For my genre analysis, I chose to analyze the covers of three albums by industrial, electronic rock bands; i.e. "Breedless," by Ego Likeness, "Anything That Gets You through the Night," by Edge of Dawn, and "Trypt0fanatic," by Kidneythieves. As a comparative example from the same genre, I am using the cover of "Wrath," by Iris:
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This album cover features what appears to be barbed wire spread across desert sand. Like the covers of both the Edge of Dawn and Kidneythieves albums, the Iris cover depicts the band's name in large letters with the title of the album in smaller letters below. Unlike the other album covers that I have explored, this cover also features the words of all the album's song titles scattered chaotically across the image of desert sand. Similar to the other bands of this genre, the desolate Iris cover is a connotation for the dark tones of the music of the genre. Furthermore, the lyrics of "Lands of Fire," the first song on the album, suggest a feeling of being lost in a metaphorical desert in life, and, like the three album covers that I analyzed for my paper, the image on the cover is organized with the sound of the music to focus on heavy concepts within the lyrics of the songs.
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