"Altar of Sacrifice"
As I began this project,
I had a number of ideas, each in turn revolving around the image of a band or
artist, centrally. After searching
Pixabay.com for images, I settled upon the metal band in a church concept. As a
former member of numerous thrash and death metal bands, I know firsthand the
attraction/repulsion relationship between extreme metal and religion. I decided
to capture this relationship on an album cover for the fictitious band “Altar
of Sacrifice.”
I believe this image
works for a band in either of two separate styles of death metal … First would
be the contrast in the picture, as used for a black metal band, who would be
the “haunters” conjuring evil in an area normally associated with good and
peace – playing in a place no normal black metal band would be welcomed. Second
would be for a Christian death metal band, being the voice of religion, along
with the girl praying, driving away the haunting spirits – for them playing in
a church would be normal fare. The band name works for either interpretation or
use of the picture and the combination of the individual images should be
appealing to either of the metal audiences.
