Lighting is used in this cover to over highlight the obscurity and intensiveness of the central image. This band member has no shirt on and his costume mainly consists of jeans, a heart and a bullet wound to the head. This gives a totally insane look along with his facial expression. The purpose of this is to make him look madly insane and possibly to show that they are more ‘hardcore’ than the majority of other bands. This is why his eyes have been edited to look more devilish and menacing. Also, the captions add to this persona. The words ‘Fucked up, the beating heart of the underground’ shows the madness of the band and it also adds to the obscurity. As well as all this, the caption ‘Our shows are orgies of destruction’ shows how the band would like to be represented, and the caption is broken up in almost a destructive way.
The fact that the band this person is from is not shown is interesting. It means that the editor has such faith in the image that he believes he doesn’t need to put the band name or anything else that appears in the magazine. This is because the editor knows that people who recognise this man will want to read about him and possibly the band, but people who don’t recognise him will want to know more and what band his is from because of the obscurity and madness of the image.
The setting of this image shows this madness even more magnified. Aside from the fact that he has a bullet wound to the head and a heart in his hand, all this has taken place in a regular supermarket a traditionally safe and normal place.
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