WARFARE - METAL ANARCHY
This is so beyond shitty(looks like it was drawn with color pencils) that is actually cool. This cover made me want to gush about the kickassitude of album covers. It has barbwire bordering around it, the head Warefare dude has guts or brains or gore of some sort in his clenched fist which reflects in his "shiny" aviators. He is soooo cool that it makes you ignore how whiny and pouty looking the other two are. "Lefty" looks like Ron Perlman from the Beauty and the Beast tv show and "Righty" looks like David Bowie from Labyrinth.
And they sound like Venom without the stupid Satanic shit. And the Aviator guy is the lead singer AND drummer!!! Get this already.
FATSO JETSON - FLAMES FOR ALL
Dr. Zaius, the smartest, yet most hard headed orangutan on Earth graces this cover. Planet of the Apes, is without a doubt, the best film about a planet ruled by apes ever made and absolutely no James Franco to be found. So upon seeing this cover, I had to listen.
The music itself is a spacey stoner rock reminiscent of their Palm Desert Scene brethren, Queens of the Stone Age, except better because it has Dr. Zaius on the cover.
NEUROSIS - PAIN OF MIND
A goddamn crooked politician weaseling his way out of trouble(Budd Dwyer) by eating a bullet. An album cover doesn't get any more Punk than this! This is actually the cover for the vinyl reissue of the album but is far more superior to the original meh looking cover art.
This is early hardcore punk Neurosis, crusty and angry as fuck.
HOODED MENACE - NEVER CROSS THE DEAD
This album sounds exactly how the cover looks. Grim, scary, heavy doom that fills you with dread. It's as if those ghouls on the cover will appear out of thin air and bludgeon you to death and make you join their hooded army of the undead, setting out to make humanity pay for awakening them.
And check out that metal as fuck logo. Spider web, inverted cross and two hooded ghosts.
CALIBRO 35 - CALIBRO 35
Now this is truly one of the most badass covers of all time and an awesome as shit album too. Calibro 35 is an Italian jazz/funk/rock band that covers themes from Italian crime films by composers such as Luis Bacalov and Ennio Morricone. Poliziotteschi films were pretty much Italy's answer to "Dirty Harry", "French Connection" and "Death Wish" in the 70s. And usually ultra violent.
This album makes you feel like taking down low life criminals or crooked cops with style.
And shit, check out this flick starring Franco Nero. He was an Italian action film badass back in the day.
