I actually like this one very much.

Speaking of terrible CG...



Also, not really the worst per sé, but Candlemass seem to have had a fair share of half-assed covers for such an established band:



Cheap rehash of the classic Epicus artwork - how impressive.




Allegedly "an old bum with angel wings"; I only found this out from the reissue's liner notes.




For such an important comeback album, they sure didn't go overboard with the creativity.




Nice idea, generic as hell execution.

The cover art alone would be bad enough, but it's even worse when you consider the quality of the album and its status as a classic. If you ever feel the need to prove the saying "true beauty lies within" as right, then use this as example. Therion never really had it with good or remarkable cover artworks in general - except for "Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas" - but "Theli" is without a doubt the ugliest of all.

The worst in my album collection is easy to be found: http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/8/4/4/184416.jpg

Does that guy on the right literally have an ass for a face?

Candlemass could have done MUCH better with their album covers, ESPECIALLY the white album. As good as that album was- and it was an outstanding album,- I thought the half-assed cover didnt really do it any justice at all.

I always thought they wanted to give a message similar to: "Fuck all pretensions, we are just Candlemass and that's what you'll get" on their self-titled.

Of course, that's mostly me being positive...

Those Candlemass covers are still a lot better than what was used for Leif Edling's solo album.



Imagine that being used on a Candlemass album.

Edling's not exactly known for having good taste in cover art after the 80's. If he has the final say in the decision making, that is. Just look at the artworks for Abstrakt Algebra and Krux for more examples.

I like this cover. Swampy/mossy/green nature artworks are a rare gem in the endless sea of grim frostbitten black-and-white forests.

The title couldn't describe it better
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/3/3/0/9/33099.jpg

That's an awesome album cover. What are you smoking?

Also, here's my contribution.
http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/les%20go ... /Level.jpg

If you guys are wondering where they're getting these album covers from, here ya go...
http://www.cracked.com/blog/8-album-cov ... -pull-off/

I actually never saw this article, I got that cover somewhere else

I'm surprised nobody has posted Elffor's cover art yet.












Artwork for the new album is pretty decent though.

Holy shitfuck...

Black metal band members tend to think they are very good looking it seems.

Fucking lame cover for something called "Remains". Should have just called it "Red".

Agh! My eyes! That really fucking hurts my eyes!

That's just shitty .jpg compression. The actual cover looks different. Still a dumb cover.

This cover is even worse imo.

Ugly in a similar way as Therion's "Theli" is "Resplendent Grotesque" by <Code>

I went back and listened to 'Heartwork' again the other day after a long time and loved every second of it. But I also hate the cover...

That looks hardly different than the image I posted. But yes, shit cover.

Awesome album, but that cover!

'Doin Thangs' is a fucking awesome name for an album.

That is the greatest thing I have ever seen.

In regards to "Doin' Thangs"...

That is awesome. I want to hear this album now.

I heard that the vocals suck.

Yeah they're pretty baaaaaaad.

lol, this made me laugh so hard. couldn't have been said any better

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Actually a friend texted me that a while back. But thanks for the link, fun read.

Razor really shit the bed when it came to covers in the 90's....

To be fair, a lot of people did (holy shit, you should see some of Merzbow's album covers from the mid-to-late 90's).

I think it's because photo editing software was becoming widely available, so even though that sort of thing looks cheap now, it was pretty "fresh" at the time... It's also why so much computer-generated artwork sucks: ANYONE CAN DO IT!

The fact that so much of it sucks kind of proves that not anyone can do it, though You have to wonder what happened with quality control with some of those...

That Razor cover would be generic but passable without the dumb guy's face pasted on top. It makes it look like a poorly executed lame joke. Then again, this was the band that thought that drawing was good enough to grace Shotgun Justice's front...

oh, no, yeah....

I meant that sarcastically. I probably should have put that in quotes.