| Top 10 Metal Album Covers |
| 1 |  | Iron Maiden
The Number of the Beast
The defining album cover of the entire genre of metal, this cover embodies what metal is all about. Eddie's horrifying face, the inclusion of satan, it all just emanates metal. |
| 2 |  | Bathory
Bathory
Bathory's self-titled debut holds a special place in many black metal fans' grim, esoteric hearts. The demonic looking goat on this cover is one of the most straightforward, yet utterly evil designs in metal. |
| 3 |  | Slayer
Reign in Blood
Seminal thrash band Slayer's third album, reign in blood, is a true classic in the extreme metal genre. This album cover really sets the tone for the album with its cacophonous, satanic setting illuminated by the fires of hell. |
| 4 |  | Sodom
Persecution Mania
Persecution Mania is one of the most well known albums in Sodom's lengthy discography. The themes of war and nuclear fallout displayed on the cover (and in the band's lyrics) carry a very powerful message. These themes were (and still are) used by other thrash metal bands such as Megadeth and Exodus. |
| 5 |  | Mayhem
Live in Leipzig
One of the first Norwegian black metal albums to be released, Mayhem's Live in Leipzig features the cover which inspired Darkthrone's 'unholy trinity' album covers and countless other pieces of album art in the black metal scene. Darkthrone liked the cover so much they imitated it for their album Transylvanian Hunger. |
| 6 |  | Dissection
Storm of the Light's Bane
Storm of the Light's Bane is a landmark album in the melodic black metal. It also possesses the most grim, frostbitten and trve album cover ever to grace a metal record. What could be more kvlt than the grim reaper riding on a black horse through an icy tundra landscape. |
| 7 |  | Cynic
Traced in Air
Cynic's second album, Traced In Air, is an excellent progressive metal album with a just plain cool cover |
| 8 |  | Burzum
Det Som Engang Var |
| 9 |  | Death
Leprosy |
| 10 |  | Wintersun
Wintersun |
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