post bad, offensive, disturbing, wtf, boring cover art in here
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• Preferably metal...
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Behold the cover art for UDO's new album 'Decadent'...


Well done, Udo. Well done.

Another band that needs Marschall back...

Pretty sure those are tears of gravy.

Anyone else get reminded of the art for Warrant's first album?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Rott ... tdirty.jpg

I actually think the first one looks kinda cool...

Wait so this is an atrocity but that fucking Schmier project's cover was cool? I'll never understand.

That cover of Holy is awesome. It makes me want to listen to it. That's the best possible result for a cover.

Exigence saying something negative about....ANY band? Wha???

gloriously terrible cover

It's like Warrant's Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich, crossed with Darth Maul and a shitload of Photoshop.

Edit: Twisted_Psychology beat me to it.

I like it too but only because they've got Abe Lincoln lifting up his skirt and showing you his knickers...

On second thought it's more like Lincoln crossed with Dr. Frankenfurter.

that's probably the brief they gave to the graphic artist

Yeah they were obviously thinking of the Warrant thing when they made that - similar fonts, designs, etc. Clearly intentional.

Point taken - I think the first one would be cool if I saw it on a deviantart profile or something.... but as the cover of a metal album it sucks balls.

Are you talking about the cover of Holy? Because I was.

No, your comment just made me realize there was something not quite right about my own.

That's a very hideous cover indeed, but far from the worst. Some of the things posted in those many "worst covers" threads blow that out of the water.

That second cover, Holy is the opposite. That one looks really good.

That's as bad as a rap album cover.

It's not any "worse" than Solid or Rev-Raptor or Mastercutor or Steelhammer. All of U.D.O.'s covers are pretty goddamn goofy and soaked in cliches.

I was thinking exactly the same, it reminds me one of those crappy rap album covers. Just terrible.

rap album covers generally own, and that album cover also owns somewhat(although the overtly digital image hurts it quite a lot). if it wasn't so shiny it'd look like an old speed metal or thrash cover

Andi Deris must've been the cover model for this one...

Can anyone else not fucking unsee Cee-Lo Green in this cover art?

Almost as shocking as the album art is the fact that you're the only one that seems to have noticed this

that big bear album is awesome.

Wow, absolute garbage. Looks like a prerendered PS1 cutscene.

The best thing about it is the album title, not the cover. He's just Doin' Thangs. Not even big thangs, necessarily. Not baller thangs, gangster thangs, rapper thangs, bear thangs. Homeboy is just doin' thangs. I'd like to imagine it's an album full of him rapping about putting his kids to bed and checking mail.

I KNOW, RIGHT? Like, I'm not crazy... Right? THAT'S FUCKIN' CEE-LO GREEN YO!

He's not the only one. You just didn't know that I thought it, too.

Right, Grave_Wyrm

Why would someone who leaks blood(or gravy according to henkkjelle) decide to wear a white shirt anyway?

How do we all feel about an 'official' bad artwork thread?
It seems every few months we get a new one...

I'll make it happen if we all like this idea, I'll include some older threads too so we have one mega-thread.
This will include: unoriginal, cliché, offensive, boring, weird, poorly done, unfinished, Photoshop overdrive etc

I actually like that Battleaxe one and I do not think it deserves its appearance in all those bad album cover threads.

Harley, hair, hellfire and leather! And a fuckin' battle axe. Crystal Logic-looking font to boot. It just screams trad/NWOBHM/speed metal.

Dread, I know you ain't talking shit about that Battleaxe cover. It looks a lot better than any of the newer artworks for that album, that's for sure.

Yeah that Battleaxe cover looks pretty cool.
Fortunately I happened to come across one myself just yesterday...
And that's without the band name and album title just pasted on top!

Thor-Thunder Angel indeed
http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Battleaxe/Burn_This_Town/14708
I quite like that one too but Google found it when I entered "bad album cover" so yeah!

This is just going to happen unless I see some nay sayers / red usernames

i kinda dig this actually, looks like a lot of 'naive' art. very expressive

Some brilliance comes from these terrible covers. Case in point:

I actually love this album cover and the artist (Halseycaust) but it's wonky as hell and it always trips me out:



His legs are sooooo tiny compared to the torso. It looks like a child someone dressed up in warrior garb.