Paradise Lost Share Artwork For New Album 'The Plague Within'
Monday, 23 March 2015
Written by Laura Johnson
Paradise Lost have shared the artwork for their new album, 'The Plague Within'.
The cover, which you can check out above, was the creation of Polish artist Zbigniew M. Biela, who has worked with other bands such as Watain and Ghost. Discussing the artwork, Biela said:
“Since their late 80’s inception, through sombre abrasiveness of their debut and harrowing tristesse of groundbreaking ‘Gothic’, the unparalleled icons of gloom, Paradise Lost grew deep into all things murky and dreadful in modern music. Let alone Duncan Fergado’s artwork for their ‘Lost Paradise’ debut remains one of my fave covers, so having heard that with ‘Plague Within’ the band harks back to days of old, was - to say the least - a thrilling incentive to pick up the commission.
"It was also a rare joy to see how preliminary calm and reflective Arcimboldian artwork, kept becoming ever darker and more sinister past each of Nick’s and Greg’s scrutinies, to finally become what one can see on the actual cover. A portrait of hopeless decrepitude of mental illness - which is what ‘Plague Within’ deals with thematically - where the tormented Sisyphus struggles to push his burden back up the slippery walls of a long frozen illusion.”
'The Plague Within' is set for release June 1 through Century Media Records.
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