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A collection of visual nasties...

Just in time for Halloween, some hideous and sick record sleeves from over the decades. Please note some of the images are definitely NSFW (and probably not advisable to look at just before eating lunch)...

Mortad Hell: ‘There’s A Satanic Butcher In Every One Of Us’ â€" If the mullet on this blood-thirsty cretin isn’t controversial enough, the featured festering alien has a few controversial tricks up his sleeve, including self-mutilation and abundance of bloody gore. No hands though, sadly, as they’re the first to suffer the butcher’s wrath.

King Diamond: 'Give Me Your Soul... Please' - The deranged looking girl on the cover to King Diamond's latest release sends a shiver down your spine. Covered in blood and in front of an upturned crucifix, the sense of evil is all over this image from falsetto loving King Diamond. Very dark indeed.

Pig Destroyer: 'Prowler in the Yard' - It seems that this grindcore band are not very good at DIY, as the blood shed and loose limbs on display here clearly shows. Gruesome and gory, the West Virginia band certainly know how to gain attention and indeed how to test it. The album itself is a massive twenty three tracks long and tells the tale of twisted love, obsession and â€" wait for it â€" GORE.

Cradle Of Filth: 'The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh' â€" Their 1994 debut album was very much a statement of intent for the Suffolk extreme metallers. Lyrically, it is a very anti-religious work that nods to paganism, vampires, witches and a host of other macabre subjects. The grisly cover, which was deemed too offensive by some stores, syncs up with the music perfectly.

Cain: 'A Pound Of Flesh' - The Minnesota rockers' 1975 album does everything it says on the tin - that is, a tin surrounded by grotesque slabs of slimy flesh. Definitely not one for the squeamish.

Most Precious Blood: 'Merciless' â€" The New York hardcore band's third album from 2005 is adorned with an astonishingly realistic picture of a mutilated green zombie. Despite its sickening, macabre quality, it's nowhere near as controversial as the band's previous album cover for 'Our Lady Of Annihilation', which featured a woman dressed as the virgin Mary with a suicide bomb strapped to her body. Crikey.

Danielle Dax: 'Pop Eyes' â€" Basically a montage of different facial parts, somehow when collaged together the individual images make for something horrifically disturbing. Enough to give children nightmares, it's no wonder this 'Meat Harvest' image was soon replaced by a tamer cover soon after its release in 1982.

Brujeria: ‘Matando Gueros’ - The debut album from this Mexican metal outfit showed a hand holding up mutilated, decapitated head against a white background. This, along with content that talked mostly of killing white Americans and crossing the border, resulted in the album being banned in many stores.

Regurgitate: ‘Carnivorous Erection’ â€" As if goregrind wasn’t already distasteful enough, Swedish band Regurgitate’s album ‘Carnivorous Erection’ featured exactly that… a mean looking little fella munching on the extended tongue of a lady friend.

Lividity: 'Used, Abused and Left For Dead' â€" The turgid metal outfit take their name from one of the stages of death when discolouration occurs shortly after rigor mortis and just before the body decomposes. Lovely. A truly horrible album cover from a band who clearly need their heads checking.

Malevolent Creation: 'Manifestation' â€" Exactly what the New York death metal band's 2000 compilation album depicts is hard to tell. All we can make out is blue fingers and writhing arms popping out of some kind of a flesh coloured mass. Vile.

Royal Trux: 'Sweet Sixteen' â€" Easily the worst record of their career, it's perhaps fitting that Royal Trux's 1997 release featured a shite encrusted toilet bowl on the cover. Rumour has it that the photo was taken of a toilet in student accommodation.

Cannibal Corpse: 'Butchered At Birth' â€" Pretty much all of the controversial American death metal outfit's 11 record feature vile artwork, but this, their second album from 1991, is a benchmark of hideousness. Really there's no need for us to describe the horrific drawing.

Cannibal Corpse: ‘The Wretched Spawn' - Released 16-years into the death metal outfit's depraved career, this record categorically proved that Cannibal Corpse were not getting mellower or inoffensive in their later years. In a scene echoing Aliens, a woman gives birth to three demonic figures through three orifices. The sick bastards.

Exhumed: 'Gore Metal' â€" If the chopped up human remains here weren't so fake, this cover would be genuinely shocking and controversial rather than just plain disgusting.

Buffalo: 'Only Want You For Your Body' â€" The Australian heavy metal band excelled themselves in the macabre stakes with this 1974 album. Featuring a semi-naked, overweight woman tied to a torture rack, the cover stoked up some serious controversy its release. Coupled with the apparent misogynistic lyrical content â€" one song 'Kings Cross Ladies' refers to London's infamous prostitute area â€" the band attracted yet more criticism.

Poison: ‘Open Up And Say… Ahh’ - It was only in 2006 when the re-mastered CD release of this 1988 glam metal album escaped the censors unscathed. Back in the eighties the image of model ‘Bambi’ dressed as a demon with a huge protruding red tongue had to be censored, obscuring nearly all of the figure’s offensive face.

Pungent Stench: 'Been Caught Buttering' â€" As their name suggests, Austrian rockers Pungent Stench were a horrendously disgusting band. Lyrically they touched upon such pleasant subjects as coprophagia (i.e. eating shit) and rape, and to soundtrack these songs they released artwork like this. What looks like two decapitated heads kissing was actually just one model of an old man's skull chopped in half. Lovely.

Mayhem: ‘Dawn Of The Black Hearts’ - The fan-made bootleg featured a photo of the frontman of the Norwegian black metal band Dead shortly before he commit suicide. The cover pictured the singer slumped beside a shotgun and a knife after taking his own life in an unparalleled display of glory-hunting, suicidal gore.

Dismember: 'Indecent and Obscene' â€" Like most record covers on this collection, the imagery here matches the album title perfectly. Unsurprisingly, the Swedish Death Metal band were forced to issue an alternate sleeve in some countries when the record was released back in 1993. Song names include 'Fleshless', 'Reborn In Blasphemy' and 'Skinfather'. Lovely.

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