Behind The Artworks: Bantoriak - Vol. II (2026)

The cover of Vol. II emerges from a living, almost corroded matter, built through the contrast between black and gold: shadow and light, dissolution and revelation.

The textured surfaces of the artwork reflect the nature of the record itself: a psychedelic and ritualistic sonic experience suspended between obsessive mantras, dense shadows, and sudden flashes of light emerging from chaos.

“The inspiration also stems from a deeply personal experience lived through over the past year: a loss that fractured profound certainties and forced me to question the way I perceive and define myself.

From this fracture came the need to rewrite my own being into a different form — perhaps not entirely new, but inevitably renewed and deeply rooted in the past.

This is where gold appears: not as an ornament, but as the sign of an inner light to be rediscovered — a fragile yet persistent light that moves through darkness and finds in music a place where it can exist once again.”

Emerging from the background is the Rebis, the ancient alchemical symbol of the union between masculine and feminine, here deliberately inverted.

A reversal that engages with contemporary transformations of identity without imposing a single definition, instead reaffirming every possibility: the freedom to recognize oneself within a defined identity or to reject labels altogether.

The symbol also stands as a tribute to the origins of the band, originally founded by a man and a woman, as well as to the continuity of the feminine presence within the project through my own role in it.

An equilibrium that does not seek rigid separation, but rather coexistence, transformation, and contamination.

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