Same Old Tune

Legendary Joe Petagno is best known for his Motörhead album covers, after all he has painted ever one of them since 1975. He is also responsible for creating the bands iconic “mascot” Snaggletooth, which has become one the most recognizable images in heavy metal history. This accomplishment is both a blessing and a curse. For over 30 years he has been creating lesser known work that is amazing, but has gone largely ignored. Joe Petagno has a a specific vision expressed through out his entire oeuvre, it is an apocalyptic, mythological, and foreboding message about how this world is heading down the path of self destruction due to greed and war.

Feral House has a published a book called Orgasmatron: The Heavy Metal Art of Joe Petagno which covers a lot of his unknown work. Finally, Joe Petagno is getting some of the respect he deserves.

Visit his website to see a larger scope of his work. 

Scarlet Imprint is a talismanic publisher producing limited edition occult books. Only a few hundred copies of each title is produced and then retired. Their books are beautiful and well designed. 

Scarlet Imprint’s most recent publication is “The Red Goddess”, an octavo book of 260pp, bound in white cloth, scarlet endpapers, and embossed with the seven pointed star of Babalon. It is being produced in a strictly limited and hand-numbered edition of only 777 copies. 

Check out their website.

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Mark has a couple new t-shirt designs at his online store. They’re all frickin awesome and super cheap at $15 a pop! His new book, “Rotten Renderings,” should be available soon as well!