Behind The Artworks: Purgatorio Bestial - Ciclo Infernal (2026)

The Core Vision: A Descent Through Cycles of Rot, Violence, and Spiritual Collapse

Ciclo Infernal is built as a visual and lyrical journey through a world where decay is not an ending but a perpetual state of rebirth. The artwork across the booklet, disc, and cover forms a unified narrative: humanity trapped in an endless loop of suffering, corruption, and ritualistic violence. Every visual element reinforces the album’s central idea: the inferno is not a place you enter; it is a cycle you are born into.

The aesthetic is rooted in raw, unfiltered extremity: scorched landscapes, ritual altars, skeletal remains, and oppressive red-black textures. This is not fantasy hell; it is a symbolic mirror of human brutality, spiritual emptiness, and the grotesque persistence of life within decay.

The Front Cover: Birth of the Infernal Cycle

The cover introduces the album’s universe with a landscape that feels alive in its own torment. Jagged mountains twist like malformed spines, rivers of molten red carve through the terrain, and a half-buried skull reminds the viewer that death is not an escape but a foundation.

The spiral-shaped mountain formation is the visual anchor of the album’s concept: a vortex of suffering, a cycle that pulls everything back into itself.

The typography, raw, dripping, and almost decomposing, reinforces the idea that even the band’s identity is forged in corrosion.

The Back Cover: Cataloguing the Torments

The tracklist is framed against the same infernal landscape, but now the viewer is grounded in the structure of the album’s narrative. Each title reads like a chapter in a chronicle of human degradation:

Parasitas

Máquina da Morte

Empalado

Masmorra Pungente

Máscaras que Caem

Ciclo Infernal

Possuída no Altar de Fetos

Tinhoso Língua de Fogo

Carne Fétida

The typography and layout mimic old underground tape aesthetics, a deliberate nod to the rawness and DIY ethos of extreme metal.

The logos (Studios 13, Supergoat Wreckhordes) act as seals of corruption, branding the album as a ritual artifact rather than a mere release.

Interior Pages: The Litany of Rot

The booklet’s interior is where the album’s conceptual weight becomes explicit. Each page is drenched in a red-black texture that resembles burning flesh or a blood-soaked altar cloth. The lyrics are not simply printed; they feel engraved.

Themes across the lyrics:

Parasitic existence (Parasitas)

Industrialized death (Máquina da Morte)

Ritual sacrifice and possession (Possuída no Altar de Estacas)

Demonic predation (Tinhoso Língua de Fogo)

Identity stripped bare (Máscaras que Caem)

Humanity’s collapse into cyclical suffering (Ciclo Infernal)

Torture as cosmic law (Masmorra Pungente)

Violence as legacy (Empalação)

The poems are written with a brutalist directness, no metaphorical escape, no philosophical distance. They read like testimonies from within the inferno.

The Musicians’ Page: Faces in the Fire

The portraits of LordSir7Peles and Melkor are framed in bone and skull motifs, as if the musicians themselves are officiants of the infernal ritual. The fiery background ties them directly to the album’s universe, not observers, but participants.

Their visual presentation reinforces the album’s identity: raw, uncompromising, and steeped in the aesthetics of extreme metal’s darkest traditions.

The Disc Art: The Cycle Sealed

The CD face returns to the core visual: the infernal landscape and the skull. This is the final seal of the album’s concept; the listener physically places the “cycle” into the machine, activating the ritual.

The disc art acts as a symbolic gateway:

The listener enters the cycle as soon as the disc begins to spin.

Conceptual Synthesis: What the Artwork Communicates

Across all pages, the artwork constructs a cohesive mythology:

Hell is not a destination; it is a condition.

Decay is sacred.

Violence is cyclical, not linear.

Humanity is both victim and architect of its torment.

Every ritual, every death, every scream feeds the next cycle.

The album’s visual identity is not decorative; it is narrative. It tells the same story as the music: a world where suffering is ritualized, where flesh is temporary, and where the infernal cycle never ends.

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