VULCANIC KAMIKAZE APE

Back again. Visiting the mastermind Frank Frazetta and his world of barbaristic art. Once again this will not be a post about bands who just borrow his art straight off, no, that's boring. But actually something of a classic you might not know took inspiration from elsewhere.

We are talking about the amazing live album "Live!" '85 by Brazil's Vulcano.



This is truly a Uncoverseum gold-moment. I mean, what creativity! In both paintings by Frazetta, the characters borrowed into the Vulcano cover has one of their legs obscured, but like if magic existed, we have those guys two legged in the "Live!" cover. Maybe my excitement is little overboard, but I admire, honestly, the kind of creativity that was put into this piece. Of course the angry cave ape with flippers have been tilted backwards left, so he's running straight forward instead of his original kamikaze-fight-til'-death-over-the-cliff-posé. The warrior is mirrored with black hair instead of blonde, and to be fair... A whole lot has been redone with this guy, except maybe the bloody sword and the posé.

I think this is great. It is not a total rip off. I guess the artwork artist for "Live!" didn't know that many big guys who could posé for him while oiling up this masterpiece, so he flipped a fantasy mag and went for it. And the demon in front of the moon is still iconic for the band, so that's huge as well.