Top 10 Music Album Covers that are True Paintings

No cheap photos or computer-made images. This list is about true art.
Here we are ranking the artworks and not the music of the albums.

The Top Ten

1 Lonesome Echo - Jackie Gleason

2 Fallen - Burzum

3 Blood Fire Death - Bathory

4 None So Vile - Cryptopsy

5 Live - Blind Guardian

Genre - power metal (2003).
Painting by Andreas Marshall (both front and back cover)

6 Sad Wings of Destiny - Judas Priest

One of the best metal albums, ever, and one of the best album arts ever,

7 Imaginations From The Other Side - Blind Guardian

8 Punishment for Decadence - Coroner

9 Somewhere Far Beyond - Blind Guardian

10 Master of Puppets - Metallica

The Contenders

11 In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson

12 Something/Anything? - Todd Rundgren

13 As Above, So Below - Angel Witch

It is a copy of "The Last Judgement" by John Martin (1789-1854).

14 To Mega Therion - Celtic Frost

By H.R. Giger - Hans Ruedi Giger (1940-2014) was a Swiss surrealist painter and sculptor known for his dark, often alien-inspired, disturbing and erotic "biomechanical" images. He was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for design work on the film Alien.
Fun fact: one of the Celtic Frost band members was so inspired that he later became Giger's part time assistant.

15 Danzig III: How the Gods Kill - Danzig

16 Brain Salad Surgery - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

More by H.R. Giger - the English progressive rock supergroup was one of the first music acts to use Giger's work (1973)

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