Cannon - Metal Style
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This post is really just an excuse to show the cover art. But what art it is! Click on it to enlarge it. There is so much to absorb. Top: Pac-Man font. Bottom: “conscious hip-hop” font. Middle: Full-on rave action. Glowsticks are forming in my hands. My pants are growing phatter. I think I’m peaking. Observe the layered hair of Matrix chick. Note how her coat’s interior is more textured than its exterior. Strange and wondrous, this “Metal Style” is.
Heavy Metal StyleHot Wheels on the Highway
Few bring the metal cheese like the Germans, and Cannon doesn’t disappoint. In 1988, the band debuted with Thunder and Lightning, a cross between Accept and Def Leppard. Its cover art was mindblowing. Then the band took a break. In 2005, it returned with Back in Business, which also had amazing artwork. This time, it mixed the Pac-Man and Hammerfall fonts with a half-completed death metal cover.
Now Cannon is a cross between Judas Priest and modern power metal, complete with the candy-coated keyboards and space-age production of the latter. This is not normally my thing. But damned if I’m not tapping my foot and singing along. “Youuuuuu doooooo, weeeeee toooooo, live HEAVY METAL STYLE!” The Chipmunks’ Christmas song comes to mind: “I want a huuuula hoooop.” My favorite here is “Hot Wheels on the Highway.” Can a title get any more Priest-esque? I can see you driving now, headbanging against your seatbelt. You are singing along: “Hot wheels on the highway! Something something something!”
