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Originally posted by Gabimm Gabimm wrote:



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I I'm laughing so far. Looks like Linda Blair in the film The Exorcist. Ridiculous!

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Ps: I read that cited the cover of Metallica's Load. The cover of "Load" (Metallica) is a composite photo of bovine blood and semen, entitled "Semen and Blood III", 1990, the artist Andres Serrano. Already the cover of "Reload", created by the same artist, is made up of blood and urine.

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Sorry Mastodon, love this album, but the cover makes me feel like I took a big dose of LSD.
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Picking just three is pretty hard...I mean you have the early ones by Riot and the later CG ones by Helloween. Not sure what else.


Edited by Psydye - 04 Mar 2015 at 6:45pm
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It's a pretty good raw thrash album though.


An EP, but still... oh well. It's pretty good too.


Could of course also be the best metal album cover ever. It's a fine line indeed.
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You're right, that Violent Playground cover is indeed the best metal album cover ever!
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Originally posted by Unitron Unitron wrote:


Sorry Mastodon, love this album, but the cover makes me feel like I took a big dose of LSD.

I actually like this album cover art Cry
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^Artistically it's great, just a bit too 'loud' for my tastes though. LOL 
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^ I think the problem with it is there's too much going on. Sort of reminds me of why I don't like the album cover for Dance of Death.
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Jeez guys, metal and 80s pop must be the genres with the biggest number of horribly bad cover arts in music history. How the fuck am I supposed to pick just three ?
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Originally posted by Time Signature Time Signature wrote:



I think we have to start a whole new thread on how bad this album cover is.
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Can I also bring attention to this? 

Bad cover for a bad album. Dead
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^I think the Rock in a Hard Place is the only album cover I like from Aerosmith. Dead
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Originally posted by Stooge Stooge wrote:

Here's a notoriously bad one: Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death.  There's too much going on, and it looks like a first draft. The album title font doesn't look right either.  Actually nothing looks right aside from Eddie.





From what I've read, I think it actually was. For whatever reason Maiden wanted the unfinished version.


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Originally posted by aglasshouse aglasshouse wrote:

Originally posted by Time Signature Time Signature wrote:



I think we have to start a whole new thread on how bad this album cover is.


In all fairness, it's probably to be understood in the context of some aspect of Japanese culture that we, or at least I, don't understand.
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Originally posted by Time Signature Time Signature wrote:

Originally posted by aglasshouse aglasshouse wrote:

Originally posted by Time Signature Time Signature wrote:



I think we have to start a whole new thread on how bad this album cover is.


In all fairness, it's probably to be understood in the context of some aspect of Japanese culture that we, or at least I, don't understand.
That doesn't excuse it from being one of the worst covers ever.
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Great album, but this cover is pretty bad:
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^^^LOL
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Well a band I was in in the 80's released this album and the cover has got to be one of the worst ever!




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What are you talking about? Looks great, total 80s wtf but also very well drawn, as opposed to many classics which look like they've been drawn by a 6 year old with parkinsons.
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