“THE GOAT’S NAME IS EEYORE”

Clown reveals how Iowa’s iconic sleeve came together

WHO’S THE GOAT ON THE COVER? “That goat’s name is Eeyore. My mentor who got me going into photography, Stefan Seskis, he shot the first album cover, I came up with the concept and I so badly wanted to shoot the second album cover, and I just couldn’t get it done. One day I handed him the goat.” DID HE GET THE SHOT? “I came to the studio later that day and he had taken five or six photos. They were Polaroids. I remember being so frustrated, I couldn’t believe he’d got the damn picture taken. I said, ‘I’ve taken hundreds of pictures of this bastard and I couldn’t get it done.’” WHAT DOES THE IOWA ARTWORK MEAN? “The cover has a lot of symbolic, metaphoric solutions in it for everyone in our culture. I…

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Metal Hammer UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2021

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