Metal album covers from non-metal bands

[King Alamat]

I was scrolling through a list of upcoming releases when this caught my eye. Now I'm a sucker for illustrated album art and will often get an album just to see the cover in my library, but whenever I come across one as sick as this, it usually belongs to a death metal band and my interest just dies. However, I check closely and it's from Oh Sees, a psychedelic band that can never decide on what its name should be. Instant preorder and I couldn't be happier.

So what are some metal as fuck album covers from decidedly non-metal artists? And I mean artists that are far-removed from metal, this isn't an excuse to shit on bands from less credible subgenres.

 

[StrangeRoboMemory]

Great album that really rocks, but not the sort of metal you might expect from the cover.

 

[Tex Murphy]

Metal as fuck.

 

[Deleted member 2254]

 

[Porco Rosso]

Strung Out is my favourite band and while they're sort of metal (they mix punk and metal), their latest album is an acoustic album with a cover that looks like a black metal album. A little NSFW:

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[Lys Skygge]

Other than the light blue background, Fever Ray's Plunge looks pretty metal.

It's only because of the bloody font though.

 

[SatoAilDarko]

 

[myco666]

My personal favorite

 

[Eros]

And here I was thinking I'd be able to post the Smote Reverser album cover lol.

 

[DevilMayGuy]

My personal favorite

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Can't read shit. Who is this? They really nailed the shitty metal band cover art lol

 

[astroturfing]

Can't read shit. Who is this? They really nailed the shitty metal band cover art lol

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apparently Evil Stöö? Iso Vauva Jeesus = Big Baby Jesus

a Finnish rapper or something.

 

[Indy in the Fridge]

 

[zer0blivion]

Can't read shit. Who is this? They really nailed the shitty metal band cover art lol

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[teruterubozu]

Tons of folks bought this album thinking it was metal.

 

[Deleted member 23091]

 

[rusty chrome]

My personal favorite

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Lol I think this still somehow works because so many black metal bands come from that region. It's probably very common to see covers like this there.

 

[L Thammy]

(I don't think this actually counts; it was an album that covered early metal songs though.)

 

[PMS341]

Regarding the album's title, Martin said, "We called it Violator as a joke. We wanted to come up with the most extreme, ridiculously Heavy Metal title that we could. I'll be surprised if people will get the joke."

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[Cranster]

 

[Your Cousin Vinny]

I think this counts.

 

[Psychotron]

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Okay, this made me spit out my water. Lol!

 

[Creamium]

 

[Doctor_Thomas]

Not album covers, but Scroobius Pip has t-shirts that are METAL AF and he does hip-hop.

 

[Creamium]

Thee Oh Sees did this before with Orc (great album btw)

 

[myco666]

Can't read shit. Who is this? They really nailed the shitty metal band cover art lol

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astroturfing already nailed it but Eevil Stöö. The best Finnish rapper

 

[collige]

The Skull Disco label had some metal as fuck artwork

The actual music was trippy ass experimental/tribal dubstep: