Behind The Artworks: Nekromatics - Place Of Indulgence (2025)

The cover art for “Place of Indulgence” was created by Rafael Cruz, capturing the album’s central vision of corruption, desire, and spiritual decay.

 

Set in a desolate infernal forest, the scene portrays a grotesque ritual where skeletons, demons, and lost souls celebrate their eternal damnation around a burning cage, the very symbol of indulgence turned into imprisonment.

 

Every element of the illustration mirrors the themes explored throughout the record: the chains represent self-imposed servitude to temptation, the flames embody both passion and punishment, and the skeletal figures reflect the emptiness that follows excess.

 

The forest stands as a twisted sanctuary, the “place” where indulgence becomes doctrine, and the boundaries between pleasure and ruin vanish. Just like the music itself, the artwork doesn’t glorify darkness, but reveals it as an inseparable part of human nature.

 

Rafael Cruz’s intricate line work and archaic aesthetic evoke the spirit of medieval damnation art, raw, symbolic, and disturbingly alive. It’s not just a cover, but a visual sermon: an invitation to enter the Nekromatics’ world, where every sin tells a story, and every indulgence has its price.