GRAVEMIND "Conduit"

Standout Features:

• Epic glyphs
• An obelisk-like geometrical figure
• A lake in the mountains

Gravemind is a metal band based in Australia. The cover for their debut album, Conduit, was designed by Soft Surrogate, encapsulating the essence of the band’s ideas with a combination of powerful visuals endowed with mystical messaging.

The cover depicts a lake among two mountain peaks with a burning orange, a translucent obelisk-like figure hovering above the water. It’s unclear whether the cuboid figure is ascending to or descending from the water, but its inevitable motion is shown through the clouds dispersing beneath it.

The mountains and the water are dark and mysterious, much like the burning-orange centered figure. We get a peek of the sunshine, with the sun partially covered by the top left corner of the cuboid.

The mysterious visuals are enhanced with epic vertical and horizontal glyphs accompanying the typography, rounding off the strange energy of the design.