Anyone notice the striking resemblance between the top right part of the album cover and the burning city mural at the Denver International Airport? Look into the airport's history. It also seems to have a general NWO & Luciferian theme to it.

I can understand writing about morbid topics in death metal, but going as far as to use that Nietzsche phrase in Devil's Orchard goes too far in my opinion. It's insulting to any people of faith who simply enjoy good music.. of which Opeth doesn't seem to be writing any more. I will not be buying the new album or any further albums from Opeth. I don't know about you.

I was not aware of any of those things, Opeth lost it's luster for me a while ago though.
Wikipedia has some details on the cover, it seems fairly harmless.

Beyond that, it was done by Travis Smith, who has done covers for Devy as well, and I quite like his art.

I think people look a bit too far into the murals and I think you're looking a bit too far into the details of the album cover...


Thankfully they're releasing it on September 16th and not September 11th, cos I'd say people would've gone fucking ballistic.

Releasing it on the 1st of June would have stirred a reaction too I'm sure. I'm glad you at least know about the murals. I'm not looking too far into it, I spotted the direct resemblance and commented on it.

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No offense, but while I know Opeth's been to Denver, I'm pretty sure a Swedish band isn't too deeply thinking about a mural in a city that's not even on the major scale globally.

I think that airport's got some truly fascinating architecture though.

Some interesting facts about Denver. It has the highest elevation of any city in North America. It is conveniently located east of the Rocky Mountains and west of the Ozarks. It is not near any fault lines. Good place in the event of an apocalyptic event, no? The CIA and at least one other major US gov'n facility has moved to Denver in the past 5 years.

Some facts and photos about DIA (thanks to rabbithole2.com):
The initial cost was to be 1.7 BILLION dollars but by the time they were done it cost $4.8 BILLION - obscenely over budget.

The DIA is the largest international airport on US soil...Nearly twice as big as Dallas.

Words used to describe the DIA were "buried in technical problems", "poor project management", "overwhelming complexity" and "America's most inconvenient airport".

It was built in a high wind area (Stapleton Airport hadn't been) that causes it to be shut down or flights delayed often.

Even though the area is basically flat (it's in a valley), they moved 110 million cubic yards of earth around. This is about 1/3rd of the amount of earth they moved when they dug out the Panama Canal.

The airport has a fiber optic communications core made of 5,300 miles of cable. That's longer than the Nile River. That's from New York City to Buenos Aires, Argentina. The airport also has 11,365 miles of copper cable communications network.

The fueling system can pump 1,000 gallons of jet fuel per minute through a 28-mile network of pipes. There are six fuel hold tanks that each hold 2.73 million gallons of jet fuel. This is somewhere in the "no one will ever ever need this much" range.

Granite was imported from all over the world - Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America - and used in making the main terminal floor. This is a ridiculous expense, especially when you're already over budget.

The huge, main terminal is Jeppesen Terminal, also known as the "Great Hall" is 900 feet by 210 feet. This is over 1.5 million square feet of space. All told, there is over 6 million square feet of public space at DIA.The airport brags that they have room to build another terminal and two more concourses and could serve 100 million passengers a year. The airport flew 36 million in 2001.

The only way to get to the other two concourses/terminals from the Great Hall, or vice versa, is via the airport's train system.

There are more than 19 miles (30 km) of conveyor belt track, luggage transport cars and road in their own underground tunnels that move baggage and goods. They're so huge you can drive trucks through them, and some remain unused.





The sculptor of this statue outside DIA was killed after it fell on him. "Welcome to Denver!"


Denver New World Airport erects giant Anubis Egyptian God of Death statue. (June 10, 2010)
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_15264763

The morbid murals (to say the least) can also be found here: http://rabbithole2.com/presentation/den ... rooper.htm
Click the arrow buttons at the bottom to navigate the pages.

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Well. Then that happened.

Dude, this is likely not the forum for you.