Worst timed album release the year Hitler broke the Non-Aggression Pact with Stalin, reversing the party line and the band’s whole repertoire in a single day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact
Only competition maybe the Lebanese Israeli band
Devils Anvil whose album came out on the eve of the Arab-Israeli war
https://www.loudersound.com/music/the-devils-anvil-hard-rock-from-the-middle-east