Narcissism: wears a outfit of many mirrors for he can never seen enough of himself. Intolerance: wears a suit of patterned religious symbols. Paranoia: wears a suit of eyes, always watchful. In the cover art, you can see the respective characters: So it was decided that the four horseman would be Paranoia, Intolerance, Narcissism and Greed. Storm Thorgerson in his book “The Raging Storm” This sets thoughts was delivered directly from the music, which comprised three songs that seemed to evoke galloping (“Invisible” and “Knights of Cydonia” being two), along with a propensity musical grandness- majestic passages followed by thumping rhythms- with word “epic” or “biblical” coming to my mind, biblical horses become the four horseman of apocalypse, obviously, but hold on… Muse are a contemporary band so our four horseman needed to be represented not the evils of a medieval world - War, Hunger, Famine and Pestilence - but more contemporary evils. There were four miniature horses hanging around, as you tend to get. “The four men are sitting in an alien landscape around a sturdy wooden table with their symbolic nature represented by suitably decorated apparel. The chosen concept for the cover was the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, who are characters described in the last book of the New Testament of the Bible, called the Book of Revelation, but transcript to our modern world. While doing the cover art for BH&R, his mainly inspiration were the songs “Knights of Cydonia” and “Invincible”.
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