Do the people who conceived and designed these metal album covers just not give a fuck, or do they give too many fucks? The answer is not entirely clear, but that's what makes them so awesome.

Do the people who conceived and designed these metal album covers not give a fuck, or do they give too many fucks? It's not entirely clear, but that's what makes them so awesome. Behold, the 10 ...

In an astonishing lack of subtlety even for power metal cover art, the cover art for 2004's Time Machine depicted her straddling an out-of-control train that had a giant clock on the front of it.

It’s taken me a little bit to fully embrace Once More ‘Round the Sun, Mastodon’s newest album that came out in late-June, but now that I have, I can’t believe I had any hang-ups in the ...

Inspired by the recent episode of On The Record focusing on album art, contributor J. Andrew Zalucky decided to explore the artwork of death metal a little further… Though it has a reputation as ...

The cover for 'Polaris' -- the 12th studio album from Finnish metal survivors Stratovarius-- looks like a scene stripped out of a Roland Emmerich screenplay. The sci-fi blitzkrieg depicted here comes ...

Unfortunately, Helloween's Better Than Raw album cover (above) is more memorable than the music contained, as this album is not one of the European power-metal outfit's better efforts. 24.

11 Bodacious 80s Album Covers That Are Burned Into Our Brains . Despite MTV putting music videos on the map, 80s album covers never suffered. They continued a long tradition of the expressive art ...

7) Tyton - Mind Over Metal: Great album title. Great dopey respelling of the band name. This is more like a classic than something truly horrible, but I don't think the idea was to make you fall ...

The use of Satanic imagery and the middle-finger to represent anything remotely cool or threatening is dead and buried, the bloated corpses of each represented by whatever the hell this is. This ...