Behind The Artworks: Derelict - Versus Entropy (2024)

We’ve been working with Cate Francis for all our album artwork since 2009. She always gets exactly what I have in my head. This piece represents the title track, where you see a human figure struggling to resist the inevitable forces of decay, chaos, and death. The idea of ‘versus’ entropy here is that most humans spend their lives trying to halt those processes, to create permanent things or to live forever. And we all fail. And so, like on all our art, the Flame of the Righteous symbol is inside the figure’s chest, representing the internalized negative ideas that are causing this struggle, and linking them to many other negative forces on our other album covers such as religion, capitalism, and state-sponsored violence.