Ahhh, Tanzwut. Stuck in 2003 as always.

come and get me

ironically enough I owned a copy of Thundersteel, pretty sure it was an original. Never played the damn thing once, guess I'll get on that before I get executed

I hope I never find out.

Although to album title is the German equivalent of "feast of the ass", which is bizarrely appropriate in many disturbing ways.

It may come across a little less disturbing once you know that a less ambiguous translation is "donkey mass" ("mass" in its ritualistic meaning, not referring to matter).

You might want to get on that! I've already sharpened the axe and the execution block is almost cleaned up and ready to go, all that is left is to invite the villagers and once they hear you've owned Thundersteel and never listened to it they will be there in seconds.

Seriously though, idk why you never gave them a chance. They are the shit! I mean if people just avoided every heavy metal album from the 80s with bad cover art then there would only be a handful of albums left to listen to.

Another album that I love but can't take the cover very seriously. On a positive note this isn't close to Riot level awkwardness but still up there.

listening to it now and yeah i regret what I did, especially considering how much i used to love shit like this. i'm gonna find a copy of this soon to make up for it

to keep the thread on track, i always found black metal covers like this to be super cheesy and hilarious. guy looks like a total goofball out there freezing his tits off

Darxon, Axxis, Xandria...what's with German power metal and the letter X?

Smart move haha.

I have to agree on the black metal cover thing, I mean it is my favorite genre but that doesn't excuse some of the covers out there! It seems they are either brilliant or just absolutely cheesy haha.

I'll cut this one some slack since it was 1990 but still...

"Hey, can you help me up out of this hole in the ground? Why are you taking out your phone?"

I really like this to be honest. Quite a few album covers in this thread I disagree with this though.

That cover is too stupidly funny to be terrible

the fart that should not be is honestly quite genius if you ask me

"Descustig Kind of Love"...

At that stage of a cold, i'd have to agree.

That looks like something an obscure early 90's electro-industrial band would do.

Yeah, I meant "ass" as in the animal myself - both the English and the German phrase are equivalent to the Latin term "festum asinorum".



I find this... cute in a way.

He looks like a Palatine who was shot in the forehead.

Sadus - Illusions
Anyone think thrash is severely lacking gingerbread men, peacock vortexes and surprised skeletons? You have not been forgotten.


Deceased - Supernatural Addiction
Perhaps not an atrocity, but its lameness kept me from checking out the music for a long time which is a shame for such a killer album.


No way, man. That's brilliance. Though, considering the bulbous, hairy buttocks, tornado flatulence, and knobby spine, that fellow ought to see a doctor.


That's idiotically charming.


Quit being so wrong. R.S. Connett is godly. Check out his painting for the latest Hammers of Misfortune. Sure his technique has refined a lot, but the raw, ugly style of his earlier work, like that Sausage cover, remains quite striking.

This thread is worth reviving for this abomination I just discovered.

I cannot fathom what they were going for with album art like this other than "steer clear of this unappealing nonsense".

"like dude I wanna have like a crocodile, but it's not "a" crocodile because it's got like legs myan, like horse legs, and there's bird and it's apocalypse and stuff"

....

And to top it off, that bird is feasting on a randomly placed bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken

Oh I totally missed that, haha. It's a Where's Wally of shit.

This is what Kirk Cameron pictures when he thinks about Evolution.

Because that bird is a fucking monster.

I remember that level in Doom.

Goddamn, I love these bad cover art threads. I was wondering if there was still one going.

Deer Woman from Masters of Horror.



Best episode of that series. John Landis is brilliant.

I wish someone made a movie and/or a game of that concept, whatever it is.

That's a keyhole, not a gingerbread man BTW.

Yeah, that's why we think thrash is severely lacking gingerbread men.

Truly outrageous.

The more I look at it the more questions I get.

It really is an ugly piece of shit. Not just the drawing, but the text as well. Some low-brow album art can look good, but to me this one never did.

Nothing says METAL like children's drawings (gotta thank random band search for that)

Semi-nsfw. Some art of a woman grabbing her own exposed boob. The stroke marks make it look like it was drawn using those smelly markers that you used in art class in elementary school.

Actually, he does remind me of a distorted face version of John Cena.

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https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/S ... ade/645951