60 Hilariously Awful Metal Album Covers
Here are 60 terrible steel album covers.
Whether it is tacky ’80s drawings or some very latest works by outstanding bands, choosing album artwork all the time comes with inherent danger. Art is subjective, however consensus may say rather a lot and, on this case, followers all appear to agree that these album covers are fairly dreadful.
It’s a marvel how a few of these ever managed to be within the dialog, a lot much less adorn music {that a} band labored exhausting to write down and report. While poor artwork just isn’t all the time a mirrored image of this music, there’s a magical high quality to a profitable mixture of nice art work and unimaginable music.
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Whatever the case, these are the album covers that made it to the end line and can eternally reside in infamy. There’s some huge artists in right here too who have been nicely established when these clunkers went public — Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Suicide Silence, Architects and others.
And there’s certainly a bunch of artists you’ve got by no means heard earlier than and quite a lot of are completely price listening to.
See all these crummy covers instantly under!
60 Awful Metal Album Covers
In other ways and for varied causes, these heavy steel album covers are fairly unhealthy!
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Rock + Metal Album Covers That Had to Be Changed Due to Controversy
(*60*) bands needed to change their album covers as a result of they have been too controversial.
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30 of the Most Iconic Hard Rock + Metal Album Covers
Album covers have come to outline a whole technology of music, lasting longer than the bands themselves at occasions and are etched into rock and steel historical past. Here, the art work hits on a large spectrum of feelings like a disturbing, gory Cannibal Corpse cowl, to politically-charged as seen on Bad Brains’ eponymous launch, to quirky and lighthearted just like the Descendents’ Milo Goes to College.
Scroll via the gallery on the high of the web page to see 30 Iconic Hard Rock + Metal Album Covers!
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