METALLICA, Ozzy Osbourne, ANTHRAX, VAN HALEN, and SCORPIONS are among the artists featured on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “50 Worst Album Covers of All Time.”
Rolling Stone described its selection process for the list as follows: “Our selection criteria for the list, other than fugliness: We skewed toward major artists with the resources of professional graphic designers who really should have known better. (Some of rock music’s most revered design firms, such as Hipgnosis, are also some of the worst offenders here.) No more than one album per artist. No mercy for the album’s music actually being good (that happens more often than you’d think).”
The hard rock and heavy metal artists included on the list are:
* QUEEN‘s “The Miracle”: #47
* METALLICA‘s “Metallica”: #41
* OZZY OSBOURNE‘s “Down To Earth”: #30
* BON JOVI‘s “Slippery When Wet”: #25
* ANTHRAX‘s “Fistful Of Metal”: #23
* VAN HALEN‘s “Balance”: #20
* SCORPIONS‘ “Lovedrive”: #18
* TED NUGENT‘s “Love Grenade”: #5
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