Album Art of the Week: Infected Disarray – ‘Disseminating Obscenity’

When a member of the band does their own artwork - especially the lyricist - it piques my interest as it most likely will conform to the theme of the album more readily than if the job were outsourced.

Eddie Ruffles, vocalist for Infected Disarray, jumped at the chance to talk to Noisecreep about the artwork he did for 'Disseminating Obscenity.'

"The fashioning of the imagery for the album was fairly painstaking," Ruffles told Noisecreep. "It took me over a year working with photographs and mixed media. It was hard work because the central figure is actually constructed from many small photos of a sectioned, plastinated corpse edited into one image. This meant a lot of false starts and frustration. I gave up once or twice to follow other ideas, but I kept coming back to this image."

The inspiration behind the art and its construction had its effect on Ruffles construction of the music as well. "The writing on this album is very visceral, yet something about the serene expression of the corpses face has made me approach the new lyrics differently," said Ruffles.

"The new stuff is more transient, explorative of emotion, surreal and vibrantly sensual. When I look at that face it almost looks satisfied; there is something sensual about it, which brings me to one of my main influences overall for the whole band, Georges Bataille, he was a French writer who explored the dualities of sex and death (see 'The Tears of Eros') something that I.D. has played with for a while. I feel this is something that the main figure of the cover engenders completely, I think if he had seen this image he would have felt the same."