Perhaps nowhere is a striking cover image more important than in death metal. Countless metal musicians say that what drew them to death metal – or what initially repelled them but piqued their curiosity - was the cover art for bands like Cannibal Corpse and Deicide. Death metal bands are still trying to one-up each other with explicit and grisly images from slaughterhouses or crime scenes. Here are my picks for the top 10 best death metal album covers; death metal progenitors Cannibal Corpse (and by extension artist Vincent Locke) make the list twice. Some artwork is so twisted that it didn’t even make the actual cover – it’s included inside the album.
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