Thursday, 4 February 2010


The colour scheme differs slightly from the usual black and red tones from the front cover, the yellow is used for variation purposes but still manages to maintain the same eye catching effect, typical in music magazines particularly of the rock genre. It uses a white background to contrast with the darker, boxed images and brightly coloured text, this could reflect the idea of rebellion. The yellow and black text, reflecting the heavier music within the genre, takes over the white background, which could reflect purity, and calmer, softer music. It also uses a direct quote from Kirk Hammett of Metallica to give the reader an insight as to what they can find in the magazine in the metallica interview. He says "angels and airwaves? never heard of them, but blink 42's not a bad band". The fact that he has made a mistake with the name of "blink 182" calling them "blink 42" gives the interview a sense of comedy. Usually a small section of an interview or article is selected to be put on the contents page of a magazine, and the section chosen is typically one that is crude, taboo, funny, or involves some new gossip in the rock genre that the reader will be keen to read about. The central image draws attention to the tattoo on the neck of the man. The idea of tattoos almost promotes the idea of rebellion. The idea of rebellion is usually a common theme in music magazines of the rock genre, although it can be used in other styles of music magazine. The smaller pictures feature other bands within the rock genre. The pictures reflect the names and styles of the bands that are featured, for example the picture used for the band "taste of chaos" shows a group of men standing close together, posing in unconventional ways, the image reflects the idea of chaos and rebellion, in turn refelcting the name of the band, and what they stand for.

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