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Book Review: …AND JUSTICE FOR ART – Stories About Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Album Covers – Volume 3 By Alex Yarborough, Orlando Contributor Monday, March 29, 2021 @ 6:28 AM
There is great insight into the creative process and the thinking behind the art. Like a time capsule, Martos’ books have preserved these album covers for posterity. In a perfect world, Martos would release a volume like this every year, highlighting the previous year’s best album art. If you are a fan of album cover artwork like me, this book belongs in your collection. Well done once again, Ramon!
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That’s just scratching the surface. My jaw dropped each time I turned the page. Finally, IRON MAIDEN is included, and it’s arguably the band’s greatest cover artwork, Somewhere In Time. That cover is scrutinized in detail with the man himself, Derek Riggs. Thought you knew all the details about this cover art? There’s much more to it. The original artwork for GUNS N’ ROSES’ debut album Appetite For Destruction is included. You know the one— Robert Williams’ controversial illustration of a robot versus a red creature. Martos talks with British artists John Kosh and Mark Wilkinson about their work on W.A.S.P.’s The Headless Children and JUDAS PRIEST’s Painkiller, respectively. Other classics I dig here are KREATOR’s Coma of Souls, DEATH’s Human, STRATOVARIUS’s Visions, AMORPHIS’s Under The Red Cloud and ICED EARTH’s The Glorious Burden. These are just a few of the 59 album cover studies in this book. Once again, as in the previous volumes, even the bands and albums I wasn’t previously familiar with were fascinating reads indeed.