Behind The Artworks: Amaseffer - When The Lions Leave Their Den (2026)
I approached Mattias once again for the new album since he did an amazing job on chapter one of Exodus, Slaves For Life. It was obvious to me that Mattias would do the new album as well; I just love his art and his own unique way of interpreting stories into an image.
Living today in an AI environment, I wanted true artwork done by a real artist, with his own hands. It was much easier to create a beautiful cover using AI, but it has no soul.
AI is an amazing tool for some things, and I totally dig it, but a major thing like album artwork was not taken lightly at all.
The cover for Amaseffer’s new album, When the Lions Leave Their Den, is minimalistic yet an epic visual of the new album, capturing the heavy paradox of leadership. The artwork was brought to life after I shared the core vision of the story with Mattias: Moses, a hero, the chosen one, bearing the massive weight of a nation's salvation on his shoulders, and yet he felt all alone. His mission, his journey, surrounded by his people, but all along the feeling of solitude was overwhelming for him.
When I told that to Mattias, he took the climax point of the story of the new album, the parting of the Red Sea, and created this enchanting, silent, yet thunderous and powerful image.
Painted entirely with watercolors, Norén perfectly captured the tension between the redemption of Moses’s mission and the private, human struggle of the man leading a nation. The inner doubts and the heavy solitude that come with a divine mission, and the heavy price he will pay in the future. All these emotions captured in one single painting!
As you can see in the picture of the canvas, this is the original painting, and the mind-blowing fact that this is Mattias' first and only try: no sketches, no drafts, one amazing single attempt, and he absolutely nailed it! I could not be happier with the new album cover.
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