Worst album cover art in hard rock

[auslander]

Let's post some pictures of the worst album covers in our favourite genre's history.

I will start with this abomination from Metal Church.

 

[Dead Planet]

2 minutes ago, auslander said:

Let's post some pictures of the worst album covers in our favourite genre's history.

I will start with this abomination from Metal Church.

 

Yeah that is terrible...however it is also my fav release by the band.....

[auslander]

32 minutes ago, Dead Planet said:

Yeah that is terrible...however it is also my fav release by the band.....

It is a good album but I just hate the cover so much. It's certainly not the first Metal Church album I pull out to show someone, for that reason!

[Geoff]

Far too many to mention, but I always hated those horribly obviously poorly computer generated ones from primarily the late 90's and early 2000's. One of the finest examples is this, but there were hundreds of them-

[auslander]

That's awful

[Metal T]

[auslander]

On 7/1/2021 at 8:58 AM, Metal T said:

Atrocious. This "wins" so far...

[Glen]

Any Riot album with those ridiculous seals

[Jez]

I'll say no more  

 

[auslander]

1 hour ago, Jez said:

I'll say no more  

 

Katmandu! I have that album. Agree, that cover SUX.

[lettard]

That new Steve Whiteman solo album cover must come into contention?

Or the fact that Metallica ripped off Spinal Tap 

Edited July 10, 2021 by lettard

[Metal T]

Horrible cover artwork for an awful record....thankfully Don and Co. would exorcise this demon a couple years later with the superb 'Erase The Slate'.

 

 

 

 

[SunsetHoliday]

I'll see your Dokken and raise you one Best of Extreme.

I don't know about you, but malformed faces and mosquitos always make me want to listen to music

[KarpetRydOFunk]

7 minutes ago, SessionWulf said:

I'll see your Dokken and raise you one Best of Extreme.

I don't know about you, but malformed faces and mosquitos always make me want to listen to music

Never understood what the fuck this was supposed to be. What does this have to do with Extreme and their music??

[AlphaMale]

Poor art, horrible album:

 

[auslander]

3 hours ago, AlphaMale said:

Poor art, horrible album:

 

That is hilariously bad 👎 

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[auslander]

12 minutes ago, AlphaMale said:

Harsh! But, agree in a way. They wanted to convince everyone they were a different band. Got rid of their logo (one of the best and most recognised) and also their successful art scheme started with Pyromania. Dumb all round. 

[Darkstone]

1 hour ago, auslander said:

Harsh! But, agree in a way. They wanted to convince everyone they were a different band. Got rid of their logo (one of the best and most recognised) and also their successful art scheme started with Pyromania. Dumb all round. 

Yeah, after "Adrenalize" and "The Vault", which contained killer live stuff, this release was too much of a departure for me.

The "no logo" artwork and Joe Elliot styling his hair to look like Steffi Graf, wasn't a good sign in terms of a classic Leppard album.

[AlphaMale]

[auslander]

2 hours ago, AlphaMale said:

Haha but why is that so bad?

[auslander]