My arms, your hearse..

[Abedeth]

Ignorance is bliss

Angela Gossow said it isnt!

 

[demon of the moor]

I really cant see it

can someone edit it so its more visible please.

:edit:
I see it now
dont worry

 

[Dammnare]

MAYH has always been a haunting record for me, both lyrically and musically and of course, artwork too.

 

[squadron]

It really looks like a woman. Picture is very cold. Like the ending of the April Ethereal..

 

[xerexes]

Do your research!! It is a woman. Mikeal has stated this time and time again. Read my first post again.....then go look at the first Black Sabbath album cover.....then go find some archival interviews about MAYH. Read the explanations behind the concept of the album, and the cover artwork.

wow you are a dork

 

[burntoast]

Do your research!! It is a woman. Mikeal has stated this time and time again. Read my first post again.....then go look at the first Black Sabbath album cover.....then go find some archival interviews about MAYH. Read the explanations behind the concept of the album, and the cover artwork.

It doesn't look a thing like a woman. Just because the cover to Black Sabbath features a woman doesn't mean the same applies here. The obvious choice would be the protagonist.

 

[ramses]

Mikael Akerfeldt talks about this album in interviews from 98-99 and so on. It's not my fault you guys just started listening to Opeth this year, or the last few years. Black Sabbath DOES apply here, because Mikael says that is what influenced him to have the MAYH cover like this. It fucking is a woman, he fucking would know, it is his band. He says it's a woman. Read the lyrics, read the interviews, look up past threads. As for calling me a dork.......ooooooh, I'm so hurt, I think I'll go cry now. I'm sorry to burst your fantasy/opinion bubble.......

 

[Noel]

Calm down dude, is just a forum.

 

[burntoast]

Mikael Akerfeldt talks about this album in interviews from 98-99 and so on. It's not my fault you guys just started listening to Opeth this year, or the last few years. Black Sabbath DOES apply here, because Mikael says that is what influenced him to have the MAYH cover like this. It fucking is a woman, he fucking would know, it is his band. He says it's a woman. Read the lyrics, read the interviews, look up past threads. As for calling me a dork.......ooooooh, I'm so hurt, I think I'll go cry now. I'm sorry to burst your fantasy/opinion bubble.......

I wouldn't doubt that it inspired him, but you have to realize you're leaping here. Where did he say it's a woman specifically? Please provide a source as I couldn't find one. And everyone knows there's a woman in the lyrics. Maybe you're forgetting that there's also a main character who might well be the person on the album cover. That happens to be the most logical assumption, considering the character's a ghost, which would explain his pale face and why he's veiled in darkness.

 

[Blind Guardian]

I read in this interview from 98 when Mikael is talking about the upcoming album Still Life that one of the songs names was supposed to be "The Willow Tree", wonder what song that was.
http://www.geocities.com/chaoticcrit/opeth.html

 

[burntoast]

I stumbled across that interview while I was searching. My guess is that it might have been the demo title for "The Moor."

 

[ramses]

It's in an old (obviously) metal maniacs issue, somewhere in late 98 or early 99. I have the mag somewhere in the garage, along with about a hundred others. I'll look for it maybe tomorrow. You crack me up, though....I mean, why would I make this up? In a few interviews, in other metal publications back then, he describes, and explains quite a few things pertaining MAYH.

 

[Kir-ir-Bannog]

well fuck me....i have never noticed a person standing there either.

*looks at my copy*

its not as clear as on the original posters picture on my cd cover.....

well, well, well!!!

 

[burntoast]

It's in an old (obviously) metal maniacs issue, somewhere in late 98 or early 99. I have the mag somewhere in the garage, along with about a hundred others. I'll look for it maybe tomorrow. You crack me up, though....I mean, why would I make this up? In a few interviews, in other metal publications back then, he describes, and explains quite a few things pertaining MAYH.

Do you have reading comprehension issues? I never claimed that you were making any of it up. Notice that I was asking about Mikael's saying it was a woman specifically, not about the point you keep trying to impress despite my agreeing with you.

My point is that just because the cover of My Arms, Your Hearse was inspired by the cover of Black Sabbath, doesn't mean they're identical to the last detail. Maybe you should respond to the other part of my post before rambling on about something that I didn't even say.

 

[bogomil]

Why should we trust what Mike says about the album cover?

It´s not a woman, it´s obviously this guy. (before he opened his mouth)

He´s washing his hands in that little waterfall before him. It´s Steinsdalsfossen.

End of mistery.

 

[isolation_years]

wow i can't believe i never noticed the person there, im willing to believe its the woman from the story, makes sense.


and it shouldn't be about when you got into opeth, juse that you are into opeth , we're all pals here, calm down ramses

 

[ramses]

Calm down? I didn't know I was excited. It doesn't matter when you became a fan to me, it's about when you get into a band, whenever the time frame may be, to look into their history or influences before being so sure of your assumptions. I don't get upset when someone shares details that I don't know, with me. I like learning something new whenever possible......

 

[Noel]

You can't blame this people for demanding sources though.

 

[isolation_years]

Calm down? I didn't know I was excited. It doesn't matter when you became a fan to me, it's about when you get into a band, whenever the time frame may be, to look into their history or influences before being so sure of your assumptions. I don't get upset when someone shares details that I don't know, with me. I like learning something new whenever possible......

just seemed a little excited was all

im the same way, i love learning all the little things about bands , looks like i somehow missed a semi big one with opeth though.........a whole album cover

 

[ramses]

ok, here's one....it takes time to dig out old magazines...
ILL LIterature (metal mag) Issue 16 Sepultura on the cover. (1998)
I have always found Opeth's album covers very interesting, albeit very un-metal. How did the band come to decide to have such tranquil covers, and will this style continue in the future?
M.A.-What we started with Orchid got to be somewhat of a trademark for Opeth. No logos, no text on the cover whatsoever. We want to keep that. Actually, we tried a logo on the Orchid cover at first, but it just didn't look right. I know the US versions have logos on the covers, but the real versions don't.The pictures have to reflect the music inside, and that should be it. The cover is a visual form of the music, does that make any sense? My favorite album sleeve of all time, is the one for the first Black Sabbath album.
It was done by a guy called Marcus Keef, whom I've been trying to get a hold of for ages now, without success! Therefore, for the new album, we wanted it to be similiar. The blurred pictures, the fantasy surroundings, and the dark feeling, like the first Sabbath album. I think we got it quite right, but the printers messed up the European version. The American version looks better in my opinion, although, as I said earlier, there's a logo on that one.