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Heavy Music Artwork Magazine

Graphic Artist Interviews

Graphic Artist Interviews

Bands Interviews

Bands Interviews

Video Features / Video Features

Hellbent for Leather and Denim

Hellbent for Leather and Denim / Hellbent for Leather and Denim

Metal Photography

Metal Photography

Wolfs / #wolfs #mystic animals #dark arts #animals in art

Occult Photography

Occult Photography

70s Occult Designs

70s Occult Designs

The Devils Work

The Devils Work / A character that needs no introduction.
#adversary #beast #Beelzebub #fiend #hellion #knave #lucifer #Mephistopheles #ogre

Band flyers (UK & Ireland)

Band flyers (UK & Ireland) / Band flyers (UK & Ireland)

Band flyers (Norwegian Black Metal)

Band flyers (Norwegian Black Metal) / Band flyers (Norwegian Black Metal)

Death / #death of the maiden #death #dying #dead #beauty and the corpse #skeleton #deceased #dead corpse #la morte #final sleep

Abandoned Houses

Abandoned Houses

Absinthe / Anise-flavoured spirit derived from botanicals, including the flowers and leaves of Artemisia absinthium (a.k.a. "grand wormwood"), together with green anise, sweet fennel, and other medicinal and culinary herbs.

Alchemy / #alchemy art, #magick, art #occult art

Alice in Hell / #Alice in Hell, #Alice in Wonderland

All Hallows Eve

All Hallows Eve / Halloween or Hallowe'en also known as All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It initiates the triduum of Hallowmas, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed believers.

Anatomical Models

Anatomical Models / Often these are effigies, usually of a notable individual, but there are also death masks and scenes with many figures, mostly in relief. The death masks of illustrious ancestors would be displayed by the elite holding the right of "ius imaginem."

Anatomical Theatre

Anatomical Theatre / Common to display skeletons at some place in the theatre; in Leiden, 17th-century depictions show that the living observers were actually accompanied in the rows by a large number of animal and human skeletons, some of which held banners with inscriptions such as Memento mori, or, freely translated, "Remember, you will die".

Angels are demons

Angels are demons / Angels are demons

Anatomy and Physiology

Anatomy and Physiology / Anatomy and Physiology

Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia Nervosa / Anorexia Nervosa

Highgate Cemetery

Highgate Cemetery / Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England. It is designated Grade I on the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England. It is divided into two parts, named the East and West cemetery. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves at Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people buried there as well as for its de facto status as a nature reserve.

Baphomet / Baphomet is a term originally used to describe an idol or other deity which the Knights Templar were accused of worshiping, and subsequently incorporated into disparate occult and mystical traditions. It appeared as a term for a pagan idol in trial transcripts of the Inquisition of the Knights Templar in the early 14th century, The name first came into popular English usage in the 19th century, with debate and speculation on the reasons for the suppression of the Templars.

Arte Oscura / #dark arts, #morbid arts, #art of darkness, #art from beyond

Abandoned Asylums I

Abandoned Asylums I / #abandoned asylums, #madhouse, #manicomio, #derelict buildings, #abandoned buildings

Babel Tower / #babel tower, #bible, #gods and monsters

Bats / #bats, #bat, #dark animals

Camera Obscura / #darkened chamber, #camera obscura, #early photography

Ancient Kingdoms

Ancient Kingdoms / #ancient kingdoms, #ancient gods, #antiquity, #ancient culture, #ruins, #archeological sites

Cabinet of Curiosities

Cabinet of Curiosities / #cabinet of curiosities, #oddities, #bones collector

Angel in My Cold Grave I

Angel in My Cold Grave I / #burial #coffin #mausoleum #monument #pit #vault #catacomb #grave #sepulcher #burial chamber

Angel in My Cold Grave II

Angel in My Cold Grave II / #burial #coffin #mausoleum #monument #pit #vault #catacomb #grave #sepulcher #burial chamber

Angels & Demons II

Angels & Demons II / #beast #monster #vampire #villain #brute #fiend #goblin #hellion #incubus

Beherit / The most primitive, savage, hell-obsessed black metal imaginable. "Beherit" is the Syriac word for Satan.

Earache Records

Earache Records / Earache Records

Masters Hammer / Masters Hammer

Art 1800-2000 / Art 1800-2000

Art 1500-1800 / Art 1500-1800

Bestiary / Bestiary

Apothecary / #apothecary #victorian medicine #anatomy #medical #poison #general surgery

Bibliophilia / Bibliophilia

Black Metal flyers

Black Metal flyers / #black metal #flyers #black and white

Birds / #crows #ravens #dark crows #mystic animals #dark arts #eagles #animals in art

Bloodletting / #apothecary #victorian medicine #anatomy #medical #poison #general surgery #bloodletting

Cabinet Of The Solar Plexus

Cabinet Of The Solar Plexus / Cabinet Of The Solar Plexus

Sweet Perversion

Sweet Perversion / #tattoos #tats #girls with tattoos #sexy tattoos #inspirational tattoos

Megan Daniels Tattoos

Megan Daniels Tattoos / #tattoos #tats #girls with tattoos #sexy tattoos #megan daniels #hot tattoos

Buildings, Exteriors

Buildings, Exteriors / #dark building #castles #victorian architecture #dark architecture #horror castle #urban decay #asylums #mad houses

Buildings, Interiors

Buildings, Interiors / #dark building #castles #victorian architecture #dark architecture #horror castle

Butterflies / #butterflies #mystic animals #dark arts #animals in art

Cabaret du Néant (Tavern of the Dead) c.1890

Cabaret du Néant (Tavern of the Dead) c.1890 / Patrons would enter through a blackened hall into a cafe with candles on coffin-shaped tables. Waiters dressed in funeral attire served refreshments with a disease theme. Paintings of figures morphed into skeletons on the walls. As bells tolled and a funeral march played patrons were led into a second chamber. A standing casket containing a live person was displayed at one end. As spectators watched the person would change into a skeleton, frightening on-lookers by the apparent "X-ray" effect.

Café de L'Enfer

Café de L'Enfer / Le Café de L'Enfer was a Hell-themed café in Paris' red light district (aka Pigalle, the neighborhood of the Moulin Rouge), created in the late 19th century and operating up 'til sometime around the middle of the 20th.

Candles & Lanterns

Candles & Lanterns / #candles #lanterns #torch #night light #candlelight #church candles #ritual candle #hot wax

Catacombe dei Cappuccini. Palermo, Sicily

Catacombe dei Cappuccini. Palermo, Sicily / Catacombe dei Cappuccini. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs.

#capuchin monastery #mummies #dead bodies

Carnival & Circus

Carnival & Circus / #carnival #mask #masquerade #saturnalia #carnevale #circus #sideshow

Castles / #castles #acropolis star #alcazar #citadel #fort #fortification #fortress #stronghold

Catacombs of Paris

Catacombs of Paris / The Catacombs of Paris or Catacombes de Paris are underground ossuarys in Paris, France. Located south of the former city gate (the "Barrière d'Enfer" at today's Place Denfert-Rochereau), the ossuary holds the remains of about six million people.

Catacombs / #catacombs #crypt #grotto #chamber

Cemetery / #cemetery #tombstone #tombs #graveyard #epitaph #mortuary #churchyard #church cemetery #graves #resting place #necropolis

Church & Cathedrals

Church & Cathedrals / #church #cathedrals #gothic architecture #baroque architecture #chapel #worship #abbey #shrine #sanctuary #monastery #minister

Churches Interiors

Churches Interiors / #church #cathedrals #gothic architecture #baroque architecture #chapel #worship #abbey #shrine #sanctuary #monastery #minister

Cinémacabre / #cinemacabre #horror cinema #mondo films #slashers #splatters

Clockworks / #steampunk #clockworks #mechanical #victorian technology

Into the crypts

Into the crypts / #cemetery #tombstone #tombs #graveyard #epitaph #mortuary #churchyard #church cemetery #graves #resting place #necropolis

Coulrophobia / Looks suspiciously like the sort of thing idle pseudo-intellectuals invent on the Internet and which every smarty-pants takes up thereafter.

Creatures of Darkness

Creatures of Darkness / Creatures of Darkness are many.
Some are large, some small. Some have great powers, some can shape shift or fly. Some are creatures of the night. Some just walk when the Moon is bright. Vampires, Ghosts, Demons, and more.

Creatures of the night

Creatures of the night / Subsist by feeding on the blood of the living. In folkloric tales, the undead vampires often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighborhoods they inhabited when they were alive. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early 1800s.

Black Crows on the tombstone

Black Crows on the tombstone / As a carrion bird, ravens became associated with the dead and with lost souls. In Sweden they are known as the ghosts of murdered persons.

Behold the Crucifix

Behold the Crucifix / A crucifix (from Latin cruci fixus meaning "(one) fixed to a cross") is an independent image of Jesus on the cross with a representation of Jesus' body, referred to in English as the corpus (Latin for "body"), as distinct from a cross with no body.

Cthulhu / Cthulhu is a cosmic entity that first appeared in the short story "The Call of Cthulhu", published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928. The character was created by writer H. P. Lovecraft.

Cult TV / #cult tv #cult following #hitchcock #thriller cult #hammer horror

Dance of Death / Dance of Death, also variously called Danse Macabre (French), Danza Macabra (Italian), Dansul Morţii (Romanian), Danza de la Muerte (Spanish), Dansa de la Mort (Catalan), Dança Macabra (Portuguese language), Totentanz (German), Dodendans (Dutch), Surmatants (Estonian), is an artistic genre of late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all.

Danse Macabre / Dance of Death, also variously called Danse Macabre (French), Danza Macabra (Italian), Dansul Morţii (Romanian), Danza de la Muerte (Spanish), Dansa de la Mort (Catalan), Dança Macabra (Portuguese language), Totentanz (German), Dodendans (Dutch), Surmatants (Estonian), is an artistic genre of late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all.

Danza Macabra Europea

Danza Macabra Europea / "At the outbreak of World War I, runs 54 lithographs titled Dance of Death, through which reveals his anti-German sentiment. Print postcard size, are distributed among the allies as propaganda against the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The painter Federico Zandomeneghi is struck and "scared" by the "infinite imagination" Martini."

Dark & Mystical Landscapes

Dark & Mystical Landscapes / Dark & Mystical Landscapes

Dark Cinema / #cine macabre #horror cinema #mondo films #slashers #splatters #hammer horror #dario argento #italian giallo #black & white cinema #david lynch #fantasy cinema

Darkness / #darkness #grim reaper #morte #death #darkness my old friend

Death and the Maiden

Death and the Maiden / #death of the maiden #death #dying #dead #beauty and the corpse #skeleton #deceased #dead corpse

Death Masks / #death masks #sculptures #statues #mold

Creepy Dolls / #creepy dolls #strange dolls #horror dolls #victorian dolls #weird dolls

Dragons / A dragon is a mythological representation of a reptile. In antiquity, dragons were mostly envisaged as serpents, but since the Middle Ages, it has become common to depict them with legs, resembling a lizard.
#dragon #serpent #spitfire #winged dragon #mythology animal

Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Illustrations

Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Illustrations / Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Illustrations
#horror stories #suspense #noire

Egyptian / #egyptian #pharaoh #nile #egypt #mummies #egypt statues #egypt

El culto a la Santa Muerte en México

El culto a la Santa Muerte en México / Santa Muerte (Spanish for Saint Death), female folk saint venerated primarily in Mexico and the United States. A personification of death, she is associated with healing, protection, and safe delivery to the afterlife by her devotees.

#santa muerte #mexico #la catarina #muerte #dias de la muerte

El Dia de Muertos

El Dia de Muertos / #El Dia de Muertos #day of the dead #rituals #death cult

Elixir of Life / #blood #vampires #blood sucking #dracula #creature of the night #cutting #blood ritual

Fabric & Fashion

Fabric & Fashion / #Fabric #Fashion #dark fashion #dark sexy #gothic #gothic fashion #Victorian couture

Fairy / #aerial #airy #celestial #dainty #divine #empyreal #empyrean #exquisite #fairy #filmy

Fantasy Dolls / #figurine #model #puppet #dolly #manikin #toy

Animals / #howls #wolfs #cats #bats #snakes #birds #crows

Femme Fatale / A femme fatale is a stock character of a mysterious and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations. She is an archetype of literature and art.

#Femme Fatale #mystery women #female charm #sexuality #seductive

Horror Cinema / Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's primal fears. Horror films often feature scenes that startle the viewer; the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Thus they may overlap with the fantasy, supernatural, and thriller genres.

#Horror Cinema #macabre #horror films #splatter #film noire #hammer horror #cult cineme #italian horror

Foto Post Mortem

Foto Post Mortem / Post-mortem photography (also known as memorial portraiture or a mourning portrait) the practice of photographing the recently deceased.
#Foto Post Mortem #death photography #victorian photography

Freak Show / Typical features would be physically unusual humans, such as those uncommonly large or small, those with both male and female secondary sexual characteristics, people with other extraordinary diseases and conditions, and performances that are expected to be shocking to the viewers. Heavily tattooed or pierced people have sometimes been seen in freak shows, as have attention-getting physical performers such as fire-eating and sword-swallowing acts.
#freak show #circus show #funfair

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