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A surreal album cover features a man in a suit with clown makeup and dark wings on a subway platform, holding a briefcase. Text reads "Blacksmith Angels" and "I Wasn't Too Fond of Smellyman".

A surreal album cover features a man in a suit with clown makeup and dark wings on a subway platform, holding a briefcase. Text reads "Blacksmith Angels" and "I Wasn't Too Fond of Smellyman".

“A surreal, cinematic record cover for an indie rock band called Blacksmith Angels. The scene shows a dimly lit, slightly chaotic urban subway platform at midnight. In the center stands a quirky, unsettling character known as ‘Smellyman’—a tall figure in a wrinkled suit, holding a sagging briefcase and surrounded by faint swirling mist that subtly forms abstract musical notes. His expression is ambiguous: part confident, part oblivious. Around him, commuters blur into motion streaks, as if time is slightly distorted. The lighting is moody and dramatic, with sickly green and amber fluorescent tones reflecting off wet tiles. In the background, faint angelic silhouettes made of metal and sparks (suggesting the “Blacksmith Angels”) hover like guardians forged from iron and light. The typography is gritty and hand-forged, like stamped steel letters, slightly uneven and embossed into the image. The band name Blacksmith Angels appears at the top, glowing faintly like heated metal cooling in the dark. The album title I Wasn’t Too Fond of Smellyman appears at the bottom in a smaller, distressed typeface. Style: ultra-detailed, surreal realism, cinematic lighting, high contrast, textured film grain, 35mm photography aesthetic, slight dystopian humor, evocative and atmospheric, album cover design quality.” Mehr sehen