Magma releases early version of new album art

Ehh, I don't think the album art is fantastic.  I'll be excited to get it either way, though.  

I like everything but the type used for the title.  If I was doing it MY way, I'd just make the logo bigger and leave it wordless except for Magma.  

The Kohntarkosz blog generally only posts things from reliable sources, yes. 

Yeah it's a bit of a change up. But I like the color, the font a bit less.

This art reminds me of some covers for "arty bands" from the 90's.
Not sure if I would call this "minimal and sober" or "lazy" (yes, it's a bit harsh).

frippism wrote: I like the color, the font a bit less.

Yeah, it's a nice color. The chalkboard font not so nice.

Edited by The Bearded Bard - May 17 2012 at 14:46

Horrible typeface, but it's still marginally better than the recently unveiled Anglagard cover.

There's some extracts up on their website here.

Magma's never well-served by excerpts, but I can't say those made much of an impression. And at about 32 minutes for the whole album... well, I never expected to be this underwhelmed at the prospect of a new Magma album!


Edited by The Hemulen - May 18 2012 at 10:25

Zombywoof wrote: Sounds like more exciting music from Christian Vander, to me. Why are we so apprehensive about new releases from classic bands around here? Let's just enjoy the fact that Vander still feels like there's something for him to say. It would appear also, that I'm the only one who actually likes the new cover art, even the hand-written style of the font.

I'm not, as a rule, apprehensive about new releases from old bands and certainly not when it comes to Magma. I adored K.A. and thought E-Re was pretty spiffy too (though perhaps not quite up to the same standard). I was merely saying that the actual content of those clips didn't really grab me and coupled with the pretty lean overall length of the album left me feeling a lot more underwhelmed than I'd expected.

It seems strange to me that they chose not to record more of the swathes of Magma material which they've been playing live for years but remain without a studio release. A studio version of Theusz Hamtaahk or Sl*g Tanz would have really helped to beef up what's looking to be a pretty lightweight record.

Of course, I could be wrong and when I hear the piece as a whole it may well blow me away. But for now, I'm a lot less excited than I thought I'd be!

Don't care about the cover, I want the album and mostly I want them to start playing live often, again. I miss them. 

When is this going to be released?