{"id":29171,"date":"2018-06-21T14:50:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T14:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=29171"},"modified":"2018-06-21T14:52:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T14:52:48","slug":"how-underground-music-is-bringing-underground-artists-to-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/how-underground-music-is-bringing-underground-artists-to-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"How Underground Music is Bringing Underground Artists to the Forefront"},"content":{"rendered":"
When you think of music, you might not make the immediate connection of visual art. Mostly you remember hooks, beats, and lyrics. In the genres of punk and metal though, a supreme amount of attention is placed upon the importance of the art that accompanies the music. The art and music coincide, they work in tandem, and they strive to be inseparable.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s been a long-standing tradition for punk and metal acts to have interesting, even stunning, visual art to accompany their music; everything from shirts, to album covers, to album inserts, to banners and theatrics utilized in live performances, and even to human beings taking on the role of \u201cliving art.\u201d<\/p>\n
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When a band puts out a song, album, or EP they need artwork to go accompany it, so they can stand out amongst the crowd of other bands. They need them to create an image powerful enough to capture the attention of fans. Texas legends Power Trip<\/a> take this idea very seriously, as can be seen by their last two albums Manifest Decimation<\/em> and Nightmare Logic<\/em>. For these records, they enlisted the expertise of Paolo \u201cMadman<\/a>\u201d Girardi to paint their album artwork. Girardi, whose work may not be known in conventional art circles, is celebrated in the metal genre, for his superb images he creates. Scenes of post-apocalyptic nightmares are a theme for him, as well as otherworldly visions of demonic creatures engaging in magical, occult rituals. The works he created for the black metal act Inquisition, are prime examples of Girardi\u2019s themes. His paintings encompass so many facets for the observer to examine, yet spare no attention to detail; they are somewhat reminiscent of Baroque masterpieces, focusing on so much, yet letting no small detail go unnoticed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n