New Album Cover Art

Kanye West Reveals New Album Cover

Earlier this week Kanye West generated a viral-buzz when he released the album cover art for his new album. The art featured a topless, armless phoenix straddling a demon meant to represent 'Ye,' and apparently he's got more cover art on the way.

On Thursday Amazon.com posted different art of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and it's the same red border but this time with a painting of a ballerina holding a wine glass. The artist of both paintings is frequent Kanye collaborator George Condo, and Kanye revealed Tuesday that the two have more work in store for fans.

"Well, actually, it's five covers," he told MTV News. "And you get all five of them when you buy the album."

No word on what the other covers might look like....but enough already, pick a cover and go with it, quit milking it!

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METALLICA: 'Live At Grimey's' Cover Artwork Unveiled

Metallica is set to release a new live album 'Live At Grimey's' on November 26.  The music was recorded on June 12, 2008 at the tiny 150-capacity venue The Basement, located below the Grimey's New & Preloved Music record store in Nashville.

"Live At Grimey's" will be sold as a standard CD and as a limited edition two-disc vinyl set in a gatefold sleeve.  Additionally, the album will be sold only at the approximately 700 independent record stores that support the annual Record Store Day, which is held each year in April.

In announcing the album, Metallica had this to say on their web site:

 "We were honored to be part of the first-ever annual event celebrating independently owned records stores, a.k.a. Record Store Day, with an in-store at Rasputin Music in Mountain View, California on April 19, 2008 and we're very proud to be a part of another special event with our friends at independent retail."







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The Damned Things 'Ironiclast' Cover Artwork Unveiled

The Damned Things, a new band featuring members of Fall Out Boy (Joe Trohman, Andy Hurley), Anthrax (Scott Ian, Rob Caggiano) and Every Time I Die (Keith Buckley, Josh Newton), are set to release their debut album, 'Ironiclast,' on December 14th via Island/Def Jam.

Says Trohman about the artwork: "This art is meant to represent a example of an 'ironiclast.' The $1 bill is one of the most iconoclastic images we, as a band, could think of. Every time we kept musing on other widely recognized bits of imagery, we always came back to this bank note for some reason. It felt relevant, regardless of the meaning one decides to attach. It can that represent everything from the American dream and total independence, to capitalism and a loss in sight of what's really important in this world. It could be representative of not just the current American economy, but also of the world economy and its piss-poor state of being. This could also conjure up the old 'money-is-the-root-of-all-evil' adage. Maybe you just hate George Washington and you feel like this is really sticking it to him...FINALLY! Or maybe you love George Washington and have been dying to give him a cool makeover. This is all left up to you. Many meanings can be attached to this imagery. It's all in how you choose to interpret it."

The Damned Things made its live debut on June 1, 2010 at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, New York.