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TRIPTYKON Team Up With H.R. Giger For New Album Art

Awesome art is awesome.

Awesome art is awesome.

It's no secret Triptykon are releasing Melana Chasmata on April 15 via Century Media Records/Prowling Death Records Ltd., but who knew they were teaming up with legendary artist H.R. Giger for the cover. More specifically, the band will be using Giger's 1975 piece called ”Mordor VII” for the front cover and a 1972 piece called ”Landschaft XVI” for the gatefold, which both look awesomely retro. That looks like this, in case you were wondering:

Triptykon-Melana-Chasmata

The band put the art up along with the announcement:

“Following Eparistera Daimones, the group began to make arrangements for an entirely different cover for the second album. Completely unexpectedly, HR Giger approached Tom Gabriel Warrior in October of 2011 to express his appreciation of how Triptykon had used his art on the first album and to propose a continuation of the artistic collaboration. This development thus marks the first time any musical artist has worked with HR Giger on three albums (Celtic Frost’s To Mega Therion, and Triptykon’s Eparistera Daimones and Melana Chasmata), and it commemorates a collaboration that has now lasted for 30 years.”

[via MetalSucks]

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