madmonk

All the talk about Born Again having such horrible artwork...I kinda like
it..it is silly but it kina fits the music.

I think Dehumanizer had worse artwork.

The Forbidden....for the life on me I can't figure out what they were
thinking on that one.
Again it fits the music.
ha.


I like Cross Purposes...that flaming angel was cool.

racercar

Sabbath was always notorious for having horrible artwork. SBS was my favorite,
though.

madmonk

I think most of their releases had decent art.

I love the first one with the witch-classic.

Yes SBS is dynamite...as is Heaven and Hell.
And Live Evil.

Although it was kinda odd I liked Technical Ecstasy artwork too.

And using Rodin's sculpture for The Eternal Idol was kina classy and unlike
what most metal bands were up to.


Seventh Star photo ****ed....but the engravings and stuff were cool.
Headless Cross looked like a schoolkids Halloween drawing.
Embarrassing.

reborn rolla

The front or back cover?

racercar

The combination. It actually might have been a more fitting cover for Heaven
and Hell, don't you think?

And yes, HNH was great, Eternal Idol was classy, and 7th Star photo was oddly
weak for an album cover.

The first album cover was good. I understand why the Paranoid cover is what it
is - originally the album was to be titled War Pigs - but it's still ... um ...
an interesting choice.

I personally don't mind Sabbath's covers - but critics, being what they are,
hated them, and many of their reviews started from that point on. I bought
every Sabbath album right after (if not the day) it was released, but I'm not
sure those covers always helped the band sell records.

iommirules

Yeah lotta people dint like Born Again but i liked it for its shock value to
non-metal people, cause i had a tour shirt from that concert , which was the
devil baby but it had the added dimension of flames behind him, and it used
to freak people out when i wore it.

SBS the best hands down.
I used to dig that band Nazareth's Art work when i was a kid. Volume 4 had
that cool fold out with close up pictures of everyone in the band in action,
that was cool too.

Dehumanizer was kina ***, Dio musta been behind that one. Forbidden they
paid some kid 5 bux for that one. I'll have to disagree with Headless Cross,
i kina liked the spooky simplicity of that one, it seemed to be true to the
song itself.
Sabotage was like "So hurry up with the Picture so we can all go drop some
more Acid".... I guess that was supposed to be the "Hole In The Sky"...Ward
with the Polka Dot underwear with Red leotards! or checkerd , whatever the
**** it was.

madmonk

Nazareth had some good covers yes...and they were underrated.
If someone only knows Hair Of The Dog and Love Hurts that is their own loss.

On Sabotage they were supposed to have clothes to change into at the
shoot.....but alas no!
That explains the lovely waredrobe.
ha.
Considering they were a multiplatinum band could no one have arranged
another shoot?
Jeez.


Dehumanizer looked like a pinball machine or fair ride.
ha.

racercar

I'd love to hang out and debate this, but I'm going to Razamataz all night!

reborn rolla

Actually I think SBS is a darker moodier album so it fits well with the
music. Heaven and Hell really doesn't depict the title, more like Heaven and Sin.


Quite a few newer metal bands have gone a bit far to shock with their
covers. Cannibal Corpse and Mortician(Chainsaw Dismemberment) have mutilated
women on the front. Mob Rules came close in creepiness.

dpatrick

Sabotage is my favorite Sab cover, just for the reason it seems just
so thrown together at-the-last-minute type of thing that seems
ridiculous and cool, all at the same time. Vol. 4 is pretty cool,
too, in its plainess.

Pat