{"id":11082,"date":"2012-03-09T03:20:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T03:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11082"},"modified":"2012-03-09T03:20:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T03:20:18","slug":"john-martins-musical-afterlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/03\/09\/john-martins-musical-afterlife\/","title":{"rendered":"John Martin’s musical afterlife"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Angel Witch (1980) by Angel Witch<\/a>. Art: The Fallen Angels Entering Pandemonium<\/a> (1841).<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s been a busy week so the posts just now are tending towards haste and laziness. The paintings of John Martin (1789\u20131854) make such good album covers you’d expect that there were more than this handful. Perhaps there are (Discogs.com contains numerous omissions), in which case leave a comment if you know of any. It’s no surprise that three of these are metal albums when the artist depicted so many apocalypses and scenes from Paradise Lost<\/em>. Given the recent reappraisal of Martin’s work these won’t be the last albums we see borrowing his art.<\/p>\n

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Heresy (1990) by Lustmord<\/a>. Art: The Great Day of His Wrath<\/a> (1851).<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the reissue of Lustmord’s excellent album of doomy volcanic rumbles. Both CDs use the same painting but the new edition has a better type layout.<\/p>\n

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Cradle (1992) by Suns of Arqa<\/a>. Art: Manfred and the Witch Of The Alps<\/a> (1837).<\/em><\/p>\n

A good painting, a decent album (I have this one on CD) by a musical collective from Manchester originally, unfortunately spoiled by dreadful design. The group eventually saw sense and reissued this one with a better layout<\/a>. The painting is the only example of Martin’s work in Manchester and features a ghostly figure where the artist had painted over an earlier Manfred.<\/p>\n

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The Closed Eyes of Paradise (demo, 1999) by Draconian<\/a>. Art: Pandemonium<\/a> (1838).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bombs (2006) by Faithless<\/a>. Art: The Great Day of His Wrath<\/a> (detail, 1851).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Vast Oceans Lachrymose (2010) by While Heaven Wept<\/a>. Art: Christ Stilleth The Tempest \/ Storm On The Sea Of Galilee<\/a> (1867).<\/em><\/p>\n

This American metal band appeared in the earlier post about Odilon Redon<\/a> with the cover of their debut album.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The album covers archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Odilon Redon\u2019s musical afterlife<\/a>
\n\u2022 Danby\u2019s Deluge<\/a>
\n\u2022 John Martin: Heaven & Hell<\/a>
\n\u2022 Darkness visible<\/a>
\n\u2022 Aubrey Beardsley\u2019s musical afterlife<\/a>
\n\u2022 Death from above<\/a>
\n\u2022 The apocalyptic art of Francis Danby<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Angel Witch (1980) by Angel Witch. Art: The Fallen Angels Entering Pandemonium (1841). It’s been a busy week so the posts just now are tending towards haste and laziness. The paintings of John Martin (1789\u20131854) make such good album covers you’d expect that there were more than this handful. Perhaps there are (Discogs.com contains numerous … Continue reading “John Martin’s musical afterlife”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,4,3,44],"tags":[2343,2342,517,126],"class_list":["post-11082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-music","category-painting","tag-francis-danby","tag-john-martin","tag-manchester","tag-odilon-redon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2SK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}