Cover page

metal hammer is portrayed as a masculine weapon this connoted it may include violence/blood, another things that point to this is the colours used in the masthead white and red which are seen as more masculine colours and could represent blood which reverts back to the title used in the magazine. The text also has red around the mask head making the red appear to be repressented as blood .

The target audience for Metal hammer varies but is mainly aimed at males with all its masculine contents and colors used. the target age range would be around 16 to 24 but many people older would probably read it too and also even thought its aimed at men many females read this magazine to.

On the cover page for metal hammer theres a picture of the band Deathstars wh are coverd in blood witch goes with the mockhead and one of the band holding a skull the other with what looks like a gun and the center figure with a petrol bomb and a knife this all together connotes that the genre of heavy metal seems to be based around violence crime and dangerous people that are rebellious and mean business and are the real deal. This band are the only picture on the page to show how important and big they are as not many bands get to have the front cover all to them selfs

the main cover line the name of the band Deathstars and the line above this is (bring your daughters to the slaughter is there second single on there new album. The name deathstars is quite masculine and dark as death isn't a nice thing an it goes with there image witch shows they are capable of bringing death to people. The colours used are basic masculine colours white and red with a black border around the text that is easy to read and stands out from the background .

Contents page
the content page is pretty basic layout with all the text been in the top left side with the title of the band been in big bold letters and a short big of small print telling you a short bit of information about the band this gives a short and rough guide line to what each band is currently doing and so you can expect to read about on each page. The band are put into two different columns one for the bands witch are in the magazine most often and the featured bands that arnt often in this magazine with images of the most popular bands on the right side. They also have the reviews in a small box at the bottom with a small photo of the lead men in the bands at each side of the band titles. All the texts are made so they stand out from the backgrounds as main band names are in a thick black font ans the background is white. One of the main images used is the lead man in deathstars using a medium shot of him with a world globe as he stabs it and the globe pores with blood this could represent the rebellion to capitalism/government.

The double page spread
for the double page spread it contains the five members of deathstar the band members have been placed in order due the the how important or how popular the band member is an example of this is the first person on the page is whiplasher bernadotte also know as ( andreas bergh ) who shares the largest space with nightmare industries ( emill nodtveidt ) as the other three have to share the page together the lead singer also overlappes the person next to him marking sure he stands out the most . as the first thing you see is the lead singer it grabs your attention and the ones further to the right arnt as important as the one before him. As you move right u can see how the band have less accessories with them as the first band member the lead singer has a petrol bomb a knife and a cigar the person next to him has a gun then the guy next to him has a skull the third then only has a bottle of wine and finally the last guy only has a silver disco ball witch stands out a lot less then a knife or a gun. The only information on this page is at the bottom so it doesn't cover anything of the important image only cuts the legs off making each person a medium shot and the only important information on the page is the statement that there new album is going to be bigger then aids which says they thing a lot of them selfs and are quite dark with the way they compare it to aids. The text that draws your attention its the worlds Sleazy does it ! Witch is in big red blood style texts witch then makes you want to read the smaller text to find out what that means.

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