[gusano666]

Hellion - Hellion (1983)



Pretty acceptable heavy metal band from Argentina! Considered here the WORST crap metal album cover EVER!

[Aya]

Hellion - Hellion (1983)



Pretty acceptable heavy metal band from Argentina! Considered here the WORST crap metal album cover EVER!

One of the first places without a doubt.

[Aya]

This is a split where the mythical argentine band V8 appears..."two stars"

[StjarnlosBibelSvart]

Rejected first draft for that Hellion album cover:

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[JimmySan2]

[elborracho]

Jajaja! Best thread ever!
And there are several covers here that are really crapy!

I have to add this one from Almafuerte from Argentina


And this other from Wolf from Sweden

I love that Wolf cover!! It has the coolest atmosphere

[Ghee]

I contribute with this monstrosity. Slovakia heavy metal band Tublatanka, with their 7th full length from 1995.

[pilufo]

Here a cover for the ages.... must be one of the most putrid I have ever seen

[Robbert]

This is my 'favorite'. I mean, what is that supposed to be? A planet with studs?


Some non-metal. I used to be a booker at a venue and I received some pretty horrible cover art through the years. I mean, look at this shit:

Sit with the guru? Really? Why would I wanna do that?


I honestly try to keep an open mind but 'Tropi-Global'? Really?

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[Deathdancer]

Not sure if crap or just strange


Predator


Torment


Boned


Warrior


And in case Warrior doesn't look bad enough you can listen to the hit single I Want A Walmart Girl

[achad1979]

The album is awesome, yes but

[Robbert]

That Bitter End cover is the same as Chet Williamson's horror novel Soulstorm. Soooo... which came first?

[Strappado]

Soulstorm, 1986: http://www.chetwilliamson.com/2010/03/soulstorm/
Harsh Realities, 1990: https://www.discogs.com/Bitter-End-Hars ... se/2699271

Quote from chetwilliamson
"I loved the bizarre, surrealistic cover art, but was later told by someone at Tor that it was thought so grotesque that it had hurt sales."

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[Strappado]

https://jimwarren.com/portfolio/soul-storm/

Quote from Jim Warren
"I painted Soul Storm in the 80s for a book cover which at that time I had painted close to 200 covers.
This is one of the few that I think is striking enough to be published as Fine Art for the walls."



https://jimwarren.com/portfolio/raise-f ... ce-cooper/

"Alice Cooper was one of my favorite bands since they came out in early 70s. I was exited to paint this album cover for him in 1985. I didn’t meet him until 2010 when he was in town for a concert, which I brought my kids Drew and Arte ( 16 and 18 at the time). We had a deep conversation with the shock rocker such as whose kids had the messiest bedrooms, he thought his did. I wasn’t so sure about that. Later my daughter commented “Can you believe what a nice guy he was?”."

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[Mantis502]

Saw this today. The music isn't bad at all, actually it's pretty good. But holy shit this album art is the most hideous thing I've ever seen.

[KennyT]

What on earth were they thinking!?......

[SLON]

[SLON]

[canadaspaceman]

Razor - Shotgun Justice

Shotgun Justice is a TIMELESS album, my favorite from Razor no matter what anyone says!!!! But yeah the cover could've used some more work before the release for sure.

I remember when Shotgun Justice appeared in my record store and I looked at that cover art "what the fuck is this garbage??"
Then when I heard the guitar tone, I then thought, they could only get away with such a shit album cover because the production was one of the best I ever heard.

One of the worst but i chuckle everytime i see it.

yes, it fits the category "it is so bad, it's good!" I still want to hear it.

Dethkorpz "Metal Tit" (1991) album has finally been shared online.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGCjNeBWAAc

[canadaspaceman]

What where they thinking?

They were thinking, "hey, let's put a naked see through man on the cover! maybe more chicks will buy it!" ?

Kind of love/hate for this one. I like when they're so raw, but I think that they could do something better.

Maybe they were from a poor village and had to combine odd pieces of many games in order to play something at least.
That was pure genius!

[Puk015]

If I were to pick the worst album cover that I have in my collection that has not been show here. It's this one.



Outburst (FIN) - Lonely Nights (Single)

My first thought seeing that cover is "Is this where Trump got the Idea of, Grab them by the pussy?"
I was laughing and ask myself "What am I looking at?"
I did reached out to the band and they also hated it.
They told me "It was not our idea to have that embarrassing cover for our single. We hated it but we were stuck with it anyway"

[SLON]

Not exactly shitty, I guess, but always looking extremely stupid to me.

[SLON]

More hard rock than something metal, but that's not the point.



That blue dude on the bottom-left looks especially stoned.

[riptorn]

More hard rock than something metal, but that's not the point.



That blue dude on the bottom-left looks especially stoned.

Are you kidding? That's a brilliant cover.

[SLON]

Something just the opposite - a cool cover with music that is amazingly epic in its crapness



The full recordings of this seem to be only available on VK, but individual samples can be found here: https://gruppasssr.ru/K/koronarim.html

It's just some shitty pop rock that doesn't even try to be well written.

History is silent about how many people bought this squalor just because of the cover.