Just recently, I came back to my all-time favorite music which is punk, hardcore and every offspring of those two. Since hardcore rock is an incredibly big genre, it’s hard to assign tags to every kind of music I am listening to – I just call them post-hardcore, no matter if others call it mathcore, metalcore or even moustachecore (yes, that’s true, there are people who actually call bands that play something between hardcore and southern rock “moustachecore”).
One of the things that I’ve always admired in bands from this genre is how creative and totally different their album covers and posters can be. Here is a quick round-up of few covers that I find particularly awesome.
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I recently got my hands on “Good Things”, a new (2008) album by Looptroop Rockers. If you are a fan of independent hip-hop, you have probably heard about them. If you haven’t, but you like graffiti culture, you have probably heard These Walls Don’t Lie, which was – in fact – recorded by Promoe of Looptroop Rockers. In case you do not fall into any of the above, I will selectively quote Wikipedia on who Looptroop Rockers, Promoe and DVSGs are.
Looptroop Rockers is a hip hop group from Västerås, Sweden. The members are rappers Promoe (Mårten Edh), Supreme (Mattias Lundh-Isen) and DJ/Producer Embee (Magnus Bergkvist). On their latest CD the group changed its name from Looptroop to Looptroop Rockers, a name they’ve used unofficially for some years prior to the change. In 1998, Looptroop started their own record label, David Vs. Goliath (commonly referred to as DVSG) and with distribution handled by the Swedish punkrock label Burning Heart Records they released their full-length debut album Modern Day City Symphony in 2000. The album managed to sell reasonably well despite limited media exposure and spawned the underground hit single “Long Arm of the Law,” which took a critical stance towards the Swedish police force and has since become one of Looptroop’s signature songs.
Sounds fun, huh? This post is a collection of covers and art connected with Looptroop Rockers as a whole. If you dig street style, current trends and graffiti roots, you will find lots of interesting things here. Ready? Here we go!
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