Heavy Metal Cover Girls: Girls with Guitars.

Hello and welcome to your semi-regular dose of Metal/Rock/AOR cover art featuring attractive young ladies ... doing stuff, complete with captions that attempt to be witty.

 The theme today is "Girls with guitars" 

Not necessarily playing them, you'll notice.

Rain - XXX (Italy 2011) 

I was ever so disappointed when I found out this band 's lead singer isn't a 6 foot tall, tattooed redhead
who can drink you under the table, win a bar fight then get on stage and rock like a beast. 

All that aside, they aren't bad. If you like Old-school metal have a listen to this.

Elikat - Electrikat (Spain 1990)

Proof that you can have a naked woman on an album cover and not make it tacky.
I've just noticed that there seems to be steam coming off the guitar.
I don't think I want to know...

Pleaser - One Night In Paradise (Brazil 2013)

Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!
Quickly followed by
"Oh shiiiiiiiiiii..." when she reaches the end and discovers that she's still 7 storeys up.
Luckily she's an angel - sort of - so the fall won't hurt but it will mess up her vinyl trousers.

Axident Avenue - Shaken And Disturbed (Norway 2010)

Yes, they're a Sleaze-Rock outfit, why'd you ask?
One of those bands that keeps hoping a wormhole will open up back to Sunset Strip in 1990 so they can go home.
I rather like the cover. Not a technical masterpiece but it has a definite charm.
Here's what they sound like.

Break Out  (?)

I found this cover somewhere but have no idea where. If anybody has any details, please drop me a line. 

You have to wonder if that's as comfortable as it looks.
Surely falling off would be an issue?

Lions Breed - Damn The Night (Germany 1985)

 "You love that guitar more than me."
"Err...Of course I don't honey."
"Then why's it in our bed. On my side?"
"Um... It's a cold night?"
"I bet you'd have sex with it if you could?"
"Don't be silly. That messes up the strings and then you can never get the tone right....Why are you looking at me like that?"

Loud N Clear - Playing With Thunder (Israel 2012)

Smashing guitars is Rock and Roll
Ripping them in half with lightning is proof that you may be eligible to join the X-Men.

Here's what they sound like.

That's all folks.

The True Mysteries Of Peter Haining

For many years now I've been interested in...

Well, you can call it The Paranormal, you can call it The Unexplained or Forteana or just call it "Weird Shit"

Creatures that may or may not exist. Artefacts that don't belong. Lights in the sky and phantom hitchikers. Ancient conspiracies and and steam engines stashed away under Welsh mountains. Coincidence and coverup and curiosities galore.

 All the stuff that regular science and regular history prefers to store in a locked cabinet.
That's down in the basement.
Hidden under a stack of old newspapers.
With a big sign on the door reading "Beware of the leopard"

And I think I know where this peculiar fascination first emerged.