Best & Worst Album Covers?

[Raumien]

Best:


Macabre - Sinister Slaughter

Bahahah, genius.

In Battle - Rage Of The Northmen

Very stylish and gloomy, I love it.

Slayer - Seasons

Weird artwork but very cool.

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Worst

Rush - Test For Echo

Seemed like some random picture, didn't have any effect on me at all.

Rush - Moving Pictures

Oh ho ho, we're so cute, the album is called moving pictures and the cover has pictures that are moving, oh ho ho, we're just that clever. Yeah, it's dumb. Otherwise the lighting and photography was good, just the overall theme seemed childish. Excellent album though.


Satyricon - Nemesis Divina

What the hell is some goofy looking cover with a burning bird and dentures supposed to mean?

 

[FeltUp]

Hmm... looks like Metal-archives.com owns you

 

[Raumien]

What's so bad about using such a good resource to get album shots?

 

[[0hr]Sunlapse]

Best -

Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy
Cryptopsy - And Then You'll Beg
Opeth - Morningrise
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Neurosis - Enemy of the Sun
Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
In Flames - Colony
Nocturnus - The Key
My Dying Bride - The Light at the End of the World
Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
A bunch of Bathory albums

....thats all i can think of now, i guess thats a lot

Worst

Metallica - St. Anger uke:

 

[Terrifyer]

hahahahahha

hahahah

 

[Raumien]

Seriously, it's a big fucking stick figure made out of stones with some little shits climbing it. Let's go ahead and stick it in the snow too since we can't think of a better place. Damn you Rush....awsome music but some dumbfuck covers.

St. Anger was pretty lame too, so gay looking...hahah.....and their new logo thingy sucks.

Morningrise is a damn good cover, I wish I lived somewhere all cool looking like that.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Best:

Sacramentum - Far away from the Sun
Dissection - The Somberlain
Absu - The Third Storm of Cythraul
Nokturnal Mortum - Lunar Poetry
Nokturnal Mortum - To the Gates of the Blasphemous Fire
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Mayhem - Dawn of the Black hearts
Graveland - Carpathian Wolves

Worst:

Terror 2000 - Slaughterhouse Supremacy(What the FUCK is this?!)
Hypocrisy - Abducted
(These tend to be terrible albums, too)

 

[Troops]

Good ones:

Iron Maiden - Powerslave (I like it's simplicity in symmetry)
Dire Straits (yep!) - Love Over Gold (again simple, but suits the album well)
Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror

Bad ones:

Bruce Dickinson - Scream For Me (just what the fuck is that fish all about?)
Queen - The Works (I can't stand group shots on covers...)
Metallica - St Anger
Threshold - Hypothetical

 

[Raumien]

Add MEgadeth's Peace Sells to the best list.

 

[SculptedCold]

Best (that I can think of):

Yattering - Murder's Concept (creepy)
Cult of Luna - The Beyond (a perfect cover for the music)
Cryptopsy - And Then You'll Beg (just really well done and cool)
Avulsed - Yearning for the Grotesque (disturbing)
Immolation - Dawn of Possession (beautiful! composition and especially colour is wonderful)
Neurosis - Times of Grace (another perfect cover for the music)
Borknagar - Empiricism (beautiful and depthful)
Fleshcrawl - Soulskinner (excellent Geiger-esque painting)
Susperia - Predominance (white black and red work wonders, the screaming face is excellent)
Susperia - Vindication (music ain't as good, but the cover is very cool)
Myrkskog - Deathmachine (so simple but so representative of the title and music...)
Dark Tranquillity - Haven (like allmusic says, suitably mysterious and eloquent to match the music within)
Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth (the classic!)


Worst:

I dunno, i've spent so much energy thinking of the best ones I can't be bothered thinking of the worst! =P

 

[Stormwatch]

Any Iron Maiden cover up until 7th son - just like the music, the covers got pretty crap after that.

Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick, a WHOLE fuckin newspaper on the album cover! Genius!

Opeth - Deliverance/Damnation - just a very interesting concept.

Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick - amazing painting

Sepultura - Arise and Beneath the Remains.



WORST - Maiden's X Factor.

Deep Purple - Bananas, what the fuck is that all about??!!

 

[Terminus Est]

Don't forget to list Iron Maiden's Dance of Death album cover as one of the worst.

The CD itself is great though.

 

[Genocide]

Best:
Absu- Tara
Destroyer 666- Terror Abraxas
Iron Maiden- Somewhere in Time
Revenge- All Releases
Marduk- Opus Nocturne
Conqueror- War Cult Supremacy (Original Pressing)
Off the top of my head.
Beherit- Oath of Black Blood

Worst:
BloodStorm- Pestilence from the Dragonstar
Draconis- Overlords of the Greying Dawn
Most covers where computer graphics are used (i.e. Monstrosity covers after the almighty Imperial Doom)

 

[LuminousAether]

Raumien, how about you stop direct linking from metal-archives and start doing it from allmusic. You can't even see the pictures you posted, it just says "metal-archives.com owns you!" in red text.

 

[Raumien]

Sorry, wasn't aware of that, I'll look em up on allmusic later.

I'm also quite a fan of the somewhere in time cover, so detailed and cool lookin...

 

[Sonicarnal Artist]

Worst

 

[MardyAss]

Me like these:

...then I gave up searching

 

[Triumphant Apostle]

Best:

Maiden-Live After Death, The Number Of The Beast, Powerslave

Dio-Holy Diver, The Last In Line, Killing The Dragon

Opeth-Blackwater Park

Metallica-Master Of Puppets

Death-Scream Bloody Gore, Leprosy, Spiritual Healing, The Sound Of Perseverance.

Overkill-The Years Of Decay, Horrorscope, Killbox 13

The worst album cover ever!!!!!!!!!!!!: Scroll down to the bottom of this page and look at that shit. That had me and some friends pissing ourselves with laughter for about an hour when we first saw it. I still know nothing about that band, they could be good, but that album cover is hilarious. You almost feel sorry for that creature!

http://musica.mustdie.ru/en/band/wolf/3638/

 

[SculptedCold]

that's fuckin' funny Triumphant Apostle! Excellent.

I'll also agree with Genocide's mention of Monstrosity, but especially Millennium.


GAH

 

[Edgecrusher]

Iced Earth- The Dark Saga

Todd MacFarlane (sp?) what can I say, the motherfucker can draw!!