Godsmack Faceless Album Cover — Top

On the coffee table lay the actual mask from the album cover—not a picture, but the real thing. Cold porcelain. No eye holes. Just two blank, sloping indentations where a soul should look out.

One evening, after a particularly humiliating meeting where his idea was stolen and praised as his manager’s own, Leo walked home through an underground tunnel. Graffiti covered the walls, but one piece stopped him cold. It was a crude, stenciled replica of the Faceless mask. Beneath it, someone had scrawled: “You are not the mask. The mask is what fears you.” godsmack faceless album cover

In that frozen moment, Leo remembered something his grandmother once said: “A mask only has power if you believe the face underneath isn’t enough.” On the coffee table lay the actual mask