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fnord 08:37 pm UTC 06/15/16 |
| In reply to: | re: *Drumroll* ........ Braver Than We Are COVER ART - BatForGood 07:38 pm UTC 06/15/16 |
| I'm digging the cover art too. It'll be fun to deconstruct the symbolism on it. I think clearly the two main figures are Meat (in his Spiderman coat) and Jim (in his ubiquitous leather jacket). Is the guitar a reference to Bad For Good? Why not? (Thanks to Danny Lavery for his interpretations.) Did Meat steal that briefcase from Kenny Loggins? (Points if you can identify the reference.) The four approaching figures are clearly the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, upgraded from horses to Steinmanesque motorcycles. Has Pollution taken over for Pestilence, as Tremorlor said above? Perhaps; I don't know if this is something artist Julie Bell has indicated, but it's an interesting modernization. The rider on the far left is clearly War, with his pocket full of rockets. War rides a red horse. The swinish mask is suggestive of War Pigs. Who is second, Pestilence, Pollution or Hunger? I suggest Pestilence, who Biblically is called Conquest, as separate from War. (The Pestilence interpretation came later.) This painting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse#/media/File:Apocalypse_vasnetsov.jpg shows Conquest with a bow, as does the album cover. Pestilence/Conquest rides a white horse, though this motorcycle appears to be chrome-colored with white smoke trailing. The skull does appear to be a bat skull; I don't know that it is symbolic of anything beyond a reference to Meat's earlier albums. Not sure what kind of skull mask this rider is wearing; an antelope? A ram? Third is Hunger, sometimes called Famine. This is clear by the rider's skeletal appearance, and the scale held in its hand. I believe the scale refers to people hoarding food and not sharing it with the hungry, inflating its price. Famine's black horse is grey here. The skull on the front looks a lot like the kraken skull on the Dead Ringer motorcycle. Is this merely an artistic reference or does it also suggest the overfishing of the oceans? (I think this kraken also looks a bit like Eddie The Head.) Hunger's own wolf mask is an interesting touch; a wolf at your door? Finally, Death, with his scythe and his pale horse (here in light blue) and obvious horse skull. None of the motorcycles or skulls strike me as being homages to the Bad Attitude skullcycle. What am I missing? What do you see? | |
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