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aloof
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 11:47 am 
 

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https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/C ... ion/729558

stellar music like this reserves better art! :/ boo, hiss high roller recs :p
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Epicureo
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 1:59 pm 
 

aloof wrote:
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stellar music like this reserves better art! :/ boo, hiss high roller recs :p

Simply removing the badly drawn reptilian would greatly improve this cover.

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aloof
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 7:16 pm 
 

^^I think it's supposed to be a demon or the horned one himself ...as pictured in 1950s hammer films pre-production sketches :D

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cover my eyes...

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Evoken
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2018 7:34 am 
 

I always thought this album cover was hideous. Not a bad band... but I'm shocked this was the best cover they could come up with. It's unoriginal, ugly, lazy, and doesn't do the music justice at all.

The River - Drawing Down the Sun
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DecemberSoul
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2018 8:01 am 
 

Evoken wrote:
I always thought this album cover was hideous. Not a bad band... but I'm shocked this was the best cover they could come up with. It's unoriginal, ugly, lazy, and doesn't do the music justice at all.

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Moreover, one of the most trite fonts ever. Completely non-metal and a sign of poor imagination. Show me ONE good album using that font on its cover.
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aloof
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 4:40 pm 
 

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to be fair, it's from 2004... but still.

https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/S ... Hell/49936
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:52 pm 
 

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I'm pretty sure there was a contest in the 90's/early 2000's between most bands out of Black/Death to have the ugliest cover possible

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2018 3:41 am 
 

(Almost) everything Felipe Machado have ever done belongs to this thread.

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DecemberSoul
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2018 5:22 am 
 

And then there's this atrocity:

https://www.metal-archives.com/images/7 ... 0.jpg?2351

Please note that the back cover (which is the opposite view of what you see on/of the front) is even much uglier.
As for the band, nomen est omen.
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ShreddedHuman
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2018 11:20 am 
 

I'm speechless.

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MorbidEngel
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2018 6:25 pm 
 

WE HAVE A WINNER

If it wasn't for the masturbating guy with a Jesus head blatantly pasted on him that would be a great cover
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aloof
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 6:37 pm 
 

I'm not a big fan of "retro" album covers in general, but this is one of those where everything is wrong:

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https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/S ... nes/729367
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 19, 2018 6:34 pm 
 

Guardians of Time - Edge Of Tomorrow
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WOW.

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PvtNinjer
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 19, 2018 8:15 pm 
 

Evoken wrote:
I always thought this album cover was hideous. Not a bad band... but I'm shocked this was the best cover they could come up with. It's unoriginal, ugly, lazy, and doesn't do the music justice at all.

The River - Drawing Down the Sun
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To each their own... I love this cover!

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forestcorpse
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 20, 2018 10:42 am 
 

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Cat III
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2018 12:33 am 
 

Don't know what they were going for, but it sucks.
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Slightly better, but still an eyesore. Guy in front left does get a laugh.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 09, 2018 3:53 pm 
 

^^you wouldn't be laughing if you had your head torn in half by a blood red, angry demon :p

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this came out in 2018:

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as an "improvement" on

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I know, right? :D

https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/M ... /II/135178

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saw this today due to some dude posting a tribute album link in another thread:

(spoiler for NSFW in an abstract kinda way...)
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I mean, srsly ppl! truly, aptly titled album...

https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/T ... mal/736092
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 8:40 am 
 

Took me a while before I saw it. Not half bad actually
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Secret Glory
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:32 pm 
 

^That cover doesn't belong in here. Santiago Caruso is an incredible illustrator.

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Lord_Jotun
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 17, 2018 10:17 am 
 

Stumbled upon this little gem today:

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 4:48 pm 
 

Definitely NSFW

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DecemberSoul
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 8:30 am 
 

Hooded guy on the right: "So the recipe says to add one giant strawberry to the cauldron..."
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Draconian cooking methods indeed. Oh, and syzygial miscreancies flying about.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 12:12 pm 
 

This atrocity is actually a different band called Dark (the Czech band that released Sex 'n' Death, for my fellow OSDM afficionados). I was actually looking for this band when I found the album in that last post. No idea what it's supposed to be but it seems fitting for this thread.

P.S. while I imagine this is just a scanned pic of someone's signed copy, I really want to believe that signature is actually printed on the album cover. Would be fucking hilarious if so :lol:.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 10:53 pm 
 

DecemberSoul wrote:
Hooded guy on the right: "So the recipe says to add one giant strawberry to the cauldron..."
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Draconian cooking methods indeed. Oh, and syzygial miscreancies flying about.



Definitely does NOT belong here, that cover is fucking awesome.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 5:45 pm 
 

Thy Shrine wrote:
Definitely does NOT belong here, that cover is fucking awesome.


It's not bad (and its drawing style clearly reminds of Purtenance's debut); I mainly mentioned it as it tickles my funnybone. For colorful covers by US-American black/death groups, this is the way to go though:

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And what an ever fresh slab of cool metal it is...should be on vinyl too.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 3:33 am 
 

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 7:13 am 
 

Secret Glory wrote:
^That cover doesn't belong in here. Santiago Caruso is an incredible illustrator.

The artwork is technically excellent but the concept is abysmal. Yeah yeah, "cathedral of flesh" or something like that, but if the description of the work requires the phrase "and the cathedral roof is like tits", it is bad.

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Evoken
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 1:48 pm 
 

Thy Shrine wrote:
DecemberSoul wrote:
Hooded guy on the right: "So the recipe says to add one giant strawberry to the cauldron..."
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Draconian cooking methods indeed. Oh, and syzygial miscreancies flying about.



Definitely does NOT belong here, that cover is fucking awesome.


It's not the worst cover ever, but I'm not sure I'd agree it's awesome. It's definitely a cool and "metal" premise for the cover, and it's got a certain low-quality charm to it, but c'mon... it almost looks like it was colored in with crayons.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 4:56 pm 
 

LycanthropeMoon wrote:
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Another good album with a shit cover. I also read this as "Backdoor Miracle" half the time.


It looks like she's shitting a demon horn, so I'd call that a backdoor miracle.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 3:51 am 
 

DecemberSoul wrote:
Hooded guy on the right: "So the recipe says to add one giant strawberry to the cauldron..."
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Draconian cooking methods indeed. Oh, and syzygial miscreancies flying about.


Man I think this cover is great!


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Definately horrible... not as bad as this though (by the same band). NSFW!

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 7:38 am 
 

Oddeye wrote:


metalistkrieg wrote:


Definately horrible... not as bad as this though (by the same band). NSFW!

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You prefer dick to vag?

Decided to check out the band. Not bad!
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 7:41 am 
 

ShreddedHuman wrote:
I'm speechless.

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As someone who loves completely dumb ass retarded memes, this would make a good meme.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 6:40 am 
 

To this day, I still don't manage to view this as an album cover:

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Was the person responsible for this ever seen alive thereafter?
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 7:18 am 
 

DecemberSoul wrote:
To this day, I still don't manage to view this as an album cover:

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Was the person responsible for this ever seen alive thereafter?


Entombed's very own Nicke & Alex had a big hand in doing that 'cover' I do believe. Much like they did with the dreadfully dated Wolverine Blues 'horror pic with a photoshopped effect over the top' album cover.

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 8:48 pm 
 

DecemberSoul wrote:
To this day, I still don't manage to view this as an album cover:

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Was the person responsible for this ever seen alive thereafter?


For years I owned this album and assumed it was some sort of promo copy, due to the cover "art".
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 10:21 pm 
 

Endarkening wrote:

For years I owned this album and assumed it was some sort of promo copy, due to the cover "art".


I always had this one...whoopee

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 27, 2019 4:42 am 
 

schizoid wrote:
Endarkening wrote:

For years I owned this album and assumed it was some sort of promo copy, due to the cover "art".


I always had this one...whoopee

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Bizarre enough, this skater logo-type cover is an improvement over the one glorifiying Hollywood culture.
Come to think of it, Rodney Mullen would have exuded a decidedly cooler aura that some nerdy Marvel heroine, too.
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spoilers for size, slightly sexual theme (the 1st only) and bad taste...

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https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/T ... ses/739579

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https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/C ... ion/755004
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