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Who remembers this gem from 1990? I own this one too.

Khornholio wrote:Who remembers this gem from 1990? I own this one too.

Best be joking, that looks awesome

^^ I don't know, man. Those Marines look like they're wearing cardboard armour getting schooled by Orks. Musically,this album was a total 4/10 for me.

The album cover for GW's next leap into 'Metal', D-Rok Oblivion, which I had a vinyl no-less, was wayyyy better. The tunes were late 80s metal cheese, but it was a lot more melodic than Bolt Thrower. D-Rok broke up in the early 90s, but I think Bolt Thrower is still around. You can get the Realm of Chaos Album with different cover art now, but the marines look like some kind of Hong Kong knock-off art for $1 toys you'd find in a street bazaar in Malaysia or something.

"I'll take 90s Warhammer themed metal for $500, Alex."

FITZZ wrote:

KingCracker wrote:The best I would ever do is meet you part way. The 80s metallica did make a few decent tunes. But uh....ya, Im feeling a little dirty saying that

....All a mater of taste and timing KC...I remember seeing Metallica live back in the 80's and really enjoying the crossover material they were doing.
...plus I've always enjoyed Cliff Burtons Bass style.

Personally I don't understand the hate for Metallica because there recent albums suck, there's many other classic bands that release new albums that don't compare at all to their previous efforts such as Rush and Deep

Purple yet they don't receive near as much hate as Metallica even though they're releasing lousy music as well.

Cheesecat wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

KingCracker wrote:The best I would ever do is meet you part way. The 80s metallica did make a few decent tunes. But uh....ya, Im feeling a little dirty saying that

....All a mater of taste and timing KC...I remember seeing Metallica live back in the 80's and really enjoying the crossover material they were doing.
...plus I've always enjoyed Cliff Burtons Bass style.

Personally I don't understand the hate for Metallica because there recent albums suck, there's many other classic bands that release new albums that don't compare at all to their previous efforts such as Rush and Deep

Purple yet they don't receive near as much hate as Metallica even though they're releasing lousy music as well.

Because it's easy and the internet is the perfect way for anyone to bitch about anything.

Metallica's latest stuff isn't as good as their older stuff, no doubt, but I compartmentalize them as a band, they lost so much when Cliff died and they've even said they wouldn't be able to re-create the past sounds with him, so they didn't out of respect. I personally like most of their newer stuff, I think they were interesting tangents in the history of a band that has done and seen much. They helped legitimize metal as a serious genre, unlike Glam metal (which is horrendous cheese, still good music, but men shouldn't wear make-up to look like tranny hookers, not cool ).

The whole Napster thing doesn't help, but I still think they did the right thing. As a positive side-effect to this, we now have iTunes.

Not as bad as my first example but sill looks stupid nonetheless, it is Rush's "Presto" and "Rush in Rio". Come on guys, what happen to your cool artistic album covers I don't want bunnies or fruit eating 3d dragons.

The cover of Presto always reminds me of this film...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Lepus...

Giant killer rabbits FTW..

Cheesecat wrote:

For a second i thought i saw the mythical coconut eating T-Rex....
got to quit smokin'..........

alarmingrick wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:

For a second i thought i saw the mythical coconut eating T-Rex....
got to quit smokin'..........

Wait....Holy Hell...

alarmingrick wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:

For a second i thought i saw the mythical coconut eating T-Rex....
got to quit smokin'..........

Now THAT'S a BAD album cover, finally. Apart from my suggestion on page 1 all the covers have been ace!

Awesome album, ugly cover.

Amaya wrote:

Awesome album, ugly cover.

I think it's aesthetically fine, looks like something out of an 80's sci-fi toy box.

Perkustin wrote:

alarmingrick wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:

For a second i thought i saw the mythical coconut eating T-Rex....
got to quit smokin'..........

Now THAT'S a BAD album cover, finally. Apart from my suggestion on page 1 all the covers have been ace!

yeah, I'm inclined to agree - the rest of them have just been fairly amusing and a bit naff. THIS piece of gak? Ugh. It makes me want to punch Geddy Lee in the throat.

These are truly awful.

And I'm a huge Trekkie..



and



UUUGHHH!

The cover isn't that bad, but the album is....



Crazy Train is definitely the WORST SONG on this record. As soon as I heard the back-up vocalists sing "Crazy Train. Choo-Choo" I knew metal had sold out.

@akira5665 I wholeheartedly concur, sir. Nimoy's version of tambourine man is a song to play for friends after about 8 drinks. It is almost as bad as Mae West's version of "Light my Fire".

Just found a site that is related to this discussion.

http://bizarrerecords.com/wordpress/
http://www.bizarrerecords.com/galleries/xmas/SandersXmas.html

...and yes I know it's a spoof band.

Well, I don't know if anyone listed it yet, but bloodhound gang made an album called hefty fine, I don't have a pic of it, since it's so offensive, it's a fat, naked, hairy guy in a cardboard box.

The sorrow on her face is hilarious.


I think we'd all like a taste... no?

Medium of Death wrote:
The sorrow on her face is hilarious.

That and the weird red stripe running down her face...

Honestly:


I was so glad I was drunk the first time I saw it. The original actually still had photoshop anti-aliasing pixelation lines around the words.

Yeah, that's poor.

Medium of Death wrote:
The sorrow on her face is hilarious.


I think we'd all like a taste... no?

The second one is hilarious.