“Alien: Earth” by Jeff Russo

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…

“28 Years Later” by Young Fathers

July 1, 2025December 30, 2025 Categories: Custom Covers · Original Covers · Singles/EPs · Vinyl CoversTags: 28 Days Later · 28 Weeks Later · 28 Years Later · Young Fathers1 Comment

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…

“Nosferatu” by Robin Carolan

March 11, 2025September 5, 2025 Categories: Custom Covers · Mockups · Original Covers · Vinyl CoversTags: Nosferatu · Robin Carolan3 Comments

The main reason why I wanted to have Robert Eggers’ latest work Nosferatu on my blog is the arresting logo design by Teddy Blanks. This US graphic designer, who has previously collaborated with Eggers on his 2019 maritime horror film The Lighthouse, has created a haunting gothic font that I could hardly take my eyes off. It’s so menacing and seductively dark and I feel a whole lot of emotions just by looking at it. But that’s no surprise, as Blanks is a household name in Hollywood with well over a hundred titles under his belt. This guy knows exactly…

“The Fall” by Krishna Levy

January 22, 2025July 5, 2025 Categories: Custom Covers · Mockups · Vinyl CoversTags: Krishna Levy · The Fall2 Comments

Alovely little collection for Krishna Levy’s 2006 score for Tarsem Singh’s epic The Fall. Sadly, the score was never released, only a handful of tracks can be found on a composer’s compilation from 2013, which doesn’t do the score, and more importantly the movie, any justice. I had collected some high-resolution source images and wanted to design a correspondingly high-quality cover artwork that I could use for my own digital music collection, particularly for the Ludwig van Beethoven composition Symphony No.7 in A major op.92 – II, Allegretto. A timeless masterpiece in its own right, which has been given appropriate…

“Backing Tracks” by Pearl Jam

March 13, 2024December 30, 2025 Categories: Custom Covers · Mockups · Vinyl CoversTags: Backing Tracks · Backspacer · Binaural · Eddie Vedder · Gigaton · Jeff Ament · Lightning Bolt · Matt Cameron · Mike McCready · No Code · Pearl Jam · Riot Act · Stone Gossard · Ten · Vitalogy · Vs · Yield1 Comment

After a long time, I have once again decided to publish a non-soundtrack entry on my blog. There may very well be more of these in the future and I’m already thinking about grouping them into their own category on the main page. But don’t worry, dear film music aficionados, HQCovers will continue to be a blog primarily dedicated to original and customized soundtrack artworks. Still, please bear with me if I deviate from this approach every now and then. For example, today. A few weeks ago I accidentally stumbled on an open source freeware called “Ultimate Vocal Remover” and…