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Front cover of ZZ Top's Tres Hombres, showing the album title and band name in stencilled Old-West block lettering across a parchment-coloured field above a sepia-toned border.

Album Deep Dive · 24 May 2026

Tres Hombres by ZZ Top: The Complete Story

Front cover of Exile on Main St. by The Rolling Stones, Robert Frank's black-and-white sideshow collage from his 1958 photobook The Americans.

Album Deep Dive · 16 May 2026

Exile on Main St. by The Rolling Stones: The Complete Story

Front cover of Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin: a die-cut photograph of two five-storey tenement buildings at 96 and 98 St Mark's Place in New York's East Village.

Album Deep Dive · 4 May 2026

Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin: The Complete Story

Front cover of America's Least Wanted by Ugly Kid Joe, the band's mascot drawn as the Statue of Liberty raising a middle finger.

Album Deep Dive · 19 Apr 2026

America's Least Wanted by Ugly Kid Joe: The Complete Story

Front cover of Drops of Jupiter by Train, showing the album's illustrated celestial artwork.

Album Deep Dive · 12 Apr 2026

Drops of Jupiter by Train: The Complete Story

Front cover of Yourself or Someone Like You by Matchbox Twenty (1996): a Katrin Thomas photograph of Frank Torres walking alone down a sun-bleached road, his long shadow stretching behind him.

Album Deep Dive · 29 Mar 2026

Yourself or Someone Like You by Matchbox Twenty

Front cover of A Boy Named Goo by Goo Goo Dolls (1995), a photograph by Gellert of a small child with blackberry juice smeared across his face and hands.

Album Deep Dive · 21 Mar 2026

A Boy Named Goo by Goo Goo Dolls: The Complete Story

Front cover of R.E.M.'s 1991 album Out of Time, featuring Doug and Mike Starn's photograph Yellow Seascape with Film and Wood Blocks behind a large rounded title banner.

Album Deep Dive · 15 Mar 2026

Out of Time by R.E.M.: The Complete Story

Front cover of MTV Unplugged in New York: Frank Micelotta's photograph of Kurt Cobain hunched over his 1959 Martin D-18E acoustic guitar, eyes closed, wearing the olive-green Manhattan mohair cardigan that has since become as famous as the album itself.

Album Deep Dive · 22 Feb 2026

MTV Unplugged in New York by Nirvana: Complete Story

Front cover of The Better Life by 3 Doors Down: a moody, blue-toned photographic portrait designed by P.R. Brown of Bau-Da Design Lab, with the band's name and album title set across the image.

Album Deep Dive · 14 Feb 2026

The Better Life by 3 Doors Down: Complete Story

Album Deep Dive · 25 Jan 2026

Extreme by Extreme: The Complete Story

Front cover of Metallica's Master of Puppets (1986), painted by Don Brautigam from a James Hetfield sketch: a field of white crosses tethered by strings to a pair of hands in a blood-red sky.

Album Deep Dive · 18 Jan 2026

Master of Puppets by Metallica: The Complete Story

Front cover of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here, designed by Hipgnosis: two businessmen shaking hands in a Burbank back-lot car park while one of them is on fire.

Album Deep Dive · 11 Jan 2026

Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd: The Complete Story

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Album Deep Dive · 9 Jan 2026

Krushers Of The World by Kreator – album review

Front cover of The Smashing Pumpkins' 1993 album Siamese Dream: two young California-based child models, Ali Laenger and Lysandra Roberts, photographed by Melodie McDaniel wearing fairy wings and embracing cheek-to-cheek.

Album Deep Dive · 3 Jan 2026

Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins: The Complete Story

Front cover of Static-X's 1999 debut Wisconsin Death Trip: the distorted, mid-scream black-and-white face that became one of the defining metal-album images of the late nineties.

Album Deep Dive · 27 Dec 2025

Wisconsin Death Trip by Static-X: The Complete Story

Front cover of Undertow by Tool, designed by guitarist Adam Jones: a red three-dimensional sculpture of a human ribcage rendered on a stark grey field.

Album Deep Dive · 14 Dec 2025

Undertow by Tool: The Complete Story

Black and white cover of Prong's Cleansing showing a human eyeball on torn obituary newspaper with a metal fork's tines pressed against it, PRONG in red above and CLEANSING in white below.

Album Deep Dive · 14 Dec 2025

Cleansing by Prong: The Complete Story

Lights...Camera...Revolution! album cover shot at the Vista Theatre in Los Feliz, three Suicidal Tendencies members perched on the marquee and two on the balcony above red letters reading Lights Camera Revolution

Album Deep Dive · 30 Nov 2025

Lights Camera Revolution by Suicidal Tendencies

Cover of L7's Bricks Are Heavy: a green-tinted long-exposure night photo of two fire performers spinning looping trails of flame, with the band name in yellow and a flaming parental advisory sticker.

Album Deep Dive · 23 Nov 2025

Bricks Are Heavy by L7: The Complete Story

Remastered cover of Sixteen Stone by Bush, a rust-red image of a curved screen filled with columns of binary ones and zeros, with the band name and album title in white script.

Album Deep Dive · 10 Nov 2025

Sixteen Stone by Bush: The Complete Story

Cover of Live Through This showing model Leilani Bishop as a tearful beauty-pageant winner in a tiara, with smeared mascara and a bouquet, photographed by Ellen von Unwerth.

Album Deep Dive · 27 Oct 2025

Live Through This by Hole: The Complete Story

Front cover of Doolittle showing Simon Larbalestier's photograph of a monkey with a golden halo and the numbers five, six and seven, designed by Vaughan Oliver.

Album Deep Dive · 27 Oct 2025

Doolittle by Pixies: The Complete Story

Front cover of Mer de Noms by A Perfect Circle, featuring Billy Howerdel's calligraphic sigil that decodes as 'La Cascade des Prenoms' (the waterfall of first names).

Album Deep Dive · 29 Sept 2025

Mer de Noms by A Perfect Circle: The Complete Story

Front cover of Deftones' White Pony, the silver-and-black silhouette of a galloping pony against the album's minimalist field, the design that broke from the band's earlier hardcore-leaning artwork.

Album Deep Dive · 14 Sept 2025

White Pony by Deftones: The Complete Story

Front cover of Soulfly's 1998 self-titled debut: a stylised tribal-pattern artwork of a winged figure rising from flame, with the band name above.

Album Deep Dive · 24 Aug 2025

Soulfly by Soulfly (1998): The Complete Story

Front cover of Foo Fighters' 1995 self-titled debut album: a Buck Rogers XZ-38 Disintegrator Pistol toy ray gun photographed against a beige background, with the band name set above it, photographed and designed by Grohl's then-wife Jennifer Youngblood.

Album Deep Dive · 1 Aug 2025

Foo Fighters by Foo Fighters: The Complete Story

Front cover of Stereophonics' Performance and Cocktails (1999), photographed by Scarlet Page under the Westway in west London: a young couple kiss on a football pitch, the woman's hands hanging at her sides.

Album Deep Dive · 26 Jul 2025

Performance and Cocktails by Stereophonics: The Complete Story

Ultimate edition reissue cover of Carcass Heartwork showing H. R. Giger's biomechanical Life Support sculpture.

Album Deep Dive · 19 Jul 2025

Heartwork by Carcass: The Complete Story

Front cover of the deluxe remastered edition of (What's the Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis, showing Berwick Street in Soho photographed by Michael Spencer Jones with sleeve design by Brian Cannon of Microdot.

Album Deep Dive · 7 Jul 2025

The Making of (What's the Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis

Front cover of the 20th anniversary remastered edition of Everything Must Go by Manic Street Preachers, designed by Mark Farrow with photography by Rankin.

Album Deep Dive · 16 Jun 2025

Everything Must Go by Manic Street Preachers: The Complete Story

The mirrored street-scene cover of Ash's 1977, photographed by Ed van der Elsken and designed by Brian Cannon of Microdot.

Album Deep Dive · 8 Jun 2025

The Making of 1977 by Ash

Front cover of Earth vs the Wildhearts, designed by Blue Source with photography by Marcel Leilenhof and illustration by Hunt Emerson.

Album Deep Dive · 1 Jun 2025

The Making of Earth vs the Wildhearts

Skeletá by Ghost – album review

Album Deep Dive · 9 May 2025

Skeletá by Ghost – album review

Front cover of Powertrippin' by The Almighty, featuring Ralph Morse's 1954 Life magazine photograph Jet Age Man.

Album Deep Dive · 4 May 2025

The Making of Powertrippin' by The Almighty

Rage Against the Machine live: Zack de la Rocha, Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk on stage.

Album Deep Dive · 23 Apr 2025

Rage Against the Machine: A Complete History

Front cover of Blind Melon's 1992 self-titled debut, a 1976 family snapshot of drummer Glen Graham's little sister Georgia in a homemade bee costume at a Mississippi school dance recital.

Album Deep Dive · 20 Apr 2025

The Making of Blind Melon by Blind Melon

Front cover of Van Halen's 1982 album Diver Down, the red-and-white diver-down warning flag with a diagonal white slash, the band name in the top corner and the album title in the bottom corner.

Album Deep Dive · 19 Apr 2025

The Making of Diver Down by Van Halen

Front cover of the 1964 debut album The Rolling Stones, Nicholas Wright's half-shadowed group portrait of Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman with no title or band name printed on the sleeve.

Album Deep Dive · 18 Apr 2025

The Making of The Rolling Stones by The Rolling Stones

Album Deep Dive · 17 Apr 2025

The Making of Alice in Hell by Annihilator

Album cover artwork for Fear of a Blank Planet by Porcupine Tree, designed by Danish photographer Lasse Hoile, showing a washed-out, faceless figure overlaid with the album title.

Album Deep Dive · 16 Apr 2025

The Making of Fear of a Blank Planet by Porcupine Tree

Album sleeve artwork for Pure, the 1997 debut album by London rock band 3 Colours Red on Creation Records.

Album Deep Dive · 16 Apr 2025

The Making of Pure by 3 Colours Red

Album cover of www.pitchshifter.com by Pitchshifter, a glitch-distorted 1946 Eversharp pen advertisement overlaid with computer code.

Album Deep Dive · 16 Apr 2025

The Making of www.pitchshifter.com by Pitchshifter

Front cover of Troublegum by Therapy?, the 1994 A&M Records release with its trademark green sleeve.

Album Deep Dive · 16 Apr 2025

The Making of Troublegum by Therapy?

Front cover of Feeder's 1997 debut album Polythene, a saturated photographic image of a child in a plastic raincoat behind a sheet of distorted polythene plastic, with the band name and album title set in plain white sans-serif lettering at the top.

Album Deep Dive · 16 Apr 2025

The Making of Polythene by Feeder

Album Deep Dive · 15 Apr 2025

The Making of Formaldehyde by Terrorvision

Album Deep Dive · 15 Apr 2025

The Making of Young Gods by Little Angels: The Complete Story

Front cover of Thunder's debut album Backstreet Symphony, photographed by Andy Earl in London's Artillery Passage, showing drummer Gary James, a man dressed as a tramp and a woman in a Victorian-brick alleyway lit by a single sodium lamp.

Album Deep Dive · 15 Apr 2025

The Making of Backstreet Symphony by Thunder: The Complete Story

Front cover of Pearl Jam's debut album Ten, a posed photograph by Lance Mercer of the five band members standing in front of a hand-built wooden cut-out of the band's name, their arms raised and joined hands meeting overhead, against a deep purple wash.

Album Deep Dive · 14 Apr 2025

The Making of Ten by Pearl Jam: The Complete Story

Front cover of Temple of the Dog, a sepia-toned photograph by Lance Mercer of a small ornamental dog statuette positioned on a tabletop, with the band name set above in dark serif type.

Album Deep Dive · 7 Apr 2025

The Making of Temple of the Dog by Temple of the Dog

Front cover of Rage Against the Machine, showing Malcolm Browne's 1963 photograph of the self-immolation of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc in Saigon, with the band name set in lowercase white type along the lower edge.

Album Deep Dive · 24 Mar 2025

The Making of Rage Against the Machine by Rage Against the Machine

Front cover of Audioslave showing Storm Thorgerson's eternal flame sculpture on the volcanic landscape of Lanzarote.

Album Deep Dive · 24 Mar 2025

The Making of Audioslave by Audioslave

Blood Dynasty by Arch Enemy – album review

Album Deep Dive · 23 Mar 2025

Blood Dynasty by Arch Enemy – album review

Front cover of Angel Dust showing Werner Krutein's airbrushed great egret photograph against a soft blue sky.

Album Deep Dive · 13 Mar 2025

The Making of Angel Dust by Faith No More

Dorothy - The Way Album Cover

Album Deep Dive · 13 Mar 2025

The Way by Dorothy – album review

Faith No More band promotional photograph showing the classic Mike Patton-era five-piece lineup.

Album Deep Dive · 9 Mar 2025

Faith No More: A Complete History

Front cover of Gun's 1994 album Swagger, a black-and-white band photograph credited to Nina Schultz.

Album Deep Dive · 7 Mar 2025

Gun's Swagger (1994): The Complete Story

Satanic Rites of the Wildhearts by The Wildhearts – album review

Album Deep Dive · 7 Mar 2025

Satanic Rites of the Wildhearts by The Wildhearts – album review

Front cover of Gun's 1992 album Gallus, a black-and-white archival portrait of Glasgow flyweight boxing champion Benny Lynch in fighting pose.

Album Deep Dive · 7 Mar 2025

Gun's Gallus (1992): The Scottish Rock Classic Story

Front cover of Alice in Chains, the faxed three-legged-dog image tinted yellow that gave the 1995 album its informal nickname Tripod.

Album Deep Dive · 6 Mar 2025

Alice in Chains 1995: The Tripod Album Complete Story

Album Deep Dive · 28 Feb 2025

Operation: Mindcrime II by Queensryche: The Complete Story

Album Deep Dive · 26 Feb 2025

Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden: The Complete Story

Front cover of Far Beyond Driven by Pantera, showing the iconic drill bit boring into a human skull artwork by Dean Karr.

Album Deep Dive · 25 Feb 2025

Far Beyond Driven by Pantera: The Story

Cover art for Countdown to Extinction by Megadeth, the band's fifth studio album released by Capitol Records in July 1992 with sleeve design by Hugh Syme

Album Deep Dive · 24 Feb 2025

Countdown to Extinction by Megadeth: The Story

Front cover of Metallica's 1998 covers compilation Garage Inc., a monochrome Anton Corbijn portrait of the band dressed as garage mechanics.

Album Deep Dive · 24 Feb 2025

Garage Inc. by Metallica: The Covers Story

Front cover of Who's Next by The Who, the band photographed by a concrete pillar protruding from a Derbyshire slag heap

Album Deep Dive · 24 Feb 2025

Who's Next by The Who: The Story

Front cover of Somewhere in Time by Iron Maiden, with Derek Riggs cyborg Eddie in a Blade Runner cityscape

Album Deep Dive · 24 Feb 2025

Somewhere in Time by Iron Maiden: The Story

From Fleetwood Mac to Nirvana: The Iconic History of Sound City Recording Studio

Album Deep Dive · 22 Feb 2025

From Fleetwood Mac to Nirvana: The Iconic History of Sound City Recording Studio

Album Deep Dive · 20 Feb 2025

Hooked by Great White: The Complete Story

Metallica promotional photograph of the current lineup: James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo.

Album Deep Dive · 16 Feb 2025

Metallica: A Complete History

Cover artwork for Iowa by Slipknot, featuring a goat skull against a stark black background.

Album Deep Dive · 16 Feb 2025

Iowa by Slipknot: The Story of a Band at War

Front cover of Tusk by Fleetwood Mac, showing Ken Caillat dog Scooter biting a trouser leg in a polaroid by Peter Beard

Album Deep Dive · 15 Feb 2025

Tusk by Fleetwood Mac: The Story

Front cover of London Calling by The Clash, with Pennie Smith photograph of Paul Simonon smashing his Fender Precision Bass at the New York Palladium and Ray Lowry pink-and-green Elvis Presley logotype.

Album Deep Dive · 15 Feb 2025

London Calling by The Clash: The Story

Parasomnia by Dream Theater – album review

Album Deep Dive · 15 Feb 2025

Parasomnia by Dream Theater – album review

Rogue to Redemption by Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts – album review

Album Deep Dive · 14 Feb 2025

Rogue to Redemption by Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts – album review

Front cover of The Joshua Tree by U2, designed by Steve Averill from Anton Corbijn photography in the Mojave Desert.

Album Deep Dive · 14 Feb 2025

The Joshua Tree by U2: The Story

Sleepless Empire by Lacuna Coil – album review

Album Deep Dive · 13 Feb 2025

Sleepless Empire by Lacuna Coil – album review

Cover of Renegades showing the word RAGE in red blocky capitals on a black and blue background, styled after Robert Indiana's LOVE pop-art image.

Album Deep Dive · 13 Feb 2025

Renegades by Rage Against the Machine: The Complete Story

Front cover of Sheer Heart Attack by Queen, the band photographed by Mick Rock in sweat-glistened greasepaint above the album title.

Album Deep Dive · 11 Feb 2025

Sheer Heart Attack by Queen: The Story

Front cover of Gish by The Smashing Pumpkins, the 1991 Caroline Records debut produced by Butch Vig at Smart Studios.

Album Deep Dive · 10 Feb 2025

Gish by The Smashing Pumpkins: The Story

Front cover of Kid A by Radiohead, showing a snow-capped mountain range painted by Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke.

Album Deep Dive · 10 Feb 2025

Kid A by Radiohead: The Story

Stoosh by Skunk Anansie album cover, the second studio record from the London four-piece fronted by Skin

Album Deep Dive · 10 Feb 2025

Stoosh by Skunk Anansie: The Story

Front cover of The Bends by Radiohead, featuring the distorted CPR mannequin photograph that became the album

Album Deep Dive · 9 Feb 2025

The Bends by Radiohead: The Story

Cover painting of 1984 by Van Halen showing a cherubic putto on a cloud holding a cigarette.

Album Deep Dive · 8 Feb 2025

1984 by Van Halen: The Story

Front cover of The Fat of the Land by The Prodigy showing the bright red Christmas Island crab on a textured background.

Album Deep Dive · 3 Feb 2025

The Fat of the Land by The Prodigy: The Story

Front cover of Binaural by Pearl Jam, a NASA Hubble image of the Hourglass Nebula above the album title in white.

Album Deep Dive · 29 Jan 2025

Binaural by Pearl Jam: The Story

Front cover of Rumours by Fleetwood Mac, with Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks photographed by Herbert Worthington in 1976

Album Deep Dive · 17 Jan 2025

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac: The Story

Front cover of Soul Destruction by The Almighty, showing the rebellious 1991 sleeve designed by Koot.

Album Deep Dive · 17 Jan 2025

Soul Destruction by The Almighty: The Story

Paranoid by Black Sabbath album cover, the helmeted swordsman shot by Keith Macmillan in Black Park.

Album Deep Dive · 17 Jan 2025

Paranoid by Black Sabbath: The Story

Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones: cover art with the absurd cake-and-tyre sculpture by Robert Brownjohn.

Album Deep Dive · 16 Jan 2025

Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones: The Story

Front cover of Moving Pictures by Rush: movers in overalls carrying framed paintings past the Ontario Legislative Building in Toronto.

Album Deep Dive · 14 Jan 2025

Moving Pictures by Rush: The Story

Front cover of Permanent Waves by Rush, designed by Hugh Syme, showing a model in a yellow dress against a Galveston seawall battered by Hurricane Carla.

Album Deep Dive · 14 Jan 2025

Permanent Waves by Rush: The Story

Front cover of Led Zeppelin IV showing the hand-coloured 1892 photograph of Wiltshire thatcher Lot Long carrying a bundle of sticks, mounted on a partly demolished house wall.

Album Deep Dive · 11 Jan 2025

Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin: The Story

Front cover of Superstar Car Wash by The Goo Goo Dolls, the band's fourth studio album from 1993.

Album Deep Dive · 10 Jan 2025

Superstar Car Wash by The Goo Goo Dolls: The Story

Album Deep Dive · 9 Jan 2025

Shake Your Money Maker by The Black Crowes

Front cover of Adore by The Smashing Pumpkins, a black-and-white Yelena Yemchuk photograph of model Amy Wesson leaning forward, holding the ends of a flowing black dress, with the album title scrawled in white handwriting.

Album Deep Dive · 7 Jan 2025

Adore by The Smashing Pumpkins: The Story

Front cover of The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails, featuring Russell Mills mixed-media artwork "Wound" of plaster, oils, rusted metal, insects and surgical bandaging on a wooden panel.

Album Deep Dive · 7 Jan 2025

The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails: The Story

Front cover artwork of Machina/The Machines of God by The Smashing Pumpkins, a Vasily Kafanov painting featuring alchemical symbols and a robed figure

Album Deep Dive · 7 Jan 2025

Machina by The Smashing Pumpkins: The Story

Sleeve art for Recovering the Satellites by Counting Crows, the green cover featuring a crudely drawn star alongside the scrawled album and band names.

Album Deep Dive · 7 Jan 2025

Recovering the Satellites by Counting Crows: The Story

Front cover of The Real Thing by Faith No More, showing the burning man diving into a sea of fire that became the album's defining image.

Album Deep Dive · 7 Jan 2025

The Real Thing by Faith No More: The Complete Story

Front cover of Insomniac by Green Day, featuring Winston Smith's collage God Told Me to Skin You Alive.

Album Deep Dive · 6 Jan 2025

Insomniac by Green Day: The Complete Story

Front cover of August and Everything After by Counting Crows, showing handwritten lyrics on a yellow background designed by Larry Vigon.

Album Deep Dive · 5 Jan 2025

August and Everything After: The Complete Story

Front cover of Odelay by Beck, showing canine photographer Joan Ludwig's 1977 photograph of a Komondor dog leaping a hurdle, used by Beck and designer Robert Fisher for the album sleeve.

Album Deep Dive · 1 Jan 2025

Odelay by Beck: The Complete Story

Album cover of Alanis Morissette's 1995 album Jagged Little Pill, showing the singer's face in shifting shades of red, green and blue.

Album Deep Dive · 1 Jan 2025

Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette: The Complete Story

Album Deep Dive · 24 Dec 2024

Blackout in the Red Room by Love/Hate: The Complete Story

Album cover of Faster Pussycat's self-titled 1987 debut, the glam-metal band's first release on Elektra Records.

Album Deep Dive · 17 Dec 2024

Faster Pussycat by Faster Pussycat: The Complete Story

Front cover of Operation: Mindcrime by Queensryche, the stark monochrome sleeve framing the album title in a clinical, hospital-chart typeface.

Album Deep Dive · 15 Dec 2024

Operation: Mindcrime by Queensryche: The Complete Story

Front cover of Pyromania by Def Leppard, Bernard Gudynas's illustration of a rifle target trained on a high-rise building with flames bursting from a window.

Album Deep Dive · 9 Dec 2024

Pyromania by Def Leppard: The Complete Story

Front cover of In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson, Barry Godber's painting of a screaming face the artist modelled on his own reflection in a mirror.

Album Deep Dive · 6 Dec 2024

In the Court of the Crimson King: The Complete Story

Front cover of Toxicity by System of a Down, with the band's name replacing the Hollywood sign on a Los Angeles hillside.

Album Deep Dive · 6 Dec 2024

Toxicity by System of a Down: The Complete Story

Front cover of Dream Theater's Images and Words, Larry Freemantle's surreal blue-and-cream collage of clocks, eyes and architectural fragments arranged around the album title.

Album Deep Dive · 24 Nov 2024

Images and Words by Dream Theater: The Complete Story

Album Deep Dive · 16 Nov 2024

Sound of White Noise by Anthrax: The Complete Story

Album Deep Dive · 12 Nov 2024

Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi: The Complete Story

Drew Struzan's cover for Welcome to My Nightmare: a top-hatted, ghostly white-faced Alice Cooper in a black tuxedo, lit as if by stage spotlights against an inky black backdrop.

Album Deep Dive · 11 Nov 2024

Welcome to My Nightmare by Alice Cooper: The Complete Story

Hipgnosis sleeve for Houses of the Holy: a collage of blonde, naked child figures climbing the basalt stairsteps of the Giant's Causeway under an orange and violet sky.

Album Deep Dive · 11 Nov 2024

Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin: The Complete Story

Michael Doret's cover for Rock and Roll Over: a circular yellow and red graphic with the four Kiss faces arranged around a central kiss-print mouth, framed by a chrome-style border.

Album Deep Dive · 11 Nov 2024

Rock and Roll Over by Kiss: The Complete Story

Sleeve of Pink Floyd's The Wall: a plain white brick wall with no band name and no title, Gerald Scarfe's first cover for the group after they ended their long association with Hipgnosis.

Album Deep Dive · 6 Nov 2024

The Wall by Pink Floyd: The Complete Story

Front cover of Pearl Jam's 1994 album Vitalogy, a plain black background with the album title rendered in gold-foil cursive script, modelled directly on the cover of an early 20th-century medical home-health book of the same name that singer Eddie Vedder found at a garage sale.

Album Deep Dive · 3 Nov 2024

Vitalogy by Pearl Jam: The Complete Story

Front cover of Tool's 2006 album 10,000 Days, an Alex Grey illustration described by the artist as a blazing vision of an infinite grid of Godheads from an ayahuasca journey, rendered in red, orange and gold. The physical CD packaging carries a flap with two large 3D stereoscopic lenses placed over the eyes.

Album Deep Dive · 1 Nov 2024

10,000 Days by Tool: The Complete Story

Album Deep Dive · 1 Nov 2024

ReLoad by Metallica: The Complete Story

Album Deep Dive · 1 Nov 2024

...And Justice for All by Metallica: The Complete Story

Front cover of Metallica's 1996 album Load, featuring Andres Serrano's photograph 'Semen and Blood III', red and creamy white tones swirling against a mottled black background with the word LOAD set in small white type at the lower right.

Album Deep Dive · 1 Nov 2024

Load by Metallica: The Complete Story

Album Deep Dive · 30 Oct 2024

Adrenaline by Deftones: The Complete Story

Front cover of Lifes Rich Pageant by R.E.M., a split image showing drummer Bill Berry above two bison, released by I.R.S. Records in 1986.

Album Deep Dive · 30 Oct 2024

Lifes Rich Pageant by R.E.M.: The Complete Story

Front cover of Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious by Carcass, the band's third album released by Earache Records in 1991.

Album Deep Dive · 30 Oct 2024

Necroticism by Carcass: The Complete Story

Ibsen Otoni's cover for Sepultura's Schizophrenia, showing a long-haired man in a straitjacket bursting through a broken window beneath a red-eyed cloud face in a crepuscular Brazilian sky.

Album Deep Dive · 30 Oct 2024

Schizophrenia by Sepultura: The Complete Story

Front cover of Sepultura's Roots, with Michael Whelan's red-rooted treatment of a Karaja tribesman bust taken from a 1990 Brazilian cruzeiro banknote.

Album Deep Dive · 30 Oct 2024

Roots by Sepultura: The Complete Story

Front cover of Life Is Peachy by Korn, photographed in black and white by Martin Riedl, showing a small blond boy adjusting his tie in a gilt mirror while a tall shadowed figure looms behind him.

Album Deep Dive · 30 Oct 2024

Life Is Peachy by Korn: The Complete Story

Album Deep Dive · 29 Oct 2024

Slipknot by Slipknot: The Complete Story

Front cover of the 20th-anniversary Super Deluxe edition of Superunknown by Soundgarden, showing Kevin Westenberg's "Screaming Elf" distorted band photograph above an upside-down burning forest.

Album Deep Dive · 29 Oct 2024

Superunknown by Soundgarden: The Complete Story

Front cover of Evil Empire by Rage Against the Machine, showing Mel Ramos's altered Crimebuster painting of a smiling child in a star-emblazoned superhero costume.

Album Deep Dive · 29 Oct 2024

Evil Empire by Rage Against the Machine: The Complete Story

Front cover of Stone Temple Pilots' 1992 debut album Core, featuring Christian Clayton's illustration of Eve taking the apple from the Tree of Eden.

Album Deep Dive · 29 Oct 2024

The Making of Core by Stone Temple Pilots

Black-and-white photograph by Jeff Ament of an angora goat from Lifeline Farm in Victor, Montana, used as the cover art for Pearl Jam's Vs.

Album Deep Dive · 29 Oct 2024

The Making of Vs. by Pearl Jam

Alfredo Carlos's winning MTV fan-designed cover for Korn's Issues: a translucent, broken-faced doll-like figure rendered in muted blues and greys.

Album Deep Dive · 27 Oct 2024

The Making of Issues by Korn

Combat Records' original 1985 cover for Megadeth's Killing Is My Business..., a plastic skull crudely made up with tinfoil and ketchup that the band hated on sight.

Album Deep Dive · 25 Oct 2024

Killing Is My Business by Megadeth: The Complete Story

Front cover of The System Has Failed by Megadeth, with Mike Learn's illustration of Vic Rattlehead selling a not-guilty verdict to President George W. Bush outside the Supreme Court.

Album Deep Dive · 25 Oct 2024

The System Has Failed by Megadeth: The Complete Story

Album Deep Dive · 25 Oct 2024

Show No Mercy by Slayer: The Complete Story

Original Larry Carroll cover painting for Christ Illusion showing a mutilated, eyeless Christ standing in a sea of blood and severed heads.

Album Deep Dive · 25 Oct 2024

The Making of Christ Illusion by Slayer

Front cover of The Process of Human Extermination by Fit For An Autopsy, the band's 2011 debut on Black Market Activities.

Album Deep Dive · 25 Oct 2024

Fit For An Autopsy: The Process of Human Extermination

Front cover of Pantera's Official Live: 101 Proof, styled as a Jack Daniel's whiskey label with the band name and '101 Proof' set in the familiar black-and-white type.

Album Deep Dive · 24 Oct 2024

Official Live 101 Proof by Pantera: The 1997 Live Album

Album Deep Dive · 24 Oct 2024

Cryptic Writings by Megadeth: The 1997 Nashville Pivot

Cover artwork for Worship Music by Anthrax, painted by comic-book artist Alex Ross.

Album Deep Dive · 24 Oct 2024

Worship Music by Anthrax: The 2011 Belladonna Comeback

Front cover of Death Magnetic by Metallica showing a coffin-shaped die-cut and magnetic field rings on a stark white background

Album Deep Dive · 22 Oct 2024

Death Magnetic by Metallica: The Making of the 2008 Return

Rocky Schenck's cover photograph for Jar of Flies, showing a young boy peering into a glass jar full of flies under coloured gels.

Album Deep Dive · 22 Oct 2024

Jar of Flies by Alice In Chains: The Complete Story

Album Deep Dive · 21 Oct 2024

Like an Ever Flowing Stream by Dismember: The Story

Album Deep Dive · 21 Oct 2024

Wolverine Blues by Entombed: The Death n Roll Story

Front cover of Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails, designed by Gary Talpas using the blades of a turbine stretched vertically to suggest a rib cage.

Album Deep Dive · 20 Oct 2024

Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails: The Complete Story

Front cover of Megadeth's 1994 album Youthanasia, designed by Hugh Syme, showing an elderly woman pegging swaddled babies by their feet on a clothesline that stretches across a barren landscape.

Album Deep Dive · 20 Oct 2024

The Making of Youthanasia by Megadeth: 1994 Deep Dive

Front cover of Nirvana Bleach (Sub Pop, 1989), a high-contrast colour-reversed black-and-white live photograph by Tracy Marander showing the band on stage with the album title and band name set in plain serif type.

Album Deep Dive · 19 Oct 2024

The Making of Bleach by Nirvana: Sub Pop Debut 1989

Remastered cover artwork for the 1994 Queensryche album Promised Land, showing the surreal Hugh Syme illustration of a stylised landscape and figure used on the EMI sleeve.

Album Deep Dive · 18 Oct 2024

Promised Land by Queensryche (1994): Complete Story

Front cover of The Art of Letting Go by Myles Kennedy, the singer's third solo studio album, released by Napalm Records on 11 October 2024.

Album Deep Dive · 16 Oct 2024

Album Review: The Art of Letting Go by Myles Kennedy

Front cover of Korn (1994), Stephen Stickler photograph of a small blonde girl in a school uniform sat on a swing, looking up at the threatening shadow of a man on the sand in front of her.

Album Deep Dive · 14 Oct 2024

The Making of Korn by Korn: The Nu-Metal Big Bang 1994

Front cover of Coral Fang by The Distillers, showing Tim Presley's woodcut-style painting of a robed, multi-armed female figure with razor blades for hands.

Album Deep Dive · 14 Oct 2024

The Making of Coral Fang by The Distillers

Front cover of Nimrod by Green Day, with two suited men whose faces are obscured by yellow circles reading "nimrod." against a grainy black background.

Album Deep Dive · 14 Oct 2024

The Making of Nimrod by Green Day: The Complete Story

Front cover of Stay Hungry by Twisted Sister, photographed by Mark Weiss in 1984: Dee Snider in heavy stage makeup and a torn pink-and-black costume, baring teeth around a raw beef bone against a black background.

Album Deep Dive · 8 Oct 2024

Stay Hungry by Twisted Sister: The Complete 1984 Story

Sleeve of Ozzy Osbourne's 1988 album No Rest for the Wicked, photographed by Bob Carlos Clarke, showing the singer in a long dark coat surrounded by a group of children in a misty graveyard.

Album Deep Dive · 6 Oct 2024

No Rest for the Wicked by Ozzy Osbourne: The Complete Story

Front cover of Screw It! by Danger Danger, the Queens hard rock band's second studio album, released October 1991 on Epic Records.

Album Deep Dive · 2 Oct 2024

Screw It! by Danger Danger: The Complete 1991 Story

Front sleeve of Ozzy Osbourne's 1983 album Bark at the Moon, showing the singer crouched in a fog-bound churchyard wearing elaborate prosthetic werewolf makeup, fangs bared and clawed hand raised toward the camera.

Album Deep Dive · 30 Sept 2024

Bark at the Moon by Ozzy Osbourne: The Complete Story

Front cover of The Ultimate Sin by Ozzy Osbourne, featuring Boris Vallejo's painting of a sword-wielding angelic figure straddling a horned demon against a blood-red sky.

Album Deep Dive · 30 Sept 2024

The Ultimate Sin by Ozzy Osbourne: The Complete Story

Front cover of the Diary of a Madman 40th anniversary expanded edition reissue by Ozzy Osbourne, featuring the iconic theatrical make-up portrait of Ozzy with his young son Louis.

Album Deep Dive · 30 Sept 2024

Diary of a Madman by Ozzy Osbourne: The Complete Story

Front cover of A Thousand Suns by Linkin Park, the band's fourth studio album, released on Warner Bros. and Machine Shop in September 2010.

Album Deep Dive · 28 Sept 2024

A Thousand Suns by Linkin Park: The Complete Story

Front cover of Minutes to Midnight by Linkin Park, the band's third studio album, released on Warner Bros. and Machine Shop in May 2007.

Album Deep Dive · 28 Sept 2024

Minutes to Midnight by Linkin Park: The Complete Story

Unpacking Hybrid Theory: Linkin Park’s Game-Changer

Album Deep Dive · 28 Sept 2024

Unpacking Hybrid Theory: Linkin Park’s Game-Changer

Bonus-edition sleeve artwork for Linkin Park's Meteora, with the album's stylised graffiti typography and rock-formation imagery referencing the Greek monasteries that gave the record its name.

Album Deep Dive · 28 Sept 2024

Meteora by Linkin Park: The Complete Story of the 2003 Album

Front cover of Living Things by Linkin Park, the band's fifth studio album released in 2012.

Album Deep Dive · 28 Sept 2024

Living Things by Linkin Park: The Complete 2012 Story

Front cover of Anthems of Rebellion by Arch Enemy, designed by Niklas Sundin, released on Century Media in 2003.

Album Deep Dive · 28 Sept 2024

Anthems of Rebellion by Arch Enemy: The Complete Story

Unveiling the Impact of Gojira’s From Mars to Sirius

Album Deep Dive · 27 Sept 2024

Unveiling the Impact of Gojira’s From Mars to Sirius

Cover art of Reise, Reise by Rammstein, modelled on a damaged cockpit voice recorder

Album Deep Dive · 27 Sept 2024

Reise, Reise by Rammstein: The 2004 Album Built Around a Cockpit Voice Recorder

Cover art of Divine Intervention by Slayer, the 1994 album illustrated by Wes Benscoter

Album Deep Dive · 27 Sept 2024

Divine Intervention by Slayer: The 1994 Album That Refused to Sound Like Grunge

Cover art of The Headless Children by W.A.S.P., the 1989 album with sleeve art designed by John Kosh

Album Deep Dive · 26 Sept 2024

The Headless Children by W.A.S.P.: The 1989 Album That Pulled Shock Rock Into Political Heavy Metal

Cover art of Clandestine by Entombed, the 1991 Swedish death metal sophomore painted by Dan Seagrave

Album Deep Dive · 25 Sept 2024

Clandestine by Entombed: The 1991 Swedish Death Metal Album With No Lead Singer

Cover art of Left Hand Path by Entombed, the 1990 Swedish death metal debut painted by Dan Seagrave

Album Deep Dive · 25 Sept 2024

Left Hand Path by Entombed: The 1990 Sunlight Studio Debut That Defined Swedish Death Metal

Cover art of Blessed Are the Sick by Morbid Angel, the 1991 death metal album, using Jean Delville's 1895 symbolist painting Les Tresors de Satan

Album Deep Dive · 25 Sept 2024

Blessed Are the Sick by Morbid Angel: The 1991 Death Metal Album That Embraced Mozart

Front cover of Morbid Angel's 1989 debut album Altars of Madness, painted by Dan Seagrave, showing demonic figures emerging from a fossilised disk

Album Deep Dive · 25 Sept 2024

Altars of Madness by Morbid Angel: How a 1989 Tampa Debut Redefined Death Metal

Rocky Schenck's multiple-exposure portrait of Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr used as the front cover of the 1990 Columbia album Facelift

Album Deep Dive · 25 Sept 2024

Facelift by Alice in Chains: How a 1990 Seattle Debut Became the First Grunge Gold Record

Cover painting of Slayer's Hell Awaits, Albert Cuellar's hellscape of skeletal demonic creatures fighting against a fiery red and orange sky

Album Deep Dive · 25 Sept 2024

Hell Awaits by Slayer: How a 1985 Thrash Sophomore Took Slayer From Underground to Canon

Album Deep Dive · 22 Sept 2024

Innuendo by Queen: How Freddie Mercury's Final Studio Album Came Together in Montreux

Front cover of Slayer's South of Heaven (1988), Larry Carroll illustration built around the KNM-ER 1470 archaic human skull

Album Deep Dive · 18 Sept 2024

South of Heaven by Slayer: How a Mid-Tempo Risk Followed Reign in Blood in 1988

European edition cover art for Skunk Anansie's third album Post Orgasmic Chill, with the band photographed in a stylised oceanside apartment by Michael Nash Associates

Album Deep Dive · 18 Sept 2024

Post Orgasmic Chill by Skunk Anansie: The 1999 Hard-Rock Reinvention

Front cover of the 2011 EMI/Universal remaster of Queen's A Night at the Opera, showing the gilded Queen crest designed by Freddie Mercury on a white background.

Album Deep Dive · 18 Sept 2024

A Night at the Opera by Queen: How a Risky Masterpiece Became the Defining Rock Record of 1975

Front cover of Chaos A.D. by Sepultura showing Michael Whelan's painting Cacophony, a shrouded figure suspended upside-down above a many-armed machine.

Album Deep Dive · 18 Sept 2024

Chaos A.D. by Sepultura: The Album That Reinvented Brazilian Thrash

Front cover of Anthrax's State of Euphoria, a chaotic full-bleed illustration of a crowded urban scene rendered in the band's late-Eighties Not Man style.

Album Deep Dive · 17 Sept 2024

State of Euphoria by Anthrax: The Making of the Big Four's Most Divisive Album

30th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition box of Whitesnake's 1987 self-titled album, showing the Hugh Syme amulet artwork in gold relief on black

Album Deep Dive · 17 Sept 2024

Whitesnake by Whitesnake: The Making of the 1987 Glam Metal Blockbuster

Cover artwork of Metallica's St. Anger showing a clenched fist wrapped in barbed wire on a red background, designed by Pushead

Album Deep Dive · 17 Sept 2024

St. Anger by Metallica: The Making of the Most Divisive Album in Metal

Album Deep Dive · 17 Sept 2024

Permanent Vacation by Aerosmith: The Making of the Ultimate Comeback

Front cover of Tool's 1996 album Aenima, showing Cam de Leon's lenticular Smoke Box artwork

Album Deep Dive · 17 Sept 2024

Aenima by Tool: The Making of a Progressive Metal Touchstone

Cover art of Slave to the Grind by Skid Row

Album Deep Dive · 17 Sept 2024

Slave to the Grind by Skid Row: The First Metal SoundScan Number One

Cover art of Use Your Illusion II by Guns N' Roses

Album Deep Dive · 17 Sept 2024

Use Your Illusion II by Guns N' Roses: The Political, Art-Rock Sister Volume

Cover art of Smash by The Offspring

Album Deep Dive · 15 Sept 2024

Smash by The Offspring: The Indie Punk LP That Shifted The Mainstream

Michael Whelan's cover painting for Sepultura's Arise, a crab-like apocalyptic beast clutching a smoking human brain against a barren sky.

Album Deep Dive · 15 Sept 2024

Arise by Sepultura: The Complete Story

Cover of Slayer's 1990 album Seasons in the Abyss, Def American Records, with Larry Carroll's dark surrealist artwork.

Album Deep Dive · 12 Sept 2024

The Making of Seasons in the Abyss by Slayer

Cover of The Offspring's 1997 album Ixnay on the Hombre, with Enrique Chagoya's skeletal cartoon illustration on a pink background.

Album Deep Dive · 9 Sept 2024

The Making of Ixnay on the Hombre by The Offspring

Cover of Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, a 1988 EMI release with painting by Derek Riggs showing Eddie split in two above an icy landscape, holding a baby and an apple with a yin-yang.

Album Deep Dive · 7 Sept 2024

The Making of Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by Iron Maiden

Cover of Korn's Follow the Leader, a 1998 Immortal/Epic release with artwork by Todd McFarlane, Greg Capullo and Brian Haberlin showing a child hopscotching towards a cliff.

Album Deep Dive · 6 Sept 2024

The Making of Follow the Leader by Korn

Cover of Death's Symbolic, a 1995 Roadrunner Records release with painting and photography by Rene Miville.

Album Deep Dive · 5 Sept 2024

The Making of Symbolic by Death

Front cover of Obituary's Cause of Death featuring Michael Whelan's painting Lovecraft's Nightmare A, a hooded skeletal figure in a swamp under a green sky.

Album Deep Dive · 3 Sept 2024

The Making of Cause of Death by Obituary

So Far, So Good... So What! album cover by Megadeth

Album Deep Dive · 2 Sept 2024

So Far, So Good... So What! by Megadeth: The Complete Story

Oasis pictured as a five-piece in 2016, the lineup of Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, Bonehead, Gem Archer and Andy Bell that would reform for the 2025 reunion tour

Album Deep Dive · 31 Aug 2024

The Story of Oasis: From Burnage to the Live '25 Reunion

Never, Neverland album cover by Annihilator

Album Deep Dive · 31 Aug 2024

Never, Neverland by Annihilator: The Complete Story

Nevermind album cover by Nirvana

Album Deep Dive · 30 Aug 2024

Nevermind by Nirvana: The Complete Story

Empire 20th Anniversary Edition album cover by Queensryche

Album Deep Dive · 30 Aug 2024

Empire by Queensryche: The Complete Story

Tragic Kingdom album cover by No Doubt

Album Deep Dive · 29 Aug 2024

Tragic Kingdom by No Doubt: The Complete Story

Beneath the Remains album cover by Sepultura

Album Deep Dive · 28 Aug 2024

Beneath the Remains by Sepultura: The Complete Story

Dizzy Up the Girl album cover by The Goo Goo Dolls

Album Deep Dive · 28 Aug 2024

Dizzy Up the Girl by The Goo Goo Dolls: The Complete Story

Front cover of Oasis's 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe, shot by Michael Spencer Jones in Bonehead's Didsbury lounge.

Album Deep Dive · 27 Aug 2024

Definitely Maybe by Oasis: The Complete Story

Front cover of Meliora by Ghost, designed by Zbigniew M. Bielak, showing a futuristic dystopian cityscape rendered in muted greys and gold.

Album Deep Dive · 27 Aug 2024

Meliora by Ghost: The Complete Story

Album Deep Dive · 25 Aug 2024

Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age: The Complete Story

Front cover of the 2022 30th anniversary remaster of Dirt by Alice In Chains, showing a nude woman half-buried in cracked desert ground.

Album Deep Dive · 24 Aug 2024

Dirt by Alice In Chains: The Complete Story

Cover artwork for Napalm Death Harmony Corruption, the band's third studio album released by Earache Records in July 1990

Album Deep Dive · 23 Aug 2024

Harmony Corruption by Napalm Death: The Complete Story

Cover artwork for Judas Priest British Steel 1980 sixth studio album with razor blade clutched by a hand

Album Deep Dive · 22 Aug 2024

British Steel by Judas Priest: The Complete Story

Front cover of Mutter by Rammstein, the German industrial metal band 2001 third studio album

Album Deep Dive · 22 Aug 2024

Mutter by Rammstein: The Complete Story

Cover artwork for Mötley Crüe Dr. Feelgood 1989 fifth studio album, illustrated by Don Brautigam

Album Deep Dive · 21 Aug 2024

Dr. Feelgood by Mötley Crüe: The Complete Story

Sleeve art for the 30th anniversary remaster of Anthrax's Persistence of Time, the 1990 fifth studio album

Album Deep Dive · 21 Aug 2024

Persistence of Time by Anthrax: The Complete Story

Alex Grey cover artwork for Lateralus by Tool, showing layered anatomical figures of the human body.

Album Deep Dive · 20 Aug 2024

Lateralus by Tool: The Complete Story

Front cover of the 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition of Blizzard of Ozz by Ozzy Osbourne, with Osbourne in a black robe holding a crucifix and candles against a dark backdrop.

Album Deep Dive · 15 Aug 2024

Blizzard of Ozz by Ozzy Osbourne: The Complete Story

Front cover of Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits, showing Mark Knopfler's 1937 National Style O Resonator guitar floating against a cloudy blue sky, photographed by Deborah Feingold.

Album Deep Dive · 14 Aug 2024

Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits: The Complete Story

Front cover of Hysteria by Def Leppard, showing Andie Airfix's stylised face surrounded by interlocking geometric panels

Album Deep Dive · 14 Aug 2024

Hysteria by Def Leppard: The Complete Story

Front cover of Anthrax Among the Living showing Don Brautigam painting of a hooded figure rising above a faceless crowd.

Album Deep Dive · 13 Aug 2024

Among the Living by Anthrax: The Complete Story

Front cover of Motörhead's Ace of Spades, with Lemmy, Fast Eddie Clarke and Philthy Animal Taylor dressed as cowboys in a desert tableau, by Joe Petagno from a photo session by Alan Ballard at a sandpit near Barnet.

Album Deep Dive · 12 Aug 2024

Ace of Spades by Motörhead: The Complete Story

Remastered front cover of Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast, with Derek Riggs's painting of Eddie pulling the strings of a horned devil who is himself manipulating a smaller Eddie.

Album Deep Dive · 11 Aug 2024

The Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden: The Complete Story

Front cover of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins, a John Craig collage of a woman on a starry blue field

Album Deep Dive · 11 Aug 2024

Mellon Collie by The Smashing Pumpkins: The Complete Story

Cover art for Rust in Peace by Megadeth, illustrated by Ed Repka in 1990, showing Vic Rattlehead in a cryogenic chamber observed by world leaders.

Album Deep Dive · 11 Aug 2024

Rust in Peace by Megadeth: The Complete Story

Front cover of Slayer's Reign in Blood, Larry Carroll's pen-and-ink illustration of an enthroned demonic figure carried above a sea of severed heads.

Album Deep Dive · 11 Aug 2024

Reign in Blood by Slayer: The Complete Story

Front cover of Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? showing Ed Repka's painting of Vic Rattlehead as a real estate agent in front of a ruined United Nations headquarters.

Album Deep Dive · 10 Aug 2024

Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? by Megadeth: The Complete Story

Front cover of We Are Not Your Kind by Slipknot, showing the album's stark goat-headed sigil on a yellow ground.

Album Deep Dive · 9 Aug 2024

We Are Not Your Kind by Slipknot: The Complete Story

Front cover of Extreme II: Pornograffitti, a cartoon panel collage in the comic-book style designed by Ioannis/Third Image around the album's narrative.

Album Deep Dive · 7 Aug 2024

Extreme II: Pornograffitti by Extreme - The Complete Story

Hipgnosis sleeve for Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon showing a beam of white light entering a triangular prism and emerging as a six-band spectrum.

Album Deep Dive · 6 Aug 2024

Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon, The Complete Story

Black-and-white photograph of Tim Armstrong, Matt Freeman and Brett Reed used on the cover of Rancid's 1993 self-titled debut.

Album Deep Dive · 1 Aug 2024

Rancid by Rancid: The Self-Titled 1993 Debut

Front cover of Black Sabbath's Sabotage, the 2014 remaster artwork showing the band members in a mirrored composition shot at Morgan Studios in 1975.

Album Deep Dive · 28 Jul 2024

Sabotage by Black Sabbath: The Complete Story

Front cover of Metallica's Ride the Lightning showing an electric chair suspended in mid-air and struck by blue lightning bolts against a black background.

Album Deep Dive · 27 Jul 2024

Ride the Lightning by Metallica: The Complete Story

Front cover of All We Know Is Falling by Paramore, showing a red couch in a woodland clearing with a shadow walking away from it.

Album Deep Dive · 26 Jul 2024

All We Know Is Falling by Paramore: The Complete Story

Album Deep Dive · 25 Jul 2024

Back in Black by AC/DC: The Complete Story

Front cover of Alice Cooper's 1989 album Trash, the singer in black leather against a stark black background with the title scrawled in red.

Album Deep Dive · 25 Jul 2024

Alice Cooper Trash: The 1989 Comeback Album Story

Album Deep Dive · 24 Jul 2024

Kill 'Em All by Metallica: The Complete Story

Front cover of Black Sabbath's Master of Reality, with the album title embossed in black lettering on a black sleeve.

Album Deep Dive · 21 Jul 2024

Master of Reality by Black Sabbath: The Complete Story

Front cover of Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses, showing the Bill White Jr. Celtic cross with five skulls representing the band members on a black background.

Album Deep Dive · 21 Jul 2024

Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses: The Complete Story

Front cover of Pantera's Cowboys From Hell, the band superimposed on a 1910 photograph of the Cosmopolitan Saloon in Telluride, Colorado.

Album Deep Dive · 20 Jul 2024

Cowboys From Hell by Pantera: The Complete Story

Album Deep Dive · 15 Jul 2024

The New Order by Testament: The Complete Story

Front cover of Def Leppard's 1981 album High 'n' Dry, designed by Hipgnosis: a figure poised on a diving board above an empty swimming pool.

Album Deep Dive · 12 Jul 2024

High 'n' Dry by Def Leppard: The Complete Story

Front cover of Dookie by Green Day, illustrated by East Bay artist Richie Bucher, showing dogs and monkeys flinging excrement across a cartoon Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley as a mushroom cloud bearing the band's name rises in the centre.

Album Deep Dive · 8 Jul 2024

Dookie by Green Day: The Complete Story

Front cover of Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power showing a bare fist striking a man in the face, photographed by Brad Guice.

Album Deep Dive · 1 Jul 2024

Vulgar Display of Power by Pantera: The Complete Story

Front cover of Radiohead's OK Computer, a blue-and-white collage of a highway interchange with the band name in the top-left corner, designed by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood.

Album Deep Dive · 24 Jun 2024

OK Computer by Radiohead: The Complete Story

Front cover of New Jersey by Bon Jovi: a moody black-and-white portrait of the five band members photographed by Cameron Wong, with the band and album titles set in plain white type.

Album Deep Dive · 10 Jun 2024

New Jersey by Bon Jovi: The Complete Story

Album Deep Dive · 3 Jun 2024

Skid Row by Skid Row: The Complete Story

Merri Cyr's cover photograph of Jeff Buckley for Grace: head tilted back, eyes closed, microphone in hand, wearing a thrift-store women's sequinned jacket.

Album Deep Dive · 27 May 2024

Grace by Jeff Buckley: The Complete Story

Album Deep Dive · 19 May 2024

Metallica by Metallica: The Black Album, The Complete Story

Front cover of In Utero by Nirvana, featuring a Transparent Anatomical Manikin with superimposed angel wings against a black background, designed by Robert Fisher with art direction by Kurt Cobain.

Album Deep Dive · 12 May 2024

In Utero by Nirvana: The Complete Story

Welcome to the Monster Shop Podcast!

Album Deep Dive · 1 May 2024

Welcome to the Monster Shop Podcast!