Thursday, 8 November 2012

Skillet - 'Awake' Cover Analysis



This album cover is both relevant, and effective. The album is called, ‘Awake’, and so, the image on the cover is that of a person, whom we assume to be male, whose head is wrapped up as though he has just had surgery performed on his head, or as though he has been wrapped up as an Egyptian Mummy would be -- this interpretation in itself is relevant as one of the songs on this album is called, ‘Monster’, and an Egyptian Mummy is often portrayed as being a monster in horror genres of media. The man’s entire head is wrapped up, except his left eye, which has purposefully been left unwrapped so that one can see his eye as it is wide open, thus referring to the album title, ‘Awake’.

Overall, it is perhaps implied that the man was thought to be dead, and has made somewhat of a miraculous recovery.

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