RIP Frank Frazetta

Frank Frazetta died yesterday at age 82. Others will do better tributes, but what I’ll offer is thanks for innovating a style that’s very metal, even if Frazetta only did the cover for one metal album, Yngwie Malmsteen’s War to End All Wars. He’s most known, of course, for his bad-ass, impossibly muscled figures. But Frazetta could lay down quite the graceful line, even with the most Amazonian woman. (See, for example, his Wolfmother album cover.)

Below are his rock album covers. For a more comprehensive gallery that includes singles and non-rock albums, see here. For galleries of his fantastic fantasy work, see here.

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