Friday 12 September 2014

Heavy Metal Cover Girls: Blindfolded Beauties

Hello and welcome to another edition of HMCG, where I take the opportunity to post album covers starring beautiful women and try to pass it off as some sort of artistic critique.

 Really, I just like the pictures.

 Anyway, the theme for today is "Blindfolds". Some album covers are clearly alluding to the classic representation of  "Justice", others attempt to convey our increasing difficulty in choosing our path in life.
 Some may just have been the artist getting a chance to indulge one of his kinks.

 If you like the cover, remember to check out their music as well. There's a real mix of musical styles on display, so there should be something there that clicks.

ShadowIcon - Empire in Ruins (Slovenia 2011)

blindfolded woman with sword, sexy album cover
A concept album about the death of the Roman Republic it says HERE 
I'm not sure whether this young lady represents Rome or is some sort of pissed off deity. 
Either way, I'm in no hurry to ask why she's wearing a net curtain.  

Honour to: Official ShadowIcon

Anna Fiori - Magna Mater (Mexico 2013)

woman blindfold album cover apocalypse heavy metal cover girls
Representing the end of another empire, maybe? 
Or a goddess going bowling?
None of the other gods have the heart to tell her how terrible she is. 

Honour to: Anna Fiori

Diary Of Destruction - Outside The Shade Ep (France 2010)

blindfolded woman album cover
Ever noticed how many metal covers have nothing whatsoever to do with the title?

 I couldn't find a song from this Ep so have one from the following album.
The first time I heard this band, I thought they had two vocalists - one male, one female.
How wrong was I?
Honour to: BLANK TV

If you want to quibble, the next one is Prog rather than Metal.


Herd of Instinct - Conjure (USA 2011)

Album cover blindfolded woman
Not putting the name of your band on the Cd cover is a bit risky.
So is waving scissors about when you can't see what you're doing.

I'll mention at this point that Guitarist/Bassist/other stuff-er Mark Cook plays the most astonishing guitar I've ever seen.
Picture courtesy of PROG-SPHERE

How? Just...how?
Has he got telescopic fingers or something?

Honour to: Michael Inman 

Osukaru -Triumphant (Sweden 2013)

Blindfolded blond woman katana pigeon rock album art
Not only is our mysterious blonde lugging about a frigging sword, but she seems to be on a rooftop.
No wonder she's carefully poking about her.
In a minute she's going to grab the pigeon and confuse the hell out of both of them.

The band themselves are old-school AOR
Honour to: Blindfoldead

One thing I always like is a band that continue a theme over successive album covers so:

Osukaru - Covered Up (Sweden 2013)

blonde woman blindfolded
"Sod this representing the blindness of humanity malarkey. I'm fed up with walking into things"


Osukaru - Transition (Sweden 2014)

Rock album art woman sword
"I wish these pigeons would sod off and let me meditate in peace"

Band homepage here: https://www.facebook.com/osukarumusic

And finally...

Impromtus Ad Mortem - Infortunio (Colombia 2007)

blind woman album cover
Bet you can't read the logo either.

It's no surprise to find that they are on the melancholy side

Honour to: Carlos Bathory

 That's all folks.

If you have anything you'd like to see next, drop me a comment and if it's out there, I'll find it..


3 comments:

  1. Great covers and a very interesting topic. I've seen some blindfolded women before used in different media but this many album covers surprises me a little. It's cool you found an interesting common theme out of so many that exist. My favorite listed here is Osukaru, but running a close second and maybe even more interesting is Impromtus Ad Mortem. It's eerie the way they blended her blindfold into the wallpaper, or whatever that is.

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  2. Interesting collection, I own a few of those. I never put together they were eluding justice but always thought it was a message in blind faith, finding the things you cannot see, or being a victim of sorts.

    Anyway, like always, awesome post!

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    1. Just out of interest, which ones have you got?

      I like your interpretation on these too. It goes to show that two people can look at the same thing and see something slightly different.

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