Front Cover analysis 9 - Metal Hammer

The most outstanding feature on this front cover is the big masthead as it covers so much of the page, it is at the top and the top quarter of the page, the font style is San serif. The main image is also very outstanding due to it being in front of the masthead.

This front cover is very simplistic yet effective non the less.There is only one story on this front cover and it is the main one no cover stories are featured. There are no banners featured anywhere, no puffs or pugs are featured either. There are also no CD's or free downloads featured with this issue of the magazine.

The font style of the main story is in a dull ages colour which looks faded in areas and very rugged which is typical of the rock genre. The main colour theme is black and a very dull gold shade, this fits well with the genre as they are both vintage with the gold and rock with the black, black is a typical house style of Metal Hammer as they are a rock band.

I feel as though this magazine appeals more to a male audience, as there are dark colours featured, men on the front cover and no particular girly elements to the magazine at all. The magazine has a slogan which is 'The heavy metal bible'.

As the magazine front cover looks quite simplistic it may suggest that the contents and quality is also of a similar quality.




The image does relate to the headline as the image is of the band Avenger Sevenfold and the title also reads Avenged Sevenfold.




All of the models are definitely facing the camera and all look to be looking into the camera however 3 of them are wearing sunglasses so it is not completely clear if they are or aren't looking directly into the camera. The band are arranged so they all form around the tallest and main member who stands slightly forward.

The photo has only been manipulated to make the masthead behind the artists and the headline to cover their bodies.About one third of their bodies are covered by the headline and that is the only text covering them.The image is in colour and they are all wearing mainly black and a large amount of leather. The hair and make up of all the artists is completely natural, just to enhance features for the photography, which was done in a studio.There are no props featured and they are against a rather simple background.