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"The artwork for "The Death of All Things" is a 60cm x 120cm, oil on canvas painting, designed as a wrap around front and back cover for the album.
Conceptually, the songs deal with trials of life through vice, damnation and possible redemption; a complete sense of running out of time and how, like death, all things can change in an instant. No ending is perfect, strewn with unfinished hopes, ambitions and dreams. While that does sound grim, we wanted to express an impacting sense of power and optimism with the cover art. I thought the idea of a twist on the mythological phoenix presented an interesting metaphor for a number of these themes. Unlike the classical creature, birthed from the ashes of it's predecessor, our bird should be bursting forth from the belly of the serpent.
The preliminary conceptual design work was explored as sketches initially and developed to a full colour, compositional mock-up in Photoshop for the band's appraisal. With the guys happy it was time to get out the paints ...." Nick Keller
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