Just about every day for the past two years I’ve gotten an email from Adrenaline PR’s metal publicist Maria Ferrero, and just as surely I’ve deleted it. Don’t get me wrong: I was happy to hear that Richmond, Va., thrashers Municipal Waste got three dates in Germany to open their Massive Aggressive, “Waste the World” tour. We just didn’t seem to have much utility for that information here at Gambit.
- Until now, that is. Allow me to share what has become my favorite part of Ferrero’s daily missives: the artwork. While it’s an unwritten rule that every pop and rock press kit must contain at least one brick wall or chain-link fence, so too must every metal kit or album cover contain hyper-stylized, demonically Photoshopped alterations of band members as some form of occult hero of the undead. Crazy-elaborate fonts, possessed artist renderings, punny titular mash-ups — forget the music, it’s these sins of InDesign that rock. Behold the best of my Mac trashcan (more devil worship after the jump):
- The Band: Genitorturers
The Album: Blackheart Revolution
The Message: Self-loathing Debbie Harry-type rises out of a pit of flames, Joan of Arc-style.
Bonus Points For: theatrical proscenium, hammered-steel nameplate, dramatic mascara-tears
