Tuesday 31 March 2020

Heavy Metal Cover Girls: Red Riding Hood

 Heavy Metal Cover Girls is a very occasional series where I post album covers 

that share a theme and try to say something almost intelligent about them. 


That said covers all feature at least one attractive young woman in minimal clothing is entirely coincidental.   

 Some stories have such a strong hold on our memories that you only need a few visual clues and you can tell where the rest of the story is going; or at least up until the final twist. Case in point:  Give a young woman a brief red cape, stick her in the woods and right away you can almost here the sinister strings and a faith sound of something breathing in the bushes. 

 As with a lot of these covers I've posted, the imagery is a deliberate attempt to evoke a certain response.  This can then be subverted, played for laughs or run as a one panel horror story depending on what the band asked for. 

 The theme is Red Riding Hood and not only are there multiple album covers using this image, there are several different ways to get young Red to Granny's house.  


Xiphea - Once Upon a Time (Germany 2016)

heavy metal cover girls red riding hood

   Red is surprised to discover that Granny has apparently upgraded to a Schloss.
Red is now wondering why she's lugging this basket of food when Granny has an entire castle full of servants paid to do shit like this. 

Xiphea are female fronted Symphonic metal



American Dog - Unfinished Business. (USA 2017)

Sexy album covers.

Poor wolf never knew what hit him.
Red has been away in the city and what she learned there is the power of a low-cut blouse and a well-swung bat. 

American Dog are a rough-edged, bluesy hard Rock band from Ohio.



Lupu' Cel Rău - Povești Din Pădurea De Metal (Romania 2016)


Somehow I don't think it was the wolf stalking the girl here.
She looks entirely too happy and I wouldn't be surprised if Granny's house is surrounded by impaled heads on spikes. 

I don't get to hear that many Romanian metal bands, especially ones that have songs in Romanian.
Definitely on the melodic side of  Metal.
Interesting.


Ivory Twilight - Седем ("Seven") (Bulgaria 2013)

 Here Red has lost the path entirely and strayed into a Salvador Dali painting. 

(Yeah... I'm stretching a bit with some of these. I admit it. )

Metal Archives describe Ivory Twilight as Symphonic Power Metal 
and one of these days I'll find somebody to explain what that is to me. 


Righteous Vendetta - Cursed. (USA 2017)

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Red Riding Hood walked into the woods to visit Granny. 

Somebody...something... else came back.  

Righteous Vendetta are Metalcore which, looking at the album cover,  surprised me a lot. 



So this next cover isn't metal by any stretch of the imagination but it fits the theme and also has an interesting take on it. 

Cattac - Little Red (Germany 2018)



It took me a while to work out what was wrong with this picture. 
I knew something was off but couldn't put my finger on it.
Eventually I managed to work past the boobs and down to the legs.
Or lack of. 
This isn't Red riding Hood. 
This is a mannequin of Red Riding Hood which adds an extra layer of meaning.
What that meaning is, you'll have to ask the band.  

Cattac are difficult to describe.  Not Metal or even rock but more
dark electronic Gothic music. 
I can see pale girls in a dark - really dark- club loving this. 


Thursday 26 March 2020

The Metal Project Is Now On Youtube

 Morning All. 

 I think we can all agree that COVID19 sucks massive quantities of dead penguin dick.

Seriously. Fuck COVID19

But on a marginally more positive note...

I NOW HAVE A YOUTUBE CHANNEL

Which means I now have a proper playlist for The Metal Poject. 

It's still a work in progress as I'm having to load each song manually
but there's now 600-odd songs already on and more to come.
That should keep you busy, hey?

Go check it out at:

The Metal Project- The Most Metal Playlist Ever

Monday 16 March 2020

The Metal Project: Metal Possessed


Evening All.
Welcome to another installment in my ongoing, if somewhat intermittent, attempt 
to track down and catalogue every single song on Youtube that has "Metal" in the title. 

Everybody needs something to keep them sane. 
For some reason I thought this would do it for me... 

Let's have some headbanging music. 
Enjoy. 

Töxik Death - Metal Possessed (Norway 2014)



Honour to: UshuPagi Alcoholic


Stryctnyne - Metal Warrior (USA 1991)


Honour to: Tenebre987


Quiar - Legión Del Metal (Argentina 2017)





Thunder Steel - War Metal (Brazil Demo 2009)


Honour to: Fred Keyster


Apple Sin - Roadie Metal (Brazil  2017)


Honour to: Roadie Metal

Please make sure to like and subscribe to the channels I listed here.
That's All folks. 

Monday 9 March 2020

The Metal Project: Healed By Metal

The internets biggest collection of metal songs about metal

 Evening all. I'm still working through my backlog of promo vids so here's hoping you find something you like.

Grave Digger - Healed By Metal (Germany 2016)


Honour to: LINK

Eqalunique - Metal Nerds (Germany 2014)


Honour to: EqaluniqueBand

Well that's not something you see in metal vids very often is it?

Ankh Amun - Metal Gott (Germany 2015)


Honour to: Ankh Amun


Exorddium- Heavy Metal (Brazil 2013)


Honour to: Exorddium Official


Sinfonia Celtica - Bitch Metal (Mexico 2015)


Honour to: Sinfonia Celtica Official

I hope you found something cool or at least something that made you nod your head.
Now could you please go check out the channels listed above and give them some support?
That would be awesome

That's All Folks

Tuesday 3 March 2020

The Metal Project: Metal Invasion

What is The Metal Project? 
One day I set out to see how many songs I could find and post that had "metal" in the title. 
Eight years + later and I'm not even close to finished. 


   Evening All. Continuing the theme from last time, I shall be posting promos rather then songs. Enjoy.

Reactory - Metal Invasion (Germany 2014)



Honour to: Reactory666

Knights Of The Forge - Metal Law (USA 2014)


Honour to: Samuel Schaefer


Footprints In The Custard - Party Metal (UK 2016)




VooDoo - Metalmania (Poland 1987)


Honour to: VoodooKrakowPoland


Synthphonia Suprema - Synth Metal (Italy 2006)


Honour to: Hector Gaona
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