You know the drill. Post terrible album covers you've come across. Bonus points if the music is actually good!
Scanner - Hypertrace (Great album!)
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Lunar - Cosmogonal Perplexity
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Bal-Sagoth - Demo
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Riot - Narita
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Pantera - Metal Magic
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I also feel like a lot of Iron Maiden's CGI album covers belong here. They look like screenshots from The Sims
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Feast your eyes, feast until you go blind
https://bandcamp.com/tag/judas-priest
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Those Hammer King and Scrollkeeper ones aren't really that bad
Ah lad.
Oh they're definitely not good either! But not out of the ordinary bad
Scanner - Hypertrace is an amazing album and Dance of Death has its moments. I'm going to check out that Scrollkeeper album...if this thread was a shop and that was vinyl, I'd have bought it by now :laugh:
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Some beauties in there. I dont know what the fuck is going on in that Riot-Narita one and I'm not sure that I want to know. Can't stop laughing at the Bal Sagoth-demo one. It's gold.
Quote from: Ollkiller on December 10, 2018, 08:49:25 PM
Some beauties in there. I dont know what the fuck is going on in that Riot-Narita one and I'm not sure that I want to know. Can't stop laughing at the Bal Sagoth-demo one. It's gold.
It is like a bad tribute to some of Budgie's album covers.
One of the contenders for AOTY
Looks like an episode of South park
Hilarious album, poor art job
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3gvfcnjPnE
Has to be one of the worst ever?
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Came across this bad boy earlier
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:laugh: The skull codpiece needs to make a resurgence!
Truly shite, but the way the guy with the red V is pasted in at an angle - so his centre of gravity is way over his right leg, meaning he would go on his snot on the ground - that's what annoys me the most
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Anthrax doing a shitty knock off of a Kiss album cover. The Kiss one came out over 40 years ago and it still looks better. The Anthrax one just look bland and boring. Some of them look unrecognizable too.
It's one of my favourite records of all time, but naked lads getting milled off a mountain? 'sake.
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Quote from: Mithrandir on December 15, 2018, 07:45:08 PM
Has to be one of the worst ever?
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...or one of the best ;D
This is shite
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Quote from: Hambeast on December 19, 2018, 03:31:00 PM
Came across this bad boy earlier
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That looks eerily like a tranny I banged once
Take your pick..........
www.sevared.com
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hard to believe that's from the year 2020?
Never actually noticed the blokes on the Sound of perseverance before
On a bit of a Pantera nostalgia buzz at the moment and gave Reinventing the Steel a few spins as it was definitely my least listened to album of theirs. Prob due to the fact that I never have it that much attention, it only really dawned on me how absolutely fucking scutter the album cover is. Everything about it is utter shit. The stupid junkie looking redneck in his trunks, and the blurred out bottle of presumably whiskey in his hand. Rubbish.
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Quote from: Ducky on February 04, 2019, 07:39:34 PM
It's one of my favourite records of all time, but naked lads getting milled off a mountain? 'sake.
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Yeah it's a funny one that, it's a pretty awful cover despite being a great record. I kind of overlook the detail on the cover (maybe because it's so poorly rendered) and just treat it as a kind of blurry mountain.
A bit like The Shadowthrone, I just see this semi-blurry shape and instantly connect it with amazing music, so it's never bothered me.
I have to say i never noticed the men either!
It's doubly awful when you consider how good the preceding six sleeves were. Some of those are flat out iconic.
The 20th anniversary edition has is much better in its execution, but the awful concept remains.
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What was that album cover of some oiled up dude naked with a hard-on?
He looked to be standing on some Arizona desert highway. Ridiculous... Hahaha....
Immolations -Here in After was 24 years old during the week,i still rate that as one of the best album covers of all time.
Quote from: The Heretic on February 14, 2020, 12:59:41 PM
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hard to believe that's from the year 2020?
I can't stop looking at this. It's like a screen shot from a bad Sims expansion.
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on February 14, 2020, 03:37:00 PM
What was that album cover of some oiled up dude naked with a hard-on?
He looked to be standing on some Arizona desert highway. Ridiculous... Hahaha....
Nigel Peppercock - Fresh white Reeboks kickin your ass. Google at your peril!
Quote from: John Kimble on February 14, 2020, 02:54:36 PM
On a bit of a Pantera nostalgia buzz at the moment and gave Reinventing the Steel a few spins as it was definitely my least listened to album of theirs. Prob due to the fact that I never have it that much attention, it only really dawned on me how absolutely fucking scutter the album cover is. Everything about it is utter shit. The stupid junkie looking redneck in his trunks, and the blurred out bottle of presumably whiskey in his hand. Rubbish.
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Every cover they had, apart from Vulgar and FBD (not the farmer insurance crowd) was fucking terrible.
They really did have some shite album covers. https://music.singemfrc.com/artist/pantera.htm
The RTS one the guy is actually naked in it and the shorts were overlayed. The inlay picture back then just looked so weird and forced ..
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Given all the shit going on within the band at the time.. I dunno
Rex looks like he's forcing a smile while taking a shit.
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on February 14, 2020, 03:37:00 PM
What was that album cover of some oiled up dude naked with a hard-on?
He looked to be standing on some Arizona desert highway. Ridiculous... Hahaha....
Nigel Pepper Cock. Back cover is even better
Stuck on Nevermore's "The Politics of Ecstasy" there, it's easily the best of their earlier albums, but the cover looks like the budget for the album was down to the last fiver and they still wanted money left over for a bag of chips.
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haha, yeah it's a shocker alright but a superb album
The Dance of Death cover that was posted early on has not aged well at all. Looks like the cover of a Dreamcast RPG game.
Not going to post it at the risk of getting banned but Virgin Killers from Scorpions is another level of horrific. Google if you dare, and aren't on a work computer.
Wasn't Dance of Death supposed to be a rough draught and Harris was all "bang tidy mate, we'll use that"?
And it was done by Dave Patchett, the same guy that did all of Cathedral's fucking cool sleeves?
I think the Cathedral covers are cuntish too. I hate the style. It looks so rigid and inorganic. Total crap.
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Gary is responsible for a lot of very bad covers but this is right up there. The face he is making is surely the same face he made when he saw the finished product.
Of the other ones there, Reinventing The Steel is truly awful and fits the terrible music very well. Every element of that release screams out that their hearts weren't in it at all.
And here is another that belongs in every bad cover thread
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Still haven't figured what the fuck is going on there. Class album though from another lad who is fond of shit album covers
Quote from: astfgyl on April 03, 2020, 03:17:30 PM
And here is another that belongs in every bad cover thread
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Still haven't figured what the fuck is going on there. Class album though from another lad who is fond of shit album covers
Yeah that's always confused me. I'm an absolute Devin fanboy but the artwork has always seemed a bit of an afterthought. A few terrible ones, most are just serviceable, but never anything brilliant. Terria is probably the best of the lot
I quite like the Ocean Machine cover (it's a machine coming out of the ocean, innit?), odd as it is. Better than the Infinity one anyway.
Agree on Terria being the best of his. Toss up between that and Ocean Machine for his best music for me as well. Although City has a special place in my heart. Love the front cover of City as well actually. The original one. Not so keen on the newer versions.
And I know it's a machine coming from the Ocean but it's done in the shittest possible way
This from Priest is just dire. Also any album with a skull and bat wings is just lazy. Primal Fear being the latests to try and pass it off.
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