Heavy Metal Cover Girls: Girls With Guns

  Although Heavy Metal album art is best know for its images of monsters, mayhem and muscular blokes with no shirts, there's more than a few that opt instead for gorgeous young women.

  And while there's no shortage of art that has women in nice dresses hanging decoratively around forests, there's a definite tendency towards minimal clothing and maximum capacity for violence.

 This time around, we're asking the question: Do ya feel lucky?

.44 Magnum - Danger (Japan 1983)

The FBI's world-renowned LBD team in action. 

Guaranteed to be both deadly and fit smoothly into any social situation. 

HMR - Контрольный Выстрел (Russia 2012)

I count 5 cartridge cases on the ground. 

So if we all rush her, she can only get one of us.

No..wait...better idea...we send the intern in first.

C'mon man, it'll look great on your resume.

Blood Stain Child - Epsilon (Japan 2011)

 The Japanese Trance-Metal crew with a very Anime-esque take on the concept.

"But where's the gun?" you ask.

Well, let's open up the wraparound cover, shall we? 

Happy now?

Sticking with blaster pistols...

Nemesis - Hot On Your Tracks (USA 1986)

If she doesn't start looking where she's going, I foresee a bit of an accident.  

  

The next couple aren't Heavy Metal, unless you think any band with long hair and Marshalls counts, but I like them so much, I'm putting them up anyway.

REO Speedwagon - This Time We Mean It (USA 1975)

She may be sophisticated but mock her canapes at your peril. 

The Colts - Hard To Handle  (Germany 2013)

 

Despite being good at it,  in the end, "Colt" Cassidy had to give up the Sheriff's job. 

It wasn't the endless parade of cattle-rustlers, bandits and gunsels that got her down.

It wasn't even the way drunken cowhands kept trying to stuff dollar bills in her gunbelt.

Nope.

Our gal quit because she got sick of stabbing herself in the boob every time she put the official star on in a hurry.   

And finally, an album cover I like so much, I own two copies of the t-shirt.

Within Temptation - The Unforgiving (NLD 2011) 

 I don't think that's actually a word. 

Since I have quite a few covers on the same lines, I think I'll post the rest of them tomorrow.

That's all folks.