Battle of the covers

[Iron Knight]

[Iron Knight]

Best Cover: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
Worst Cover: The Sabbath Stones.

[Purgatory]

Bestast Lives
Worst:Born Again

[Memory]

Best: Live Evil
Worst: Seventh Star

[David86]

Best: H&H
Worst: Born Again

[MarcStitz]

Fav: The Black Box (yeah I know)
Worst: Born Agian

[Ray Rules]

Fav: Sabbath Bloddy Sabbath
Worst: Masters Of Reality

[gunman42782]

Best: Cross Purposes
Worst: Without a doubt, Born Again!

[Petoria000]

Best: Dehumanizer
Worst: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

[rar]

Best: hmm Born Again, Dehumanizer, Live Evil, or Black Sabbath
Worst: Master of Reality

[62_SG]

Best: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. So awesome.

[UnderTheSun]

Best: Forbidden
Worst: Master Of Reality

[dioivanov]

best: Cross Purposes
worst: Born again

[KeepItWarm]

Best: Mob Rules
Worst: We Sold Our Soul For Rock 'N' Roll

[Niklas]

Best imo: Tyr
Why? I don't know really why I picked Tyr, it's very mysterious and philosophical, the view and the runic style.

Wrost: Master of Reality
Why? I just felt it looks kinda' boring... :/

[Hell_Awaits]

Best; Technical Ecstacy, Born Again, Sabbth Bloody Sabbath

Worst:Dehumanizer

[bruce190]

Best: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Worst: Born Again

[Franklin]

Best: I picked the debut album because the cover is so appropriate for the material.

Worst: The boring ones: We Sold Our Souls For Rock "N" Roll, followed closely by Master Of Reality.

I'm one of the few who do not hate the Born Again cover.

[Orion]

Best: We Sold Our Soul... Sheer simplicity yet menacing due to the band's name being so bold on it.
Worst: We Sold Our Soul... Boring as batshit. WTF???

[Axeman77]

Best ; Pick between Headless Cross, Tyr, Black Sabbath & Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Worst; Dehumanizer , just don't like it,the album is possibly one of the best though

[TheEtherCult]

Best - Black Sabbath / Vol 4. - Both r simple and adequate (IMO)

Worst - Paranoid / Sabotage - Some guys in Pijamas with a plastic sword / Billy in his red ???

Mackie

[Josef_K]

Best: Black Sabbath (nothing beats that cover! Born Again and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath are close though)

Worst: Dehumanizer (way too much standard metal over the cover, even though it does reflect a bit on the material it could have been done better imo)

btw, Master of Reality imo is not boring, it is simple but holds great power within it's simplicity, just like Black Sabbaths music! To me, the words "Master of Reality" appear powerful and striking, but mb it's just me about to go nuts, I don't know haha

[Icy Sun]

Best: Live Evil, Black Sabbath, Paranoid (yeah I like it. )
Worst: Technical Ecstasy, Never Say Die, Eternal Idol

[The Mighty Sab]

Best: Dehumanizer, The Devil You Know, Born Again (yes, I said it)
Worst: Never Say Die!, The Eternal Idol

[Totentanz]

Best: Born Again, Black Sabbath, Mob Rules
Worst: Dehumanizer, Forbidden

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Best: Technical Ecstacy, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Mob Rules

Worst: Master of Reality and then (by some huge, great distance) Born Again.*

* If the designer doesn't think much of it why should anyone else.

[mythology]

In order (best first to worst last):

Master of Reality
Vol4
Sabotage
NSD
Tech Ecstasy
SBS
Black Sabbath
Paranoid

[Charger]

Best three: Black Sabbath, Dehumanizer, The Mob Rules
Worst three: Sabotage (probably one of the worst album covers in history), Never Say Die, Paranoid

[Frina]

best: Heaven and hell
Worst: Seventh Star, Forbidden

[SabbathKing93]

Best: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Mob Rules, and Dehumanizer
Worst: Paranoid, Sabotage, Forbidden

[Backstreet Kid]

Best: Black Sabbath
Followed by Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Worst: Seventh Star
with Dehumanizer & Headless Cross tied for second.

Sabotage is hilariously great!

[MH1986]

Best: Dehumanizer, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, and Heaven and Hell

Worst: Paranoid, Never Say Die, Vol. 4

Three each.

[Ochlocracy]

Best cover: Mob Rules/Heaven and Hell.
Worst cover: Forbidden.

[Sabbathman]

Top5

Headless Cross (for the dark Sabbath feeling)
Heaven And Hell (for the great symbolism)
Dehumanizer (for the concept & painting style)
Black Sabbath (for the eerie mystical feeling)
Eternal Idol (for the simplicity & grace of the concept)

Low5

Paranoid (dark ghostly images are not scary at all, they're just stupid)
Technical Ecstacy (no Sabbath feeling at all)
Born Again (just a cheap picture)
Seventh Star (nice background, but as a whole the picture is terrible)
Sabotage (the realization is good, but the band looks terrible in this!!!)

[celt]

Best: Cross Purposes (even though the Scorpions used this image before Sabbath)
Worst: tie between Technical Ecstasy and Dehumanizer