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I don’t know what it is, but there’s something that I love about old thrash metal sleeves like nothing else. The combination of poor execution, and ridiculous concept, and all the bright colors and airbrushing too. Many times I’ve bought records for killer sleeves only to have them suck when they hit the stereo back home.

Picked this Virus lp on Metal Works up over the weekend. Pretty good UK thrashing. A bit like the first Onslaught lp, very ignorant with lots of war themes. I expect at least one of these dudes was in a punk band at some point. Very simple, school notebook level art on this one. Totally 2-D.

This Viking Do Or Die lp is an alltime fav that I’ve mentioned before. There was some Dark Angel member involvement and this is almost as good. Lots of good meaty riffs. I think Gene Hoglan may have helped get this band their start, but I’m not entirely sure. The cover looks like it should be some reject power metal band with the terrible logo made of rocks, but this is total Slayer worship.

Love the hell beasts on the cover of Sacrifice’s Torment In Fire. It looks like someone’s high school art project for like a colored pencil unit, which makes sense because on the back of the sleeve none of these dudes look old enough to even vote.

Wehrmacht are a bit more party metal than the rest, as is evidenced by the zombie water skiing on 2 sharks, but at least they’ve got some carnivorous creatures of the deep and a zombie in the mix. I don’t really know how this would work out in real life, I don’t think the zombie would be able to balance and the sharks don’t look to be going that fast. Apparently one of these dudes went on to the band Everclear. Oops.