( And you thought tentacle rape was only for Japan! )

While this might not really be the worst or most shocking album cover by Cannibal Corpse standards (mostly due to the lack of extreme amounts of gore), this one is still pretty damned lousy in its own right. The gigantic amount of wormy tentacles trying to make their way into the girl's most special of places is already fairly bad, but then there's the gigantic gaping maw of hell in the background that gives entirely new definition to the term "vagina dentata." Maybe this means I'm meant to psychoanalyze this, Freud style, to figure out just what the band's sexual hangups are that result in them putting things like bloody raped corpses on most of their album covers, but most of me doesn't really want to know.

( It's definitely dead, Jim )

While we're on the subject of stupid, shocking grind covers here, here's this brilliant one. If you're trying to be shocking guys, perhaps use a little less contrast in your photo. It seriously took me about 10 minutes for me to figure out that what I was looking at wasn't an unidentifiable blur of red and black and was actually a decapitated cattle head (GEE, JUST LIKE THE BAND NAME). Boy was my face red!

Hey, did you know that apparently this band are vegetarians with a huge emphasis on animal rights? After seeing this cover, they sure could've fooled me!

Hey, my idea of fun at the circus is ALSO carpetbombing the circus along with the 10 mile radius surrounding it, dressing up like Emmett Kelly, and practicing looking sad amongst the rubble and body parts. It's like the guys who made this album cover could READ MY MIND!

No offense, but I'd rather not let your guys' hands within 50 feet of anybody. In fact, I get the sneaking suspicion that these four are responsible for the invention of the restraining order.

Instead of attempting to help the poor midget just before he was brutally and gruesomely crushed to death by the giant harp that had accidentally toppled over onto him, Stanley Johnson decided it'd be way funnier to just take a photo of it and stick it on an album cover. He figured nobody was going to miss that midget at that wedding anyhow.