The washed out picture is credited to Marcus Keef, the in-house designer at their label Vertigo records and was actually taken at Mapledurham Watermill on the River Thames. People keep asking us who the girl on the front cover is and I have to tell them to this day that I have no idea.” “We had no say as to what went on the cover,” says Tony Iommi. Strangely enough, though, it also managed to piss off the band as well. Black Sabbath’s eponymous 1970 debut featured an inverted crucifix inside, something that raised the hackles of the great and the good eager to save our youth from the forces of darkness. METAL album sleeves have offended since day one. ”But we were getting complaints that people couldn’t find the album in the shops and that’s exactly why we signed with Metal Blade in the first place.” We think our music and our lyrics do a good enough job of that already,” singer Travis Ryan told Hammer. “ We didn’t want the sleeve to gross people out. Strangely enough, the band thought twice about the cover and when their label Metal Blade gave them the option of changing the sleeve (Hammer had been sent an early promo) on the grounds that they would find it impossible to have it stocked in any record store anywhere, they chose to do so.Ĭattle Decapitation are all militant vegans, and the sleeve was actually making an unsubtle point about the consumption of animals, turning the food cycle around by having the cow eating man. If they set out to make people barf then they succeeded wonderfully. But somehow that sleeve was the one that had us retching our lunch away. We’ve seen albums that depict DIY surgery, demon rape, grossly mutated sexual organs and acts of barbarism so foul that we dare not describe them and merely sighed and chucked them on the pile to be reviewed or – more likely – used as Frisbees. The cover was a painting by Wes Benscoter of a cow shitting out human remains, the face and torso still visible in the heap of excrement. That changed a couple of years ago with the release of an album by US grindcore outfit Cattle Decapitation called Humanure. pp. 4–5.Originally published in Metal Hammer special The Devil’s Music.ĪS a veteran of the most extreme manifestations of all things metal, Hammer prides itself on being hard to shock and even harder to nauseate. Cause of Death: A Personal History (booklet). "Baroness, Obituary, Enslaved & More Announced For Decibel Metal & Beer Fest 2019". "Memories Remain: The Making of Obituary's "Cause of Death" ".
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