San Francisco Bay Area progressive extreme metallers CORMORANT have just unveiled the stunning artwork for their upcoming full-length, Metazoa, which is due out on September 22. The album will initially be released as a six panel Digipack by Saturnine Media, while a vinyl version will be made available in the coming months.

Vocalist/bassist Arthur von Nagel comments on artist Julie Dillon’s work for Metazoa: “The colors she used were so vibrant, a style out of the norm for most metal, and a good match for the visual aspects of our music. I’m tired of all these bland and drab metal covers. Van Gogh proved you could use vibrant colors and still express dark and complex emotion. We're especially fond of the artwork's "mural" quality, as the full piece actually extends over three whole panels of the digipak, and her work is very old-school - there's a timeless quality to it. We first commissioned a logo from her, and her final design was absolutely stunning, so we of course felt a full-on album design was the right course of action. We couldn't be happier with the result.”

Metazoa was recorded with, produced, and mixed by Billy Anderson (NEUROSIS, MELVINS, SLEEP, PRIMORDIAL) while Justin Weis (HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE, LUDICRA, SLOUGH FEG) handled mastering duties.

Track listing for Metazoa:

'Scavengers Feast'

'Uneasy Lies the Head'

'Salt Of The Earth'

'Blood on the Cornfields'

'Hanging Gardens'

'Hole In The Sea'

'The Crossing'

'The Emigrant's Wake'

'The Sky Burial'

Check out a video of Cormorant performing 'Hanging Gardens' off their new album, Metazoa, below: