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Its a dark record. A lot of the other titles we were thinking of were a little too hit you over the head and ram the idea down your throat. We wanted something a little more timeless and The Blackening seemed to have a more timeless feel. Right now weve been working on a cover thats based off of this image. Its a metal carving from the 1500s. Back then they used a lot of crude metal carving images almost as propaganda. It was kind of like scaring people about going to hell or whatever. A lot of it had to do with devils and death and stuff like that. They were eventually banned for a while. The cover right now is like a skeleton sitting on a throne with his foot on top of the world and hes holding up a mirror and the mirror says The mirror which flatters not. The reason we chose that image is that this whole record is like holding up a mirror to ourselves. Its talking about things that are going on now, but its not necessarily specific to this time. There are two songs that have a pretty strong anti-war sentiment, but its not the type of thing thats just about this war, you know what I mean? Its not necessarily a concept record in that sense, because the songs dont all tie together thematically. There isnt a story being told. I probably would have lost my mind if I would have had to tie all the lyrics together (laughs). It is about holding up a mirror to society.
Its a dark record. A lot of the other titles we were thinking of were a little too hit you over the head and ram the idea down your throat. We wanted something a little more timeless and The Blackening seemed to have a more timeless feel. Right now weve been working on a cover thats based off of this image. Its a metal carving from the 1500s. Back then they used a lot of crude metal carving images almost as propaganda. It was kind of like scaring people about going to hell or whatever. A lot of it had to do with devils and death and stuff like that. They were eventually banned for a while. The cover right now is like a skeleton sitting on a throne with his foot on top of the world and hes holding up a mirror and the mirror says The mirror which flatters not. The reason we chose that image is that this whole record is like holding up a mirror to ourselves. Its talking about things that are going on now, but its not necessarily specific to this time. There are two songs that have a pretty strong anti-war sentiment, but its not the type of thing thats just about this war, you know what I mean? Its not necessarily a concept record in that sense, because the songs dont all tie together thematically. There isnt a story being told. I probably would have lost my mind if I would have had to tie all the lyrics together (laughs). It is about holding up a mirror to society.
