Cradle of Filth is set to drop its eleventh studio record titled Hammer of the Witches sometime this July via Nuclear Blast Records and has revealed its very… breasty album artwork done by artist Arthur Berzinsh. Ready?
Well, so far we're off to a good start with this record! I'm actually really excited to hear some new jams from this one considering the band is on a bit of an uptrend in terms of making killer music. In the meantime, here's what Berzinsh had to say about the artwork.
“In terms of mood, I was looking for the inspiration of this set in the spirit of Faustian romanticism, the ambivalent art of Renaissance that reanimated motives of pagan mythology after the Middle Ages, and of course, the darkly beautiful and charming spirit of Goetia traditions that is filled with the atmosphere of hermetical rituals. My personal conceptual leitmotif that inspires me, is a conflict between the free-thinking and totalitarianism, where the raw power always gains the upper hand over individualism. The act of art is a theurgical act that creates existence in the Platonic reality – reality of ideas. So, at least in this Platonic dimension let’s give the suppressed ones a chance to get their revenge. For me the Goat of Mendes on the cover symbolizes the scapegoat, who's tired of his humiliating role and wants a payback. This character is an archetypical symbol of libido and other primordial forces and instinctive aspects of a human being. And these forces always have been a menace for those who want to reign over the others, like it's schematically represented in George Orwell's '1984.'"
