Behind The Artworks: Shiny New Toyz - LORE (2026)

Our vocalist creates most of the band’s artwork. The LORE cover brings several of the Wild Woman archetypes into the present, holding them together in a single frame.

The skull looming in the background represents Skeleton Woman — illusion stripped away, bone revealed, truth unavoidable. At the base, the wolf embodies La Loba, the singer over bones who restores life through voice (and, incidentally, bears a striking resemblance to Suzie and Shawn’s Chow Chow). The weathered statue is the Seal Woman / Kokoponan story from the Faroe Islands, where a man steals her sealskin and traps her on land, severing her from her instinctual nature. She endures that imprisonment until she is finally able to reclaim her skin and return to herself.

The masked figure is our vocalist — navigating the noise and toxicity of the modern world. The gas mask represents both protection and confrontation, and the necessity of reclaiming your own breath first — healing yourself before you can truly love or help others. The raised hand and the scream through resistance serve as a warning: we must go inward to heal so we can roar our truth with reverence as we move through the noise and chaos of this world.

Ancient bones breathing in the present — old stories speaking through modern lives. This is LORE.

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