Most Controversial Album Covers

The Top Ten
1 Mayhem - Dawn of the Black Hearts

This literally depicts a band member whom had just slit his wrists and throat followed by a blast to the head, how tf is this not No. 1?

How is this not number 1? This is the cover of a dead person for crying out loud!

It's the lead singer who killed himself. Gave me nightmares when I first saw it

2 Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth

This album just makes me wanna wash my hands after I touch it. Really.

3 The Black Crowes - Amorica
4 Bow Wow Wow - See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah! City All Over, Go Ape Crazy!
5 Chumbawamba - Anarchy
6 Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction (Original Cover)
7 David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
8 Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
9 Roger Waters - The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
10 Nirvana - Nevermind
The Contenders
11 John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins

I seriously can't believe John Lennon would do something like this.

Seeing John and Yoko getting nude on the album makes me feel sick.

Watching John Lennon naked with his wife just made me stunned.

12 The Beatles - Yesterday And Today

What you see isn't the original cover.
The original features the Fab Four holding raw meat and dismembered doll parts (dolls look like naked babies). Band members are smiling and look happy doing this.
Not many "butcher covers" made it to stores as the original cover was later replaced with a photo of the band, which you see on this list.
Well, obviously Cannibal Corpse didn't invent the "butcher" covers...

Looks like the family friendly version of Cannibal Corpse's Butchered a Birth.

13 Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood
14 Tool - Undertow

Why is this controversial?

15 Poison - Open Up & Say Ahh
16 Lordi - Babez for Breakfast
17 Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated
18 The Scorpions - Virgin Killer
19 3 Doors Down - Seventeen Days
20 Nirvana - In Utero
21 Green Day - Dookie

I'm guessing why the reason this is on here is because there are dogs having sex on the cover, witch you have to look closer to see.

22 Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

This cover ruined my childhood because I saw it as a 12 year old.

23 Slayer - God Hates Us All
24 Green Day - Kerplunk
25 Slayer - Christ Illusion
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