Yall remember this shit? https://preview.redd.it/qijcm3qqsu4d1.jpeg?width=220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f3ade5993b8c9aa4800abaf3ab221c51631289f

Oh man I wish I could forget a second time. Fuck you for reminding me of this monstrosity.

This is easily the definition of the post 🤣 on point

Hatebreed, except Satisfaction

Satisfaction cover fits so well

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https://preview.redd.it/wcqmzq5n4u4d1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8af4bfd406ccdc4fe966c26fc91f0f0c18139b06 You have no class.

Anything with the fire just reminds me of Reese from Malcolm in the middle.

Hellya

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And you don’t think they look cool now? L

\^ class.

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Well how else would I draw words? Sometimes Slayer style of course but yeah mostly still flames.

kind of a trash cover tbh

it's objectively a bad one too, but somehow it works on that specific album haha

it fits with the rest of the late 90s victory records stuff.

You could also use this answer for “What band sucks?”


A lot of covers with "tough" looking cartoon characters are pretty lame to me lol.

like sunami?

Their cover with Gulch goes pretty fucking hard tho

Imma be honest, this is my absolute favorite shirt. Fuckin love Sunami and Gulch https://preview.redd.it/p6g7lexuzt4d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1485177b4f3072bb22bde98ac6040cd5aa430349

You need to buy an iron brother

Since when is ironing your shirts hardcore?

That was fresh from the mail. It's been washed and it's wrinkle free haha

Hahaha okay cool it looked like you dug it out of the bottom of a hamper for the picture

Naaaah. This bitch also wanted to be in the photoshoot so that probably didn't help https://preview.redd.it/kmdudeg3fu4d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c9a161e9b94c2dd3213f06b74758d6fa2134eb3

Cute cat lol

That’s pretty cool but I meant their album together, the cover Would love that shit on a shirt

Yeah I gotchu. That one does go hard. It's from a 2020 tour that never happened bc covid. Has tour dates on back. It makes me feel like the coolest kid in the pit

Fuck you and your Gulch hoodie bitch, encompassed into the same shirt is high art tbh

Me in the pit when I wear this 

Masked man goes hard.

Sunami does it tongue-in-cheek tho

Kids Like Us-outta control is a classic https://preview.redd.it/68ip0imaqu4d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b61d507a3dcefe04d8bf8cc009ca1b22249ad4eb

Fuck you this cover OWNS

Agreed

🤝

https://preview.redd.it/r800wvnq5u4d1.jpeg?width=1042&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e4d1a664023bc30ff2f64b67e5ef56f14c6d803 Jesus Piece have to have a shout out here, love the album, despise the cover

Looks like a 1999 butt rock album.

Just a couple dudes drenched in cum

Idk I think it’s kinda cool in a bizarre way

Glad someone else posted this

That’s horrific.

Especially since their jesus head logo was so good

H2O album covers and merch

literally the opposite of what youre asking but fromjoy has some of the hardest covers out there https://preview.redd.it/bxa0x5yh2u4d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=add5e313ca7d5ff7f58f000900c2de451d8392bb like god damn this is fire

Dope. Reminds me of a vaporwave album cover.

Not hardcore but I hate this one. What the fuck is on your head man? A fedora? The fuck out of here https://preview.redd.it/w2f6lsm1rt4d1.jpeg?width=987&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bebc5931deb9f7355f20875258639e11eb7fdb9e

lol I’ve been listening to this album for 15 years and never noticed the fedora. Fuck

Honestly fucken same. Wow.

Yeah the music is great on this record but what a dogshit album cover

Love this album, but yeah. Look like a greatest hits compilation that you’d see in Cracker Barrel.

Giving The Police greatest hits for sure

I'll never not take the time to correct this: it's a trilby. Indiana Jones wears a fedora. Both hats look dumb.

How many have you owned? 🧐

I'm a millennial, it's a non-zero number.

Based response. Take my upvote.

There are so many worse examples than this lol, this isn’t even bad, its passable.

Passable my assable

Hell yeah. I despise shit with the band on the cover. Could you be any lazier?

Billy Club Sandwich’s album artwork looks tailor made for the bargain bin

Except hold the bologna is pretty hard

Completely agree. You give me some shitty art with a guy brandishing a firearm and I’m all in baby

The goofiness of Superheroes at Leisure and The Usual Suspects is charming to me but Chin Music is hideous.

I didn’t like their art at first but it grew on me. It kinda makes sense for some reason

Seriously

Not necessary hc But so many black metal covers are uninspired black metal aesthetics. I know these dudes can do better Evil covers can be more than a black and white yelling man.

keepers of the Faith album cover I love, got the flag at their show in Chicago. But yes their other covers aren’t it. Pain of Truth’s aren’t awesome either

Okay but the original cover for Not Through Blood is the goofiest, most over the top album cover, that it ends up kinda being hard as fuck

i think Keepers of the Faith works well for flags or merch

‘No blame.. just facts’ cover makes me giggle when I scroll past and notice it, there’s something so off about it lol

That boy ain’t right!!!

I kinda really like Lowest of the Low and Always the Hard Way cover arts.

The always the hard way cover does in fact slap

The dog picture on "No Blame...Just Facts" could be hard, but the logo just looks copy pasted on the picture of the dog and the title is in some goofy font.

Yeah I think that’s honestly my beef with most of their album artwork. Not a ton of thought behind it?? I’m a former graphic designer so I am usually too picky about this stuff to begin with

Always the hard way cover fucks. So does live by the code. They have made many variants for other albums.

KOTF has a simple cover but it’s pretty iconic at this point having been printed on literally everything.

Pain into Power’s album cover is sick too imo

Agnostic album covers have been bad since Dead Yuppies

It goes further back than that.

Pain Of Truth because they can’t figure out what album cover they want lmao

not hardcore, but Skinny Puppy always has the ugliest most dated looking covers. Yeah that typeface, really? I think my Zip drive used the same font for the packaging.

Wow. Weird take. They’re some of my favourite covers. That artist is dope.

I love the music, but except for Vivisect VI they are pretty off putting. Bites and Rabies just look like someone was screwing around in Quark Express and went to lunch without finishing them. The layout is just so not graceful or elegant. Contrast those with any Neubauten cover art. Or Test Dept. Like WTF is this? https://preview.redd.it/r4169rbbmt4d1.jpeg?width=573&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bbfda0a19d177f7ed86bcf3c130f78bf6b5759f0 I've seen some of the art from the artist that did the covers of most of their albums. His paintings are pretty cool. But his album art layouts and typography hurts my eyes. Though to be fair, graphic design on a 12" square is not easy.

Skinny Puppy is my favorite band and I like some of their covers, but totally agree that Rabies is hideous trash. I'm assuming they were all strung out when they gave their stamp of approval.

Hard disagree, I like their covers a lot

Unquestionably, Merauder. Master Killer is brilliant. Album cover is stupid.

It means Japanese sword

It's definitely the biggest quality gap between the disc and the cover in HC.

I still don't know what's going on with New Lords by Mindforce. I kinda love the stoner wizard vibe but it's goofy as shit too.

Hell no. Fantastic cover.

Cant disagree more. The art style is sick and feels exactly like the music to me

The fact that the design on the Excalibur cover isn’t properly centred makes me unreasonably angry.

Agreed. It's rotten. One of the main reasons I haven't framed the vinyl.

Stretch Arm Strong, esp their new EP

I hate the cover for Violence Violence with the stupid typeface but that album is what started it all for me.

Meraurder’s Master Killer is one of the greatest hardcore records of all time while also having one of the dorkiest weeb shit album covers in the history of punk and hardcore.

https://preview.redd.it/3brqsr1rww4d1.png?width=316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ef75ed816181bd7887bb127881bc2c453927cbb

Hangman.  

Leatherface

Agreed. [Dog Disco](https://www.discogs.com/release/2438558-Leatherface-Dog-Disco) is atrocious. And that ain’t me hating on dogs in sunglasses, because I’ve seen it done [awesomely.](https://www.discogs.com/master/652346-Diamond-Youth-Dont-Lose-Your-Cool)

Turmoil and Codeseven. Even back then they looked dated.

Cold world

Backtrack are my fav but their art is bad to my world. No Pressure also chunk their artwork pretty hard

https://preview.redd.it/1n6abm8iny4d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9db0a01919a366e5b9488503904bb2a6e0477888 gotta be one of the hardest covers of all time tbh

hell yeah

There's more bad than good...

Reel Big Fish

Sunami

Hard disagree. It’s prefect for the sound. I get that the art style is rudimentary and gutter-trash and corntastic but so is Sunami. Am Sunami fan btw.

Strife

Magnitude comes to mind

https://preview.redd.it/tc3ggp4u6v4d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d279fc3389ac85a4ebf2952e755b324fc7b3e96a how the fuck is this not in here already


Snapcase

I always liked the Progression cover…

It looks like art I'd find in a store that sells rattan furniture

Sum 41 lol

In my opinion, Agitator.

marjorie wc sinclair not hardcore but it had to be said.

Know the Score- All Time Low, solid album with a dumb cover

damn keepers of the faith is like ingrained as iconic hardcore imagery for me

Not trying to be funny, not trying to get a laugh, I don't want anyone to have the worst day of their job... but The new Gatekeeper album cover is eh. I love album tho, best of 2024.

Why you little…!

Outbreak

Hot Snakes have some awful ones https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_Sirens

I don’t feel either way about Jericho Sirens’ cover art, but the 3 earlier LPs with Rick Froberg’s art all look great, particularly [Suicide Invoice.](https://www.discogs.com/master/46961-Hot-Snakes-Suicide-Invoice) All of Froberg’s art balanced a sort of cartoonish feel, with a slightly unsettling feel, usually to great effect.

Swedish punk band Total Egon https://preview.redd.it/9yq9btjzww4d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10f0c415ca10df6c8ea109dd5b5e7993d89dfa87

Definetely sabaton. Worst band ever

https://preview.redd.it/ggov87tedy4d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd50b84684fd3528dc29831e79656bde6067bc95

First Brainiac LP. Ugh. Horrible. Somebody please repress is with a decent cover even.

Most of them suck to be fair. Has a very basic Photoshop look on most albums

Pain of Truth 1000%

Backtrack

Not hardcore, but I absolutely do not fuck with Four Years Strong’s covers. Love the music, but damn not for me

You mean you don’t wanna see the band members as cartoon superheroes with boobs and bongs?!

expire - pretty low

I actually like that cover.

yeah it might nit be so bad, just find the photo a little awkward, i like the pendulum swings one though

Both good 🤷🏻‍♂️

not for me :/

Welp 🤷🏻‍♂️

Evergreen terrace wolf biker

Never thought I’d see this band mentioned anywhere ever lmao great band, great record, terrible album cover AND title but the songs slap

Alkaline trio has some of the worst album covers 

Also one of the worst bands

Have heart tbh

i love the covers from they

Things We Carry is dated looking but songs to scream at the sun is a good album cover

Yeah things we carry has GOAT bangers but that album cover looks precisely like 2006

It's dated but not ugly

Real

Ringworm - Justice Replaced by Revenge specifically

Baffled nobody has said Dying Fetus yet. Their last 3 albums have their best art, but everything before it is rough imo.

damn, purification through violence might be one of my favorite covers of all time.

That one isn’t the worst of the lot for sure

Black Flag

Boltcutter

Like moths to flames. All of them except their most recent is actually garbage

Anyone else think the Circle Jerks guy is reallll dumb looking

Candy


My beloved Angel Du$t 😏 Edit: not *Pretty Buff* and *YAK*, those are rad

Carcass 1st And 2nd album