https://musicbrainz.org/release/a83aee98-8ac6-4d08-9d26-a4b69c25ea58 lists “We Came As Romans & Brand Of Sacrifice” as secondary artists on digital service providers which doesn’t seem quite correct to my interpretation therefore I’ve used the music video as reference:
Harper - Weight Of The World featuring Dave Stephens from We Came As Romans and music Written by Brand Of Sacrifice.
The new single was written by Leo Valeri, guitarist and producer of deathcore heavyweights BRAND OF SACRIFICE and features the guest vocal talents of Dave Stephens from WE CAME AS ROMANS.
- https://twitter.com/EricDrkngl/status/1667027201227894786
“Screenshot of SiriusXM showing Harper/Dave Stephens in the artist field”
Another example with a cover performance When it was released it also listed Ryuichi Sakamoto as secondary artist. He is written on the cover art too but since it’s a cover performance I’ve dropped him and only linked the work.
This seems a common occurrence.
I no longer trust cover art too much for artist credits. Sometimes the normalized name is intended.
Crediting the game as artist doesn’t seem proper either when the writers/performers are known:
And if no artist is on the front cover it should use Various Artists per soundtrack guideline.
Another pattern is the label as artist on soundtracks like notorious EA. Fortunately that mess has been cleaned up not too long ago by multiple editors.