MusicRadar.com has posted a hilarious collection of terrible heavy-metal album covers. My favorites are the famously awful homo-erotic Manowar covers.

I used to enjoy watching record-store clerks try to keep a straight face when I bought Manowar albums as a kid. Not.

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Then there’s, um, Cinderella:
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Um, yeah. That’s all I have to say about that.