I run a website about mazes and it shouldn’t surprise you that I am always looking for new maze and labyrinth content. That means doing searches with my local library to find the newest books, comics, and movies that contain mazes and labyrinths. This led me to reading a lot of books that produced some interesting content like this:
5 Books About the Spiritual Aspect of Labyrinths
The Best Books About Mazes and Labyrinths (that aren't actually maze books)
When I do these searches (pre-filtering the results) I always stumble upon the music of the band Maze. And that was never what I was looking for…until today !
One of my favorite blog posts to write was about maze posters, where I researched and collected together The 10 Best Maze Themed Movie Posters. As someone who makes maze art, I really love researching variations of it. The best posters don’t align with The Top 12 Maze/Labyrinth movies of all time, because the quality of the movie and the quality of the poster aren’t aligned.
I got to thinking after looking at the Maze albums so many times. Why don’t I pick out the best maze and labyrinth album covers just like I did with movie posters ? So here we are !
First, let’s take a look at a gallery of the album covers that did not quite make the top 10. We have all types of musical genres included. You will notice multiple album covers from the band Maze that inspired this post which feature 2 mazed hands (their logo). There are also 4 album covers from the Italian metal band Labyrinth. We have hedge mazes, stone mazes, minotaurs, mazes, octagonal labyrinths, and dystopian scenes - lots of variety. And the more I look the more I find…and agonize over if it should make the top 10 or not !
The 10 Best Album Covers Featuring Mazes and Labyrinths
BONUS: Moon Duo - Remixed
Ok, ok, it is more than 10, but only because I am a big fan of hidden message mazes and this is a great example of just that. Simple concept, well executed, but not quite top 10 worthy ! This looks like something I would have designed. Now on to the real top 10 !
10. Labyrinth - Kontra K
A city surrounded by a huge maze. And we have a blue wolf. A nice start. I wouldn’t want to need to get to that city quickly without a cheat. Remember in Indiana Jones when a sword fight ends with Indy pulling and using a gun ? I would solve this maze with a helicopter.
9. Namlook Montanà - Labyrinth 2
Just a simple blue circular labyrinth on a black background, it looks good. The music from this collaboration is also very good. You can listen below for 5 hours !
8. Life on Planets - The Maze
A cool hand drawn black and white maze with guitarist Phill Celeste in the middle. Well done. Even Phill likes it (you can tell because of the thumbs up).
7. Dãvi - Labyrinth
A track by David 'DAVI' Khanjian that you may have heard in a club late night. There are a few different mixes of this, but here is the original.
6T. Maze - We Are One ; Oomph! Labyrinth
We have all felt like the people on these album covers at one point, lost in a maze. On the left we can see the top portion of the Maze band logo in the sky above the seemingly endless maze below. And with Oomph!’s cover we get the overheard view of a person in a bad spot, definitely lost among those long pathways !
5. Labyrinth - Return to Heaven Denied Part 2
A cool circular maze (possibly underground?) in the country. With a purple lightning filled sky.
4. Strangers on a Train - The Key Part 2 The Labyrinth
A square maze with a center goal of fire or light that appears to be on another world. Cool.
3. Vision 3D
A hand drawn, colorful album cover done by well known maze artist Sean C Jackson. If you like this style you can check out more of his mazes here which includes some very cool Marvel and Star Wars books !
2. Sounds from the Ground - The Maze
There is beauty in simplicity and the white maze on purple looks great.
drumroll….do you hear it in your head ? drumroll…our top album cover is
1. Majestic - Labyrinth
Variations of this theme are always in my head…and it makes for a wonderful album cover, and in my opinion the best maze album cover I could find.
I hope you enjoyed the countdown if you know of any additional album covers that should be part of this post, drop me a note ! I am always looking for more maze and labyrinth content !