Classic Paintings Used as Metal Album Covers.
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- In todays video we're going to explore some classic paintings turned into heavy metal album covers. Gustave Doré, Thomas Cole, Francisco Goya, John Martin and other pre- 19th century painters whose art became an inspiration for a lot of heavy metal bands from the 1980s and beyond. So we're going to compare the art with the artwork from different metal bands. Enjoy!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:50 Artworks & Paintings
08:27 Summary
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Featuring bands such as:
Candlemass, Agony, Bathory, Burzum, Celtic Frost, Atlantean Kodex, While Heaven Wept, Blaspheme, Reverend Bizarre, Doomsword, Merciless, Hexenhaus, Deicide, Iced Earth, Angel Witch, Cryptopsy, Count Raven & Bruce Dickinson.
The Music in the video is from:
The bands included in the video +
RUclips Audio Library (Ethan Maxwell)
Grieg, Bach & Wagner 
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As a person with a degree in Art History, it's always delightful to find out vídeos like this one.
Como graduado en Historia del Arte, siempre en un encanto encontrarse videos como este.
Nice, I don't know nothing about art history but I love the artworks. Cheers!
Another with a degree in Art History, I love metal covers inspired in paintings. By the way, Goya, my favourite artist, he is heavy metal before heavy metal exists!
Blood Fire Death couldn't have had a more fitting album cover.
yeah it's magnificent!
John Martin is the goat. His “Belshazzar’s Feast” is one of his best works imo. The scale of his paintings are insane. Old paintings like these were pretty much like movies for people back then. There’s a great video on YT that talks about the history of “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymus Bosch. Art is cool.
indeed! Cheers!
So Emperor really had a thing for Gustave Doré.
Seems like it. :)
Dore was amazing. Dead at 51. Buried near Jim Morrison. Balzac. Wilde.
@@seagullpoet Nice, didn't know that. Thanks!
Who doesnt? As all 50+ swedes I grew up with the Dore Bible... You can get it for 15-90 € everywhere online - I LOOOOOVE the artwork he made to all the biblical stories!
Love from Sweden 💖
Å Cina Nilsson är tveklöst den hetaste däkan Tingsryd nånsin producerat... (Har inget med nåt att göra, just saying...)
vet inte vem de e. :D @@karl-unoisaksson4000
Nice list, my personal fave is Morbid Angel but seeing Agony always puts a smile on my face. Another worth mentioning is Black Sabbath - Greatest Hits (1977) with Pieter Bruegel's Triumph of Death painting.
I am a proud owner of "The first defiance" on vinyl.
me too. ;) Cheers!
Ah, I was going to mention the ‘Triumph of Death’ but you beat me to it.
The Voyage of Life: Youth by Thomas Cole is obviously a very vivid and memorable painting. One afternoon, my wife took me to the National Art Gallery in Washington DC, and I saw the original. I knew I had seen it before somewhere, but I couldn't remember where. On our way out, as we walked back into the room, and I saw the painting again, my brain went "Candlemass!" My wife couldn't figure out my reaction. 🙂
haha. Cheers!
Same. They have at least three Cole paintings used for Candlemass covers. They also have a Bosch painting there at the National Gallery. (Death and the miser)
5:22 Bulldözer - Fallen Angel / Another Beer (Is What I Need) (1984)
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I've always liked "Another Victory by the Forces of Darkness" by Koppay; I'm surprised it's never been on a heavy metal album cover.
Cheerios!
great video! old paintings are always a good idea for an album cover!
Cheers!
I would like to add that Francisco Goya's painting, "El Aquelarre", was first used in 1995 by the legendary Peruvian extreme metal band Mortem, on their album "Demon Tales". Greetings, excellent content.
Cheers!
I loved candlemass and bathory ones
good stuff! cheers!
Me too. "Nightfall" and "Ancient dreams" both have amazing covers.
The Voyage of life (all of 4 paintings) are awesome and obviously Gustavo Doré Emperor artworks!!!
indeed! Cheers!
Another mention would be Cyanide's "The Dying Truth", featuring Eyck's "The Last Judgment".
Cheers!
I immediately thought of Candlemass when i saw the vídeo's tittle. Great art covers!
yes Sir, good stuff! Cheers!
the Angel witch cover is sick 👍
indeed!
My favourite album from this is for sure Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade, but my favourite artwork is Jean Deville's The Treasure of Satan on Blessed is the sick, it fit perfectly with Morbid Angel at that moment and that album.
good stuff!
I loved this! I'm a rare breed : a professor in biblical studies and a huge metal fan. I was fascinated with own many of these paintings are inspired by biblical texts (around a third of the paintings in this video). Great and interesting work. I hope you do a part 2.
Maybe some day. Roght now i cant think of that many more.
@@RuthlessMetalYTI can help with that
I am of the same breed as you my brother. I went to a Christian school my whole school career. I now own a vintage company that sells old band tshirts and I myself wear band shirts with imagery that may scare an old lady lol... but I am also a born again christian.
@@Peasant_in_a_tree Awesome! Keep on rocking bro!
I love Gustave Dore's art so much that I have his "Fall of Lucifer" tattooed on my shaven head. & back in the day when we had record stores, I would search for & purchase any albums that had this type of artwork. Its cool how the cover art evoked the same feeling that the music did...for me. An example would be Black Sabbath's first album. I hope that made sense. anyway \m/
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Man! This was epic!!! Loved this! Keep em' comin'.
thank you, Cheers!
I really like the drawings from Gustave Dore and Goya, dark and haunted by lot of strange things..
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I always liked the work of Jean-Léon Gérôme. It would be great if some band used some of his paintings as album cover.
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Always nice to see you uploading a new video, this one was very interesting 👊🏼
Thank you! Cheers!
The Deicide one is actually pretty cool, and the Merciless and Burzum ones as well.
Cheers!
Thanks for sharing this video 👍
🎉 Bosh ❤
Cheers!
Very great video! I´d like to add Guns N Roses´ "Use Your Illusion" albums which features one scene from "The School of Athens" from Raphael.
thanks boss. Cheers!
Proof that classical painters were metal as fuck.
true!
GREAT Job! I only miss the cover paintings from J. van Eyck (Lordian Guard) and A. Dürer (Internal Void)... to name two artists that come to mind.
Cheers!
I'd really love to see a video where you describe such a scenario since, just like me, you're a metal enthusiast that loves to talk about metal and rock music in general.
Cheers! 🤘
Miss Windir albums, great artworks too
Cheers!
I recently finally got around to reading John Milton's Paradise Lost on a little $3 e-book. It included the illustrations of Gustave Dore. Interestingly, it was illustrated almost 200 years after being written by the blind poet. Its influence on metal can't be overstated. William Blake always reminds me of the movie Red Dragon, where Dolarhyde eats his painting. Clark Ashton Smith did some cool sculptures/sketches, but he was in the early 20th century.
Don't think I've seen that movie. Cheers!
Great video!
My Honourable Mention: Exxplorer's 'A Recipe For Power' album cover is from a painting by Thomas Cole called 'The Course of Empire: Destruction' (1836)
Good stuff
great piece work again
thank you!
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Cryptopsy None So Vile was the first thing that I thought of.
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Same
👏👏👏
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Afsky "Ofte Drømmer Jeg Mig Død" (Often I dream myself dead) (2020). The cover is the Danish artist H. A. Brendekilde "Udslidt" (Worn Down) from 1889.
The original painting is in a museum about 2 km from my home. ;)
Cheers!
Danzig - How the Gods Kill, the album cover is based on an H.R. Giger painting and he's my favorite painter of the XXth century aswell.
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Great work, thx!!!
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Triumph of Death painting has to one of the best.
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Great content. thank you.
thanks!
Candlemass are the one using those paintings the most. I personally prefer original art instead of copy or use previous released art.
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Good work as always. Thanks.👍
Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT 😃👍
Great topic for a video. I studied Art History for a while in the late '80s. I was able to guess a few of the painters from the album covers that you presented.
nice. :) Cheers!
My suggestion is Chakal LP "Abominable Anno Domini", brazilian thrash band. Very nice cover.
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A very interesting video!
Thank you!
Very informative
Thanks!
This just goes to show how the romantic art of the 19th century had a thing for the macabre and dramatic forces of nature
yeah. cheers!
Metal Rules!
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Salem also used the drawing "the greatest day of his wrath" for their (very good) 1992 album creating our sins
Cheers
@@RuthlessMetalYT to you to I guess?
Cool vid!👍
thx, Cheers!
Atlantean Kodex - The White Goddess was released in 2013.
Yeah sometimes errors slips through when i copy segments. :)
One of the Bitches Sin records used The Scream for a cover.
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Desaster! Glad that they made it.
Cheerios!
Isle of death by arnold bocklin
Edit: not disappointed
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Also Hieronymus Bosch's "the garden of earthly delights" in Deep Purple's third(?) album, named... Deep Purple
Cheers!
I know you wanted to show the original art next to its representation on the album cover but The Garden of Earthly Delights is so much larger and more detailed than the tiny portion of it used by Frost.
yeah, it's hard to do 'em justice on screen too.@@OpinionatedIMO
I Like this kind of art. Classic paintings based on humanism, religion, sacrality, high classes and royals, and the common peeple and life
Cheers!
Surprised not to see Hammerheart on here.
Yeah it could have been in here. there's just so many and bathory was in the vid at least.
@@RuthlessMetalYT Very fair, Hammerheart and Blood Fire Death is just what comes to my mind immediately when I saw the title of the video. A lot of the covers you went through I didn't know we're paintings to begin with, super cool!
I’m reading “Art Thief” by Finkel. French guy and girlfriend.
They stole 2 billion - never sold a piece. They roamed 4-5 countries.
All daylight hits. Exciting nonfiction for sure.
Cheers!
I wnat to mention Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea, with Le Radeau de la Meduse by Théodore Gericault on the cover. Awesome album, awesome (and gigantic) painting that depicts an historical event in which surfaced the worst face of mankind (including stupidity and lots of violence) and last but not least, a killer theme by Aephanemer!
Good mentions cheers
Ya see! Us metal heads can be classy and educated too. Never realized how many band covers came from paintings?
Cheers!
Excellent presentation! I really enjoyed it. And the music was well chosen as well.
I missed the work of Patrick Woodroffe, who was used for the artwork of the Judas Priest album ‘Sad Wings of Destiny’.
It’s my favourite artwork. His art is also used for the ‘Bandolier’ album by Budgie. But I don’t like it as much as the cover of ‘Sad Wings of Destiny’.
he is contemporary art, this is pre 20th century.
@@RuthlessMetalYT Ah, got it.
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Surprised nobody has used "The Great Red Dragon" by William Blake
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First hailz!
second hailz!
When teen Iqasa a huge Gun n Roses fan and the album covr fo the use your illusion 1-2 is part of Raphael’s painting called School of Athens. Not as exciting but still a clasic painting. 🤷♂️
Cheers!
På tok för mkt fritid 😆😂💥
But I love it, Sherlock - Great (and highly interesting/impressive) work 👍
Love from Sweden 💖
Och Regina Lund var obeskrivligt het back in the days (har ingenting med någonting att göra, just saying)
hehe. Hon är en dåre. ;) Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT
Woooo, djupt...🤣
Although not a painting. The best use of an artwork on an album cover is The Sensational Alex Harvey Bands album Rock Drill by the sculpter Jacob Epstein
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I really like Celtic Frost and Triptykon's usage of H.R. Gieger paintings, they're the most fucked up shit you've never seen!
Yeah his art is something else.
I do believe Windir used a few paintings.
Cheers! 🤘🏻
What album used The Great Red Dragon And the Woman Bathed in the Sun?
not sure?
7:11 That Atlantean Kodex album is from 2013, not 1988, of course !
Did it say 1988? An error slipped through then.
Do the rank em all for death angel albums
maybe some day. Cheers!
It should be noted that, when Morbid Angel approached the museum to ask permission for Les tresors des Satan, they said they were the first metal band who contacted them. Therefore, probably Hexenhaus used the painting without permission.
Maybe so. :)
What permission would be needed? Certainly not copyright. Maybe permission to photograph the original but that wouldn't be necessary to get an image for the album sleeve.
Can either wood cuts / tarot card illustrations or stills from the silent cinema era be used as album cover artwork ?
probably, but I guess you have to contact the each copyright holder for info.
Surprised there isn't more Bosch.
Cheers!
Whitesnake: Saints & Sinners ✌️
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You missed a good one "To Mega Therion" of Celtic Frost, maybe bcoz it was from the last century and it might not be a classic yet......regardless thats a good painting cover. Thanks for culturize us, keep it up.
its a modern painting. Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT That could be a topic for a new top "Modern painting used as metal album covers" I know for sure there are many.
doubt i will do that since a lot of these paintings would just be done for the band and it's hard to tell what's contemporary art or just made for the bands.@@gersomcoreas5526
Got you!! It makes sense.
both acid bath's album art cover's are also paintings (by not very good people)
modern paintings I think
Heironomous Bosch
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Metal is the modern classical.
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And again Bathory win..Blood Fire Death is best artwork...
as always Uthred son of Uthred!
@@RuthlessMetalYT how like The Last Kingdom..for me better than Vikings..and movie Seven Kings Must Die is also excelent..thank you for answer..
I haven't seen the movie. I saw like 3 seasons of The Last Kingdom, haven't seen the last season though and not the movie yet but some day I hope to do so. I loved Vikings too, quality TV shows.@@uhtredragnarsson8961
@@RuthlessMetalYT no regret if continue to watch season 4 and 5..many fan's comment how movie is,,made on quickly way,,but am not agree with them..movie is good..Uhtred also..and excelent ending again..similar like ending in season 5..
Ærækær ??
huh
thumbs down. i wanna see Metal Master Jim's original artwork.
get to drawing, buddy...LOL
I can't showcase my high art mastery for free. ;)
@@RuthlessMetalYT totally understandable.
Who tf is hexenhaus 😂 Thats morbid angel
Hexenhaus was first and they're better too. ;) Swedish thrash metal band.