Heavy Metal Cover Girls: Ladies In Red

Heavy Metal Cover Girls: Album covers featuring women who may be gorgeous, fierce or just plain terrifying. 

 Evening all. 

  Sorry I haven't been posting much lately but life has this unfortunate tendency to get in the way of things I want to be doing. 

 To make up for it, I'm going  to try and do a new HMCG every day this week, if only because my album art folder is starting to overflow.   

 Today's topic is one of those that sound simple but a good artist can make it work hard for them. 

Women Wearing Red.   

  Not only is red a very eyecatching colour but we're programmed to respond to it in a way that most other colours can't match. Red makes us pay attention and gets the old instincts kicking in. Run...defend...assist...attack..

 And of course sometimes red just makes us want to buy overpriced drinks and lie about having a Porsche...

  Liv Moon - R.E.D.  EP (Japan 2016)

  Japan's Queen of Symphonic Metal goes for an album cover that's about as Red as you can get.

I'm going to hurriedly move on because her eyes are staring into my soul and I don't think she'll like what's in there.

I couldn't find any songs of this EP so have an older vid instead.
Akane Liv is wearing a nice red dress though. 

Spitfire - Fuel To Burn (Norway 2015)

   I don't know if she's trying to be seductive but if she isn't careful, our rock 'n' roller lady is going to get a faceful of unleaded.

Spitfire are energetic Hard Rock.

Last Prophecy - Sin Mirar Atras (Spain 2005)

Not so much "railing against the heavens" as asking the heaven "Really? You're doing this now?"

Last Prophecy are rather interesting Power Metal.

This song's ff another album (again.) Hope y'all don't mind. 

  Do you see what I mean about Red making an impact and catching the eye? In all three covers so far it's been used to make a contrast with the other cover elements. The paleness of Akane' Liv's face, the plain black background, the snowy landscape - all set against the bright red.

  I wish I was smart enough to take that train of thought further.  Oh well. Let's look at some more pictures.

 Leah - Kings & Queens (Canada 2015)

Leah McHenry looking all regal and stuff.

I don't like the look of those clouds behind you, love. Best get yourself inside before it pisses down.

Leah mix Metal with all sorts of folk influences and there's some nice Gregorian chant on this track. 

FFO of the more emotional side of metal.

Cradle of Filth  - Darkly, Darkly Venus Aversa (UK 2010)

You don't want to know how she got her dress that colour.
You just don't.

Cradle of Filth should need no introduction but here#'s a video anyway.
The album is a concept about Lilith - Adam's first wife who the church doesn't want to talk about.

 Vantage Point - High Maintenance Girlfriend EP (UK 2012)

Basically the sort of girl who thinks "Material Girl" is an anthem.  

Can't see the guy with flowers getting a date, frankly.

Vantage Point are classic melodic British Metal with some nifty use of Keyboards 

Wishmasters - Beatrice (Cz. Rep 2014)

What an unfeasibly large candlestick.
How exactly do these slinky dresses stay up anyway? Is it just surface tension or is there tape involved?

Wishmasters have a definite touch of the Nightwish about them, one album in particular.
I would be interested in seeing where they go for album #2.

Lureaway - Saviour (Latvia 2016)

Some people might disagree but I'm a bloke and as far as I'm concerned, this dress is Red. 

Reddish-Pink anyway. 

Either way, she's quite dressed up for an evening at home. Expecting company perhaps?  

If that's him on the Crystal ball with some bollocks about needing to work overtime, somebody is getting a
whole load of flower petals glued to their car in the shape of a dick. 

Lureaway are Symphonic metal. with operatic vocals. See what you think.

I did have some more CD covers but decided to stick to red dresses and save the red swimsuits and suchlike for another time.

See you tomorrow night.

That's All Folks.