Es por eso que he querido hacer un recorrido por las mejores portadas del metal, desde sus inicios con el Rock/Blues, hasta sus extremos con el Black/Death. Se que muchas se me pudieron haber quedador por fuera, y talvez otras las consideren como no tan buenas, pero la verdad es que las que he tomado en cuenta son portadas que han impactado o al menos han marcado un antes y un después en la historia del Rock.
- AC-DC: Highway to Hell, Let There be Rock, If You Want Blood
- Beatles: Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearth Club Band
- Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Heaven and Hell, Mob Rules, Live Evil, Reunion
- Deep Purple: In Rock, Burn, StormBringer, Slaves and Masters
- KISS: Destroyer, Love Gun
- Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy, Led Zeppelin III
- Queen: Queen II, The Miracle
- Rainbow: Rising, Long Live Rock n' Roll
- Santana: Santana
- The Jimmy Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland
- The Who: Who's Next
- The Clash: London Calling
- Uriah Heep: Very 'eavy... Very 'umble, Raging Silence
- UFO: Force It
- WhiteSnake: Love Hunter, Come and Get It, Live in the Shadow of the Blues
HARD ROCK & GLAM...
- Alice Cooper: Constrictor, Trash
- Britny Fox: Bite Down Hard
- Def Leppard: Hysteria
- Dokken: Tooth and Nail
- Great White: Hooked
- Guns n' Roses: Appetitte for Destruction
- Lita Ford: Out for Blood
- Motley Crue: Dr Feelgood, Generation Swine
- Poison: Open Up and Say... ahh
- Ratt: Invasion of Your Privacy, Reach for the Sky
- Stryper: To Hell With the Devil
- Twister Sister: Love is for Suckers
- Van Halen: 1984, Balance
- Warrant: Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
- WASP: Animal Fuck Like a Beast, The Last Command, The Headless Children
HEAVY METAL
- Anvil: Hard n' Heavy, Metal on Metal
- Axel Rudi Pell: Magic, Tales of the Crown, Shadow Zone
- Blaze Bayley: The Man Who Would Not Die
- Bruce Dickinson: Accident Of Birth
- Diamond Head: Borrowed Time, Am I Evil
- DIO: Holy Diver, Dream Evil, Master of the Moon, Lock Up the Wolves
- Grave Digger: Witch Hunter, Tunes of War, Knights of the Cross, Excalibur, Heart of Darkness, Symphony of Death, Liberty or Death, The Last Supper, Ballads of a Han
- Grim Reaper: See You in Hell
- Gun Barrel: Outlaw Invasion
- Iced Earth: The Dark Saga, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Night of the Stormrider, Horror Show, Tribute to the Gods, Dark Genesis, Overture of the Wicked
- Iron Maiden: Killers, Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Powerslave, Somewhere in Time, Fear of the Dark, Best of the Beast, Brave New World
- Judas Priest: British Steel, Sad Wings of Destiny, Ram It Down, PainKiller, Angel of Retribution
- King Diamond: Faltal Portrait, Abigail I y II, Them, Conspiracy
- Manowar: Fighting The World, Kings Of Metal, Hell on Stage Live, Gods of War
- MotorHead: Overkill, Another Perfect Day, Orgasmatron, Kiss of Death, We Are MotorHead
- Merciful Fate: Melissa, Don't Break the Oath, 9, Melissa
- Ozzy Osbourne: Blizzard of Ozz, Back at the Moon, The Ultimate Sin, No rest for the Wicked
- Running Wild: Under Jolly Roger, Port Royal, Black Hand Inn
- Rage: Perfect Man, Trapped!
- Savatage: Gutter Ballet, Edge of Thorns, Wake of the Magellan
- Saxon: Wheels Of Steel, Crusader, Dogs of War, Unleash the Beast
- Scorpions: Loverdriver
- Tygers Of Pan Tang: Wild Cat
- Warlock: Burning the Witches, Triumph and Agony
- Yngwie Malmsteen: Rising Force, Trilogy
- Pink Floyd: Whish You Were Here, Animals
- Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
- King Crimson: In the Court of Crimson King
- Rush: Caress of Steel, Hemispheres
- Yes: Tales From Topographic Oceans, Relayers
- Emerson Lake & Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery
- The Moody Blues: In Search of the Lost Chord
- Trapeze: Medusa
- Jethro Tull: Aqualung
- Supertramp: Crisis? What the Crisis?
- Kansas: Kansas, Point of Know Return
- Marillion: Fugazzi, Misplaced Childhood
- Asia: Asia, Alpha
- Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime, Take Cover
- Dream Theater: Images and Words, Awake, Falling Into Infinity, Train of Trought, Octavarium, Sistematic Chaos
- Symphony X: The Divine Wings of Tragedy, Twilight in Olympus, V, The Odyssey, Paradise Lost
- Opeth: Mornigrise, Blackwater Park, Deliverance, Damnation
- Ayreon: Into the Electric Castle, Universal Migrator
- Evergrey: The Inner Circle, Solitud Dominance Tragedy, Torn, Night to Remember
- Into Eternity : Dead or Dreaming
- Pagan's Mind: God's Ecuation
- Metallica: Kill 'em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, And Justice f or All
- Megadeth: Killing is my Business... and Business is God, Peace Sells... Bu t Who's Buying, Rust in Peace, Countdown to Exctintion, Youthanasia, The World Needs a Hero
- Slayer: Live Undead, Reign in Blood, South of Heaven
- Anthrax: Spreading the Disease, Persistence of Time
- Exodus: Bonded by Blood , Tempo of the Damned, Shoved Headed Kill Machine
- Testament: The New Order, Practice What You Preach, Souls of Black
- Overkill: Under the Influence, Horroscope, Necroshine, ReliXIV, Immortalis
- Sacred Reich: The American Way
- Flotsam and Jetsam: No Place for Disgrace
- Death Angel: The Ultra-Violence
- Dark Angel: Leave Scars
- Annihilator: Alice in Hell, Never Neverland
- Kreator: Endless Pain, Pleasure to Kill, Terrible Certainty, Coma of Souls, Violent Revolution
- Sodom: Agent Orange, Better Off Dead, Masquerade in Blood, Code Red, M16
- Tankard: Chemical Invasion, The Morning After, Beast of Bourbon
- Destruction: Eternal Devastation, Mad Butcher, Inventor of Evil
- Sabbat: History of a Time to Come, Dreamwaver
- Celtic Frost: To Mega Therion, Into the Pandemonium
- Sepultura: Beneth the Remains, Arise, Chaos A.D.
- Helloween: Keeper of the Seven Keys I y II, The Time of the Oath, Better Than Raw
- Blind Guardian: Tales From the Twilight World, Somewhere Far Beyond, Imaginations From the Other Side, Nightfall in the Middle Earth, A Twist in the Myth, Night at the Opera, Another Stranger Me
- GammaRay: Land of the Free I y II, Powerplant, No World Order, Majestic
- Stratovarius: Fourth Dimension, Visions, Infinite
- Edguy: Vain Glory Opera, Theater of Salvation, Mandrake
- Avantasia: The Metal Opera I y II, The Scarecrow
- Rhapsody: Legendary Tales, Symphony of Enchanted Lands II, Dawn of Victory, Power of the Dragon Flame
- HammerFall: Glory to the Brave, Legacy of Kings
- Sonata Arctica: Ecliptica, Reckoning Night, For the Sake of Revenge
- Nightwish: Whishmaster, Once
- Freedom Call: Dimensions, The Sacred Talisman, Shadowland, New World Messiah
- Iron Savior: Battering Ram
- Kamelot: Epica, The Fourth Legacy, Karma, Ghost Opera, The Black Halo
- Angra: Angels Cry, Rebirth, Acid Rain
- Riot: Thundersteel
- Allen - Lande: The Revenge
- At Vance: Only Human, Chained
- Dark Moor: The Gates of Oblivion
- Demons & Wizards: Demons & Wizards
- Falconer: Falconer, Nortwind
- Ride the Sky: New Protection
- Mystic Prophecy: Mystic Prophecy, Satanic Curses
- Death: Scream Bloosy Gore, Leprosy, Spiritual Healing, Human, The Sound of Perseverance
- Napalm Death: Scum, Utopia Banished
- Carcass: Necroticism
- Canibal Corpse: Eaten Back to Life, Butchered at Birth, Tumb of Mutilated
- Six Feet Under: 13, Haunted
- Deicide: Once Upon the Cross
- Morbid Angel: Altars of Madness
- Mercyless: Abject Offering
- Cryptopsy: None so Vile
- Obituary: Cause of Death, The End Complete, World Demise
- Malevolent Creation: The Ten Commandments, Retribution
- Nile: Annilation of the Wicked, In Their Darkened Shrines, Those Whom the Gods Detest
- Entombed: Left Hand Path
- Sinister: Hate
- Bolt Thrower: Warmaster
- Vader: De Profundis, Litany
- In Flames: The Jester Race, Whoracle, Colony
- Arch Enemy: Rise of the Tyrant
- Children of Bodom: Something Wild
BLACK
- Mayhem: Live In Leipzing, Chimera, Grand Declaration of War
- Immortal: At the Heart of the Winter
- Emperor: Emperor, In the Nightside Eclipse
- Darkthrone: Sardonic Wrath
- Satyricon: Dark Medieval Times, Now Diabolical
- Burzum: Burzum
- Carpathian Forest: Defending the Throne of Evil
- Isengard: Vinterskugge
- Gorgoroth: Antichrist, Destroyer, Twilight of the Idols, Ad Marojem Sathanas Gloriam, Incipt Satan
- Ancient: Svartalvjeim, Mad Grandiose Bloodfriends, The Cainian Chronicle
- Dark Funeral: The Secrets of the Black Arts, Diabolis Interium, Attera Totus Sactus
- Marduk: Those of the Unlight, Infernal Eternal, Plague Angel, Panzer Division Marduk
- Impaled Nazarene: Tol Cormpt Norz Norz Norz, Nihil, death Comes In 26 Carefully Selected Pieces
- Catamenia: Halls of Frozen North, Eskhata, Winternight Tragedies, Location: Cold
- Summoning: Lugburz, Minas Morgul
- Behemoth: Sventevith, Satanica, Thelema 6, Zos Kia Cultus, Demigod, The Apostasy
- Belphegor: Necrodaemon Terrorsathan, Lucifer Incestus, Goatreich Fleshcult, Pestapokalypse VI, Bondage Goat Zombie, Walpurgis Rites Hexenwahn
- Enthroned: Prophecies of Pagan Fire, Towards the Skullthrone of Satan, The Apocalypse Manifesto, Carnage in Worlds Beyond, XES Haereticum, Tetra Karcist
- Agathodaimon: Chapter III, Phoenix
- Rotting Christ: Non Serviam, Triarchy of the Lost Lovers, Genesis, Sanctus Diavolos, Theogonia
- Acheron: Rebirth Metamorphosing Into Godhood, The Final Conflict Last Days of God, Rites of the Black Mass
- Cradle of Filth: The Principle of Evil Made Flesh, Vempire, Dusk... and Her Embrace, Cruelty and the Beast, Midian, Bitter Suites to Succubi, Damnation and a Day, Nymphetamine, Thornography
- Dimmu Borgir: Stormblast, Godless Savage Garden, Spiritual Black Dimensions, Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia, In Sorte Diaboli
- Old Man's Child: Revelation 666 the Curse of Damnation, In Defiance of Existence, Vermin, Slaves of the World
- Siebenburgen: Grimjaur, Delictum, Plagued be Thy Angel, Darker Designs and Images, Revelation VI Retail
EN ESPAÑOL
- Angeles del Infierno: Pacto con el Diablo, Diabolica
- Ariadna Project: Mundos Paralelos
- Arpeghy: Sueños Oscuros
- Avalanch: Angel Caido, Los Poetas han Muerto, Muerte y Vida
- Azeroth: II
- Azrael: Dimension IV
- Barilari: Barilari
- Baron Rojo: Volumen Brutal, 20+, Metalmorfosis, Perversiones
- Centinela: La Nueva Ira, Claustrofobia, Pánico, Sangre Eterna
- Dragon Slayer: Sed del Mal
- Eco: Réplica
- Gillman: Inevitable
- Impromtus Ad Mortem: Infortunio
- Ktulu: Ktulu
- Lörihen: Bajo la Cruz
- Lujuria: Enemigos de la Castidad, El Poder del Deseo, Licantrofilia
- Luzbel: Metal Caido del Cielo, Pasaporte al Inferno
- Lvzbel: Evangelio Nocturno, Guerrero Callejero
- Magika: Lejos de Dios
- Malon: Justicia o Resistencia
- Medina Azahara: Aixa, Donde Está la Luz, Tierra de Libertad, Se Abre la Puerta
- Metatron: La Leyenda del Infinito Interno
- Northwind: El Retorno del Rey, Viento del Norte
- Rata Blanca: Guerrero del Arcoiris, El Libro Oculto, El Camino del Fuego, La Llave de la Puerta Secreta
- Red Wine: Cenizas, Sueños y Locura, El Fin de los Tiempos, Hijos del Despertar
- Saratoga: Agotaras
- Saurom: Sombras del Este, Legado de Juglares, Juglar Metal, Once Romances desde Al-Andalus
- Sauze: Nada Tiene Sentido
- Tierra Santa: Medieval, Tierras de Leyenda, Sangre de Reyes, Indomable
- Transmetal: El Infierno de Dante, Progresión Neurática, Temple de Acero
- Ultratumba: El Día que se Inventó la Muerte
- Viuda Negra: La Voz de los Bosques
- WarCry: El Sello de los Tiempos, Directo a la Luz, Revolución
- Acero: En Pie de Guerra
- Sepulcro Vacio: Seres Inmortales
- Trauma: Descargas de Poder




