Behind The Artworks: Ancestros - Blasfemia Austral (2026)

For the artwork of Blasfemia Austral, artist Gonzalo Santana started simply from the album title: a Lovecraftian entity inhabiting a liminal space, where the "austral" element emerges as a fascinating, incomprehensible threat.

His style deforms symbols through an aberrant expressionism influenced by works as disparate as those of Moebius or Valdés Leal, linking seamlessly with baroque imagery—straddling the fantastic and the chimeric.

The tension between foreground and background that runs throughout the album is equally mirrored in the cover art. It exhibits a clear friction between the figurative and the geometric, serving a hidden function within Ancestros' musical and conceptual deployment that will only be revealed in subsequent releases.

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