Behind The Artworks: Sophist - Avenger… Liberator... (2023)

The cover art is based on Alfred Rethel's "Der Tod als Erwürger" (Death the Strangler) 1851, edited for presentation as an album cover. It depicts a skeleton appearing at a high-society masquerade ball, scraping two human bones together, like a violinist. It seemed to suit the record and some of the themes of the songs.