The Art of Metal
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The cover features a grunged Fette Fraktur with a modified A for the title, Mesquite for the subtitle and Birch for the names of the editors. “Lemmy” is in Ironwood.
The Art Of Metal: Five Decades Of Heavy Metal Album Covers, Posters, T-Shirts And More is a book showcasing the finest examples of metal posters, cover and artwork. It was edited by Malcolm Dome and Martin Popoff with a foreword by Lemmy and published in 2013 by Omnibus Press in the UK and by Voyageur Press in the United States. The award winning Grade Design in London provided the design.
The book covers five decades of work and ten genres of metal displaying the diversity and similarity in design between the genres. Each chapter showcases a different display blackletter typeface. For chapter two A Gothique Time by Bonez Designz was selected. See the image captions for more fonts used in this publication.
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Chapter 2, “New Wave Of British Heavy Metal”, in A Gothique Time
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More A Gothique Time in chapter 2
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The headline in A Gothique Time is paired with text in Trade Gothic.
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Half-title page, featuring the grunged Fette Fraktur with the romanized A
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Title page
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Table of contents with Fette Fraktur and Trade Gothic
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Chapter 1, “Origins: Traditional Metal”, ft. Bayreuth
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Chapter 3, “Hair Metal”, in Kingthings Spike
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Chapter 4, “Doom & Stoner Metal”, ft. Blackmoor
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