Terrible Metal Album Covers - Chapter V

Good morning Boys and Girls,
 Time to assault your eyes and aesthetic sensibilities with another batch of dubious album covers.

Harlet - 25 Gets A Ride  (USA 1988)

Oh dear Christ, where to begin? 

Well for starters, cn youfind the name of the band on here? 

That's it, tucked away in the corner.

Now find the title of the album if you can.

Ugly, tacky and  utterly misleading as to what the band might sound like.

A quick trawl on Youtube reveals a band that are more interesting than this cover suggests. 

Here's "Take Your Chances" off  the above album 

The entire album is available for download from the lead singer's own website.

http://toddmichaelhall.com/

Gamma Ray - Heaven Can Wait EP -(Germany 1990)

Not actually an album cover but screw it, I'm putting this up anyway.

 Trilogy - Next In Line (Australia 1986)

I've actually got this one and it's not bad at all. 

There's a definite Rush influence in their music so a lot classier 

than the album cover would have you believe. 

Trilogy -Skyline

Ace Of Sin - S/T - (USA 1998)

I'll cheerfully confess that putting a woman in a leather basque 

on your CD cover is a good way to get my attention. 

In this case, however, it's gone horribly wrong.

Is she trying to strangle herself with that chain?

Is it a good idea to be wearing all that metal in the middle of a thunderstorm?

 Rage Of Angels - Time And Space (USA 1993) 

The concept might -just - have worked if the artist was a wee bit better. 

Crillson - Coming Of A New Age (USA 1993)

Conan The Barbarian clone is so furious at the way he's drawn that he's coming  for the artist.

Can you blame him?

And finally

Mirage ...And The Earth Shall Crumble (Denmark 2002)

A compilation of tracks from the 80s Eurometal outfit.

 When I came across this one I thought 

"Hang on a minute. I had this one and the cover wasn't that crap, surely."

Turns out I'd owned this:

 Which is a much better cover. 

Why they didn't reuse it for the CD is beyond me.

 Maybe the band shagged the label owner's daughter or something.

Here's the standout track from the EP.

 As I've said on every single one of these posts, crap album cover does not always equal crap band.  Hopefully this time I've provided a bit of evidence to back that up.

 See you next time.