08-05-2016, 03:27 PM
I may have inadvertently killed the thread by "going big" too quickly, haha.
"Virgin Killer"... again, the band have never pretended that it was anything other than an attention seeking ploy. Terrible picture, very bad taste, but not pretentious.
I'm starting to come round to the fact that I may not actually have an issue with the cover of "Home" itself, but the utter bollocks that the band are spouting in order to justify it to themselves.
Typically, when someone sees a controversial/gory album cover, after the knee-jerk "Ewwwwww" reaction, they'll write it off as "ah, they're just doing it for attention", and generally that's the case. There are exceptions to the rule (Carcass first two albums for example), and I guess it's in the eye of the beholder to believe the band has loftier intentions. In the case of Numenorean, I don't believe their rhetoric.
"Virgin Killer"... again, the band have never pretended that it was anything other than an attention seeking ploy. Terrible picture, very bad taste, but not pretentious.
I'm starting to come round to the fact that I may not actually have an issue with the cover of "Home" itself, but the utter bollocks that the band are spouting in order to justify it to themselves.
Typically, when someone sees a controversial/gory album cover, after the knee-jerk "Ewwwwww" reaction, they'll write it off as "ah, they're just doing it for attention", and generally that's the case. There are exceptions to the rule (Carcass first two albums for example), and I guess it's in the eye of the beholder to believe the band has loftier intentions. In the case of Numenorean, I don't believe their rhetoric.