What a wonderful compliment from a wonderful artist. Thank you! This is the second one in an accidentally started series. I'm currently stuck on the 3rd one. Planning to finish it on January...
@marceles, I guess there is no better format for an epic pixel art album cover 
I'm wondering if there can be another number, also appropriate, if a much smaller resolution would be desired. I'm not familiar with these occult, numerology topics. It was a very tongue in cheek thing at the first time, was going for a large square, tried this and it worked as a charm (nomen omen). But if someone said [oh, please do] "hey, I want a pixel art metal cover with much more visible pixels", I would have no idea what to choose. For example, I've noticed that bands do this as a joke to record an album with six songs and overal time of 36 minutes, because math! 
This is great! The smoke really makes your eye wander even more, and I appreciate the symbolism.
Thank you for reading into it. That's very rewarding. I wanted to have a most simple and most calm composition (square divided equally to 3 horizontal parts) and a very dynamic one on top of it (spiral with the crows and the smoke), to make it more unsettling by the contrast between them - similarly to the clash of vast emptiness and horror vacui.
You are killing me with compliments! I'm glad the goals have been reached with your reaction. It is my second "metal album cover" kind of piece, and this one could fit some kind of eco/vegan band probably :)
the more I look at it, the creepier it gets. The crows could be there looking for vegetables to steal, but they could also be a sign of something recently dead. They almost seem to merge with the factory smoke in the top left, as if both foreshadow the same thing
I agree that gawrone is killing it!
Is it really a beautiful pastoral scene, though? I can't see it personally, there seem to be factories spewing pollution into the air, and the crop rows and furrows in the flat landscape feel like an unnatural desert, devoid of animal life apart from the scavenging carrion crows. The landscape makes my skin crawl just as much as the decay beneath the surface.
Edit: Still beautifully drawn, of course, all of it.
I'm amazed I haven't seen this concept before, a beautifual pastoral scene hiding generations of everyday filth and remains rotting below the soil. You're killing it lately (no pun intended)
right back at ya
Amazing!
