These are some of the original covers Philip Lawvere painted in the eighties during the birth of the German Thrash Metal scene.
"One day I hope to write a book, with one of the chapters dedicated to the experience of living in Berlin in the early eighties, the height of Cold War tension, in a walled city. It was both exhilarating, and terrifying. Probably the main inspiration for painting these images."Click
here for more about his time in Berlin.