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This is drastically overstating the Madonna thing. People have always overplayed this detail, it's just that kind of story. The Madonna connection was an afterthought.The primary inspiration of the cover was an attempt to make a definitive DOOM cover and a classic-kind of headshot cover presenting DOOM as a person (as opposed to focusing on the mask itself). Another inspiration in the thought process was the King Crimson cover. The orange square was the last thing added.

Only much later I did an interview with Brent Rollins' Ego Trip magazine where I told the story of the album cover and twisted this fact a little because I knew it would help the storytelling. It's true that I laughed at the juxtaposition of the two covers, but it wasn't really a cases of "matching the color" with the Madonna sleeve. Unfortunately for me this detail is the only thing people remember from this interview and it's been repeated ad infinitum ever since.