Sunday 24 April 2016

Heavy Metal Cover Girls...Blood And Steel

 Hello and welcome to today's episode of Heavy Metal Cover Girls.  


   For this collection of album covers I will be revisiting a theme I've used before and is in fact the one that started this whole series of posts.

    If you're going to have a fierce warrior on your CD cover, why does it have to be a man?  

 I know I keep coming back to the whole "Women Warriors" theme but so do cover artists, which means I have an entire folder full of broadsword-swinging beauties ready to be unleashed on the world. 

 Before I start, I will say this: Some of these ladies are warriors who happen to be women and some are a clear case of  the artist being told "Draw a sexy woman - giver her a sword too."  I bet you can spot which is which without too much effort. 


  Thy Majestie - Jeanne D'Arc (Italy 2005)

  Power Metal bands love concept albums.
 This one is devoted to the young woman who saved France and is, i feel, a good place to start.


It's also the last time on this page that you're going to see anything resembling functional armour so if you are a military history buff .. 

 Stop reading now. 


 These Sicilian boys play grandiose Power Metal so Rhapsody is the obvious reference point.



Falkirk - Anthology (France 2013)


 Not bad as fantasy armour goes but there's still an inexplicable gap right where you really need something solid.
 As far as I can tell, the front seems to be fully protected so why has she got a gap over her kidneys?

  Then again. our heroine has her own dinosaur so is anybody going to get that close?  I know I wouldn't.

The band seem to be at the crunchier end of Euro Power Metal - Gamma Ray/ Iron Saviour and so forth. 



Corniger Calvarium - Edad Media (Argentina 2016)

 A cover I rather like, mainly because of the expression on her face. Is it just me or does she seem a bit annoyed? 

 And  here's what they sound like. Track takes a while to get going but is worth a listen if you like Doomy Heavy Metal.

 The full album can be found on the band's blog: http://cornigercalvariam.blogspot.co.uk/

Seducer -'Eads down See You At The End (UK 1986)

If the purpose of the cover is to make you want to buy the album it worked because I used to have this LP.
And all the time I owned it, I never noticed what she was doing with her left hand. 
Hopefully somebody was able to stitch her fingers back on afterwards. 

 True to their album title the band are full-throttle NWOBHM. 



 Reactory - Killed By Thrash EP (Germany 2013)


    Something, something Axe Attack something.
A deliberate tribute to the metal album covers of the 80s?  Possibly.
I love the fact that one of her decapitated victimt till has a lit fag in his gob. 

Does it surprise anybody to learnt that Reactory are  smack-in-da-mouf Thrash?


 The artist wasn't even trying with this next set of armour. 

 Dead Earth Politics - The Queen of Steel EP (USA 2014)

  Poseidon finds himself forcibly retired and as a further humiliation, gets poked with his own trident. 
Maybe he should have listened to his chief bodyguard when she asked for a proper breastplate.
He should definitely have paid attention to her muscles instead of her boobs. 

I'm going to lie though. I like this cover - nice expressions on both their faces.
She's absolutely fucking furious while he's clearly thinking "Aw bollocks..."

DEP are Thrash/Groove. Bonus points for having a warrior woman in the vid.

 And finally, a good contender for earliest "Woman with Sword" album cover.

Uriah Heap - Fallen Angel  (UK 1978)

A piece of artwork by fantasy legend Chris Achilleos, a man who created some gorgeous, fierce warrior-women over the years. 


 Uriah Heap are one of those bands that used to be classed as Heavy Metal but got left behind when the boundaries shifted.  


 I hope you liked the covers, I hope you liked the music and if there's any theme you want to see, why not let me know? 

 That's all folks.

4 comments:

  1. These armoured women are OK, kinda like Xena Warrior Princess, but what I'd really like to see is a full-on Boadicea type - like the statue. Thanks, as always, Dale for showing us the depth and variety that is in Metal Rock cover art.

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    1. Funnily enough I posted a cover a few years back that's exactly what you're looking for. Have a look here: http://bigdassorted.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/album-covers-and-warrior-women.html



      http://www.nuclearblast.de/static/articles/168/168719.jpg/1000x1000.jpg

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    2. Thanks Dale. Think I found my perfect woman in Martine Beswick. Then again I loved the full-on Boadicea art in photo. Great work!

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    3. Glad you liked it Neil.

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