2. This is the digipak for the special edition version of the Metallica album ‘Death
Magnetic’. The cover of the album is quite basic as it shows an outline of a coffin
in the center with what appear to iron filings around it in some sort of magnetic
field. This symbolizes the album title well as the coffin signifies death and the
iron filings symbolize the magnetism or the ‘Magnetic’ aspect of the title. Upon
opening the digipak you can see the overall colour scheme of the album. The
colours are dark and grungy which is common of most rock/metal albums. Upon
closer inspection it can be seen that the booklet for the album has the center of
the pages cut out to show the coffin image on the final page. This is slightly
annoying as by doing this the centres of the pages containing some of the lyrics
have been removed.
I think that this album is more focused towards a mainstream audience due to
the amount of campaigning and advertisements that were released for the album
and that also the presentation and style of the digipak is a much different
concept than some of the albums they have released in the past.
