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Crest of Darkness- In the Presence of Death

I would imagine Death would be more badass looking, not some guy with a goofy expression and poorly executed corpsepaint. He looks more like a fruity Black Metal Gollum than anything. "Come with us precioussss"

I don't know what's worse, Cthulhu with a bong, or the fact that this band is called Antipeewee! (love thrash album covers haha) Then there's the guy shoveling um...something, for some reason?

Saddest part is that the guy on the cover is the main guy in the band who used to be the bassist of Conception. He had a damn good role in that band but I have no clue what he's doing with this.

Speaking of which, what a dud of a cover Conception's last album was.

Both of those parody covers are actually sweet as. Haha. Made me giggle if nothing else.

Here is Black Sheep Wall

That is just so bad. Words cannot describe.

This one is funny as fuck, I love it!

Not really sure what they were going for on this one:



Spoilered for a dash of light, possibly NSFW nudity. The photo shopped removal of body parts is, erm, interesting.

Do you really consider that one an "atrocity" though? I think it fits pretty well with an album full of punk/hardcore covers. Or were you just referencing all the apple themed covers.

Speaking of Deceased, does anyone know what movie this cover is taken from?



I'm pretty sure I've seen the movie, but I just can't remember it.

Ok this one immediately reminded me of The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine, a total mess.


http://www.relapse.com/miss-machine.html



Mate, what do you think?

Hellion - Hellion


http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Hellion/Hellion/15120

It has a reasonably funny bad review too...

What do you think the over/under is on what the artist got paid for this masterpiece?

What bugs me the most about that one is the band name is on a sticker.

I think my Digipak is embossed?

I guess I can only speak for the jewel case then.

I just checked, mine's embossed, it's one of my favourite Candlemass albums too

Pretty sure they were just taking the piss out of Metallica there.

The cover to Helloween's new album was just released and it's fucken awful:



Just... horrible.

Edit: Did I mention that it's in 3D?

Marginally better than their last atrocity however.

Didn't take long for that Helloween to pop up here. I was actually on my way over to posting it, but you beat me Oddeye.

Ok. Looking at it again I changed my mind. It's at about the same level of shit as their last atrocity. They have a thing for really bad covers it seems. Master of the Rings was also shit. Arguably Dark Ride too. And Chameleon is also an eyesore (an earsore as well but that's beside the point). A lot of people argue that Pink Bubbles... and Rabbit... also have crappy covers, even if I would think they're not really worthy of this thread.

This latest 3D binge they've been going on with the new one and the one I posted above are their worst though (I'd say Master of the Rings is also up there, but what the heck).

NSFW:

That one actually have me quite the laugh. Not terrible just not great, I'd love to see a t-shirt with that art.

I kinda like the art style but uhm

that's

that's not how anatomy works

Man I REALLY wish you guys would put at the very least the album name in here.

Snowbots

Just tripped over this, you can hardly see it in this tiny image but it's computer generated, and looks bad.

Minotauri - Pain of Life / Violence

NSFW computer tits, they have other naughty album covers too, those naughty cheeky Finns

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Minotauri/Pain_of_Life_-_Violence/10406

Zombies Ate My Girlfriend

Wrong thread. That's one of the greatest of all time.

That's an awesomely stupid cover

Apologies if already posted, but I think Deteriorate's Rotting In Hell deserves a mention here.



Happy cartoon skull is happy.

Evil Lucifera

Another black metal gem, or perhaps ungem. For some reason I was compelled to visit the band's facebook, wherein lies a neverending cascade of pictures of that chick in photoshopped settings.

Both of those seriously had me bursting out laughing at my monitor like an idiot



That thing hurts my eyes. It also finally reminded me to post Ezurate's own CG disasterpiece:

I love that Deteriorate cover. He looks like he's in shock because someone just walked in on him.

That's just as bad as this one...



http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Ma ... hment/7712

The original wasn't great...but



Kids ALWAYS ruin covers and that reaper looks fuckin stupid.

ugh, is that recent? Glad I managed to get a version with the original cover.