc.

The best thing of that 2001 POD reissue is that it had very cool new photos of the band members. But the cover is terrible and the overall layout is terrible too with almost unreadable font on the lyrics. And not only that but on the side label it reads DISSONENCE instead of DISSONANCE.

When that reissue got a new pressing it was released with the old cover art and new layout with a better font too.

I’m surprised Ted signed off on this. 

Did he trust the artist and not have the time to ask for a redo? Or did he actually like it? On the 2020 reissues, he actually seemed to care about the quality. 

The 2001 covers are very amateur looking (especially POD). Almost like someone that barely learned how to use graphic design software for the first time would do. Maybe it costs more, but the old fashioned hand drawn or painted artwork is a million times better! That’s why I love the Seventh Angel covers.

Rodney Matthews’ cover art is second to none… those Seventh Angel covers are treasures…he also did a great job on some Stairway album covers.

Yes, Rodney Mathews is awesome. He did a lot of prog and NWOBHM artwork. I love his unique fantasy style. 

Another phenomenal fantasy artist (Roger Dean) did that amazing Asia album cover with the sea serpent.