Market research

Above I have taken a screenshot for a google image search of "Death metal magazine" I did this so that I could get a better understanding of what the magazines within this genre look like. From this image search I have learnt a lot about the layout, color schemes and features included of a death metal magazine. What I noticed was, the color schemes on all the magazines, were dark colors , like, black, red and dark blue, orange and white have been used in many of them, causing these covers to stand out. This colors also relate to the magazines theme of death metal, as death metal as a genre is very dark and scary, the colors black and red suit it very well, the orange used also relates to the theme as it represents fire, which can also relate to hell which is a prominent theme in many death metal songs. The majority of the front covers have more than one artist on the front as death metal mostly involves bands instead of solo artists. For all the front covers the artists angle of gaze is to the camera, their facial expressions are all aggressive too, the combination of the angle of gaze and facial expression go well with the magazines genre as it may bring fear to the reader. What I also noticed about the magazine covers was that they were often covered in a lot of distracting writing, giving the magazine a cluttered look, this is also related to the genre because death metal songs are cluttered with many different vocals, sounds and instruments at once.