IMMOLATION - Kingdom Of Conspiracy Cover Art "Has A Very Orwellian Feel To It"

March 4, 2013, 11 years ago

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The new IMMOLATION album, Kingdom Of Conspiracy, will be released May 14th in North America via Nuclear Blast.

The cover imagery, pictured below, was brought to life by Pär Olofsson (IMMORTAL, THE FACELESS, ABYSMAL DAWN). “The figures in the artwork have all been bound and chained and have their eyes and mouths sewn shut symbolically, showing the chilling of speech and the intentional blinding of the masses,” explains guitarist Robert Vigna. “They all make up the huge ominous structure behind them, which is symbolic of the growing security state as well as our failing structures today, and how they are slowly and methodically consuming and controlling us all. It has a very Orwellian feel to it, which is what we were going for since the album is very dark in a slightly different way.”

In regards to Kingdom Of Conspiracy’s lyrical content he continues: "The album deals with the world today and the slow unraveling and breakdown of our societies and the systems and structures behind them. It speaks of the human side to all this and how we have all lost our way and have fed into these very systems that are slowly coming apart. This is the common thread running throughout the album and the cover paints a very dark picture of the future, where these systems have completely absorbed our world, and our freedoms and we have become a part of the very fabric of these structures that we have created. Each song is a symptom of this mass sickness that has brought the world to the point it is at now, and we paint a very bleak picture of this slow and gradual breakdown and the human failures that sped this process along. This is the Kingdom Of Conspiracy."

Catch the band on tour this spring with CANNIBAL CORPSE and NAPALM DEATH. Tour dates below:

May

10 - Houston, TX - Fitzgerald's
11 - Dallas, TX - Trees
12 - San Antonio, TX - Backstage Live
14 - Tucson, AZ - The Rock
15 - Ramona, CA - Ramona Mainstage
16 - Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory
17 - Oakland, CA - Oakland Metro
18 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
19 - Seattle, WA - El Corazon
21 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
22 - Calgary, AB - MacEwan Ballroom
23 - Edmonton, AB - Starlight Room
24 - Regina, SK - Riddell Centre
25 - Winnipeg, MB - The Garrick
26 - St. Paul, MN - Mill City Nights
28 - Chicago, IL - Bottom Lounge
29 - Detroit, MI - Harpos
30 - Buffalo, NY - Town Ballroom
31 - Toronto, ON - The Phoenix

June

1 - Montreal, QC - Club Soda
2 - Boston, MA - Royale
4 - New Haven, CT - Toad's Place
5 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
6 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
7 - Cleveland, OH - Peabodys
9 - St. Louis, MO - Pops
11 - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade
12 - Orlando, FL - Beacham


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