Land of Broken Hearts: Story. Continues…

Very few people know that Steen was (and most definitely still is) a pretty accomplished sketch painter – it is he who did that first prototype of the RH´s crest. It looked different from the final result as we know today but all the ideas – the actual crest, flags and bits of a dragon – were all there, nicely represented and put together into a complete logo. We used some of the ideas from that very first sketch on the anniversary release “2016”.

We passed the sketch over to Martin Burridge – the guy who did the cover for LOBH and our next couple of covers – and he took it further, adding more details and technically fine tuning the final logo.

Back in a day there was no such thing as PhotoShop or whatever – everything´s been done by hand – so you had to physically mail the original drawing to the record company in Japan, for example, and then they´d mail it to a company in Europe and so on… that´s why you can find LOBH in different colors, ranging from light blue to a very dark, almost purple shade: every printing plant was mixing their colors/paint by eyesight, so variations were numerous.

We just can’t wait to see which shade of blue will the vinyl reissue wear…