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This sketch analyses the series of images used by rock and metal bands (King Crimson, Voivod, Pestilence) on their selected album covers. They depict a distinctive motif of a face wincing because of some extreme traumatic sensation. Sources of theses extreme emotions are various, but one of the most significant is a sudden awareness of threats deriving form the unstoppable development of technology. Selected lyrics focusing on ominous and dystopian themes are also reflected upon and analysed. Their content clearly confirms the presence of fears and obsessions embedded in rock and metal music.