One of the things we have to do as we get closer to releasing an album is to develop the final artwork. For those of you who have followed the blogs during the release of our previous 4 cd's, you know that we try out lots of different ideas. If you review the album blogs you'll see me posting various versions as we work through them.

Right now we're working on two projects, SC5 and SC6 (working titles, dont worry) and as per usual, its a matter of seeking inspiration both from the musical content and from  the world around us. One of our influences is modern Graphic Novel artwork.

As you may have guessed, from the fact that we maintain our very own underground comic section  (courtesy of our talented mates Terry Lyndon and Bob Carter) I am a fan of underground comic art, having spent many moons buying old, weird and obscure comics at Ashwoods (back in the day). I still occasionally like to poke arond the latest comic...oops..I mean 'Graphic Novel' (lol). Here's a great example from a few years back

I love the use of light and dark in the recent stuff.

Anyway, with the various things going on around the world atm,  it gave rise to a few attempts at an idea for the SC6  Cover.

 Now I know I am posting artwork for the album after the one we're working on now, but dont worry if I do it out of order, the ideas strike when they strike.

So in thinking about the various '1%' groups around the world at the moment, and being a keen Sons Of Anacrhy Fan, I kind of liked the concept of a Wall St Outlaw Motorcycle Club. But what would you call them? Well thats obvious, the Masters Of The Universe MC (Mercantile Collective).

Here's some concept art :

And of course, the front Patches:

These may or may not make it to the SC6 Cover, they're purely conceptual, but worth sharing. With any luck, I'll post the concept art for the coming album (SC5) next week.