Is there anything in black metal quite like the fabled “blue” art album covers? Emperor’s In The Nightside Eclipse, Dissection’s The Somberlain, Sacramentum’s Far Away From The Sun, and Dark Funeral’s The Secrets Of The Black Arts all boast iconic art in hues of twilight that have grown to be synonymous with a particular sect of mid-90s black metal. As always, you’re invited to share yours along with website and Instagram links. That’s a very good thing, certainly better than anonymous farts or catching some Unidentified Mosh Pit Fluid in your mouth on accident.īelow are some of our 2021 album art favorites. They provide the first visual settings for the escapism or catharsis, and like the bands themselves are just trying to get their art out there in the world to add to the total of our human expressiveness. Even in the digital age album art is meant as a first impression, staring at you in high resolution on Bandcamp or from your iTunes library (right, Dan?).Īlbum art is the result of countless hours of work by countless artists that deserve proper accolades. Those among us that grew up in record stores or still visit them know what it’s like to blind buy something just for the art the snider among us might even point out some bands that get more attention than their music merits based on the quality of their cover art and countless among us have made The Molly Hatchet Mistake.
Long before you saw Eddie pop his head out late into a Maiden show you probably saw him standing over a corpse on the cover of Killers. Rock music and heavy metal are visual experiences, to be sure.īut the relationship between the sound and sight is strongest with album cover art. Blurry fingers delivering 100 notes in a split second. We all know this.Īfter sound, no other sense associates stronger with metal than sight. So yeah, metal’s association with a few of the five senses isn’t always glamorous or even within health codes.
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Taste is probably the biggest stretch to associate with heavy metal, unless of course you love pairing a good brew with your machine gun riffs or have ever taken a mouth full of sweaty hair from someone’s headbang backswing (it happens). Smell could be the welcoming must of a vintage record store of any of the more obvious odors associated with a reeky show (one friend of mine recently said one of the best things about a show was “fart anonymity”).
Touch is the throbbing of the bass in your chest, the uncomfortable rub-up by a drunk stranger, or the full assault of a fun pit.
What of the other four senses? Anyone that has spent a good amount of time at shows or shopping for records knows that metal can be a full sensory experience. Music is of course something you hear, meaning that of humankind’s five senses, heavy metal is most closely associated with sound. No matter what your freshman English teacher once told you when she caught you sneaking Once Upon the Cross in one ear instead of listening to her drone on about Keats, heavy metal is music.
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