Looking back at my blog history, it’s obvious how much the Alien series means to me. I’ve spent countless of hours designing individual custom covers or whole CD or vinyl mockups. Heck, for Prometheus alone, I have created over a hundred different designs. For a long time, those projects were my safe space – a way to retreat, to dive into that horrific yet beautiful universe that feels so cold and dark and infinite. I simply fucking love those deep blue-and-black colour palettes in Cameron’s Aliens, for example. For many, this means the ultimate nightmare, but for me it’s like…
Category: Singles/EPs
The following posts contain especially designed custom covers for supplemental singles or EPs, which sometimes serve as a free give-away or a promotion release in advance of a regular soundtrack album.
“28 Years Later” by Young Fathers
Danny Boyle’s 2002 film 28 Years Later heralded a veritable zombie renaissance. With a guerrilla-like handheld style, its relentless violence and deep-rooted melancholy, the film revived the entire genre from the undead for years to come. A crucial element of this success was the movie’s groundbreaking soundtrack. The score was noisy and unnerving as the lonely main character roams through a deserted London or gentle and melodic as all hell breaks loose in an old English mansion. It’s contradictions like these that have made 28 Days Later an iconic piece of horror cinema even today. A no less successful soundtrack…
Lost Covers, Vol. 6
Some things never change – A sort of mantra that was sitting in the header on one of my first websites. And I guess it is just like that. But some things do change and here are six of ’em that have indeed changed over time on HQCovers. Making a virtue of necessity Back in the early 2000s, I started making my own soundtrack covers due to the lack of high quality artwork available. This whole thing really was born out of necessity. Over time I’ve more and more started tackling soundtracks that I don’t even have. And by…
“The Last of Us Part II” by Gustavo Santaolalla, Mac Quayle
It’s June 18th, 23:59 and I am sitting on the couch in my basement staring at the countdown that’s projected onto the wall in front of me. It’s the final seconds before the release of The Last of Us Part II. A game that I certainly had on my release radar, but deliberately tried not to get hyped for. Still, here I was, in the middle of the night, waiting for the game to be unlocked. You can’t deny your inner child, can you? Ready for bed, I just wanted to take a short glimpse at the opening scenes to…
“Red Dead Redemption 2” by Woody Jackson, Daniel Lanois, Various Artists
After months and months working entirely on one single custom covers collection I’m finally done with Red Dead Redemption 2. Like every so often I didn’t plan to do an undertaking this big, but once things kick into gear there’s hardly anyone who’s going to stop me (obviously). But if there’s one single game in the last couple years that deserves this kind of dedication, it’s certainly RDR2. Rockstar Games have had hundreds of people developing this epic tale for seven years and you can see, hear and feel the results of these efforts in every single aspect of the…





