Behind The Artworks: Synlakross - Mental Parasites (2024)

The songs on this album are inspired by personality disorders, as well as thoughts and attitudes that parasitize our mind, turning it into a hostile place and making us live in hell. It’s a very thought provoking and devastatingly honest album.

And that's what the cover shows.

On the one hand we have a central figure, apparently female with an expression between madness and joy with long red hair, surrounded by insects and parasites and bugs and some blood splashes on the skin. The figure appears framed in a frame made of bones and thorns.

On the other hand, insects/or parasites are not just a reference to the name of the album. They are a metaphor for those thoughts that parasitize our mind, infecting it and creating great damage to our mind and body, affecting our relationship with ourselves and the relationship we have with others.

It is difficult to get rid of these parasites, but not impossible.

On the other hand, insects and/or parasites are not just a reference to the name of the album. They are a metaphor for those thoughts that parasitize our mind, infecting it and creating great damage to our mind and body, affecting our relationship with ourselves and the relationship we have with others.

It’s difficult to get rid of these parasites, but not impossible.

The colors chosen are important.

Yellow appears in all the new videos and material related to this new album.

It is the color of madness.

While red symbolizes passion and anger, and has been chosen as a hair color because of the stigma associated with redheads.

From the Middle Ages onwards, redheads acquired negative connotations. Red hair became an almost demonic insignia, associated with witches.

The skin and frame are in grayscale.

In the case of the skin, so as not to represent any race.

In the case of the frame, which refers to life, what it does is underline the fact that there is no black or white, there are many grays with many shades. We can choose to face this frame of bones and thorns in a stoic and calm way, but most of the time we are overwhelmed by these thorns and these hard and cold shapes.

The black background gives seriousness and elegance and puts the image in the foreground. So that attention is not dissipated by more details.

The cover of this album, Mental Parasites, as well as the rest of the albums and merchandising of the band has been and is designed by its vocalist Patricia Pons