BEING FRANK AGAIN IN BRAZIL

Since we already was on the Frank Frazetta track a week back, I thought we could keep on heading down the same track.

There is no shame in borrowing for inspiration and that's the case here (as I repeatedly state).

When Brazilian Genocídio finally was ready to launch their debut M-LP in '88 they did so on a obscure label called "Ultra Violence" with a rooster gaping empty with only that release. This could actually be a self-release, no Sherlock skills needed to draw that conclusion.

They delivered four tracks of Sarcófago stinking black metal, executed with slightly untuned guitars. A win-win modernly speaking. Funny though is that the drums are pretty tight.

So... For their album art they choice an artist who knew how to use all the colors of the rainbow, but not quite how to paint a cool cloaked shadow.

 

I think the artwork is super nice! I like color-explosions, and morbid stuff quite childishly drawn. It doesn't really say "I contain extreme black metal" but it does say "I'm interesting and probably good, so buy me". The cover is not a total rip-off as the artist has done his best trying to draw from the original but ended up a bit below the life-full original. It's a bit stiff and it seems he also had the good taste to add a scorpion-tail to the mix.

I wonder if "Death" and his throne is also borrowed? That I do not know...

FRANK TO FRANK BEING FRANK

So I thought we could pick up things where we left. As I said, Frank Frazetta has been used many times by many medias, and to be frank, it's not that interesting to blabber about when his art has been used just as it is. What's interesting, as allways, is when someone has borrowed. And that's the case with Frank Marino's "Juggernaut" from 1982, an album I definitely recommend if you're into blues oriented heavy/rock.

So, it's not a loan. Much have been changed. I guess the artist used Frank Frazetta's original piece as base ground and just went free spirit on the rest. First off, there's a lot of black added. The lightning aren't exactly the same, slightly different and the shine/impact on the sword is also kind of different. And while we are at the tip of the sword we can see that the man behind "Juggernaut" had the good taste to put a guitar head on top. Classy shit.



What's more changed? The hair right? Originally a brute black/browned haired barbarian as myself has been turned into a blonde guitar player with a soft spot for working out. I also suspect that the sword actually leads some electricity by looking at his hair. That fluff has to be the result of an electric shock!

And thats about covers it. Not much, but enough.