UPDATE: In recent interview with AskMen.com, Dave Mustaine attempted to explain the concept behind the album cover:
AskMen.com: Can you interpret the cover of "Endgame" for us?
Mustaine: Yeah, in the middle of the nation we have this one locale where they've got a bunch of inexplicable black coffins that FEMA has holed up on somebody's property (I think it's in Indianapolis or Iowa or something in the Midwest). Nobody's really taking ownership for it — you know, there's no signs out there saying "coffin sale today" — so, it's kind of suspicious-looking.
[The cover] is just a kind of lumping of all different kinds of ideas together. What I feel when I see it, is us as sheep being prisoners to the new world order getting led off down this corridor of death with these FEMA-assisted suicide canisters, these "come on, free housing." It's like that 'Twilight Zone' episode where the book said "How to Serve Man," and they couldn't figure out what the rest of the book was. Then this girl comes screaming: "Don't get in the spaceship, don't get in the spaceship," and everybody on Earth is getting into the spaceship, and she goes: "The book, How to Serve Man, it's a cookbook." (laughs)
What???
5 comments:
I don't like the stuff around the edges whatever it is, but otherwise cool.
Yeah I couldn't quite figure that out either...
The things around the edges are flies. I can't see Vic anywhere. Must look harder.
The stuff around the edges are like locusts or something.
The album is amazing as well as the cover art.
The stuff around the edges are flies representing the one of the plagues in the bible. The edges are fema coffins. Google it and you will see what they are used for. I saw an interview where he explained the cover.
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