Patrick Mameli of Pestilence is pro A.I. for album covers

Patrizio “Patrick” Mameli of Pestilence is all about artificial intelligence, which can be considered strange given that the band completely rejected the concept for an album cover earlier this year. On the band’s Facebook page on December 29th the Dutch progressive metal band’s guitarist and singer shared his intriguing perspective, stating how helpful it may be to make complex and unusual heavy metal album covers for a reasonable price. 

I have to get something of my chest. This constant bs about metal bands using A.I. albumcovers more and more. There are a few reasons. First, huge budgets for real paintings are a thing of the past. Secondly, the idea of having mutilated bodies, zombies and extreme gore are also a thing of the past for Pestilemce. When you want to survive in the nowadays industry you have to adapt and Pestilence has always been known to look ahead and never fall back into the old habits not just music style wise but every other new release has had a new approach to our own musically, unlike most acts that rely on their older legacy. When we released “Levels of Perception” that was aimed to revisited the demo style recording, that was asked for by many fans, they didn’t like the production they asked for themselves. With “Portals” we will, again, follow our own path and you could teally dig it. As an example this “drawing” was considered to be amazing on my personal FB site. This is also A.I., and is an amazing piece of art. Not the albumcover by the way!!! And now the real question: would you not buy and album with killer production and song just because a cover is A.I.? Then you are not listening to our compositions that are fully handmade. But rather are concerned with the 40× past you have been living in. Start embracing the future of music that is Pestilence.