Reactivated San Francisco Bay Area thrashers FORBIDDEN have debuted the artwork to their new studio album, "Omega Wave", on their official MySpace page.

FORBIDDEN guitarist / songwriter Craig Locicero checks in about his collaborative process with artist Kent Mathieu, the visual elements that can be found in the album's artwork, and his concern for the future of the human race:

"As soon as FORBIDDEN committed to writing a new record, I wondered where Kent Mathieu was. I'd always felt like "Forbidden Evil" and "Twisted Into Form" were pretty iconic album covers! when things like that actually seemed to matter.

"Then, the good people at Nuclear Blast actually located Kent! I got pretty excited and reached out to him immediately. He was equally excited to hear from us, too. The only real direction I gave Kent was to somehow tie the past into the future. Find a way to make the two skulls (from "Forbidden Evil" artwork) vital again. He had worked up about 12 sketches all kinds of variously cool stuff. Out of all of the pictures he sent me, I liked the way one of them was laid out because of it's simplicity. After thinking about it for a long while, I had a concept for Kent to work with. The "Omega Wave" concept. The title wasn't decided until I had a good idea for the cover."

"Omega Wave", FORBIDDEN's fifth studio album after a 13-year recording hiatus, will be released in Europe on October 22nd and on October 26th in North America and you can see the cover artwork below. It was recorded at Sonic Room/Audio Voyage Studios in Livermore, California, produced by FORBIDDEN guitarist / songwriter Craig Locicero with Tim Narducci, and mixed by Sean Beavan (SLAYER, Marilyn Manson, NINE INCH NAILS).

Source: www.NuclearBlast.De