Heavy Metal Cover Girls...Get Tattooed

Evening All. 

Anybody up for some more metal cover stars?

 Excellent. Now you wait right there while I find something suitable.  

   I continue to be amazed by how many album covers have pin-up covers. I'm also amazed how many times a seemingly random motif will come up on one CD after another. I suppose it could be that old adage "Nothing new under the sun." It could also be that an artist trying to get over a particular mood or message will independently hit on something that's worked so well for others. 

    Or they just nick ideas off each other. 

Either way, it's very rare for me to find an album cover without finding something similar a week later. 

For this selection, what clearly happened is the lead singer saying to the artist "Hey. why not put a logo on the back of a half-naked woman. It'll look really cool and I bet nobody else has ever done it."

Oh you could not be more wrong...

 Hammerschmitt - United (Germany 2016)

Have you been rolling around in the dust again? 

Go take a shower young lady.

Hammerschmitt are grinding Germanic metal

Dreamspell - По заклинаниям сна (Russia 2015)

"По заклинаниям сна" is "In Sleep Spells"according to Google Translate.

So that would be ..."Dream Spells" then.

This band are not what I was expecting at all.

The next 3 aren't exactly Heavy Metal but they're close cousins.

Fergie Fredriksen- Happiness Is the Road (USA 2011)

Personally I believe happiness does not entail hanging around a dusty roadside in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. 

Each to their own.

Fergie Fredriksen is semi-legendary in AOR circles.

Modern Superstar - Under My Skin (USA 2011)

 Butt Cleavage!

How come she can get away with it but I can't?

Modern Superstar would have fitted right in to the Sunset Strip scene of 1991.

Asphalt Valentine - Into The Red (USA 2014)

She really lies that wallpaper, hey?

Asphalt Valentine are scuzzy hard rock.

And finally...

 Mad Mav - Black Sheep (Germany 2008)

 A surprisingly restrained tattoo but the band clearly liked the idea because they broke it out again a few years later. 

And like any good sequel, it wasn't just more of the same - but more of the same. 

  Mad Mav - The Fiddler Queen (Germany 2012)

   You have to be really confident as a band to leave your name off the album cover. 

You also have to be supremely comfortable in your skin  to play violin in public while in your pants. 

Mad Mav is a one man instrumental project. 

Literally one man - he seems to play everything. 

Dang.

That's all folks
See you tomorrow.