Metallica have unveiled yet one more exhibit in their expansive virtual museum often called The Metallica Black Box. This time round, the band has introduced out items from their 2012 “Obey Your Master” artwork present.
“Obey Your Grasp” explored the highly effective and simple connection between artwork and music—particularly, the connection between artwork and Metallica. The present occurred on Jan. 20, 2012, at artist Richard Villa III’s Exhibit A Gallery in Los Angeles, and featured “artists from the worlds of high-quality artwork, style, movie, music, and skate to interpret Metallica’s songs in their very own distinctive manner.”
“I’ve obtained a lot respect for artists, whether or not it is writers or actors, painters, dancers; anyone daring sufficient to throw themselves into the unknown of any sort of creative endeavors and undertake a inventive course of, I vastly respect,” Lars Ulrich mentioned when this new addition to The Metallica Black Box was introduced. “However to be in a room filled with 35 to 40 artists who’re all showcasing work that was impressed by songs I wrote was fairly humbling.”
Among the unbelievable, one-of-a-kind items of artwork within the exhibit embody Slipknot’s Shawn Crahan‘s “Harm, Inc.,” My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way‘s “One,” Black Veil Brides’ Andy Biersack‘s “Creeping Demise,” graphic designer Joe Petagno‘s “Do not Tread On Me” and artist Travis Smith‘s “The Outlaw Torn.”
Villa III’s personal haunting work, “Grasp of Puppets,” is displayed, as effectively.
You’ll be able to see all the different creations here; there are accompanying movies for lots of the artists, too, that present additional perception into the totally different creations. For instance, Smith explains about his “The Outlaw Torn” piece that “it was created utilizing quite a lot of totally different mediums together with watercolor, home paint, wooden, ash, thread, and pictures … the weather had been then photographed or scanned and the piece was then composited and completed digitally.”
This newest addition to The Metallica Black Field is a part of the Art of Metallica series, which has featured different reveals like In the Margins, Language of the Mad, Sound, Screen, Stage and Who We Are.
The reveals usually are not the one issues that Metallica proceed so as to add to the Black Field; there’s a web based retailer that includes unique and uncommon objects tied to the historical past of the band. When Obey Your Grasp was unveiled, the store launched one of many rarest items of Metallica memorabilia ever: a pair of black skinny denims with a customized print of Pushead’s “Sad But True” artwork.
What makes these denims so uncommon? They had been created as a pattern however had been by no means produced on a large scale. So far as we will inform, these are the only jeans like this in existence and they can be yours for $8,500.
You’ll be able to take a look at what else is for sale here and peruse all the digital reveals at MetallicaBlackBox.com.
“Unhappy However True” Skinny Denims For Sale — The Metallica Black Field
“Unhappy However True” Skinny Denims
Right here Are A few of Our Favourite Metallica T-Shirts
Metallica haven’t solely created a few of the greatest heavy metallic within the final 40 years, they’ve additionally created a few of the most iconic T-shirts. Within the final 4 a long time, they’ve labored with unbelievable artists like Pushead, Brian Ewing and others to deliver their songs and albums to life. Within the gallery under, we have picked out a few of our favourite T-shirts which can be at the moment out there at Metallica’s official on-line retailer. Which one is your favourite?
