CIRCUS – WISH UPON A STAR
Greg on May 07 2009 at 2:57 pm | Filed under: Album Cover Designs
CIRCUS were a death/Goth/metal band from some obscure Scandinavian town who had contacted me over the internet.
They had seen my album designs and were keen for me to design their first and probably only album.
They sent me some mixes of the songs that were going to be on the album and a whole lot of promo shots.
If you think Marilyn Manson looks freaky, wait till you see these guys.
They would make frightening things feel right at home.
Lots of eye liner and pasty faces in dark caves filled with some zoo’s collection of snakes with a few skulls scattered around for them to play in.
Every member of the band looked as though they had just been raised from the dead and weren’t too happy about it.
I couldn’t see how the name of their band and their image quite fitted together.
As far as the music for the album goes, I am the least qualified to criticize.
I like just about every type of music but some I find hard to understand and death/Goth/ metal is one of them.
I only listened to a quarter of the album before I had to go to bed and curl up under the safety of my blankets.
Some music should just be left alone.
Anyway despite my opinion of the bands image and music, I quite liked the finished cover.
Once again I used a Gustave Dor’e picture the name of which I forget.
In the context of the album design, it shows the futility of wishing upon star or wishing upon a hope as portrayed in the figure of death sitting upon the planet – a star.
The band loved the design and promised to take me out for dinner when they toured Australia. I told them to keep in touch and never heard from them again.
Sometimes I have a little laugh as I imagine the guys from Circus on a beach in Australia, with their sweating eye liner running down their eyes and their pasty white skin screaming for the sanctuary of some shade as they pose like the true metal goths they are.
Wherever they are now, I hope they enjoyed the ride.