Best Heavy Metal Album Covers

The Top Ten

1 Painkiller - Judas Priest

This Has To Be My Favorite Album Cover Of All Time Its Just So Cool and Awesome Work Of Art

2 Holy Diver - Dio

3 Somewhere in Time - Iron Maiden

4 Seven Seals - Primal Fear

5 Powerslave - Iron Maiden

6 The Black Album - Metallica

Yes This Is In The Heavy Metal Genre

7 Burnt Offerings - Iced Earth

8 New Religion - Primal Fear

9 Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden

10 Rising - Rainbow

The Contenders

11 A Matter of Life and Death - Iron Maiden

12 Killers - Iron Maiden

13 Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden

14 16.6 (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead) - Primal Fear

15 Dystopia - Iced Earth

Yeah, many similarities with the Megadeth album (including the cover art) but it's not what you might think - Iced Earth album came out in 2011, 5 years before Megadeth.

16 Horror Show - Iced Earth

17 Something Wicked This Way Comes - Iced Earth

18 Realm of Chaos - Bolt Thrower

19 No World Order - Gamma Ray

20 Mob Rules - Black Sabbath

21 Metal Heart - Accept

22 Russian Roulette - Accept

23 And Justice for All - Metallica

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