Mirjana Kika Milosevic is more than a makeup artist, she’s an illusionist. The body painter from Serbia runs Kika Studio where Milosevic does mind-boggling transformations like turning herself into a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Visitors gather at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California to see the corpse flower that bloomed Aug. 27. The flower is named after the stink it emits. (CNN ...

In what has to be one of the better promotional efforts we’ve seen this year, Abbath, who may very well have the most easily-recognizable corpse paint design in all of metal, is holding a corpse paint ...

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 ...