Thursday 10 September 2015

Heavy Metal Cover Girls: Women in White

  Good evening and welcome to another installment of Heavy Metal Cover Girls, a feature where I post artwork from Metal albums - using a very, very broad interpretation of Metal that includes Hard Rock and AOR as well.

Mind you, I once read a book called "500 Greatest Metal albums" that included people like Prince and Teena Marie, so maybe not that broad.  I'm fairly certain the author was taking the piss but it's hard to be sure, sometimes.
 Anybody else remember Kerrang magazine trying to push Duran Duran as a Rock band?  Oh dear gods...

 Back to the theme, and like so many others I use, it's a very simple one.  

Have your Cover Girl wearing white. 

 Metal doesn't normally do white clothing. I have been to gigs where the only white on display was on the security team's shirts. So right away you've caught the eye. 
And unlike certain other colours, you can play with people's expectations. Black is serious, sombre. Red screams "femme fatale". 
 White....can be exactly what it looks like or something dangerous hiding behind a guise of innocence. 


Within Temptation - The Heart Of Everything (NLD  2007)

Heavy metal cover girl white
 Going all out on the symbolism here. Blindfold..white ballgown...pigeons...rosary..clouds

I have no idea what it actually means but it's a cool cover. 

WT are one of my favourite bands of recent years so I take great pleasure in sharing this song with you.


Annette Olzon - Shine  (Sweden 2014)

metal cover art woman in white

The ex-Nightwish chanteuse enjoying a winter walk in the countryside.
Possibly the first time I've ever posted somebody wearing a coat.


Well I did say that I was using a very broad definition of "Metal."

Let's post something a bit heavier next. 

Suspyre - A Great Divide (USA 2007)

album cover sleepwalking woman
 You know you've got a sleepwalking problem when you wake up in the street,
wearing your nice, new nightie, and surrounded by ugly, grey people. 

The band are Symphonic/Prog metal so finding a short song was nigh-impossible.


Kissin' Dynamite - Money. Sex and Power (Germany 2012)

There are people holding machine guns in the pic - so why do I get this feeling that she's the most dangerous person in that room?

Musically Kissin' Dynamite are a European take on LA Glam.

Matenrou Opera - Avalon (Japan 2014)

Ooh..pretty.

Weird that the star of the cover is the least colourful thing on it.

The band are Visual Kei, which may have had some roots in metal  - but that was before the Japanese did their usual and bent it into something else entirely.

  

That's it for now...but expect more women in white next time.

4 comments:

  1. Awesome work.Just wanted to drop a comment and say I am new to your blog and really like what I am reading.Thanks for the share

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  2. Within Temptation is really good. Which of their songs do you think are best?

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    1. Good question and one that's hard to answer. They've changed style quite noticeably over the years.

      My favourites: Sinead, It's the fear, Memories, Ice Queen, The Cross.

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    2. Thanks. I'm new to them and haven't checked them out. But I do like their song Paradise. So, thats 2 songs I like a lot.

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