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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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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

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 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

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

Album Deep Dive · 16 Nov 2024

Sound of White Noise by Anthrax: 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 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

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

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 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

Unpacking Hybrid Theory: Linkin Park’s Game-Changer

Album Deep Dive · 28 Sept 2024

Unpacking Hybrid Theory: Linkin Park’s Game-Changer

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

Album Deep Dive · 22 Sept 2024

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

Album Deep Dive · 17 Sept 2024

Permanent Vacation by Aerosmith: The Making of the Ultimate Comeback

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

Nevermind album cover by Nirvana

Album Deep Dive · 30 Aug 2024

Nevermind by Nirvana: The Complete Story

Beneath the Remains album cover by Sepultura

Album Deep Dive · 28 Aug 2024

Beneath the Remains by Sepultura: 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 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 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

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

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

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

Album Deep Dive · 25 Jul 2024

Back in Black by AC/DC: 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

Album Deep Dive · 15 Jul 2024

The New Order by Testament: 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