060606-The Beast- shunned!

Well, Slayer's new cover arrived from the US at veryveryvery last minute in Warner's German office, resulting in the dragon being disqualified from appearing in the ad and my fee being cancelled. Thanks to Katja, the freelancer who put the Beast in the ad in the first place, I can claim half of it anyway, for data handling and general to-ing and fro-ing. Oh well. We are sure Slayer and all their representatives, particularly their German PR-Department, will eternally fry in hell for shunning the Beast ;o)
Update: Here's the pic...

I quite like it, more topical, not as colourful. I think Mother Theresa drowning in blood is quite well done, talking from a completely abstract artistic point of view, of course. Interesting though that they call it Jihad, yet refrain from actually showing any islamic imagery. Well, who can blame them. Catholics are less dangerous at the moment.