![]() ![]() The second one, it’s how the cover was supposed to be in Thorgerson's vision. As can be seen, in the first image it’s the band modification and the released form. The situation was resolved by the purchase of the copyright of the picture, with seems fair for both parties. Besides, they didn’t like the landscape of Bardenas, Spain and asked to color it to something more similar with Mars. They didn’t want the small horses, who Thorgerson had a particular affinity because it was the central feature to the generation of his idea. Not everything in the garden is rosy, the band had to fight with Thorgerson over the details of the art. Narcissism: wears a outfit of many mirrors for he can never seen enough of himself. Intolerance: wears a suit of patterned religious symbols. Paranoia: wears a suit of eyes, always watchful. In the cover art, you can see the respective characters: ![]() So it was decided that the four horseman would be Paranoia, Intolerance, Narcissism and Greed. Storm Thorgerson in his book “The Raging Storm” This release is roughly similar to Black Holes And Revelations, except for the Warner Bros logo. This sets thoughts was delivered directly from the music, which comprised three songs that seemed to evoke galloping (“Invisible” and “Knights of Cydonia” being two), along with a propensity musical grandness- majestic passages followed by thumping rhythms- with word “epic” or “biblical” coming to my mind, biblical horses become the four horseman of apocalypse, obviously, but hold on… Muse are a contemporary band so our four horseman needed to be represented not the evils of a medieval world - War, Hunger, Famine and Pestilence - but more contemporary evils. This version, Black Holes & Revelations No spine images available, booklet page 2 - blue text in the spiral and page 3 blue text 'Muse' Black Holes & Revelations Artist name on spines printed in black letters, rest of spine is white letters and a cursive (flowing) script for 'Revelations' booklet page 2 - blue text in the spiral and page 3. Label:Warner Records 0825646350919, Helium 3 0825646350919: Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue. There were four miniature horses hanging around, as you tend to get. “The four men are sitting in an alien landscape around a sturdy wooden table with their symbolic nature represented by suitably decorated apparel. The chosen concept for the cover was the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, who are characters described in the last book of the New Testament of the Bible, called the Book of Revelation, but transcript to our modern world. While doing the cover art for BH&R, his mainly inspiration were the songs “Knights of Cydonia” and “Invincible”. ![]()
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