In light of the interest I’ve seen lately in the total awesome-ness that are metal album covers, I’ve decided to compile 10 from memory and collection for the sight-thirsty public. These covers are a mix of favorites, most brutal, most metallic-ly artsy, most gruesome, etc. Enjoy.
Leviathan by Mastodon. This album rocks on its own, but the cover is unbelievable. All of Mastodon’s album art is like this, but this one just wins. It just wins.
Whoracle by In Flames. Pay attention to detail on this one; there’s so much going on. I, for one, feel rather bad for the little girl on the lower right hand side.
Deliverance by Opeth. It embodies creepy. It’s got all of the classic elements of eerie: old bed with smiling doll on it, dark lighting and lots of shadows, and some dark figure in the reflection of the mirror to the left of the clock to the left of the bed.
One Kill Wonder by The Haunted. How about that.
Versus The World by Amon Amarth. How epic is that? In the context of the picture, I don’t think it possible to be more epic.
Master of Puppets by Metallica. It’s my favorite album by them and it’s got some serious artwork. It should be in a museum.
The Great Cold Distance by Katatonia. I dig the red lighting, the shading, and the melancholy of this cover. The album emits exactly what the cover conveys. I just like it.
Metal Magic by Pantera. How cool is this cover? If southern metal would have existed in 1975, this is what a typical record sleeve would have looked like.
Reign in Blood by Slayer. The album itself has been deemed “The heaviest album of all time” by Kerrang! Magazine. Quite satanically explicit for 1986, huh?
Tomb of the Mutilated by Cannibal Corpse. Truth is, there isn’t one cover by these guys that isn’t violently grotesque and eye-popping. This one just…just…just somehow stands out in the mix. I mean, had you ever thought about a half-rotted zombie going down on another before seeing this?
So that’s that. Metal rules.
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Comment by amber — February 14, 2008 @ 6:21 pm
OH MY GOD!
i used to have that mastadon cover on a sticker - like forty of them, that i lifted from a record shop. i don’t know why, because i’d never heard them, i just liked the way it looked. and then i proceeded to stick them on the car windows of people i knew in the middle of the night, so that that would be the first thing they saw the next morning.
i had a LOT of free time.
also, that last one you listed is the epitome of awesome metalness. sweet mother of god.