Does that gentleman look familiar???
No
That has to be It …where’s it from?
Where is that footage from exactly? I was sure the cover was taken from Faces Of Death, but never knew the origin.
crazy. where did you find this?
creepy!
Much more startling than the actual cover of tlorah.
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grmpysmrf
That has to be It …where’s it from?
It is indeed it. Not sure where it’s from. He looks like quite a young guy.
Wow. I never even realized it was a face on the cover. Thought it was just some abstract cloudy BS.
Same here. I was shocked. After all these years. I saw a strange pirate skull head in the top mid-left portion (now his ear) and another skull in the bottom left porition (his jaw) surrounded by a strange purple-white smoke. Now all I see is the face.
Reminds me of those picture puzzles where you can see either the old lady or the princess. Now all I see is dead man.
So trippy.
This is the original image but I’m pretty sure the cover is a frame from “Faces of Death.” Connelly even talks about watching that film during the making of TMIATTTT.
He looks like quite a young guy.
about 20 y/o, I’d say.
carmangary, Prototype
are you guys serious?
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grmpysmrf
Yeah, for a long time I was in the “strange cloudy shit” camp, but I did see the original picture a few years ago. Really, there is not much mystery to it- I went to wikipedia, hit “ministry”, hit “LORAH”, and the info on the original picture was right there (maybe another click away). It’s a half burned corpse from the Buchenwald concentration camp, possibly an American POW. The picture is in the public domain as it was “a work of the United States government.”
Pretty gruesome.
He ain’t a Camper, he’s just wrecked from the drink after a rough one.
Anyone know who the dude is from Filth Pig cover?
I made a side by side just to compare the close-ups . . .
The album cover is an interesting piece. I’d love to know more about the actual process of how it was made. That is, was the image just manipulated a bit with contrast and color and pixilation and so forth, or was it actually a painting done, with deliberate freedoms and artistic interpretations taken (I would guess the latter)?
It is really cool how something can go from specific image to abstract and then also bring forth other imagery (the secret skulls and faces, for instance).
I guess if I wanted to try and project some interpretation or “meaning” onto the piece I would see it as a commentary on the de-humanization and loss of emotional investment with regards to war and attrocity. Perhaps, as we get too close to the situations we lose perspective, but as we pull back a bit and view such events, inhumanities, and injustices from an outside view we see what an absolutely horrific and vile mess it all is.
Or maybe Al was just on drugs and thought it might look cool on an album cover . . .
Either way, it’s pretty cool.
[reply]carmangary, Prototype
are you guys serious?
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grmpysmrf[/reply]
Walked up to my girlfriend and asked her, “What do you see?” She said the same thing, she thought it was some strange mushroom cloud, and she has seen this cover repeatedly over the years. Told her it was a dead guy, same type of response…shocked to not have noticed all these years.
Yeah, it’s kind of cool like that. Someone had to point it out to me as well (this was 20 years ago), but after that, I can’t NOT see the face now.
I’d love to know more about the actual process of how it was made. That is, was the image just manipulated a bit with contrast and color and pixilation and so forth, or was it actually a painting done, with deliberate freedoms and artistic interpretations taken (I would guess the latter)?
Jordan is right that the image came out of Faces of Death. It’s definitely the same picture as the one here, but the FoD video adds the pixelation and tinting. The bodies lined up in the liner notes are also from the movie. I used to have a screen capture of both pictures, but that was on an older computer.
Also, count me in with the “thought it was some sort of cloud of smoke” crowd. I still think it’s a pretty exceptional cover.
I always thought it was a skeleton of some dead guy. At the top of the Album cover it looks like a pelvic bone and spine, and the rest just scattered bones n stuff.
But yea I see the face now.
I had this on cassette tape so I am not sure if the cassette frome cover actually had the whole image on it. Anyone know?
I imagine it would’ve.
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The original picture is creepy.