Top 10 Images that are Often Used on Metal Album Covers
The Top Ten
1 Skull
Sometimes I feel I am gonna start screaming if a see one more skull on an album cover...
The skull isn't a metal symbol though - it's a rock symbol and metal took it from rock.
But it's probably overused in both rock and metal.
2 Flames
3 Weapons
Shotguns and firearms are used mostly for thrash metal album covers but also for other genres if the band is with war-themed lyrics.
Swords are used in power metal and folk metal, and any band with viking-themed lyrics (ex., Amon Amarth, melodeath)
4 Cross
5 Blood
In some subgenres of death metal and thrash metal
6 Satan
7 Inverted Cross
8 Stylized Goat
9 Dragon
A dragon is a legendary creature, typically with serpentine or reptilian traits, that features in the myths of many cultures.
A dragon is a legendary creature, typically with serpentine or reptilian traits, that features in the myths of many cultures. In power metal and folk metal. Exception - Obituary (death metal)
10 Horns
The Contenders
11 Horse
The horse is an odd-toed, hoofed mammal of the taxonomic family Equidae whose sole major subspecies (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticate, although wild subspecies have survived into the modern period. All subspecies, including the two extant ones, descend from the Pleistocene Equus ferus. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, Eohippus, into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began domesticating horses around 4000 BC, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BC. Horses in the subspecies caballus are domesticated, although some domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses. These feral ...read more.
The horse is an odd-toed, hoofed mammal of the taxonomic family Equidae whose sole major subspecies (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticate, although wild subspecies have survived into the modern period. All subspecies, including the two extant ones, descend from the Pleistocene Equus ferus. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, Eohippus, into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began domesticating horses around 4000 BC, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BC. Horses in the subspecies caballus are domesticated, although some domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses. These feral ...read more. Mostly in power metal and folk metal, sometimes - in heavy metal
12 Robot
13 Teeth
14 Snake
Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey ...read more.
Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey ...read more.
15 Wolf
The wolf (Canis lupus), also known as the gray or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. Over thirty subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, with gray wolves comprising the wild subspecies. As the largest extant member of the Canidae family, the wolf is distinguished... read more
The wolf (Canis lupus), also known as the gray or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. Over thirty subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, with gray wolves comprising the wild subspecies. As the largest extant member of the Canidae family, the wolf is distinguished... read more Mostly on album covers from Nordic countries
16 Raven
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