The absurd majesty of band photos

[Circlepit]

That Machine Head one is so bad it's amazing.

They all look like they have bad head colds.
The Obituary ones are perfect.

[The Great Cull]

It's the flour cut the eyes off Machine Head 

[Mower Liberation Front]

[Ollkiller]

Can never forget this classic

Bag of cans for the win

[Carnage]

I've seen worse. I'm amazed there wasn't a rash of Irish DM bands copying it in the Phoenix Park.

[Thorn]

I'd imagine standing around in the pissing rain wouldn't look quite as cool

[jpm4]

This link is a treasure trove:

https://www.ruthlessreviews.com/features/top-10-most-ridiculous-black-metal-pics-of-all-time-2/

[Blizzard Beast]

Seen the recent Transylvania band photo on the invictus site and thought it was a very entertaining take on some tried n true spookiness, i.e. the classic lookin' spooky with the lads in a graveyard, by literally being in a grave. Love it!

Thought it might be fun to have a thread of exemplary band photos alongside some delightful abominations. Dunno if its already been a thread, but couldnt find anything via the search function.
Oh and lets try and keep it fun, keep it to cool examples and utterly bizzare ones so we're not clowning on smaller/younger bands that for whatever reason had poor/meh execution while trying to find their feet, I know my past bands fall into this category.

Liking that Transylvania band pic,must check out their stuff.

[Circlepit]

That Immortal one always make me think Abbath has a shark mouth on his stomach.

[Snare]

   Things you can't unsee! 

[Thorn]

Yeah, I'm stuck with that too now

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

    

Brilliant.

[John Kimble]

And who could forget this classic from Morbid Angel?



Fucksake, buy a T-shirt lad.

Morbid Angel promo pics were always class!! Only Dave Vincent could get away with a studded codpiece and still look cool as fuck.

[Goosebumples]

Seen the recent Transylvania band photo on the invictus site and thought it was a very entertaining take on some tried n true spookiness, i.e. the classic lookin' spooky with the lads in a graveyard, by literally being in a grave. Love it!

Thought it might be fun to have a thread of exemplary band photos alongside some delightful abominations. Dunno if its already been a thread, but couldnt find anything via the search function.
Oh and lets try and keep it fun, keep it to cool examples and utterly bizzare ones so we're not clowning on smaller/younger bands that for whatever reason had poor/meh execution while trying to find their feet, I know my past bands fall into this category.

Liking that Transylvania band pic,must check out their stuff.

Ya I think its one of the best Ive ever seen tbh, as another said such a simple idea and the execution is perfect. Likewise, gonna suss em out off the back of the photo alone!

The dismember one is class too

I see parallels between this:


And this:

[mishima]

Can't really go wrong with any Master's Hammer photo: