2025's WORST COVER ART THREAD

[Biscuit]

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I’d say there is a fair amount of difference.

Whatever musician or art director thought this was a good idea, with a straight face, should be exited from the business, pronto. If this needs a secondary vote to lift it to the 2025 list, I say 'aye'.

 

[Melt Face Molly Drop]

This butter be the last time I see this album cover ever

 

[Biscuit]

This butter be the last time I see this album cover ever

 

[Agaetisbyrjun22]

Whatever musician or art director thought this was a good idea, with a straight face, should be exited from the business, pronto. If this needs a secondary vote to lift it to the 2025 list, I say 'aye'.

Stolen comment but: I can't believe it's not AI

 

[Viking Dan]

Whatever musician or art director thought this was a good idea, with a straight face, should be exited from the business, pronto. If this needs a secondary vote to lift it to the 2025 list, I say 'aye'.

#3 coming in buttery hot!

WELCOME TO THE 2025 WORST COVER ART LIST: Where we celebrate the truly awful!
This is is not a list for the merely overrated, nor the purely vapid or the simply questionable.
10 and only 10 covers so putridly lacking will coalesce by years end into one heaping pile of "WTF? "

With that, I present to you, this year's nominees:

1. Nominated by @RenegadeMonster and @Twentytwo
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Editor's Note: You can smell the hot dog breath coming off of this one.

2. Nominated by @Viking Dan and @Nee Lewman
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Editor's Note: This is a rare curator's nomination.

3. Nominated by @Agaetisbyrjun22 and @Biscuit
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Editor's Note: Why am I craving movie theater popcorn?
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