lucas maschik-vaz design.


Title  Dying on Vacation by CNTRL Europe
Category  Album cover
Year  2020

About  CNTRL Europe’s final and third EP. The cover encapsulates both the catchy melodies as well as the desperation that lies beneath.





Title  Not Alive by Rula Sabat
Category  Album cover
Year  2020

About  The cover for folk goth-rocker Rula Sabat’s single Not Alive is both graceful as well as brutal, with the red marble texture implying flesh.






Title  Photographs Taken During A Nightmare by Rula Sabat
Category  Album cover
Year  2020

About  Photographs Taken During A Nightmare can be described as a goth-rock folk album. On the cover is an array of strange beings and objects, both alive and dead. If you look closely enough you can discover dancing ballerinas and floating moons.

This set of characters and objects is covered by a wild frantic scrawl, pushing a number of elements partially into the negative, giving the impression of a further dimension. All this is placed in a Polaroid-like frame, with the title written by hand with black marker on an old sticky tape.
 





Title  Speaking in Tongues by CNTRL Europe
Category  Album cover
Year  2020

About  The cover for CNTRL Europe’s first EP. It features bawling TV-priest Jimmy Swaggart apologizing to his mindless followers. 



Title  The Beach Boys Rarities
Category  Album cover
Year  2020

About  Rarities is a Beach Boys comp. album that sold poorly and is now out of print. I took the corny original cover and turned it into something more mystical and creepy.

It now features a young Charles Manson who wrote the song “Cease to Exist” for the Beach Boys, which Dennis Wilson changed to “Never learn not to love” and performed with the Beach Boys.

Dennis Wilson was long plagued with guilt over his association and friendship with Manson, which probably contributed to his alcoholism and untimely death. The album itself features outtakes, rare B-sides and a cover of the Beatles’ “With a little help from my friends”.