This may be the best Deftones album out there. But you have to agree that, sometimes, a lot less is a lot more.

White Pony - DeftonesĪ lot of great metal covers are busy and complicated. It subverts expectations, which may be the core of metal personified: mainstream expectations – subverted. It's just the kind of unsettling perversion of beauty that leaves you aware that nothing is safe. And, in its own respect, incredibly cool. The image of a child floating in what can only be some sort of preserving fluid is horrifying. Dead babies are right there pretty grim things to put on the cover of your international success album, but there you go. Rammstein is known for its dark subject matter. The coolest metal album covers are sometimes just as inspiring and incredible as the music contained within, and it is time to give these visual masterworks their due.

We would see these incredible images of demons and violence and darkness – or, alternatively, of bare-chested heroes holding swords and guitars aloft – or even just the band looking twisted and weird – and just create narratives in our heads as to what the music could be like, what forbidden wonders lied within those CD cases or vinyl sleeves.įor so many of us, before listening to metal, we stared at the covers. For many of us growing up in the 80s and 90s with parents concerned about all the rap and metal music in the world, the most we learned of the metal scene as a kid was through the coolest metal album covers sitting in the record store.

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