Colours and Metal

[no country for old wainds]

Do any albums strongly evoke a particular colour in your mind? If so, why do you think this is?

 

[polarity]

This is the case for me with a lot of albums, but the color that is evoked is usually the dominant color on the album cover, so it could just be that :/

 

[Slayed Necros]

This is the case for me with a lot of albums, but the color that is evoked is usually the dominant color on the album cover, so it could just be that :/

Indeed. Same is the case with myself. For example, Sacramentum's Far Away From the Sun conjures up the deathly cold blues present on the cover.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

This is the case for me with a lot of albums, but the color that is evoked is usually the dominant color on the album cover, so it could just be that :/

Yup same for me, and it happens in almost every case.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

I'm gonna go with polarity.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

When I listen to Moonblood, I feel I'm in the middle of a freezing white snow storm. I'm so grim and frostbitten No, seriously, that's how I feel when I lisen to Blut und Krieg.

 

[None_So_Vile]

In the words of the Fast Show...


BLACK! BLACK! BLAAAAAACK!

 

[The Grimace]

Darkthrone sounds like dusty grayish gunmetal blue. And Deicide's 'Legion' sounds like the color of dried blood in a crusty little pool, to my humble ears (eyes?) anyways. That's the only ones I've actually thought of before. Hmm... the new N*Flames sounds kinda... teal. Or fuscia. Some Elton John color.

 

[kollex]

nokturnal Mortums "Goat Horns" evokes a pungent stench of brown

 

[Nocturnal Silence]

Not really. Even if it did i couldn't remember what it was.

 

[Under The Oak]

I'll go with what polarity said. It doesn't evoke any color very often for me, but sometimes it evokes mental images. Lol.

 

[AsModEe]

The first time I listened to Darkthrone, I had the green color in my head.. don't ask me why.

 

[Intoxicator]

I associate pretty much everything with a certain color, whether it's music or not. I have no idea why this is.

 

[Astral Poetry]

The two most vivid are a dull greyish-green for Burzum and sea blue/green for maudlin of the Well (though each song on their albums has a unique color to me).

 

[byrne]

I don't get colours, I get images and ideas. There are then colours, more tones really, in these images.

e.g. Arghoslent gives me images of archaic war scenes which are generally hazey earthy tones.

 

[E6V6I6L]

i don't think i've ever thought of colors when listening to music.

actually, when i listen to black metal it makes me think of black. i'm not sure why though. hmm...

 

[bmh]

I don't get colours, I get images and ideas. There are then colours, more tones really, in these images.

This is the case for me with a lot of albums, but the color that is evoked is usually the dominant color on the album cover, so it could just be that :/

Same for me.

 

[Ivan the terrible]

SAPFHIER - Under eternally grey skies

Upon listening to this album, I became enveloped in a greyish mist with heaps of rain falling down on me. Grey is all I see...

 

[anonymousnick2001]

For example, Sacramentum's Far Away From the Sun conjures up the deathly cold blues present on the cover.

YES! For me too!

When I listen to Maiden's SSOASS, I get images of ice and blue textures. SIT gives me images of green, mostly circuitry. Powerslave gives me a distinctly sandy color. It's totally the album covers.

Albums whose covers I have not seen evoke no color. Or something neutral, like white, or in the case of country music, primer.

 

[Christie_fell]

The color of the album cover.