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CURSED IMAGERY: The Month in Album Art (May 2023)

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Welcome back, friends! It’s the end of the month, so you know what that means: time to recap some of the best worst album covers from the month of May. And I gotta be honest: I struggled to scrape together ten covers here. It was strange; bands just, generally… got their shit together this month? April showers bring May good album artwork, I guess.

But! It wasn’t all good, as evidenced by the fact that you’ve gotten this column notification in your inbox. So, without any further rambling, let’s jump into some of the “less good” ones from the past month…

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CURSED IMAGERY: The Month in Album Art (April 2023)

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One of these months, I swear, I’ll finish this post sooner than the-night-before-it’s-due-to-post. One of these months. Promise.

Anyway, hello! You know where we are in the trajectory of the mostly-useless month of April (showers? Come on), so you probably also know that it’s time to look over the last 30-ish days’ worth of good-bad album artwork. And hooboy, did we have some gems this month. Let’s take a look at ’em, shall we?

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CURSED IMAGERY: The Month in Album Art (March 2023)

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Welcome back, friends! We’re only a couple of days into April, and by my standards, that’s positively early for a March recap post. (Amazing what a little self-imposed financial incentive can do to one’s posting consistency!) But anyway, you don’t want to hear about that. It’s the start of a new month, and that means it’s time to look back at the album art lowlights from the old month. We had quite a few hilarious covers to choose from for March, but only the best/worst nine made the cut. Hit the jump below and see if your favorites are among them!

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CURSED IMAGERY: The Month in Album Art (February 2023)

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Man, this year sure is going by quickly, isn’t it? Here we are, already approaching the end of February. I spent an inordinate amount of time this month telling myself, “naw, that Cursed Imagery post can wait a bit; we’ve got so much time left in the month” — up to and including earlier this week, when I realized “oh fuck, this coming Friday is the last of the month” and started SCRAMBLING. Oh, time, you fickle mistress, you.

Anyway! Enough rambling. We’ve had a treasure trove of good bad album art this month, so it’s high time we get into the best worst of it all. Hit that jump and let’s dive on in…

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CURSED IMAGERY: The Month in Album Art (January 2023)

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Well, I bet none of y’all had this thing coming back on your 2023 bingo cards. But yes, here we are, with the long overdue return of Cursed Imagery here at Nine Circles. It’s been entirely too long, folks. We’ve missed so much banter about so, so many albums in the last year-and-a-half-plus, and it’s high time we get back into it.

As was the case in our most recent iteration, we’ll be bringing this back as a monthly segment going forward. For as long as I can keep it going, which… as you well know, hasn’t always amounted to much over the years. BUT… in 2023, I’ve made both a verbal and financial commitment to our benevolent overlords Arch Dabo, Fenrolytic Scribe and Cliterati Underboob to get more involved with the site. And what better way to do so than to resume my favorite pastime: clowning on hilarious album artwork from around the metal world?

All that being said, January is just about done, having graced us with some tremendously bad album covers to start 2023 off, uh… right? So without further ado, let’s take a look back at some of them, shall we?

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