Ghost B.C. - Album Release Delayed Due To Blasphemous Art
Swedish occult rockers Ghost B.C. face yet another controversy. The band had to change their name from Ghost to Ghost B.C. for legal reasons and now one piece of the Infestissumam deluxe version artwork was reportedly deemed too sacrilegious by some US manufacturers which have refused to print it thus delaying its release in North America. However, the original artwork can still be found on both the vinyl and European copies of the album. It seems like this will generate even more buzz around the release of the opus.
According to SPIN.com, the band's upcoming album Infestissumam was scheduled to come out April 9th, but instead it has been pushed back a week to April 16th because four compact disc manufacturers have refused to print a piece of artwork that was destined for the deluxe version of the new album. The manufacturers all took issue with the sacrilegious imagery, forcing Ghost B.C. to come up with an alternate plan.
"We kept on getting turned down because of the CD art, which is basically a 16th century illustration of an orgy," a source close to the band told SPIN. The illustration, inspired by the work of Gustave Doré, showcases what looks like a nymph orgy, but it's the religious iconography at the top that convinced manufacturers to turn off the printing press.
Even though the Infestissumam booklets had all been printed, the band struggled to find anyone in the States to print the CD for them. "They weren't surprised. The comment was 'Well, I thought this would have happened sooner,'" the source said. "The artwork was meant to provoke some sort of thought, but it's been one obstacle after another."
In order to avoid delaying the album release any longer, Ghost B.C. opted to reuse the CD art found on the standard edition of their album. The artwork, a collaboration between Polish artist Zbignew Bielak II and a Nameless Ghoul, is key to an elaborate deluxe package that features each song's lyrics accompanied by a illustration to form a narrative within the music. The controversial art will be available in vinyl and European copies of the Infestissumam CD. "Vinyl manufacturers don't have a problem with the artwork. Neither does Europe."
According to SPIN.com, the band's upcoming album Infestissumam was scheduled to come out April 9th, but instead it has been pushed back a week to April 16th because four compact disc manufacturers have refused to print a piece of artwork that was destined for the deluxe version of the new album. The manufacturers all took issue with the sacrilegious imagery, forcing Ghost B.C. to come up with an alternate plan.
"We kept on getting turned down because of the CD art, which is basically a 16th century illustration of an orgy," a source close to the band told SPIN. The illustration, inspired by the work of Gustave Doré, showcases what looks like a nymph orgy, but it's the religious iconography at the top that convinced manufacturers to turn off the printing press.
Even though the Infestissumam booklets had all been printed, the band struggled to find anyone in the States to print the CD for them. "They weren't surprised. The comment was 'Well, I thought this would have happened sooner,'" the source said. "The artwork was meant to provoke some sort of thought, but it's been one obstacle after another."
In order to avoid delaying the album release any longer, Ghost B.C. opted to reuse the CD art found on the standard edition of their album. The artwork, a collaboration between Polish artist Zbignew Bielak II and a Nameless Ghoul, is key to an elaborate deluxe package that features each song's lyrics accompanied by a illustration to form a narrative within the music. The controversial art will be available in vinyl and European copies of the Infestissumam CD. "Vinyl manufacturers don't have a problem with the artwork. Neither does Europe."
The artwork that caused the shock
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| Mattybu Posts: 2589  |
On top of being 100000/10 awesome, that is really not all that bad... I hope I can find a copy of the album with that artwork.
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| a MasT Posts: 346  |
Wow that's not even that graphic, deicide managed to put out worse in the states...
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 61010  |
Americans are weird they talk about freedom of speech and democratiy, where is it in this case?
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| Ellrohir Heaven Knight Posts: 8662  |
Written by Bad English on 30.03.2013 at 21:33 you obviously talk about freedom of cd printing factory owner NOT to print something he doesnt like...? 
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 61010 |
Written by Ellrohir on 30.03.2013 at 22:15 stil its weird, owners seems must be amish
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| Butters49 Posts: 208  |
This is something you would expect in some uberChristian European country... Not the fucking US of A. But can you trust a country where Satanism is not a recognized religion? No. 
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| schizodelight Posts: 22  |
Written by Butters49 on 30.03.2013 at 23:05 USA has more religious nuts like this than most places. I wish we didn't have such stupid problems with things like this. It's like how you can show murder on TV here but not boobs. Freaking weird.
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| Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 8983  |
Written by a MasT on 30.03.2013 at 22:06 Keep your insults to yourself, they're not wanted here.
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| BitterCOld The Ancient One Admin Posts: 15250  |
Let's lay off insults. just take in dude's grasp on the English language and realize his grasp on America and Americans is even more tenuous. Ellrohir got it right, they have freedom to print whatever art they want, but the cd folks have their own rights as well. the same rights this site uses when not promoting goosestepping nazitard bands.
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| squidrick420 Posts: 187  |
Written by schizodelight on 30.03.2013 at 23:41 I agree with that, I live in the damn bible belt and there is no way album art like that would be printed by some of the companies around here. But all this controversy is over the top, I have seen much worse!!!
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| gopherhawk2@gmail.co Posts: 257  |
Man the U.S. really sucks. Albums come out later here in the first place then stupid shit like this in what is supposed to be one of the most liberal nations on Earth. Clearly the printers are owned by republicans. Fucking dickless conservatives...
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Written by gopherhawk2@gmail.co on 31.03.2013 at 05:50 <- Conservative. Certainly not dickless. But you seem to be another one of these folks that somehow equates a couple cd printing companies to an entire 300,000,000+ nation or an entire political persuasion, so i guess not much point into attempting any discourse with you. Stereotype much? hell, this could just be manufactured bullshit to give the band a lot of free press and pub to get people with double digit IQ's all worked up (didn't some label fork over six+ figures to 'em in the era of a dying industry? hrm) and score the band a bunch of free publicity that scores them "cred"? as has been posted, much worse has been printed by bands with much smaller label support and budgets.
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| gopherhawk2@gmail.co Posts: 257 |
Written by BitterCOld on 31.03.2013 at 06:47 I'm okay now, I was just raging hard about all sorts of stuff at the time. It still reflects badly on the U.S. I wish the record company would just say screw the other guys in their contract and have someone else do it but let's face it, its all super trivial anyway. I'm anxious for Blodsvept so that comes first.
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| Vombatus Potorro Posts: 2355  |
Wouldn't be suprised it's just marketing affair... Ghost are good at it and as pointed out before, worse stuff was printed before without problem. I'll get the vinyl anyway 
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| Ace Frawley The Spaceman Posts: 1458  |
I like that big round peach-shaped arse at 6 o'clock. That's what I'm talking about.
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| Mad Arab666 Posts: 299  |
Something like this happened to akercocke as well. I believe it was there antichrist album but I think it was more to do with the album title than the album art.
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| Scuzzy McDouche Posts: 67  |
Written by gopherhawk2@gmail.co on 31.03.2013 at 05:50 WTF? It's the fucking bleeding heart liberal cunts who want to control, regulate, or outlaw everything under the sun here. They shit on the constitution on a daily basis, taxing the living shit out of everyone, ruining free enterprise and forcing their agenda down the entire country's throat through any means necessary. Obama and his Marxist cohorts are one of the worst disasters to hit this country since 911. Please hit up twitter with any comments with #iamamarxistcunt
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
Written by Scuzzy McDouche on 01.04.2013 at 18:14 clearly you are totally clueless as what constitues a liberal/left wing politician/socialist/Marxist. Obama is as right wing as the more moderate part of the Republican party, and he is just as God fearing. Here in most of Europe we laugh at the US notion of liberalism (which is actually right wing and not left wing), socialsim, Marxism and such. Obama would be at the right wing of quite a few right wing parties here and would never be a member of any of the left wing parties.
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Written by Bad English on 30.03.2013 at 21:33 Democratiy? Freedom of speech only applies to the government, it is not used to force independent businesses to do something they don't feel is right. Look, American printers have the right NOT to print this artwork if it offends their personal beliefs. I hate Christianity with a passion, but I would fight for the right to worship the worthless corpse nailed to a board for those that wish to do so, because on the other side of that coin is MY right to be as hateful and blasphemous as I want to be toward their religion. If works both ways.
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 61010 |
Written by Scuzzy McDouche on 01.04.2013 at 18:25 then why they print porn dvd artorls? why they make porn magasines, penis, jism and big boobs can be insulting to
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