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Gigwise Readers' Most Controversial Album Covers!

The ones we didn't put in...

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Slayer: ‘The Christ Illusion’ – Painted by artist Larry Carroll, the cover to Slayer’s 2006 album depicted a mutilated, stoned (in the biblical sense) Jesus with decapitated heads strewn around him. Unsurprisingly, Christian groups soon lobbied against the album and in some stores an alternate sleeve was issued.

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