The grim frost of the North has finally met the sunburnt South. In a new music video from country artist Jason Hawk Harris, young people in corpse paint wander drunkenly through the streets while ...

In Episode 16 of Loudwire's ongoing "50 Years of Heavy Metal" video series, we explore who really invented corpse paint. Though synonymous with black metal's second wave that emerged primarily in ...

Music portrait photographer Jeremy Saffer — whose numerous credits include shooting bands like Metallica, Megadeth, Korn, Ghost, and Hatebreed for various magazine covers — is releasing a new art book ...

First things first, I think we can all acknowledge that "corpse paint" in the vein of black metal is properly understood to refer to a particular style of facial makeup, that being the type that is ...

Smeared black-and-white corpse face-paint (with a little red blood spatter thrown in for good measure) is synonymous with extreme metal. Whether it’s to enhance a demonic theme or carry on cultural ...

At David Lewis gallery, the flower is blossoming, too, but with no trace of its famous scent. Currently on view is Megan Marrin’s solo show Corps, which features seven paintings of the flower in ...

King Diamond shows us that in addition to a fierce scowl, fearsome corpse paint is crucial to the metal look. Here Mr. Diamond takes a very heavy-handed approach to the color of nothingness. Mustis, ...

The post Stay Clean with Corpse-Paint Bar Soap in the Likeness of King Diamond, Abbath, Mayhem, and More appeared first on Consequence of Sound. We all want heavy metal concerts to return, and the ...

Look. We know. Big companies have been using subcultural fashion to market consumer goods since before any of us were born. Also, Norwegian black metal, with its extreme backstories and its ...

As black metal culture slowly seeps its way into everyday society, its natural that skin care gets a black metal makeover. Enter Finnish brand Kaamos Cosmetics, who have conceptualized these new ...

COVID-19 has us washing our hands more than ever, and if you’re looking to make your personal cleansing regimen a little more metal, we’ve found some soap for you. Etsy shop Corpse Paint Soaps makes ...

Thank you, Jenny (not photographed at left), for providing this weeks Ask The 'Creep - Who was the first band to wear corpse paint? We could enter into a long, convoluted discussion of face painting ...