The Album Art of Dusan Markovic

 A little while back I posted the album cover to Claymore's  "Lament Of Victory" and mentioned how much I liked it.
 Just to refresh your memory, here it is again.

 Well, I was pleasantly surprised when the band's guitarist  Vlad Invictus left a comment - cheers mate - so I took the opportunity to ask who did the art.
 And the answer is: Serbian freelance artist Dusan Markovic.  

 Not only that, but he also did a couple of covers for promising female-fronted metal crew A Sound of Thunder. 

 He has a page on Deviantart and it's well worth a look.  http://dusanmarkovic.deviantart.com/gallery/ 
Perfectly suited for Metal bands, wouldn't you say?

More details on  Claymore can be found on their homepage: https://www.facebook.com/claymore.serbia/info

 They describe themselves as Epic Power Metal. I think posting one of their songs is appropriate at this point.

Honour to: claymore

And since I've mentioned A Sound Like Thunder, let's have one of theirs as well. It's a slightly gentle offering by their standards.

 Honour to: ASoundofThunderBand

Band homepage here: http://www.asoundofthunderband.com/

Female fronted bands playing proper Heavy Metal = always something I'd happy to see. 

Anyway, that's it for now. 

See you next time. 

Lady Wrestlers from the 1960s

 I've been scanning pics from a pair of 1960s Pro Wrestling magazines I acquired last week. (See my last two posts for details.) but in the process I couldn't help noticing something.
 The last decade or so, womens' wrestling has been nudged out of the magazines. PowerSlam might have a pinup every other month but you almost never see an article about, say A.J Lee.
 Even back in the days when I was reading the Apter mags (Inside Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Illustrated.) and their competitors (Wrestling Scene especially) you'd get a short piece every so often and that's it.
  I'm holding an edition of Ring Wrestling from 1964 right now. Let's see how many articles there are about the ladies.
 So far -  5. 11 pages in total. Not counting a frivolous comedy piece and something about a wrestling Tartar Princess.  
Hmm. Wonder why?

That goes some way towards explaining why I decided to hold back certain pics and post all the women's action  at the same time. Hope you like them.

 Ann Casey doesn't seem to like blondes much.  

The Fabulous Moolah gets pummeled by Joan Collins. 

Not the Joan Collins, although thinking about it, that would have been awesome. 

 Jean Bouchet smiles for the camera. seems like a nice girl. 

 And now she's putting the boot in.  Seems to be quite enthusiastic about it too. 

Jean gets roughed up by Princess Little Cloud. 

 A line up of lady wrestlers in seriously unflattering swimsuits. That said, Sheba Zenni has an elegant, exotic thing going on. Be right back. I'll see if I can find some more pics.
Nope. Bugger.
A quick look on WrestlingData.com reveals that she was only around for 15 matches or so.

Olga Martinez doesn't like blondes either. Let's take a moment to consider how strong this woman must be.

Fathia "Chi Chi" Djaileb. Empress Of The Black Dagger. Heading for American rings.

The article mentions that before becoming a wrestler she was a nurse for the Arab Nationalist Movement.

Not by choice either: "I was kidnapped by the movement when I was only 15 years old."

After trying her hand at basketball the young Algerian  began wrestling and went on to compete in the UK.

There's archive footage of that match on Youtube. Apologies for potato quality. 

At some point The Empress of the Black Dagger  began wrestling as Titi Paris, under which name she campaigned for women  to be allowed to wrestle in New York. She even had a role in 1980 wrestling flick "Below The Belt"  That's her helping battered heroine Rosa at the end of this clip. 

I think a little respect is in order. 

That's all folks.