Violent Album Covers

[JKL2000]

I just want to ask first that we keep this thread somewhat in the bounds of good taste. I'm just not interested in someone posting that Scorpions cover again and then someone objecting to it and then... I know I could be asking for trouble here, but it shouldn't really be too hard to do this semi-tastefully.

Anyway, I thought of the thread after just seeing this cover, which I thought was pretty surprising. Kind of interesting, but also surprising. I did a bit of a double-take. That's one strong bird to be able to pierce her jaw like that. Kind of reminiscent of the Debbie Harry HR Giger cover, which I guess I'll post for reference.

[Modry Effekt]

Those are cool art.Delain cover is pretty hypnotizing.I haven't heard either album though.

Spooky Tooth / Pierre Henry - Ceremony

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Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Come In Un'Ultima
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[Modry Effekt]

This is outrageous.You just can't do it.

New Trolls Atomic System

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Spring

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[Rarebird]

Not the cover, but the picture on the CD Vixit from Indiscipline is pretty violent. Alas I can't find it online.

[Crystal Plumage]

One I remember is Andrew WK 's I Get Wet. I don't know the music, and won't ever check it out due to that cover. I will only provide a link because I just hate it..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Get_Wet
Silence of Another Kind by Paatos has a violent cover as well:

Also ARPIA's Liberazione has some violent photo's...:

I still remember the views I got when I bought it
Actually, I should play this today. It's May 5, Liberation Day!

[Rarebird]

Would this one count?

[Obscured]

Butcher_babies.jpg

[sonic]

[sonic]

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[R. Totale III]

Big Black's original cover for "Headache" takes the prize, but I won't post it here - youse with Google-fu can go find it if you want.

[polmico]

Not just Killers but pretty much every IM cover.

In the Court of the Crimson King feels violent even if there is no peeling flesh or blood or bodily harm. There's violence happening there.

[sonic]

Big Black's original cover for "Headache" takes the prize, but I won't post it here - youse with Google-fu can go find it if you want.

Now I wish I didn't.
I'm guessing the funeral wasn't open casket.

[sonic]

[Modry Effekt]

Would this one count?

It depends how hard he hits.

Situation that may lead to violent.

Heldon - Allez Teia

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[rcarlberg]

Now I wish I didn't.

No kidding. Reminds me of a forensics pamphlet I found in high school about blood spatter patterns and how to read them. Real CSI stuff. Lots of rap, hip-hop, and metal covers explore blood & gore, usually in an adolescent and prurient manner. Though not blood & guts I always found Ralph Steadman's cover for "The Last Nightingale" to be heart-breakingly melancholic.

[Ribo]

Bloodrock obviously. 'U.S.A.' especially.

[Progbear]

Big Black's original cover for "Headache" takes the prize, but I won't post it here - youse with Google-fu can go find it if you want.

You beat me to it. I was going to say that if I posted the cover here, no one would ever speak to me again. I was at the late, lamented Reckless Records in San Francisco, who had a copy out on display for some sort of outrageous price. I’ve never seen that version again (and am pretty sure I don’t want to!).

In a similar vein, however “cheesy B-movie splatter effect”-y, there’s Spinegrinder’s A Visual Symphony of Horror.

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MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")

"Parece cosa de maligno. Los pianos no estallan por casualidad." --Gabriel Garcia Marquez

N.P.:“Nihon”-Far Out

[Modry Effekt]

Though not blood & guts I always found Ralph Steadman's cover for "The Last Nightingale" to be heart-breakingly melancholic.

It is,indeed.Reminds Storm Corrosion - Drag Ropes video.

[sonic]

[Septober Energy]

Naked City - Leng Tch'e. Horrific because it's real.

[Garden Dreamer]

There was some punk/hardcore band in the 80's whose name escapes me but the album title was something like "Inside My Head" and it was an illustration of an ax planted in a girl's head. I couldn't find it with an internet search. I only remember it because a used record store used to have it prominently displayed.

All Cannibal Corpse albums are pretty horrific, I won't post any here.

[JKL2000]

Some interesting stuff so far! Inever really understood why the Beatles went with the butcher cover idea initially. Does anyknow know who's idea it was and why it wasn't dismissed right away as not a good idea? They were usually fairly tasteful (though overall I'd say the Beatles covers were all pretty uninteresting).

[mozo-pg]

Some interesting stuff so far! Inever really understood why the Beatles went with the butcher cover idea initially. Does anyknow know who's idea it was and why it wasn't dismissed right away as not a good idea? They were usually fairly tasteful (though overall I'd say the Beatles covers were all pretty uninteresting).

Can't agree with that. Revolver is one of the best rock album covers of all time. Stoned teenagers in the 70s starred at St. Pepper's for hours on end - very creative cover. I agree that not all were stellar but the two I mentioned are hardly uninteresting to me.

[Oreb]

Well here's a violent transformation, if that counts:

from this:midnig-headin.jpg

to this: garrett_1.jpg

(http://ministers.deewr.gov.au/garrett)