The visual history of heavy metal has an equal share of fine art replications, low brow illustrations, and under exposed photography. Whether created, commissioned, borrowed, stolen, or altered just enough to avoid copyright infringement, album covers are chosen to represent a record in its entirety. Heavy metal does not need to make art cooler, and art has no business validating heavy metal.īut there’s an overlap where neither art nor heavy metal are trying to be something they are not: Album covers. Both topics, fine art and metal, are valid enough without the help of the other. I’ve always loved two things: Heavy metal and art history.
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