Heavy Metal Cover Girls...Make An Entrance

  Last time around I did album covers where young women were about to step through a doorway  Portal. For this small selection I'm going to do a slight variation on that. All the cover stars here have just emerged from a Portal and I find that there's some interesting differences.

  As I pointed out last time, the cover girls hanging about in front of gates tended to be elegantly dressed and a little hesitant. As we shall see, this lot are usually wearing a lot less clothing and if anybody should be worried about what's going to happen next,  it's the rest of the world.

 Wherever these Cover girls just arrived from, it isn't somewhere you'd want to visit.

Pagan's Mind - Full Circle (Norway 2015)

 Naked, electric, blonde chick coming through a Stargate?

  Yeah ....that's not gonna end well.

If I saw this in a movie I'd be telling the Good Guys to start hitting her with the biggest guns they've got. 

Or turn the AC right up to freezing. That might work. 

Pagan's Mind are Prog Metal. Here they are covering a Bowie track.




It's interesting how two bands can have very similar covers years apart.

Saidian - Evercircle  (Germany 2009)

If this young lady said she came in peace I might be inclined to believe her.
I'm still going to have a few snipers handy though, just in case her face falls off and little tentacles pop out of her eyesockets.

Saidian - For Those Who Walk The Path Forlorn (Germany 2005)

  Once upon a time I'd ahve looked at this cover and gone "Yay. A beautiful woman has stepped out of thin air. maybe she'll be my girlfriend." Now, thanks to thirty years of fantasy books and horror movies, I'm more likely to think. "Oh shit. she's going to eat my face."

 Who am I kidding?  I'm gonna be so mesmerised by The Pretty One that she could be clutching a severed leg in one hand and I wouldn't notice until too late.

 You just double-checked to make sure she isn't holding body parts, didn't you?

Saidian are singalong Power Metal. As is quite common, the lyrics are a lot darker than the music.

Queen Dementia - The Aftermath (USA 2014)

  "Hmm. I think I can do something with this place. What's it called? Earth? 

It's mine now."

The band are female-fronted Heavy Metal, a field that's seen a resurgence of late.

Atrocity -Atlantis (Germany 2004)

    Just out of sight - three priests with lanterns and some clever arranging of mirrors.

A clever priest-queen knows how to make an entrance. 

I think the lead singer of this band has the longest hair in Metal. 

 And finally, one of those clever album covers that doesn't tell you the name of the band. 

High Heeler - 12" Heels EP (Austria 2011)

Ooh, she looks pissed off.
Is that blood?
Shit, it is blood.
If you want to stick around and see what she wants, feel free.
Personally I'm legging it. See ya.

High Heeler are old school HM with a definite NWOBHM tinge.
No, this isn't a cover of the old Shangri-Las song



I hope you liked the covers and i hope you found a cool new band to check out.

If you have a cover theme you'd like to see that doesn't involve mutilation or naked blokes, leave a comment below and I'll see what I can do.

That's all folks. 

Heavy Metal Cover Girls...Waiting At The Threshold

Hello and welcome. If you're visiting for the first time then I'll quickly explain what Heavy Metal Cover Girls is all about.

I find metal/rock album covers which have beautiful women on them. 

I post them, grouped under an arbitrarily chosen theme.

I also post a music vid for the band if there is one. 

I try to find something clever and witty to say about each one. 

You go "Oh cool" and hopefully listen to the music sample as well.

Easy, hey?

 Now you might think that I would quickly run out of themes but as it turned out, that's not the case. I've been doing this for a few years now and I have enough material in my folder to keep me going for another dozen or so posts - and that's if I don't repeat myself. 

 Today's selection all have a very simple theme; Doorways. Or if you want to use a more dramatic term "Portals"  

  One of the things I keep seeing is that if one artist uses a symbol, so will a dozen others. In the case of doorways  Portals it's a nice visual shorthand to establish that the character is on the brink of  something momentous.

 Does she go through and face what's on the other side? Does she stay here and deal with normal life?  

Is she running away from something or running to something?  

Is she hanging around waiting for somebody else to show up?

All questions that the artist might want us to ask - or he might just love drawing really cool gateways. 

As early 80s pomp legends Zebra so memorably put it "What's Behind The Door?"

Sunstorm - Edge of Tomorrow (Italy/USA 2016)

   Technically this might actually be a window but it's a very Sci-Fi window that looks like a Stargate so I've decreed  it to be a Portal .

 I am Big D and this is my will.

  The other thing you will notice throughout this post is that the women contemplating these gateways are all quite elegantly dressed. 

 I'm not quite sure why this young lady has six feet of silk trailing from her armpit but I've never understood womens' fashion anyway. Yeti boots for instance - what the hell is that all about?