RATM - RATM

Death metal ones are usually pretty brutal.

One of my favs is Tomb of the Mutilated by Cannibal Corpse.

Mayhem - The Dawn of the Black Hearts,

Look up at your own peril, this comes with trigger warnings

Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream & Other Delights

Thrifts stores are littered with them. I think people got it just for the cover.

Also Spiritual Healing

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers.

There was a version with a working zipper on the cover, but it was expensive to produce and scratched the record.

If that were released today there would be a Culture War Discourse about it.

Chumbawamba - The Boy Bands Have Won

Fresh White Reeboks Kickin Your Ass by Nigel Pepper Cock is a very visibly hard album cover

The censored cover for the Beatles White Album:

(NSFW?)

I just learned about the original album artwork for Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction which goes pretty hard

Great thread idea - you might also enjoy !albumartporn@lemmy.world, which has some pretty out-there covers.

I’ll nominate Abraxas by Santana which has a lot to take in!

Smell the Glove

It’s like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.

Thelonius Monk, Underground

I prefer the simple classics:

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Devourment - Molesting the Decapitated.