Written by Ace Frawley on 15.07.2012 at 14:13

I'm stumped even thinking of another metal album cover depicting a whale. I found it amusing to find in the online urban dictionary a reference to 'whalecore' as "a "genre" of music used to describe bands with at least one album in which the cover artwork displays a whale". So I guess Mastodon, Ahab and Gojira are whalecore - according to that definition.

Hahaha, that definition is obviously driven by the same nonsense than this thread, not to be taken seriously. They say that the term "whalecore" was coined by last.fm users when they couldn't define the sound on "Leviathan", so probably all those likes come from their users as a funny fact.
Then the less popular definition names the same albums as in here... so it seems I'm not the only one who thought there is something weird with the whales; but "whalecore" is certainly not a genre as drawing a whale on your album cover will NOT make your album successful among metalheads.

Still, there has to be another record out there. If not, I'm certainly using a white whale on the cover of the debut album of my band.

Written by Boxcar Willy on 15.07.2012 at 06:53
It's just a little fun fact, and I'm sure theres more album covers with whales too.

A theory is not a fact. And while there may be more album covers with whales on them, they aren't classics. Else they would have been brought up by a simple look through the top 100 of any genre on this site, or the top 1000 of metal albums as a whole on RYM.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 15.07.2012 at 16:49

Written by Boxcar Willy on 15.07.2012 at 06:53
It's just a little fun fact, and I'm sure theres more album covers with whales too.

A theory is not a fact. And while there may be more album covers with whales on them, they aren't classics. Else they would have been brought up by a simple look through the top 100 of any genre on this site, or the top 1000 of metal albums as a whole on RYM.

I don't think the OP is really being that serious, I think he was just pointing out that a couple good albums have whales on them. I would call them modern classics, all three are pretty well known and highly praised albums, but a classic can't be a classic until it's 25 years old.


Have you ever heard a bad album with a whale on the cover?

Written by Boxcar Willy on 15.07.2012 at 16:53

I don't think the OP is really being that serious.

Of course not, I already stated that in my post above, although I'd like to think it wasn't really necessary to clarify that.

But on the other hand, I'm still waiting for a whale album to show up and prove this wrong

Written by Unhealer on 15.07.2012 at 17:31

Written by Boxcar Willy on 15.07.2012 at 16:53

I don't think the OP is really being that serious.

Of course not, I already stated that in my post above, although I'd like to think it wasn't really necessary to clarify that.

But on the other hand, I'm still waiting for a whale album to show up and prove this wrong

My new Aurinko EP will have a whale then

Written by Boxcar Willy on 15.07.2012 at 17:35

Written by Unhealer on 15.07.2012 at 17:31

Written by Boxcar Willy on 15.07.2012 at 16:53

I don't think the OP is really being that serious.

Of course not, I already stated that in my post above, although I'd like to think it wasn't really necessary to clarify that.

But on the other hand, I'm still waiting for a whale album to show up and prove this wrong

My new Aurinko EP will have a whale then

Make sure you make it white.
Wow, that sounded way more racist than intended.

Can't think of anything to disprove the theory, only support it:

Written by R'Vannith on 15.07.2012 at 20:02

Can't think of anything to disprove the theory, only support it

Good one, although one could argue if that counts as a whale . I don't know anything of this band or album really, is this another album praised in the under?
I see it's has a really good rating here but doesn't seem to have the impact the other three have on the scene.

Written by Unhealer on 15.07.2012 at 21:43

Good one, although one could argue if that counts as a whale . I don't know anything of this band or album really, is this another album praised in the under?
I see it's has a really good rating here but doesn't seem to have the impact the other three have on the scene.

And there's more than one "whale" on there. Calling it a "classic" is a bit of a stretch I suppose, but it is generally positively received. And yeah certainly doesn't have the same extent of exposure as those others, I would just say that its another great album with a whale on the cover art.

Written by Unhealer on 15.07.2012 at 21:43


Good one, although one could argue if that counts as a whale .

I clearly see one big whale on the moon and one smaller one as well.

I can see five ... the big one that crosses underneath the "d" of Skyclad, a medium one beneath the big one where you can make out the eyes and fins and three smaller black ones right below the medium one ..

Written by Unhealer on 15.07.2012 at 21:43

Written by R'Vannith on 15.07.2012 at 20:02

Can't think of anything to disprove the theory, only support it

but doesn't seem to have the impact the other three have on the scene.

It has. Folk metal owes Skyclad a fucking assload.

Thanks to this theory, I made a classic in five minutes
Looks like I'm learning a thing or two from Fredd the tr00l

A Storm of Light's not-so-classic album. Theory disproved.

Written by Oaken on 18.07.2012 at 03:45

Thanks to this theory, I made a classic in five minutes
Looks like I'm learning a thing or two from Fredd the tr00l

I already found a guy that did the same with an album called Sperm Whale. And it was an actual sperm-like whale on the cover good luck with your classic.

I wouldn't say theory disproved now that we saw this album cover above... but theory reduced to white whales only

Written by Guest on 18.07.2012 at 05:43

A Storm of Light's not-so-classic album. Theory disproved.

Not a classic album but a bloody great album nonetheless.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 18.07.2012 at 07:50


Not a classic album but a bloody great album nonetheless.

The question is whether a White Whale makes the album even better

Written by Boxcar Willy on 15.07.2012 at 06:53

Written by PGON DESTROYTRON on 15.07.2012 at 06:14

You are HIGH.

Three whales out of, like, 100K metal album covers is not statistically significant.

Leviathan (or anything by Mastodon) does not appear on this site's Top 200 list.

Your theory is whack.

way to take it too SERIOUSLY.

It's just a little fun fact, and I'm sure theres more album covers with whales too.

Ain't fun, ain't fact.

Is that a whale on the right side?
Anyway, doom/sludge from Italy:

Written by PGON DESTROYTRON on 25.07.2012 at 08:02

Ain't fun, ain't fact.

Look who's talking.

Does it work for non metal?

Haha, this thread is funny, I had no idea there were so many album covers out there who have whales on them, at least not like Skyclad who has 5 whales

Written by Koen Smits on 25.07.2012 at 08:30

Is that a whale on the right side?
Anyway, doom/sludge from Italy:

This is a terrific concept album. I am gonna post this in my post/sludge/atmo thread if you don't mind.

Note to self: put white sperm whale on cover of album to make it seem greater.
damn so Orca's don't work?

Written by Unhealer on 15.07.2012 at 17:31

But on the other hand, I'm still waiting for a whale album to show up and prove this wrong

There you go

MobySik - Mobysik

Bandcamp

Written by Edmund Fogg on 13.09.2012 at 04:50

There you go

Clearly someone who saw this thread was more than willing to prove me wrong

Haha! Rest assure, I was not actively looking to prove you wrong all this time. I stumbled on it today on my daily Bancamp stroll and remembered your thread.

Only now do I notice the entire topic title

To answer the literal topic title, there are totally no albums which have whales IN album covers

Written by Koen Smits on 25.07.2012 at 08:30

Is that a whale on the right side?
Anyway, doom/sludge from Italy:

i actually received a copy of that from Solitude Productions about a week ago (along with 5 or 6 other albums) and will have a review up in the not too distant future.

Written by BitterCOld on 13.09.2012 at 21:18

i actually received a copy of that from Solitude Productions about a week ago (along with 5 or 6 other albums) and will have a review up in the not too distant future.

Hahahaha I received a copy of this one together with Narrow House in my latest batch from my EIC over at Lords.
I wonder what we will think of both albums