I'm not sure this qualifies as either ugliest/lamest or, in light of the other current thread, coolest, but back in the day, before I got my hands on Gorguts' Obscura, and when I'd only ever seen lo-res or thumbnail images of its artwork -- we're talking just within a couple years after it came out -- I'd wrongly supposed the figure on the cover to be a levitating yogic pigman. If you will:



Either step back from your screen or let your eyes go a little out of focus, and imagine the dude's head as that of a pig with its chin slightly upturned in smug defiance. The nostrils and mouth of the man remain those of the pig, but his wisps of hair become little bowtie ears, and the shadows on his sunken cheeks become the malevolent, porcine eyes. His beard is the chin and throat area.

I had a very strange image of Gorguts before I'd ever heard their music. And to this day I still see the pigman.

Just can't see it. And i love this cover.

wait, so it isn't a levitating pig-man??

I'm the opposite here. Try as I might, I can only see a pigman there and can't thell what it is supposed to be in reality...anybody mind giving me a hint?

I'm not sure if this helps or makes it worse. May Luc Lemay et al. forgive me.



Guess I could've mentioned that the pigman in question is adorned with Abbath-styled batwing corpsepaint.

I'd wrongly supposed the figure on the cover to be a levitating yogic pigman.

A disproportional He-man vs. A Birdlike Manntis looking thing.

Re: Obscura



Haha! I'm glad to know I am not the only one who thought exactly the same thing.

I agree with SLK here. I have a copy of the album and was never even aware of this 'pigman'-believing subculture present here. I seriously thought y'all were joking at first; it clearly looks like the old man it is to me.

Pretty sure the majority of people didn't figure this shit regarding Obscura yesterday, sheesh.
It's not hard for me to see either image, and it's certainly not hard for me to see how someone who hasn't seen it up close could make the mistake...

You guys just lack any imagination... That is your problem, yo.

Owning a copy of Obscura since the day it came out doesn't earn you any kvlt point, either. Pretty sure some people have owned that album multiple times... Still doesn't make it hard for me to see the pig. You just have to BE the pig to see it, man...

But anyways, this cover's always irked me a bit:


Just always looked so goddamn cheap and hastily thrown together.

I also have to wonder which LotR characters these are supposed to be...

Lol, I just came across this album cover. Seriously, it can't get worse than this.

I actually think this is a decent cover. A typical gore picture for a brutal death metal record (I assume that's what it is?) with no meaning whatsoever, but it's quite well drawn. There are so many much worse and lazy drawn pictures, this isn't one of them.

I have no idea what they were thinking.

I never saw the pigman and still don't even when trying, but now it's finally dawned on me that those are legs underneath him. FOr some reason I always viewed it as being a bunch of arms crossing.

But anyways, this cover's always irked me a bit:


Just always looked so goddamn cheap and hastily thrown together.

Also taking time out to nominate any dsbm album that involves someone holding a gun in their mouth.

I also have to wonder which LotR characters these are supposed to be...