H.R. Giger’s Greatest Album Cover Art
Hans Ruedi Giger (1940-2014) was a Swiss surrealist painter and sculptor known for his dark, often alien-inspired, disturbing and erotic "biomechanical" images - mages of humans and machines linked together in a cold interconnected relationship, he described as "biomechanical" relationship. Surreal and nightmarish dreamscapes.He was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for design work on the film Alien. Giger directed a number of films himself.
In 2018, the asteroid 109712 Giger was named in his memory.
Honorable mention (because it isn't an album cover): Jonathan Davis’ Mic Stand.
In 2000, Korn frontman contacted Giger in order to commission a special microphone stand. Giger recalled: "He told me I had complete freedom to design the microphone stand as I wanted and his only concern was that it had be totally functional and as movable as possible. He also wanted it be Biomechanical and very erotic."
The cover features his sculpture "Life Support" (1993) that is an update of a sculpture he created in the late 1960s. The video to the song “Heartwork” features a real-life interpretation of the sculpture.
Fun fact: one of the band members was so inspired that he later became Giger's part time assistant.
Danzig's dark, heavy and erotic music found its perfect match.
German death metal band Atrocity used a piece of Giger art
An extreme metal album of 2010
This album came out in 1973 and the English progressive rock supergroup was one of the first music acts to use Giger's work
This album came out in 1991 (so basically Giger has been in fashion in all decades since the 70s now)
"The Jam Was Moving" was a single from Harry's 1981 album KooKoo (the covers are different)