| Ben's favorite album covers! Not rated! |
| 1 |  | Captain Beyond
Captain Beyond
This cover is a true masterpiece! I had a conversation with Michael Denner the other day (Captain Beyond’s debut is his favorite album), and we were talking about how awesome it would be to have this as big picture hanging on the wall in our homes. “Dancing Madley Backwards” starts playing in my head everytime I look at that cover! |
| 2 |  | Lucifer's Friend
Banquet
The debut’s album cover may be the most iconic of all the Lucifer’s Friend album covers. There’s just something very intriguing about this one (Banquet is my favorite album of theirs). The atmospheric and detail rich cover shows the whole band around an old dinner table in what looks like a gothic castle. The band is dressed in leather like a hard rock band at the time. Funny thing is that this is a big band jazz album. The eerie guy with the hook from the debuts cover can be seen too in this cover! |
| 3 |  | Colosseum II
Electric Savage
The woman in this cover reminds me of the robot woman from the Fritz Lang’s classic Metropolis from 1927. This cover portraits an exotic looking woman covered in green, yellow and red neon lights. This cover fits the jazzy and spacey contents in this record. Very sexy cover! |
| 4 |  | Thin Lizzy
Nightlife
I have a thing for cities at night. I love when all the colors from apartments, traffic and neon lights go together as one. My dad introduced me to Thin Lizzy, and later I remember looking at this cover in a dusty second hand record shop. I couldn’t get my eyes of this mysterious cover with that cartoonish panther gazing at this fictional and majestic city. This album has grown a lot on me too! It’s one of my favorites by Thin Lizzy. |
| 5 |  | Judas Priest
Sad Wings of Destiny
I love this gothic cover. The album’s semi progressive heavy rock and the title “Sad Wings of Destiny” suits this cover very well. |
| 6 |  | Rainbow
Rising
I have always seen the artwork of Sad Wings of Destiny and this as “sister artworks” if you can say that. Both is from 1976 and portraits something that could have been taking out of Tolkien’s universe. There’s so many details on this one and it looks as epic as the track “Stargazer” is sounding. |
| 7 |  | Saint Vitus
Die Healing
This is one of the most doomy album covers imo. The look of this depressing German cemetery goes hand in hand with the doomy contents in Die Healing. The two crosses on the front cover almost forms the eyes of a skull. |
| 8 |  | Pentagram
Review Your Choices
Pentagram’s most druggy album to date. Bobby Liebling never sounded this stoned on a record as on this very bizarre and heavy album. The cover illustrates the devil (Or Bobby Liebling himself) surrounded by a syringe, poker games and all different kinds of dope. The album is called “Review Your Choices” and Bobby chose the chemicals. He almost killed himself by absorbing all this shit for the most of his life. |
| 9 |  | King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King
The artist behind the artwork for this masterpiece of an album, committed suicide a short time after making this paranoid cover. That story makes this one a lot creepier! |
| 10 |  | Funkadelic
Maggot Brain
Full of emotion!
“Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time
For y'all have knocked her up.
I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe
I was not offended
For I knew I had to rise above it all
Or drown in my own shit.”
Damn straight! |
| 11 |  | Gun
Gun
This must be one of the most heavy metal looking album artworks before 1970. This one is from 1968 and it looks like something from hell! |
| 12 |  | Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
This one is so iconic and mysterious too. No one knows who that witch looking lady is on the front cover. Only she knows, I think. I have this as my back patch on my battle jacket. |
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