English progressive folk metallers Northern Oak have been giving us an insight into the concept for the artwork to their debut album, 'Of Roots And Flesh', which is due for release on October 4. The band comments: "When discussing the concept for the album artwork [pictured right], we wanted to come up with something that would reflectEnglish progressive folk metallers Northern Oak have been giving us an insight into the concept for the artwork to their debut album, 'Of Roots And Flesh', which is due for release on October 4. The band comments: "When discussing the concept for the album artwork [pictured right], we wanted to come up with something that would reflect the songs on the album and their subject matter. Having settled on the title 'Of Roots And Flesh', we felt it would be appropriate to maintain the theme of 'roots' through the artwork, and eventually decided that a figure emerging from a chaotic mass of roots and branches would visually represent the struggle between humanity and nature that features in many of the songs on the album. We also felt that the concept would harken back to imagery of the Green Man, a pagan deity often associated with rebirth." The South Yorkshire sextet discussed their ideas with the Lithuanian-born artist Augustinas Našlėnas, who would then bring the concept to fruition. Augustinas comments: "For my illustrations I mostly get the inspiration from my favourite surrealist artists like Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst and others; mainly people who drew upon the pre-Christian belief systems and magic [...]
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