Top 10 Metal Album Cover Arts of 1996

The Top Ten

1 Morningrise - Opeth

2 None So Vile - Cryptopsy

Front cover painting is by Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665): "Herodias, with head of John the Baptist".

3 Filosofem - Burzum

The album cover and booklet contain artwork by Theodor Kittelsen - a Norwegian artist (1857-1914).
The front cover is a Kittelsen work of 1900 named Op under Fjeldet toner en Lur (Norwegian for "Up under the mountains a clarion call rings out").

4 Dusk... And Her Embrace - Cradle of Filth

5 The Secrets of the Black Arts - Dark Funeral

6 The Graveyard - King Diamond

7 Blood On Ice - Bathory

8 Episode - Stratovarius

9 Total Death - Darkthrone

10 Crimson - Edge of Sanity

The Contenders

11 Here in After - Immolation

12 Nemesis Divina - Satyricon

13 Antichrist - Gorgoroth

14 Hacked Up for Barbecue - Mortician

15 Psychostasia - Adramelech

16 Vile - Cannibal Corpse

17 Trading Pieces - Deeds of Flesh

18 Purification Through Violence - Dying Fetus

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