Worst Cover Art (Christian Metal)

I think the "What a Joke" cover fits the non-serious subject matter on the album.

Temple of Blood wrote:I think the "What a Joke" cover fits the non-serious subject matter on the album.

Agreed. I never got what the problem was. The original cover was boring (as were all of D’s covers from WaJ through HWIS). This cover fits the album with songs like “Cheeseburger Maker Du” and “Chipped Beef.”

Pethead wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:I think the "What a Joke" cover fits the non-serious subject matter on the album.

Agreed. I never got what the problem was. The original cover was boring (as were all of D’s covers from WaJ through HWIS). This cover fits the album with songs like “Cheeseburger Maker Du” and “Chipped Beef.”

There is a backstory including some input from Jimmy D as you scroll
https://thecmr.forumotion.com/t9895-deliverance-what-a-joke

Pethead wrote:

oldschooldoom wrote:

Dustofyears wrote:  

This is Don Keith Miles aka Keith Miles aka Simon Keith Tyler
You might also know him as the mighty voice behind: Titanic, Subdux and Final Axe

I’ve always loved his vocals. But now I’m gonna have this image in my head when I hear him…

@Pethead...you're welcome 

Constantine wrote:For me these are 3 of the cheesiest Christian metal albums covers ever:
















However even the cheesiest Christian metal covers are still light years better than many of the old Christian hymn / folk / pop album covers like these:

Thanks for sharing, I had a good laugh with my wife looking at those.

oldschooldoom wrote:

Pethead wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:I think the "What a Joke" cover fits the non-serious subject matter on the album.

Agreed. I never got what the problem was. The original cover was boring (as were all of D’s covers from WaJ through HWIS). This cover fits the album with songs like “Cheeseburger Maker Du” and “Chipped Beef.”

There is a backstory including some input from Jimmy D as you scroll
https://thecmr.forumotion.com/t9895-deliverance-what-a-joke

Yeah, I know Jimmy hated it and so did many fans, but I stand by my comment that it fits the album.

If he wanted a more serious cover he should've written more serious lyrics.

I love the alternative WAJ cover, would cop a t shirt.

The biggest issue with the new What a Joke cover isn't the idea, as the idea sort of fits with the album (or at least with the humor tracks). But the issue is the art style that looks worse than some old 90's computer Clipart pictures.

On the other hand though to really go all the way to the end with the joke I guess it maybe was better to make the art itself look extremely cheap, and I kinda love the cover exactly because it's gone all the way in being just a terrible awful cover. But I can't help but think what that cover could've been if it was professionally painted or if they had taken a real photo of real junk food meal.

But still the hamburger idea was only fitting for the joke songs and not for the rest of the album. So imagine if the new cover would've been something like a painted picture or an actual real photo of a close-up shot of some dude with really sharp teeth biting into a beefy hamburger. I think that would've been awesome.

I love the cover for its cheesiness and how terrible it looks like, so I really have no issue with that being out there. It's a curiosity item now. An infamous cover that has the weirdest possible contrast with the cover art and the music inside.

And hey, I personally know the album has sold at least one copy more because of that cover. When I ordered that album online when it was released I showed it to a friend of mine and he wanted me to order a copy for him too because he found the cover so hilarious. He would've never bought the album with its original cover but this exact cover got at least one extra sale to Finland

Temple of Blood wrote:If he wanted a more serious cover he should've written more serious lyrics.

Well, there is a handful of serious songs. It’s not 100% like SOD. 

How would you like to have a record label take liberties on your album cover art? Regardless of how you feel, the album is sonically their most brutal and heavy release. The cartoon cover is too childish. Even SOD had their famous Sgt. D character. That is a cool cartoon!

I think a good idea for the What A Joke album (if you want to focus on the food references) would be to have a guy sitting in a very upscale fancy restaurant with a cheap fast food meal and the other patrons staring at him with dirty looks.


Or maybe just follow the actual lyrics of the song and have a small group of corrupt and arrogant people and humanist scholars standing at Heaven’s gate (expecting to get in) but obviously denied entry.

oldschooldoom wrote:

Pethead wrote:

oldschooldoom wrote:
This is Don Keith Miles aka Keith Miles aka Simon Keith Tyler
You might also know him as the mighty voice behind: Titanic, Subdux and Final Axe

I’ve always loved his vocals. But now I’m gonna have this image in my head when I hear him…

Haha, I know what you mean

Same with I can not un-see David Thunder aka David Armstrong, the drummer from Messiah Prophet (second from the left, follicle challenged)

He looks like Wallace Shawn (Vizzini from The Princess Bride)!

WildWorld wrote:

oldschooldoom wrote:

Pethead wrote:

oldschooldoom wrote:
This is Don Keith Miles aka Keith Miles aka Simon Keith Tyler
You might also know him as the mighty voice behind: Titanic, Subdux and Final Axe

I’ve always loved his vocals. But now I’m gonna have this image in my head when I hear him…

Haha, I know what you mean

Same with I can not un-see David Thunder aka David Armstrong, the drummer from Messiah Prophet (second from the left, follicle challenged)

He looks like Wallace Shawn (Vizzini from The Princess Bride)!

That’s exactly what my wife said!

Black Rider wrote:

What's with the sideways striped paint on the guy to the left?

What's going on with the whole get up? 

Black Rider wrote:

Absolutely horrible and cheesy. But then again look at the name of their featured song… they are probably a joke band.

TZ75 wrote:

Black Rider wrote:

Absolutely horrible and cheesy. But then again look at the name of their featured song… they are probably a joke band.

May that gift of discernment forever shine, brother.

Dustofyears wrote:

TZ75 wrote:

Black Rider wrote:

Absolutely horrible and cheesy. But then again look at the name of their featured song… they are probably a joke band.

May that gift of discernment forever shine, brother.

I think the lead singer actually posted on the CMR back in the day. This was the old one though, which was hacked by Anonymous, so those posts are lost in the internet's history.

Aside from the Awful cover pic,..... I Really Liked that "I Want A Walmart Girl" song.   

Some of those covers are just victims of the era and were fine at the time...I actually kind of like that Traxter cover, for example.

The first one that came to mind for me was the artwork for the Stryper album "The Covering".  What on earth were they thinking?!

WildWorld wrote:

oldschooldoom wrote:

Pethead wrote:

oldschooldoom wrote:
This is Don Keith Miles aka Keith Miles aka Simon Keith Tyler
You might also know him as the mighty voice behind: Titanic, Subdux and Final Axe

I’ve always loved his vocals. But now I’m gonna have this image in my head when I hear him…

Haha, I know what you mean

Same with I can not un-see David Thunder aka David Armstrong, the drummer from Messiah Prophet (second from the left, follicle challenged)

He looks like Wallace Shawn (Vizzini from The Princess Bride)!

Hah hah hah ha---  *falls off his drum throne.

     

Pethead wrote:

oldschooldoom wrote:

Dustofyears wrote:  

This is Don Keith Miles aka Keith Miles aka Simon Keith Tyler
You might also know him as the mighty voice behind: Titanic, Subdux and Final Axe

I’ve always loved his vocals. But now I’m gonna have this image in my head when I hear him…

Wow! I can see it now… but I had no idea until you menchen-ed it… (Bill Menchen) get it?

I like his voice on the Titanic albums. I also agree that this image will be hard to forget.

Dustofyears wrote:May that gift of discernment forever shine, brother.

I chuckled out loud (COL'd?  ) from this.

Kerrick wrote:

Dustofyears wrote:May that gift of discernment forever shine, brother.

I chuckled out loud (COL'd?  ) from this.

Didn't realize Warrior was/is? an actual band!