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Banzai Kid Part 3

I had an idea based on some of the lyrics and themes of some songs (well what would it be based on?).

Like lots of songs these are mostly about extremes of emotions love, anger, worries blah blah. I wanted to play on the anger in some of the songs mainly because this is a side to The Banzai Kid you'll only really come across in his songs.

He is a mostly a calm and quiet person but it seems he uses songs to vent some of his pent up anger. “I tried to give you a knife in the back” are some of the lyrics from “Appointed Part 2”.

What I want to show is “the beast” overtaking and overpowering The Banzai Kid.

I thought I could have The Banzai Kid stalking something/someone (unseen) with a knife whist he in turn is being stalked by his own shadow (“the beast”)

This refers not only to anger but all held back emotions that build up, envelop and consume. Much of the album seems to be about this sort of thing.

This is a mock up of what I mean. I will work on making the shadow more imposing.

The Banzai Kid Part 2

I still don't know what to do for the album cover, but a concept for the identity of The Banzai Kid is beginning to form.

A lot of the songs are about sides of him that you may never see, hurt feelings or repressed anger, one of the reasons he uses werewolves as a metaphor "for the violence inherent in human nature" as he put it.

So an obvious way to show this is crisp clean colours that could sell soap powder torn away to reveal sickly zombie greens, deep blood red. The colours tie in with the Sci-fi/Fantasy elements in some of the tracks.

The Banzai Kid

Getting back into design is tough, it is difficult to remember where to start. So it's a good thing that a friend of mine has asked me to design an album cover for him before going back to uni and having a shit fit because I'd forgotten everything.

Anyway he is The Banzai Kid, and I don't know quite what to do yet.

The album isn't about much in particular, Relationships, Alcohol, Death, Corpses and Werewolves.

So I started by looking at 1940s horror movie posters, The Wolfman, The Fury of the Wolfman and the like and because Banzai is Japanese, Godzilla.

So …

The Banzai Kid said it reminded him of 1940s pulp fiction which is not so far from what I was aiming for.

It's a start at least.