Megadeth, Rust In Peace
 
Brazilian designer Rafael Melandi is the Creative Director at the São Paulo agency Opera Communications, but this wonderful project of his has very little of the operatic to it, unless you count histrionic singing: he’s redesigned classic heavy metal LP covers in the high-modern style associated with mid-century jazz album art. Melandi’s created a portfolio of this work, called “Metazz,” on his Behance page, which shows that this is quite out of character in the context of his usual professional work. Clearly this was a labor of love. I definitely love it.
 

Black Sabbath, Paranoid
 

Metallica, Master Of Puppets
 

Anthrax, Among The Living
 

Sepultura, Arise
 

Motörhead, Ace of Spades
 

Slayer, Reign In Blood
 

Pantera, Vulgar Display of Power
 

Iron Maiden, Powerslave
 

Judas Priest, British Steel
 
via Metalsucks

Previously on Dangerous Minds
Metal albums with googly eyes
Iconic heavy metal album covers turned into coloring book for kids
A 7-year-old’s drawings of classic rap albums