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MyKneesAreCold wrote:My only thoughts on the artwork is that the girl on the right looks like Windowlicker RDJ and the letters are placed awkwardly so that girl is all I really see.

The title, Inferno… meh. I don’t hate it, but it feels strange as a BoC album title maybe? Too on-the-nose? But at the same time I really like how brazen it is, shows strong artistic vision and energy from the brothers which is all I could really hope for. Everything else that we have so far, videos, track titles, merch, etc. are 10/10 so I am stopping myself from thinking too critically about any one detail for now. Could not be more excited, still doesn’t feel real

jcnporter wrote:I don't think I've seen any discussion of the inner sleeve art? Combination of the posters and other stuff.
I particularly like the hints of artist Nicolas Moulin's stuff - 'alien' brutalist superstructures dropped into landscapes.

noveltywave wrote:If this is a trilogy of VHS inspired “soundtrack albums” we have a post apocalyptic plague/zombie film with TH, and now an Italian video nasty horror with Inferno.

noveltywave wrote:My first thought when I opened my mail this morning and saw it was “Is this a 70s metal album? With vocals?” I wonder of it will sound like Black Sabbath. I bet there’s a badass guitar riff or two on there.

Twoist wrote:This feels like a consolidation of their entire aesthetic over the last thirty years. Give us the hexagons, give us the burnt orange, the seventies doom vibe, the soulless faces, the cult worshippers and leaders, the decay, the evil, the end of the world, the whole fucking lot. I'm all in.

IronMark wrote:If, as everyone expects, BoC are releasing an album as a commentary on the state of the world today, it's no time for subtlety. Everything in this campaign has been on the nose and in your face. It's like they're not messing around anymore, no more gentle subtleties in their approach, just a clear statement.

Redd Panderson wrote:Bringing in an idea I brought up in the general Inferno thread because it applies to the cover. It has to do with the idea of our past, present, and future selves being contained in this one moment and how parts of ourselves get frozen in the past.

It involves behavioral loops that get stuck on repeat in our psyches as we age and continue to manifest as similar situations in our lives over and over. It's like the negative edge of nostalgia. Not necessarily trauma, but the momentum of habit that we are often blind to while ending up in the same difficult situations time and again.

Also related to loops: feedback. The closed loop producing monstrous things with exaggerated features in our lives, dreams, and societies, frightening us until we can cultivate enough equanimity to face them head-on. I think that exaggerated, maybe even cartoonish, character of our demons when left unchecked kind of fits with the bit of camp in the design for Inferno.

I already said it somewhere else, but, to me, I'm getting the feeling this isn't strictly a dark album, but also about the process of turning to face your demons--individually and as a society--in order to transcend and move beyond them. To thaw the frozen parts inside. To befriend those exiled aspects of our psyche so we can rescue ourselves from the havoc they can wreak when left unchecked.

So I appreciate the kind of horror, kind of camp look. There's a funhouse mirror yet sinister look and I do think it all has some parallel to what some people call shadow work.