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5	[[quoteright:350:[[Music/IronMaiden https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eddie_8.png]]]]
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12	For some reason, HeavyMetal bands often have a {{mascot}} character that appears on their album covers, posters, T-shirts, and other forms of merchandise. The mascot is usually scary-looking but often has an everyday or even silly-sounding name, tying in with the tongue-in-cheek attitude present in even creating such a character.
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14	This trope seems to apply mainly to hard rock and heavy metal (and sometimes punk as well), with band mascots virtually unknown in other genres of music.
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16	A music-specific, non-talking counterpart to the HorrorHost in its promotional role and attitude.
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18	!!Examples:
19	* Music/{{Aborted}} has [[MadDoctor The Doctor]].
20	* Music/{{Alestorm}} has two. An [[GhostPirate undead pirate]] and an undead rat. According to [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Christopher]] [[WordOfGod Bowes]], they're called Jimmy [=McFucknugget=] and Barry Shitpeas respectively.
21	* Music/{{Anthrax}} had the Not Man.
22	* Music/{{Arsis}} has the demon that appears on the covers of their full-lengths.
23	* Music/{{Avenged Sevenfold}} has the Deathbat.
24	* Music/BlackLabelSociety has a nameless skull that appears on all of their album covers (often nicknamed "Skully").
25	* Music/BlackSabbath's Henry the FallenAngel[=/=]AscendedDemon, one of the earliest examples.
26	* Music/BlackVeilBrides has Legion, the humanoid creature on the cover of their fourth album.
27	* Music/BlindGuardian has the eponymous Guardian, a [[BlackCloak dark-robed figure]].
28	* Bloodbound has Nosferatu, a strange creature that looks like a cross between a giant goblin and a vampire. Possibly a nod to the [[Film/{{Nosferatu}} movie]].
29	* Music/ChildrenOfBodom has none other than the Grim Reaper, usually in different colored robes depending on the album. WordOfGod says his name is Roy. The Grim Reaper is also used by Music/GraveDigger, Artillery and Grim Reaper.
30	* Music/{{Cryptopsy}} has the unnamed dragon/gargoyle that was originally on the cover of ''Whisper Supremacy''.
31	* Dangerous Toys had Bill Z. Bubb, an [[EightiesHair eighties-coiffed]] MonsterClown.
32	* Music/{{Danzig}} and Samhain have Crystar; a demon skull.
33	* Music/DeathAngel uses a trio of skull-wearing wolves on the cover art for ''Relentless Retribution, The Dream Calls For Blood'', and ''Humanicide''.
34	* Music/DemonHunter has... well, what is it called anyway? You'd recognize it if you saw it. WordOfGod says that their mascot is a demon skull with a bullet hole in its forehead.
35	* Music/{{Destruction}} has the Mad Butcher, a fat, bald, AxCrazy butcher. Named after a song on their debut [=EP=] before getting his own [=EP=], and has appeared on several covers since then.
36	* [[WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}} Dethklok]] has Facebones, which doubles as a company mascot in-universe.
37	* Music/DevinTownsend has begun using Music/ZiltoidTheOmniscient as a mascot since Ziltoid's creation.
38	* Music/{{Devourment}} has the unnamed mutant that was first seen on the ''Butcher the Weak'' cover, in addition to the weird larva-looking critter on the cover of ''Unleash the Carnivore''.
39	* [[Music/RonnieJamesDio Dio]] has Murray the horn-throwing demon with a very un-demonic name. [[http://pictograms.blogspot.ca/search?q=Dio He actually has a rather interesting story behind his creation.]]
40	* Music/{{Disturbed}} has "The Guy", a scary-looking hooded demon[[note]]As revealed in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nW-IPrzM1g The Vengeful One]], actually a [[HumanoidAbomination humanoid]] [[SentientCosmicForce nebula-thing]][[/note]] with [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]] eyes and really sharp teeth.
41	* Music/{{Ensiferum}} uses Finnish folk hero Väinämöinen as their mascot.
42	* Music/{{Exhumed}} has Dr. Philthy, who doubles as their stage tech and merch guy.
43	* Knucklehead of Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch, who has appeared on every one of their album covers. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQUk1Bt0pz4 He once punched a man in the soul.]]
44	* Music/GammaRay has Fangface.
45	* Music/{{Gwar}} ''themselves'' might count as their own mascot due to their stage presence.
46	* Music/HammerFall has Hector, a knight wielding a large hammer.
47	* Music/{{Helloween}} has Jack O. Lantern, an evil PumpkinPerson.
48	* Music/IcedEarth has Set Abominae, main character of their ''Something Wicked Saga''.
49	* Music/InFlames with Jesterhead, who first appeared on the cover of ''The Jester Race''. He's undergone many transformations since. He's most known for his distinctive spiky jester-hat.
50	* Music/{{Ingested}} has the Venus flytrap/dinosaur abomination from the cover of ''Surpassing the Boundaries of Human Suffering''; WordOfGod is that the monstrous humanoid on the cover of ''The Architect of Extinction'' is its ascended form.
51	* Music/IronMaiden's Eddie the Head is probably the most famous metal mascot in the world. Many of the others listed here are blatant [[{{Expy}} expies]] of him.
52	* Music/JobForACowboy has been known to use a ram's skull as their symbol on their albums. The creature becomes more and more fully-embodied as their artwork progresses.
53	* Music/JudasPriest has the [[ChromeChampion Painkiller]], a [[WingedHumanoid winged cyborg]] that [[BadassBiker rides a huge motorcycle]], fights to save humanity, [[SavingTheWorld and wins!]] Sometimes it appears as a more androgynous being like in the Angel of Retribution album.
54	* Music/{{Kataklysm}} has Heartbeast, a two-faced winged demon who appears on the cover of three of their records.
55	* Music/{{Kreator}} has Violent Mind, a demon with an exposed brain containing nightmarish images.
56	* Music/{{Korpiklaani}} has Vaari, a forest spirit depicted as an old man with antlers.
57	* Music/{{Korn}} doesn't technically have a full-term mascot, but the doll featured in the standard cover of their album ''Issues'' (nicknamed "Phil") is arguably the most recognizable visual entity of the band, so much that they later asked Ron English to make his own take of it for the cover art of ''The Serenity of Suffering''.
58	* Music/LedZeppelin has the Fallen Angel, a winged man with BarbieDollAnatomy. This was also used as an icon for their record label, Swan Song.
59	* Music/LichKing has the eponymous Lich King, a skeletal undead wizard who wears a [[RuleOfFunny Burger King crown]].
60	* Music/LornaShore has the wooden effigy on the ''Immortal'' cover.
61	* Music/{{Lovebites}} have a wolf that appears on all their album covers.
62	* Music/{{Manowar}} has the Manowarrior, a [[Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian Conan]]-like [[BarbarianHero barbarian warrior]] with glowing eyes and a shadowy face.
63	* Music/{{Megadeth}}'s Vic Rattlehead is possibly the second-most famous metal mascot. In the cover art of the ''United Abominations'' album, he got some of his skin and hair back, but after how knows many years in the future, he's back as a skeleton cyborg.
64	* Music/{{Meshuggah}} has the unnamed pale androgynous guy on the cover of ''obZen''.
65	* Music/{{Metallica}} has Scary Guy, a crudely drawn skull with fangs, horns, and a mohawk (drawn by James Hetfield himself, no less). They also have Vulturus, which is basically Scary Guy with wings and talons.
66	* Music/MonsterMagnet has Bullgod, a bull that looks...rather pissed off.
67	* Music/MotleyCrue used to use Allister Fiend, a character dreamed up by Nikki Sixx.
68	* Music/{{Motorhead}} has Snaggletooth (often nicknamed the War-Pig). Another of the earliest examples.
69	* Music/{{Nonpoint}} has the unnamed frog that appears on most of their album covers, which is often mistaken for a spider.
70	* Music/{{Oceano}} has the dripping crescent moon.
71	* Music/OrdenOgan has Alister Vale, an immortal HumanoidAbomination who wears a [[CoatHatMask longcoat, top hat, and red scarf]] and has appeared in every album cover art since Vale. Alister Vale is doomed to [[WalkingTheEarth walk the earth]] and [[WalkingWasteland leave everything behind him in decay]].
72	* Music/{{Overkill}} has Chaly, a skull with bat wings. Music/AvengedSevenfold has the Deathbat, who has frequently been accused of being a rip-off of Chaly.
73	* Music/{{Pantera}}'s unofficial mascot seems to be a rattlesnake. The rattlesnake appears on the cover of their album ''The Great Southern Trendkill'', and rattlesnakes (or a rattlesnake skeleton) appear on countless pieces of Pantera merchandise.
74	* Music/{{Powerwolf}} has, well... a humanoid wolf. It's currently unnamed, though.
75	* Music/QuietRiot's character simply called the Man with the Metal Mask, which first appeared on ''Metal Health'' and most of their albums after that. A very literal MetalHead.
76	* Soundchaser from Music/{{Rage\|Band}}.
77	* Riot has Johnny, a rather infamous mascot that seems to have human form with a weasel/rat/owl/seal-head.
78	* Captain Adrian of Music/RunningWild, an [[TheUndead Undead]] [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] {{Pirate}} [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot thing]] who is also the [[AntiAntiChrist Son of Satan.]]
79	* Music/SixFeetUnder has a crudely drawn skull with a backwards 6 in the middle.
80	* Music/{{Skeletonwitch}} had Skeleton Mitch, the skeletal demon/lich that appeared on their first five full-lengths. He was pushed off to the side on ''The Apothic Gloom'' before being retired completely on ''Devouring Radiant Light'', likely due to Chance Garnette's ejection in 2014.
81	* Music/{{Skelteria}} has St. Trinity, a barefoot [[EvilIsCool demon woman]] with [[GoodWingsEvilWings bat-like wings]].
82	* Music/{{Slayer}} has 3: The Baphomet Goat Warrior, who was on the debut album Show No Mercy; The Slatanic Wehrmacht, a skeleton wearing Nazi clothing; and an unnamed eagle.
83	* Thrash band Music/{{Sodom}} has Knarrenheinz.
84	* Sergeant D for the Music/StormtroopersOfDeath (top row, second-to-left on the image above).
85	* Music/{{Trivium}} have declared Ibaraki, the horned skull on the cover of the album ''[[NewSoundAlbum Silence In the Snow]]'' as being their new mascot, and he serves as the antagonist within that album's lyrics, but he hasn't figured into other songs since then.
86	* Music/{{Voivod}}'s Korgull the Exterminator, doubling as a logo as well.
87	* Music/WhitechapelBand has a saw blade with stars representing the Tennessee flag.

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