Heavy Metal Historian
Episode 52:
We delve into an exceptionally important aspect of Heavy Metal: the history of album cover art. From the birth of the genre, to downloadable art, we explore the prehistory, evolution, and future of the significance of album art for metal bands and their albums, we begin a multi-part journey into the history of metal cover art.
Hosted by Greg Davies, the Heavy Metal Historian Podcast delivers to you snippets of tales from years gone by in the world of Metal, one episode at a time.
Clips and Sources
Book bound in human skin found at Harvard library
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks (Special Features)
Evil Dead – Listening to the Book of the Dead
Good Reads: And Justice for Art
Joe Rogan Experience #887: James Hetfield
Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey (2005)
Metal Evolution: New Wave of British Heavy Metal
Metallica gets OWNED by Spinal Tap
Pantera / Hellyeah’s Vinnie Paul – Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction?
The Shiver: Walpurgis – Artwork by HR Giger
Metal News Links
After the break-up of SISTER SIN, vocalist LIV SIN has a new solo album coming out
Broadway Adaptation Of NIKKI SIXX’s ‘The Heroin Diaries’ To Begin Casting
CHUCK BERRY, a massive influence on Rock and Roll, and eventually Metal, has died at age 90
EVANESCENCE’s AMY LEE Releases Official Video For ‘Speak To Me’ Solo Single
GHOST Announce Headline Summer Tour Surrounding IRON MAIDEN Dates
Listen To ANTHRAX’s Cover Version Of KANSAS Classic ‘Carry On Wayward Son’
Report: MÖTLEY CRÜE’s Biopic ‘The Dirt’ To Land At NETFLIX
SLAUGHTER Frontman MARK SLAUGHTER To Release ‘Halfway There’ Solo Album
There’s a metal tribute to PINK FLOYD’s “The Wall” coming out
Recommended Listening:
- “Wicked Young Man” by Alice Cooper from Brutal Planet
- “Hardwired” by Metallica from Hardwired… to Self-Destruct
- “F.C.I. / The Awakening” by Evildead from Annihilation of Civilization
- “South Pacific Overtutre” by Original Broadway Cast from South Pacific
- “Blue Suede Shoes” by Elvis Presley from Elvis Presley
- “Liquid Love” by Freddie Hubbard from Liquid Love
- “We Can Work it Out” by The Beatles from The Red Album: The Beatles – 1962-1966
- “Street Fighting Man” by The Rolling Stones from Beggars’ Banquet
- “Doctor Who Meets Metal” by Eric Calderone from The 331Erock YouTube Channel
- “Moonage Daydream” by David Bowie from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
- “Out of Focus” by Blue Cheer from Vincebus Eruptum
- “The Rocker” by Thin Lizzy from Vagabonds of the Western World
- “Beth” by KISS from Destroyer
- “It’s All Coming Back to me Now” by Meat Loaf from Bat Out of Hell III
- “Police Truck” by Dead Kennedys from Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
- “Running Free” by Iron Maiden from Iron Maiden
- “Turbo Lover” by Judas Priest from Turbo
- “Antisocial” by Anthrax from State of Euphoria
- “Nothin’ But a Good Time” by Poison from Open Up and Say… Ahh!
- “Bad Medicine” by Bon Jovi from New Jersey
- “Split Wide Open” by Cannibal Corpse from Tomb of the Mutilated
- “When Satan Rules His World” by Deicide from Once Upon a Cross
- “Moonrise Fields of Sorrow” by Immortal from Battles in the North
- “Nothing Else Matters” by Metallica from Metallica: The Black Album (1991)
- “Big Bottom” by Spinal Tap from This is Spinal Tap
- “Sad But True” by Metallica from Live Shit: Binge and Purge
- “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana from Nevermind
- “Walk” by Pantera from Vulgar Display of Power
- “Lost in Space” by Avantasia from The Scarecrow
- “Octavarium” by Dream Theater from Octavarium
- “Twilight of the Gods” by Blind Guardian from Beyond the Red Mirror
- “The Four Horsemen” by Metallica from Acoustic Metal
- “…and Justice for All” by Metallica from …and Justice for All
- “Long Distance Runaround” by Yes from Fragile
- “Phantom of the Opera” by Iron Maiden from Quilmes Rock Festival Argentina 2009