10 Worst Album Covers In Rock

10. Rocka Rolla - Judas Priest

As metal started to get its feet, Judas Priest were the ones who really set everything in motion. Whereas other acts of the time like Black Sabbath pushed the boundaries for what heavy music could be, Priest unpacked everything and gave the music the fangs and screams that it really deserved. You'd say that now...but not if you took one look at their debut record.

On the surface, most of Rocka Rolla is already way off from the metal we would get used to, instead being a bit of bluesy hard rock with Rob Halford not dialed in just yet. Though the music is already pretty contentious for what it is, the cover itself is the main antithesis of what metal should be. Up until this point, metal album covers always had a sense of dread on Sabbath albums, and yet this feels like the most generic piece of merch that Priest ever put out, complete with a bottle cap that Coca Cola might want to have a chat about.

Then again, Priest would recover from this very nicely going forward, with both a lot more dour album covers on Sad Wings of Destiny as well as trading in their threads for the leather and spikes that we all know and love today. For as much as Priest can be a religion to some people, this isn't going to inspire some metallic devotion from anyone anytime soon.