Metal

There is the faded band tee you have kept since school, and there is the wall that goes with it. Metal posters speak the same language: thick black ink on bone-coloured paper, spiky logos, artwork that has no interest in pleasing everyone. Aurify's metal section brings it to you as posters printed in Tunisia.

The screen-printed tee look

Metal imagery was born on album sleeves and tour shirts. Few colours, lots of contrast, lettering cut like blades: screen printing set the rules, and the genre turned them into a signature. Our metal section works the same way, with a lightly grained ivory ground, deep black and the odd flash of red.

Every band has its visual mythology. Iron Maiden has Eddie, the skeletal mascot who changes costume from album to album. Slipknot has the masks, Rammstein the flames and industrial staging. And it all traces back to Birmingham and Black Sabbath, widely credited with inventing the heavy metal sound.

What you'll find

• The pillars: Metallica, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden, for riff purists.
• Nu metal and beyond: Linkin Park, Slipknot and System of a Down, the soundtrack of a whole generation of headphones.
• Industrial: Rammstein and its world of raw steel and fire.

Some albums fixed their images for good. Metallica's Master of Puppets, from 1986, is one of the most admired thrash records ever made; Linkin Park broke nu metal wide open with Hybrid Theory in 2000; System of a Down fused furious riffs with their Armenian heritage. Each of those records left behind artwork, logos and colours that fans still wear on their chests decades later.

These pages grow as new posters arrive. In the meantime, each one sets out a band's world: its colours, its symbols, its landmark albums.

A metal wall that still looks sharp

Metal does not mean painting your room black. A pale wall, bone or off-white, echoes the poster stock and makes the black ink hit harder. Line up three posters above a bed or an amp, 3 cm apart, and keep the rest calm: dark wood, metal, a guitar on a wall hook.

In a gaming setup, a metal poster above the screen adds tension without overpowering everything. Pair a cult band with a more graphic piece to avoid the teenage-bedroom look, unless that is exactly the point. Tunisia has its own distorted guitars too, and metal keeps loyal fans in the country's smaller venues.

Metal posters also make great gifts for the friend who still wears black in August.

Turn it up, hang it, headbang. We deliver to all 24 governorates, and you pay on delivery.