"10 worst album covers in hard rock"

Subject: "10 worst album covers in hard rock" Sun Jan 22, 2012 2:01 am

As picked by readers of Kerrang. Thoughts on this list?:

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/Blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=6509

Subject: Re: "10 worst album covers in hard rock" Sun Jan 22, 2012 2:13 am

There are worse ones than that list. But this is Kerrang, which means I wouldn't care one bit.

Metal graduate Number of posts: 383 Age: 36 Registration date: 2011-11-19

Wow, Kerrang Must've been missing out a Lot of strong contenders here, their list is pretty conservative actually

Metal master Number of posts: 726 Age: 19 Registration date: 2010-09-03

My only question: Where is Metal Church - Hanging in the Balance?

Metal graduate Number of posts: 439 Age: 24 Registration date: 2011-02-27

I'm surprised that Lovedrive made the top of the list seeing as it's by the same band that gave us one super-disturbing album cover with Virgin Killer. scratch

Am I right, people?

Metal master Number of posts: 868 Age: 43 Registration date: 2007-03-21

How anybody could think Lovedrive and Born Again are bad album covers is beyond me.

Metal student Number of posts: 245 Age: 42 Registration date: 2009-07-20

I would've included the cover of Exodus' Force of Habit.

Metal graduate Number of posts: 337 Age: 43 Registration date: 2008-01-14

Those Dwarves albums (Covers and content) are pure genious!

Metal student Number of posts: 225 Age: 19 Registration date: 2011-11-26

No cover is worse than Virgin Killer. Born Again is bad, but not that bad. As is Stryper.

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My only question: Where is Metal Church - Hanging in the Balance?

I always kinda liked that cover. Come on, its not terrible Very Happy

Subject: Re: "10 worst album covers in hard rock" Sun Jan 22, 2012 1:50 pm

i thought the list was pretty lame

Metal graduate Number of posts: 383 Age: 36 Registration date: 2011-11-19

adrian wrote:

My only question: Where is Metal Church - Hanging in the Balance?

That Cover is like actually a work of art, Even Exodus' Force of Habit, they're a bit abstract and odd but beautiful, there's definitely a Picasso thingy in it

But If KERRANG were to dig a bit deeper, WORST should mean like these lol!

The Famous Aikido Stare + Sunburst Strat = Double Epicness Laughing

Mr. Seagal can literally chop your emotions off by just by looking at him

The heck? Self Explanatory baby

and BRUNO couldn't be any prouder

Subject: Re: "10 worst album covers in hard rock" Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:00 pm

Metal Tit always tops my list of bad album covers.

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Subject: Re: "10 worst album covers in hard rock" Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:12 pm

I love the second comment down by John :

" A magazine for idiots written by idiots and read by idiots. "

Hilarious !

Subject: Re: "10 worst album covers in hard rock" Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:24 pm

Yea that was a horrible list

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Subject: Re: "10 worst album covers in hard rock" Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:32 pm

Witchfinder wrote:

How anybody could think Lovedrive and Born Again are bad album covers is beyond me.

It is a bad cover. The artist who created it hates it. He was working with Ozzy and Sabbath at the same time, so to avoid the conflict of interest he thought that he would make a cover that was so bad that Sabbath would surely reject it. Iommi thought it was controversial and would sell albums. Ian Gillan, who didn't see the cover until it was released, was embarrassed by it and thinks it is one of the worst album covers ever.

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Metal master Number of posts: 868 Age: 43 Registration date: 2007-03-21

ultmetal wrote:

Witchfinder wrote:

How anybody could think Lovedrive and Born Again are bad album covers is beyond me.

It is a bad cover. The artist who created it hates it. He was working with Ozzy and Sabbath at the same time, so to avoid the conflict of interest he thought that he would make a cover that was so bad that Sabbath would surely reject it. Iommi thought it was controversial and would sell albums. Ian Gillan, who didn't see the cover until it was released, was embarrassed by it and thinks it is one of the worst album covers ever.

The cover is not "bad" as in poorly done. It might be in poor taste but it's well executed and by now is a classic in the genre. When people say an album cover is "bad," I think that they mean poorly done or amateurish. Now, we can argue that the artist that did the cover was lazy because all he did was take a picture of a baby and paint it red with devil horns, but that's a different criticism.

Subject: Re: "10 worst album covers in hard rock" Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:59 pm

Why would you include Exodus when the topic is "Hard Rock"?

Metal graduate Number of posts: 383 Age: 36 Registration date: 2011-11-19

Lurideath wrote:

Why would you include Exodus when the topic is "Hard Rock"?

Force of Habit has Hard Rock elements plus half of Kerrang's List are classified as Metal/Extreme Metal

Subject: Re: "10 worst album covers in hard rock" Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:20 pm

That is a stupid list, there are far worse covers around.

Metal master Number of posts: 726 Age: 47 Registration date: 2009-03-31

Well, I completely agree with the Black Sabbath - Born Again pick. I always hated that album cover.

Plus I was never fond of the cover for the Spaghetti Incident either.

But Battles In The North... I like that one.

The King Number of posts: 15608 Age: 38 Registration date: 2007-02-10

MoonChild wrote:

That is a stupid list, there are far worse covers around.

my thoughts too. I have seen a lot worse covers...

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Metal student Number of posts: 178 Age: 45 Registration date: 2011-11-23

This is an ignorant list.

Subject: Re: "10 worst album covers in hard rock" Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:42 pm

Ignorant? It's just opinions. What makes it ignorant?

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Ignorant? It's just opinions. What makes it ignorant?

That is my opinion Laughing very hard

I think this is an ignorant list in "A magazine for idiots written by idiots and read by idiots." Razz

The King Number of posts: 15608 Age: 38 Registration date: 2007-02-10

brokentulsa wrote:

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Ignorant? It's just opinions. What makes it ignorant?

That is my opinion Laughing very hard

I think this is an ignorant list in "A magazine for idiots written by idiots and read by idiots." Razz

calling someone ignorant is pretty harsh. Feel free to disagree with their list but labeling them as ignorant is unwaranted.

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