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Deadly artwork, crappy music.

Started by Eoin McLove, October 18, 2025, 08:36:16 AM

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#15 October 18, 2025, 09:56:45 PM
Blood Ritual on here again now...
#16 October 19, 2025, 10:02:57 PM
Deadly thread. Magnum and Nazareth spring to mind.
#17 October 20, 2025, 01:10:21 AM
Ha, yes to both!
#18 October 20, 2025, 10:17:58 AM
Not crappy exactly but Molly Hatchet's artwork could be considered misleading. The album covers look like pure heavy metal, not southern boogie.



Flirtin' with Disaster looks like a Cirith Ungol or viking era Bathory album.

#19 October 20, 2025, 10:25:12 AM
Yup. I grabbed that first one on the artwork alone. I haven't listened to it more than once so the memory is hazy but it wasn't anything like the cover would suggest.
#20 October 20, 2025, 01:13:51 PM
Good call on Molly Hatchet for sure
#21 October 23, 2025, 04:30:58 PM
That Bolt Thrower album cover looks exactly like the artwork in the Fighting Fantasy book series


Quote from: John Kimble on October 18, 2025, 02:49:41 PMThis is obviously going back a long time but I remember when I was very young and getting into "heavier" music (and by that, I mean Guns, Def Leppard etc!!) and seeing the cover of Bat Out of Hell. Between the name and the artwork, I had half an expectation that the music would have been somewhat decent but even as a kid, was absolutely horrified at the utter campness of it all. Just overblown, operatic nonsense.

Bat Out of Hell jumped out at me from my parent's record collection as a kid because of the cover. Most badass thing I'd ever seen at like age 6  :laugh:  The piano intro absolutely blew my mind. I don't even thin I ever listened to the rest of the album at that time (wasn't even really into music yet), just that piano intro over and over again.
#22 October 23, 2025, 04:45:45 PM
Hmmm Theatre of Pain and Girls, Girls, Girls by the Crue?  I'm sure Ghost could have a few entries here. Maybe Sabbath - Forbidden?
#23 October 23, 2025, 06:48:12 PM
Quote from: Mooncat on October 23, 2025, 04:45:45 PMHmmm Theatre of Pain and Girls, Girls, Girls by the Crue?  I'm sure Ghost could have a few entries here. Maybe Sabbath - Forbidden?

I've never listened to the original release of Forbidden, but the remixed version that was released last year isn't bad. 
#24 October 24, 2025, 01:46:28 PM
Not Necessarily crappy music, just ultra bland and unmemorable throw away generic thrash. The only reason I own a copy is cos of the utterly amazing Les Edwards art on the cover, more famously used on the cover of the book Realm of Chaos - The Lost and the Damned. Which Bolt Thrower used the masthead of for the album cover of the same name. 
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