Heavy Metal & Hard Rock thread

[KCUnited]

I feel I was a few years too young to have much exposure to early 80s heavy metal. I was more introduced to mid/late 80s punk and thrash then the evolution of both into 90s death metal.

I think I've shared this story before but as some of you may have also experienced back in day, a lot of the decision making process into picking out an album was the artwork, at least for me anyway.

I was blown away by Grim Reapers artwork and picked up a copy of something, probably Rock You To Hell, thinking it was going to be the heaviest shit ever recorded and then being so disappointed when I heard how tame it was. Same with Helloween but I actually learned to appreciate them and jammed a couple of their albums quite a bit.

That's not a knock on them by any means just a humorous, to me, look back at the strategy of buying albums before the internet and how awesome metal album artwork was and still is.

Surely there's a museum out there, in like a Toledo OH or someplace similar, with a metal album artwork exhibit.