The US death metal band are famously anti-Christian, regularly berating religion with tracks like 'Fuck Your God' and 'Death To Jesus', so the image of a mutilated, finger-eating, demonic-like Christ comes as no shock. Despite the daft cover, this is probably the thrash metallers’ best album, featuring frantic tracks such as ‘Metal Thrashing Mad’ and ‘Panic’. Best album cover in the history of recorded music, with absolutely no competiton. 40.
15. Andrew W K: ‘I Get Wet’ (2001) – Mr W K’s debut was accused of endorsing cocaine usage thanks to the image of the singer with blood pouring from each nostril. The sick bastards. I don’t even want to ask if the back cover is real. I love the list you put together i love almost all those bands and own more than half of those records.DK Insert poster: “Landscape XX / Penis Landscape” is an HR Giger painting, 1973…Giger gave his permission for DK to use this piece for the actual album cover art but it got vetoed and became an insert poster Dial Drive (Punk, FL) stream new album "Wasted Time" Download . At first glance it doesn’t seem so bad but a closer inspection yields some pretty f’ed up shit – some dude in a black hoody raping a decapitated corpse, a pig headed cop toting a machine gun and getting a hand job from a bearded man, another dude masturbating with his fist in some chick’s butt while she stabs herself… I’m cringing as I write this and thinking to myself the depictions sorta make Dante’s “Inferno” seem like Disneyland. Slightly risqué we're sure you'll agree. Playing deliberately crude, high-speed punk rock dripping with bad attitude, the Dwarves -- led by vocalist Blag Dahlia and guitarist He Who Cannot Be Named -- matched their music with lyrics that celebrated all sorts of bad behavior, and their album covers almost invariably featured full-frontal nudity. The fact he has decapitated hands and a missing eye add to the controversy and makes it as sacrilegious as you can get. That’s what Winnipeg punk act I Spy went with for the cover of their discography spanning release “Perversity Is Spreading… It’s About Time!” Though the label admits that the cover art was designed “to send the theocratic-right into a tizzy of epic proportions”, the album managed to fly under the radar without any public backlash from the Catholic Church or its followers.I don’t think you have to be an animal rights activist to get offended by NOFX’s 1996 album “Heavy Petting Zoo,” which depicts a dude finger banging a sheep in front of a barn (I suddenly feel the need to shower after typing that). Designed by renowned heavy metal artist Wes Benscoter, the cover depicts members of the public being herded into a slaughterhouse to presumably be killed. 35. Manic Street Preachers: 'Journal For Plague Lovers' (2009) – Four major UK supermarkets censored the Manics' latest album upon its release after they deemed it too offensive for shoppers. Z-Ro: 'Crack' (2008) - Crack is the first album in the Texan rapper's drug-based trilogy due to be followed by the imaginatively titled 'Heroin' and 'Meth'. In a scene echoing Aliens, a woman gives birth to three demonic figures through three orifices.
Literally! Dream Theater: 'Live Scenes From New York' (2000) - In a cruel twist of fate Dream Theater somehow managed to foresee the September 11th terrorist attacks with this controversial album cover. Vital Remains’ lyrics deal almost exclusively with anti-religion, Satanism and blasphemy, so it’s no surprise that they opted for such a controversial cover on this release. Vinyl/CD. An all star cast, a wild weekend and a certain amount of cocaine reinvent the Dwarves11" Picture Disc Vinyl LP & FREE DVD including the entire show, fan footage and music videosVinyl and CD include bonus DVD - full album downloads include bonus tracks.Download better versions and bonus tracks on the Dirty Deeds comp.Lucifer's Crank, Toolin' For a Warm Teabag and other early Dwarves singles, EPs and unreleased tracksDwarves are the original 60's garage band. Leftover Crack: 'Fuck World Trade' (2004) - Another political entry, this time from ska punk metallers Leftover Crack. Vital Remains: ‘Icons of Evil’ (2007) - As if the Jesus figure on the album cover didn’t have enough to worry about being nailed to the cross, a huge hand also slams a hammer into his chest on this vicious sleeve. Regurgitate: 'Sickening Bliss' (2006) – Sickening by name, sickening by nature. A woman poses as the Virgin Mary was her hands held out like a deity – the major snag, she has a suicide bomb attached to her chest. Cattle Decapitation: 'Humanure' (2004) – A twisted parody of Pink Floyd's seminal seventies record 'Atom Heart Mother', the beast on this record sleeve is instead situated in a bleak, toxic landscape and is excreting foul human remains. The original members of the Dwarves began making music together in the mid-1980s as teenagers in the Chicago garage rock outfit, Suburban Nightmare, which was compared to The band became notorious for self-mutilation, on-stage sex, and taking hard drugs, and their live shows would often only last around fifteen minutes, occasionally cut short due to injury caused by spectators.In 1993 the band issued a press release stating their guitarist HeWhoCannotBeNamed had been stabbed to death in In 2009, Blag and HeWhoCannotBeNamed were immortalised as They are known for their simple, loud, yet nuanced punk repertoire, and controversial lyrics.
15. Andrew W K: ‘I Get Wet’ (2001) – Mr W K’s debut was accused of endorsing cocaine usage thanks to the image of the singer with blood pouring from each nostril. The sick bastards. I don’t even want to ask if the back cover is real. I love the list you put together i love almost all those bands and own more than half of those records.DK Insert poster: “Landscape XX / Penis Landscape” is an HR Giger painting, 1973…Giger gave his permission for DK to use this piece for the actual album cover art but it got vetoed and became an insert poster Dial Drive (Punk, FL) stream new album "Wasted Time" Download . At first glance it doesn’t seem so bad but a closer inspection yields some pretty f’ed up shit – some dude in a black hoody raping a decapitated corpse, a pig headed cop toting a machine gun and getting a hand job from a bearded man, another dude masturbating with his fist in some chick’s butt while she stabs herself… I’m cringing as I write this and thinking to myself the depictions sorta make Dante’s “Inferno” seem like Disneyland. Slightly risqué we're sure you'll agree. Playing deliberately crude, high-speed punk rock dripping with bad attitude, the Dwarves -- led by vocalist Blag Dahlia and guitarist He Who Cannot Be Named -- matched their music with lyrics that celebrated all sorts of bad behavior, and their album covers almost invariably featured full-frontal nudity. The fact he has decapitated hands and a missing eye add to the controversy and makes it as sacrilegious as you can get. That’s what Winnipeg punk act I Spy went with for the cover of their discography spanning release “Perversity Is Spreading… It’s About Time!” Though the label admits that the cover art was designed “to send the theocratic-right into a tizzy of epic proportions”, the album managed to fly under the radar without any public backlash from the Catholic Church or its followers.I don’t think you have to be an animal rights activist to get offended by NOFX’s 1996 album “Heavy Petting Zoo,” which depicts a dude finger banging a sheep in front of a barn (I suddenly feel the need to shower after typing that). Designed by renowned heavy metal artist Wes Benscoter, the cover depicts members of the public being herded into a slaughterhouse to presumably be killed. 35. Manic Street Preachers: 'Journal For Plague Lovers' (2009) – Four major UK supermarkets censored the Manics' latest album upon its release after they deemed it too offensive for shoppers. Z-Ro: 'Crack' (2008) - Crack is the first album in the Texan rapper's drug-based trilogy due to be followed by the imaginatively titled 'Heroin' and 'Meth'. In a scene echoing Aliens, a woman gives birth to three demonic figures through three orifices.
Literally! Dream Theater: 'Live Scenes From New York' (2000) - In a cruel twist of fate Dream Theater somehow managed to foresee the September 11th terrorist attacks with this controversial album cover. Vital Remains’ lyrics deal almost exclusively with anti-religion, Satanism and blasphemy, so it’s no surprise that they opted for such a controversial cover on this release. Vinyl/CD. An all star cast, a wild weekend and a certain amount of cocaine reinvent the Dwarves11" Picture Disc Vinyl LP & FREE DVD including the entire show, fan footage and music videosVinyl and CD include bonus DVD - full album downloads include bonus tracks.Download better versions and bonus tracks on the Dirty Deeds comp.Lucifer's Crank, Toolin' For a Warm Teabag and other early Dwarves singles, EPs and unreleased tracksDwarves are the original 60's garage band. Leftover Crack: 'Fuck World Trade' (2004) - Another political entry, this time from ska punk metallers Leftover Crack. Vital Remains: ‘Icons of Evil’ (2007) - As if the Jesus figure on the album cover didn’t have enough to worry about being nailed to the cross, a huge hand also slams a hammer into his chest on this vicious sleeve. Regurgitate: 'Sickening Bliss' (2006) – Sickening by name, sickening by nature. A woman poses as the Virgin Mary was her hands held out like a deity – the major snag, she has a suicide bomb attached to her chest. Cattle Decapitation: 'Humanure' (2004) – A twisted parody of Pink Floyd's seminal seventies record 'Atom Heart Mother', the beast on this record sleeve is instead situated in a bleak, toxic landscape and is excreting foul human remains. The original members of the Dwarves began making music together in the mid-1980s as teenagers in the Chicago garage rock outfit, Suburban Nightmare, which was compared to The band became notorious for self-mutilation, on-stage sex, and taking hard drugs, and their live shows would often only last around fifteen minutes, occasionally cut short due to injury caused by spectators.In 1993 the band issued a press release stating their guitarist HeWhoCannotBeNamed had been stabbed to death in In 2009, Blag and HeWhoCannotBeNamed were immortalised as They are known for their simple, loud, yet nuanced punk repertoire, and controversial lyrics.