media coursework

1. Album cover analysis 2

2. The sufferer and the witness album cover is blurred but there are some hidden images in it, for example the main picture is a man and a woman, these are probably the sufferer and the witness from the title but we have no idea as to which on is which.

3. Appeal to reasons album cover is mainly based on war mainly due to one of the songs being “Hero of war” this is shown with the bullet and gas masked man with a gun in the centre of the screen. The rook in the top right part of the cover represents one of the songs on the CD “Kotov Syndrome”, this is a chess term where a player thinks about a move for too long and cant find a good path to take and so makes a mistake that costs the player the game. The road kill in the middle of the cover with a plug coming out of it could represent how our over dependence on power is killing animal life.

4. Siren Song of the Counter Cultures album cover has an eagle type of crest could be considered a sign of fascism as eagles and other dominant birds have often been associated with aggressiveness, this is probably a reference to the song "State of the Union” which is on the CD. The lightning bolts coming from the speakers could represent the power of music, or it could be the power of propaganda which would link with the eagles and "State of the Union“.

5. Revolutions per Minute's album cover could represent the power of music as the headphones represent the music and the grenade represents the actions that the listeners take in other words “Revolution”

6. The Unraveling’s album cover looks like a cross between an alien and some of Picasso’s work, the picture itself could represent the unraveling of someone's mind as they go crazy.