Top 10 album covers

poundingmetal74

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These lists are so popular as of late, what are everyone's favorite album covers?

- Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
- Iron Maiden - Powerslave
- Judas Priest - British Steel
- Betrayer - Shadowed Force
- Megadeth - UA / System
- Metallica - Ride
- Z-Lot-Z - Soul Existence
- Daemon - Descend Dethrone (dunno the band, but the artwork is incredible)
- Symphony X - V
- Edguy - Rocket Ride (goofy but fun, great colors)
- Richie Sambora - Stranger in This Town (Classy as all hell)
* Beatles - Sgt. Peppers (THE classic album cover & packaging)

This taught me, if nothing else, Queensryche has almost always had bad or mediocre cover art.
 
Heres mine!

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Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Motorhead - Orgasmatron
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Heaven and Hell, Live Evil
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Led Zeppelin - I, IV
Mastodon - Leviathan
Nazareth - Hair of the Dog
Scorpions - Blackout
Venom - Black Metal
....tons more. Most of the Yes covers are cool.

And to add to the list of bands with mostly bad covers, Deep Purple's are average to lame, though they have made many of may favorite records.
 
Aspid - Extravasation
Candlemass - Nightfall
Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
Mekong Delta - Mekong Delta
Messiah - Choir of Horrors
Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly
Realm - Endless War
Sepultura - Arise
Sodom - Agent Orange
Testament - Souls of Black
 
metallica master,ride,kill
slayer reign and south of
megadeth rust in peace and ua
amon amarth twilight of thunder god
morbid angel altars of madness
iron maiden number of the beast
judas priest painkiller
black sabbath heaven and hell
 
Just a few that I really like...

Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (first album)
Black Sabbath - Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath
Judas Priest - British Steel
AC/DC - For Those About to Rock
KISS - Rock and Roll Over
 
These lists are so popular as of late

Way too popular...
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Anyway, I'm not gonna put the pics because it will take to much bandwidth but some great covers for me:

Motorhead (almost all of them Joe Petagno is a genius)
Avalanch - "El Angel Caido" (you've to love Luis Royo artwork)
Iron Maiden - all first seven albums (Derek Riggs slays)
Bruce Dickinson - "Accident Of Birth"
Lana Lane - all with Jacek Yerka Covers
Gary Hughes - "Once And Future King Parts I & II (awsome Chris Achilleos)
Flotsam And Jetsam - "No Place For Disgrace" (Boris Vallejo rules)
Heavens Gate - "Livin' In Hysteria" (Richard Corben)
Black Sabbath - "Mob Rules" (original art by Greg Hildebrandt)
Nazareth - "Expect No Mercy" (Frazzeta)
Nazareth - "No Mean City"
Nazareth - "Hair Of The Dog"
Judas Priest - "Sadwings Of Destiny"
Judas Priest - "Stained Class"
Judas Priest - "Hell Bent For Leather"
Judas Priest - "Angel Of Retribution"
Saxon - "Innocence Is No Excuse"
Scorpions - "Virgin Killer" (original, maybe be shoking but the idea of the image associated to the name of the album is pure genius IMO)
Black Sabbath - "Heaven And Hell"
Black Sabbath - "Sabotage"
Black Sabbath - "Live Evil"
Black Sabbath - "Technical Ecstasy"
Thin Lizzy - "Renegade"
Rainbow - "Rising"
Rainbow - "Straight Between The Eyes"
Barón Rojo - "Volumen Brutal"
Hellhound - "Metal Fire Form Hell"
Rush - "A Farewell To Kings"
Rush - "Moving Pictures"
Rush - "Permanent Waves"
Rush - "Signals"
Rush - "Counterparts"
Rush - "Test For Echo"
Demon - "Night Of The Demon"
Blue Oyster Cult - "Cultusaurus Erectus"
Blue Oyster Cult - "Fire Of Unknown Origin"
Blue Oyster Cult - "Tyranny & Mutation"
Candlemass - "Nightfall"
Candlemass - "Ancient Dreams"
Candlemass - "Tales Of Creation"
Candlemass - "King Of The Grey Islands"
Camel - "Camel"
Camel - "Mirage"
Coroner - "Punishment For Decadence"
Pink Floyd - "Dark Side Of The Moon"
Pink Floyd - "Atom Heart Mother"
Pink Floyd - "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason"
Pink Floyd - "The Division Bell"
Uriah Heep - "Look At Yourself"
Uriah Heep - "The Magician's Birthday"
Dunwich - "Heilagmanoth"
Planet X - "Moonbabies"
Alice Cooper - "Muscle Of Love"
Forbidden - "Forbidden Evil"
Astral Doors - "Of The Son And The Father"
Cathedral - "Forest Of Equilibrium"
Cathedral - "The Ethereal Mirror"
Cathedral - "The Carnival Bizarre"
Cathedral - "Caravan Beyond Redemption"
Cathedral - "The Garden Of Unearthly Delights"
Chainsaw - "Smell The Saw" (I know is sexist)
Darkness - "Conclusion & Revival"
Dream Theater - "Images And Words"
Dream Theater - "Awake"
Dream Theater - "Falling Into Infinity"
Dream Theater - "Octavarium"
Dream Theater - "Black Clouds % Silver Linings"
Exciter - "Violence & Force"
Exciter - "Long Live The Loud"
Exciter - "Unveiling The Wicked"
Helloween - "The Time Of The Oath"
Helloween - "The Dark Ride"
Icarus Witch - "Capture The Magic"
Krux - "Krux"
Loudness - "Devil Soldier"
Megadeth - "Peace Sells"
Megadeth - "Rust In Peace"
Megadeth - "Youthanasia"
Meliah Rage - "Barely Human"
Mesmerize - "Stainless"
Praying Mantis - "Nowhere To Hide"
Sonus Umbra - "Snapshots From Limbo"
Spirits Of The Dead - "Spirits Of The Dead"
Steel Prophet - "Book Of The Dead"
Tarot - "To Live Forever"
Testament - "Practice What You Preach"
Testament - "Souls In Black"
Transatlantic - "Bridge Across Forever"
Tyr - "Land"
Witchfinder General - "Death Penalty"
Witchfinder General - "Friends Of Hell"
Wolf - "The Black Flame"
 
1) Iron Maiden - Killers (and all the EPs from that era)
2) Molly Hatchet - Flirtin w/Disaster
3) Frank Zappa - Overnight Sensation
4) The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
5) Motorhead - Overkill
6) Van Halen - Fair Warning
7) King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
8) Accept - Breaker (Only bedcause a girl I dated in highschool looked just like her!:headbang:
9) Saxon - Wheels Of Steel
10) Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out In Space or Land Of The Free (tie)
 

I'll always have a soft spot for that one. Was the first Saxon album I listened too, eventually I bought it used (vinyl), the gatefold edition. Still have it even if I bought the CD afterwards.
 
Cool thread..I'm going to need more time to come up with a good list but I will say that the art of metal album covers is not what it used to be. To many albums I see now look like they were just thrown together in photoshop. Here's my quick list

1. Ozzy-Blizzard
2. Battle Axe- Power to the Universe
3. Iron Maiden-Iron Maiden
4. Black Sabbath-Heaven and Hell
5.Candlemass- Epicus Doomicus