Listed below are 60 terrible steel album covers.

Whether or not it is tacky ’80s drawings or some very latest works by outstanding bands, deciding on album artwork at all times comes with inherent danger. Artwork is subjective, however consensus may also say so much and, on this case, followers all appear to agree that these album covers are fairly dreadful.

It is a marvel how a few of these ever managed to be within the dialog, a lot much less adorn music {that a} band labored onerous to write down and file. Whereas poor artwork will not be at all times a mirrored image of this music, there’s a magical high quality to a profitable mixture of nice paintings and unbelievable music.

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Regardless of the case, these are the album covers that made it to the end line and can ceaselessly dwell in infamy. There’s some huge artists in right here too who had been nicely established when these clunkers went public — Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Suicide Silence, Architects and others.

And there is absolutely a bunch of artists you have by no means heard earlier than and quite a lot of are completely value listening to.

See all these crummy covers straight beneath!

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